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The Carbon Cycle
Science Program was established by the U.S. Global Change Research Program
(USGCRP) to provide critical unbiased scientific information on the fate of
carbon dioxide in the environment to contribute to the ongoing public
dialogue. The Program provides the scientific foundation for estimating the
capacity of the land and the ocean to sequester and store the considerable
quantities of carbon dioxide anticipated from human activities in the
future. The website provides information about current research activities,
funding opportunities, meetings & workshops and access to online
publications.
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This website
provides an overview of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Carbon
Sequestration Program . A summary of the program areas, links to the various
sequestration centers and online DOE Carbon Sequestration project data
sheets can be found on this site.
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SciTechResources.gov is a catalog that provides the scientist, engineer, and
technologist with easy, one-stop access to key U.S. Government web
resources.
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The Climate and
Carbon Research (CCR) activity in the Center for Computational Science at
ORNL is a scientific research center that focuses on the computational
aspects of how the global climate and carbon systems interact with natural
and anthropogenic processes. The goal of CCS-CCR is to serve as a
world-class climate and carbon research center and be a focal point for the
computational climate and carbon simulation community.
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The site is
produced and maintained by the U.S. Dept. of State, Office of International
Information Programs and provides access to climate change information.
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Climate
perspective reports (monthly climate reports, climatic extremes, global
surface temperature anomalies, etc.) for the year 2001, from the National
Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
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The Climate Time
Line is an online tool that allows one to examine climate change and
variability at different time scales, from daily diurnal cycles and climate
and weather forecasts for the near-term, to 100,000 year scales.
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The EREN
homepage serves as a portal to the Department of Energy's (DOE) energy
efficiency and renewable energy information, with access to more than 600
links and 80,000 documents.
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EPA's Global
Change Research Program is an assessment-oriented program with primary
emphasis on understanding the potential consequences of climate variability
and change on human health, ecosystems, and socioeconomic systems in the
United States. The website is designed to provide a portal through which
scientists, resource managers, and the public can access information about
the program and partners.
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The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides an excellent overview of the
problem of global warming. The science of climate change is presented along
with the potential impacts of global warming as well as strategies to adapt
to, or mitigate, those potential impacts.
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The site
contains many resources to assist public officials in addressing climate
change issues.
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The Federal
Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of the National
Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies,
standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and
share geographic data.
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This guide
provides an overview of the international climate change process as of May
2002. It focuses on the institutions and procedures of the Convention and
the Protocol, the participants in the climate change process, and on how the
on-going negotiations are conducted.
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The
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Linkages website
provides reporting services on international negotiations, conferences,
workshops, symposia and regional meetings that concern sustainable
development, climate and atmosphere and other topics concerning environment
and development.
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This web-site
contains the full text and graphics from the 4 Climate Change 2001 reports
by the IPCC's Working Groups. It was first released for the 7th Conference
of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
in Marrakech, Morocco, 29 October - 9 November 2001.
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The purpose of
NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on
the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and
scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's
climate and environmental change.
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The purpose of
NASA's Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated, central point of
access to the superset of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations,
and data visualizations. These images are considered to be public domain
and, as such, are freely available to the interested public-at-large, the
media, scientists, and educators for re-use and/or re-publication.
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NASA's Global
Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive directory of descriptions
of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database
includes descriptions of data sets (DIFs) covering climate change,
agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology,
geography, and human dimensions of global change.
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NOAA's portal to
their climate data, information, data centers and laboratories.
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The Office of
Global Programs (OGP) leads the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. NOAA
has the primary responsibility within the Federal Government to routinely
provide climate forecasts and products to the Nation. OGP assists in this
capacity by sponsoring focused scientific research, within approximately
eleven research elements, aimed at understanding climate variability and its
predictability. Through studies in these areas, researchers coordinate
activities that jointly contribute to improved predictions and assessments
of climate variability over a continuum of timescales from season to season,
year to year, and over the course of a decade and beyond.
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The Operational
Significant Event Imagery team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of
significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data
available at the NOAA Science Center in Suitland, Maryland. These events
include dust storms, fires, floods, icebergs, ocean events, severe weather,
snow cover, storm systems, tropical cyclones and volcanoes.
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NSF global
change research programs support research and related activities that
advance fundamental understanding of dynamic physical, biological, and
socioeconomic systems as well as interactions among those systems.
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You can think of
this web site as a window into the world of scientific research. In this
primer, you'll find a general discussion of the physical processes
underlying the earth's climate, an outline of the kinds of data that may
shed light on how the climate is changing - and the role of human activity
in these changes -and a description of some of the questions and
uncertainties that researchers continue to explore.
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The Environment
Division of the OSTP (which serves as a source of scientific and
technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major
policies, plans, and programs of the federal Government) provides national
leadership to ensure a sound scientific and technical foundation for
environmental policies and programs, and coordinates Federal research and
development strategies for environment and natural resource policies, in
area's including global climate change research and renewable energy
technology. Papers, Reports, Publications, selected Administration
Statements, Speeches and Testimony, Media Releases, White House Publications
and R&D Budget Documents are available in full text at this site.
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Third National
Communication of the United States of America Under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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The President
announced his first set of actions implementing initiatives to advance the
science of climate change, to spur technological innovation, and to promote
cooperation in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.
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The climate
change section of the U.S. Dept. of State website links to Remarks,
Briefings and Press Releases.
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The USGCRP
coordinates the research of the Federal departments and agencies with active
global change programs and provides liaison with the Executive Office of the
President. The website provides information concerning the program,
detailing the topics of greatest interest to the USGCRP, and provides links
to agency websites, programs, projects, research and major climate change
assessments.
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Homepage of the
Ozone Secretariat, the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the
Protection of the Ozone Layer, and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances
that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Access ozone treaties, ratification status,
reports, documents and other publications
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The website of
the secretariat of the Convention provides organizational support and
technical information for the Parties to the Convention and observers
participating in the intergovernmental negotiations and related activities
to combat climate change.
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The USDA Global
Change Program Office (GCPO) operates within the Office of the Chief
Economist and functions as the Department-wide coordinator of agriculture,
rural and forestry-related global change program and policy issues facing
USDA. The Office ensures that USDA is a source of objective, analytical
assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed mitigation
strategies. The Office also serves as USDA's focal point for climate change
issues and is responsible for coordinating activities with other Federal
agencies, interacting with the legislative branch on climate change issues
affecting agriculture and forestry, and representing USDA on U.S.
delegations to international climate change discussions.
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Full coverage of
climate change news from around the world.
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