Web Sites on Global Warming

Web Sites on the Climate and Climate Change

Below are listed a few web sites that may be of interest to those wanting to find out more on the Climate and Climate Change aspect of the Atmospheric Chemistry course

The current consensus position on climate change of most of the world's scientists has been produced by a United Nations organisation, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As well as producing technical reports, they also publish (more readable) summaries of their conclusions for politicians.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc.ch/

Science Summary http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/sarsum1.htm
Summary on the Impact and Mitigation of Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/sarsum2.htm
Summary on Economic and Social Effects of Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/sarsum3.htm
Regional Effects of Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/sr97.htm

Background information on other aspects of the course are available from:

Overview

Chemical and Engineering News Article: August 9, 1999http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/cenmaster.cgi?hotartcl/cenear/cen

Kyoto Summit (Convention on Climate Change)

UN Convention on Climate Change: http://www.cop3.de/
Scientific American Article: http://www.sciam.com/forum/121597kyoto/index.html

Paleoclimatology

General information: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/paleo/

Global Climate Modelling

General information: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/modeling/
Images of simulations: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/caom/

Global Temperature Measurements

General information: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/observe/surftemp/

CO2 Measurements at Mauna Loa, Hawaii

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/sio-mlo.htm

Volcanoes and the Climate

General information: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/stothers.02/
and: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/hansen.02/
Pinatubo Pictures from: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/education/slide_set1/slides.captions.html

Bolide Impacts

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet_body.html
Hubble Space Telescope images: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/sl9/html/hubble_images.html
Tunguska: TBA
Chicxulub: http://earth.agu.org/revgeophys/claeys00/claeys00.html

Stratospheric Ozone

Today's ozone http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Sites on the Origin of the Solar System

Planetary Nebulae and Interstellar Dust Clouds

Eagle and Stingray Nebulae http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html

Accretion Disks

Extrasolar Planets

The Search for the Extrasolar Planet http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/
STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/stare/stare.html
Extrasolar Planet Search http://exoplanets.org//

Microwave Background Radiation

http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/dmr_image.html

Galaxies

Spiral Galaxies: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/dfm/galaxies.html
Hubble Deep Field Pictures: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/96/01.html

Any problems? contact Moray Stark at mss1@york.ac.uk

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