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WWF - Climate Change Campaign - Features information & breaking news on climate change, with a focus on resources & actions. Go

Lick Global Warming - A guide to global warming & an interactive map showing its effects. An invitation to pledge to reduce CO2 emissions & to encourage Congress to take action. Go

David Suzuki Foundation: Climate Change - The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based Canadian environmental organization, specializing in global warming, sustainable forestry, salmon farming & fisheries. Go

UNDO IT - A project of Environmental Defense, a US national campaign to ramp up the fight against global warming, the most critical environmental issue we face. Get the facts, help undo it, & spread the word. Go

NRDC: Global Warming - NRDC advocates dramatic reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases in the U.S. & abroad as well as the adoption & implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Includes fact sheets, reports, & links. Go

Global Warming - Both domestically & internationally, Environmental Defense works to stabilize Earth's climate by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. Go

Climate Strategies - An international network organization, coordinated from the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, supported initially by the SHELL Foundation. It's intended to support cohesive policy responses to climate change. Go

Friends of the Earth: Climate - Information & links, especially for activists. Go

Climate Concern UK - Provides information & co-ordination to help individual persons reduce energy consumption, to form local groups to organise campaigning for mutual encouragement in achieving energy savings, & to keep up-to-date with climate change effects & research. Go

Global Warming FAQ - Uses reputable on line resources to answer many of the commonly asked questions about climate change, including questions on whether the earth is getting warmer & whether the climate is changing. Go

Global Warming & the USA -- does not the US care? - With the rejection of the Kyoto Treaty the government of the USA has once again shown the world that environmental issues are not important to them. I'll attempt to solve the mystery of why they do not care. Go

WWF's Climate Change Program - Project to halt global warming by promoting international ratification of the Kyoto climate treaty. Go

Environmental Defence Society Climate Change Page - Discussions of greenhouse warming, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Kyoto Protocol from a New Zealand perspective. (EDS is a New Zealand NGO.) Go

Global warming - Public information from the Union of Concerned Scientists Go

Science & Environmental Policy Project - Site from Dr Singer expressing skepticism regarding many aspects of global warming. Go

The Heat Is Online - The website version of Ross Gelbspan's 1995 book on global warming science, politics & industry disinformation, is now a website that tracks & updates climate-related developments, including 'Extreme Weather Profiles' from 1995-1999; campaigns of deception & disinformation by the fossil fuel lobby; & 'solution' strategies. Go

Climate Policy Center - An independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization. Seeks to develop & advocate politically realistic U.S. greenhouse gas emission reduction policies. Go

Sierra Club Global Warming Campaign - Fact sheets & news items on global warming, its consequences, & measures to reduce its impacts. Go

ECF - European Climate Forum - A mechanism to bring together representatives of different parties concerned with the climate problem: industry, technology, major energy users, insurance & finance sectors, environmental NGOs, & scientific experts investigating climate change & options for sustainable development. Go

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change - On effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels on the biosphere, with emphasis on studies that suggest a beneficial impact from rising C02. Also educational materials describing how to conduct CO2 enrichment & depletion experiments on plants, & weekly data from current experiments by S.B. Idso & others. Go

A Critical Examination of Climate Change - An analysis of the data, by Douglas Hoyt. Go

Global Warming & the Pacific Islands - How global warming is impacting on the Pacific Islands. How Australia's stance on the Kyoto Protocol is affecting our relations with the neighbouring island states. Many useful links! Go

Greenpeace International : Climate - Greenpeace has identified global climate change as one of the greatest threats to the planet. Read reports on climate change, follow our campaigns against Arctic & frontier oil development Go

Still Waiting For Greenhouse - A lukewarm view of global warming from Tasmania. By John L. Daly. Go

CANA - Climate Action Network Australia - An alliance of Australian regional, state & national environmental, health, community development, & research groups focusing on the problem of climate change. Go

SafeClimate - SafeClimate is a source of tools, news, & information for individual persons & organizations to take action to combat global climate change. A project of the World Resources Institute. Go

Its All About Time & Place - A Critical look at human culture through time, in response to climate change, ecological & societal responses. Chronologies feature Warm/Cold Events & their societal & social consequences. Go

The Lavoisier Group - Argues that climate change proposals are based on inexact science & would be too expensive for Australia's industry. Go

Climate Change & Wildlife - National Wildlife Federation - NWF works to protect wildlife from the impacts of climate change. Go

The Greening Issue: The Good Side of Carbon Dioxide - Argues that increasing carbon dioxide levels will be beneficial by resulting in increased food production. Calls for research on this topic. Go

Global Warming - Global warming is going to be a big problem, say scientists. Planetforlife examines the science behind the predictions. Go

Kyoto Protocol - Full text of the Kyoto Protocol, along with news & statistics related to the global warming problem. Go



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