General information sites on climate change, including the sites in the References for Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World

These contain an abundance of information and further connections on this deep and complex subject.

A group of climate scientists have their own site to explain global warming and respond to critics and challenges to their science -- RealClimate.org http://www.realclimate.org/

NEW Jet Propulsion Lab, a part of NASA, has put up a page with "Vital Signs", a near-real time display of CO2, temperature, sealevel and Arctic sea ice extent
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov.

Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, UK, British
government website on climate change --
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange.

Espere (Environmental Science Published for Everybody
Round the Earth), offers a
"Climate Encyclopedia" for nonscientists. http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/87278a1097ec1c167e3a512cdb1ea3b6,0/148.html.

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, for research reports and news releases by James Hansen and his colleagues.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news.

National Snow and Ice Data Center, provides an overview of the status of snow and ice as indicators of climate change. http://nsidc.org/sotc.

Natural Resources Defense Council, "Global Warming Science:
An Annotated Bibliography" includes seven years of
peer-reviewed climate science.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fgwscience.asp.

Website of a German ocean physicist, Stefan Rahmstorf of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, presenting a "Climate Change Fact Sheet" featuring oceans in climate
change at http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan.

Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Portal to a huge amount of climate information.
http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/climateChange.php.

The outstanding and authoritative history of global warming science by Spencer Wearth, of Princeton and the American Institute of Physics, "The Discovery of Global Warming,"
http://www.aip.org/ history/climate.

US Global Change Research Program, official government site for research and reports - http://www.globalchange.gov/usgrcp

NASA Earth Observatory, great graphics photos and articles - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
EPA's Global Warming site - http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

National Climate Data Center, more than you wanted to know about weather and climate statisitics, including hurricanes, drought, and weather extremes - http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

Climate Institute - http://www.climate.org

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, for the up-to-date 2007 reports - http://www.ipcc.ch

UNEP site for Climate Change info, charts and maps http://climatechange.unep.net/
National Climate Assessment, including regional trends - http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/default.htm

Causes of Global Warming is a listing of some of the more important sources of information -- http://www.causesofglobalwarming.org

Pacific Institute's Global Change pages, focusing on water issues - http://www.globalchange.org

Many environmental groups and NGO's have great climate change Web sites:

Union of Concerned Scientists - http://www.ucsusa.org/global-environment/global-warming/index.cfm

Climate Effects Map - http://www.climatehotmap.org/

Natural Resources Defense Council - http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp

World Wildlife Fund - http://www.panda.org/climate/

Greenpeace - http://www.greenpeace.org/ (choose CLIMATE on lower toolbar)

Climate Solutions - http://www.climatesolutions.org

Physicians for Social Responsibility has information about the health effects of climate change, and sections on the regional effects of climate change in the United Steates - http://www.psr.org/home.cfm?id=environment

The Heat is Online, companion to Ross Gelbspan's book (see below) is a good clearinghouse for climate information, especially in debunking the skeptics and misinformation about global warming - http://www.heatisonline.org/main.cfm

Grist on-line magazine - http://www.gristmagazine.org

Climate Ark --This is a mega information site (with a sister site on Forest issues)  which has a very deep "Climate Change News Archive," links directory, and renewable energy news.  http://www.climateark.org

Campaign Earth --If you'd like to have many ideas on how you and your family and co-workers can help slow global warming. this is the site. http://www.campaignearth.org

Climate Action Network --For a huge variety of information and connections on global warming, check out this worldwide network of over 365 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).  http://www.climnet.org

Recommended books

RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON CLIMATE CHANGE and RELATED SUBJECTS
Abbasi, Daniel R. Americans and Climate Change: Closing the
Gap between Science and Action. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2006.

Alley, Richard B. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores,
Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2000.

Brower, Michael, and Warren Leon. The Consumer's Guide to
Effective Environmental Choices. New York: Three Rivers
Press, 1999.

Christianson, Gale E. Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of
Global Warming. New York: Walker Publishing, 1999.

Dauncey, Guy, with Patrick Mazza. Stormy Weather. Gabriola
Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2001.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.

Dow, Kirstin, and Thomas E. Downing. The Atlas of Climate
Change. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Economy, Elizabeth C. The River Runs Black: The Environmental
Challenge to China's Future. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2004.

Editors of Collins. Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World.
London: Collins, 2006.

Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing
the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
Melbourne: Text Publishing Co., 2005.

Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Cambridge, MA:
Perseus Publishing, 2003.

Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and
Coal, Journalists, and Activists are Fueling the Climate
Crisis-and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. New
York: Basic Books, 2004.

---. The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the
Prescription. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006.

Graedel, Thomas E., and Paul J. Crutzen. Atmosphere, Climate,
and Change. New York: Scientific American
Library/HPHLP, 1995.

Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest. New York: Viking, 2006

____, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins. Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New
York: Little, Brown, 1999.

Houghton, John. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing. 2d
ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Knauer, Kelly, Ed. Global Warming: The Causes, the Perils, the Solutions. New York: Time Inc., 2007.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature,
and Climate Change. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing,
2006.

Krupnik, Igor, and Dyanna Jolly, eds. The Earth Is Faster
Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental
Change. Fairbanks, AK: ARCUS, 2002.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the
End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes
of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Atlantic
Monthly Press, 2005.

Lovejoy, Thomas E., and Lee Hannah, eds. Climate Change
and Biodiversity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
R
Lovins, Amory B., et al. Winning the Oil End Game. Snowmass,
CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2004.

Lynas, Mark. High Tide: The Truth about Our Climate Crisis.
New York: Picador, 2004.

MacCracken, Michael C., Frances Moore and John C. Topping Jr., Eds. Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them. London: Earthscan, 2008.

McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to
Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York:
North Point Press, 2002.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human
Well-being: Synthesis. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005.

Moser, Susanne C., and Lisa Dilling. Creating a Climate for
Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating
Social Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006.

Motavalli, Jim, ed. Feeling the Heat. New York: Routledge,
2004.

National Assessment Synthesis Team, USGRCP. Climate
Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Pollack, Henry N. Uncertain Science . . . Uncertain World.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Register, Richard. Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with
Nature. Rev. ed. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society
Publishers, 2006.

Schneider, Stephen H., and Terry L. Root, eds. Wildlife Responses
to Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2002.

Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning: America and the
Crisis of the Global Environment. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2005.

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Hard Rain "Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?"

New book adds moving illustrations to Bob Dylan's " lyrics, and a powerful message of conservation and human rights.

http://www.hardrainproject.com/home.htm

This book is inspirational and contains a very complete list of websites and publications about global warming and other world issues.

Bob Dylan's piercing words accompany photographs that illustrate the issues that are defining the 21st century - climate change, pollution, poverty and habitat loss. Essays by leading scientists and thinkers in the environmental movement explore the steps we must take to prevent global collapse.

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