National and international information about climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an international organization established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to evaluate scientific, technical and socio-economic information related to climate change. This site offers free, in-depth reports in six languages.
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focuses on atmospheric modeling and a broad, interdisciplinary study of global climate change. One of the institute's main goals is to predict atmospheric and climate changes in this century.
The National Academies: Global Warming/Climate Change Collection
This site offers links to 15 recent publications from the National Academies about the science and policy implications of global warming and climate change. Most of the reports are available free on-line.
The U.S. Energy and Information Agency: Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change and Energy
This brochure offers an overview of the problem, including a series of graphs and charts.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Global Warming
This site outlines the problem, quantifies greenhouse gas emissions, looks at impacts and what is being done to mitigate global warming.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program began in 1989 as a presidential initiative and was codified in the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The program supports research on climate change and its societal impacts.
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These pages are produced by the WSU Extension Energy Program Library staff with financial support provided by the Washington Department of Community Trade and Economic Development from the US Department of Energy State Energy Program funds.
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