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  • Mar 01, 08

    whyfiles.org/...2.html statistics

    • Warming: Here at last? 
        If all the news about soaring temperatures is starting to make a global warming believer out of you, join the club. Those ominous temperature charts. The fact that, according to James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, virtually the entire globe was warmer than average last year.  

       It's enough to make you want to buy air-conditioner stock, or invent a new solar cell or some device to make energy without burning stuff.  

       Yet despite the warming trend, a surprising mini-dispute remains about whether the atmosphere is really warming at all. John Christy, of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, says trends in the lower atmosphere, when measured from satellites, show no warming over the past 20 years, exactly when global warming has seemed most acute. In the lower five miles of the atmosphere, the temperature trend was "zero" from 1979 to 1997, Christy and fellow NASA researchers concluded. And for the stratosphere (9 to 12 miles up), the cooling was 0.6 degrees per decade. We e-mailed Christy to ask how the climate could be warming if the atmosphere isn't? "Good question, no one really knows," he responded.

  • Mar 01, 08

    library.thinkquest.org/26026 challenge

    • he Environment: A Global Challenge is the web's most comprehensive site on the environment.  With 400 articles and 811 pages, the site covers every aspect of the environment and provides many interactive features.

      This site is ideal for educational purposes, though everyone will find the content and special features that are spread out through twenty sections to be interesting and useful.  We encourage visitors to contribute to the site, use it as an educational tool, and try the interactive features. 

      Help is available to new users.  You can also Search the site or view a Map and Menu.  Feel free to Emai (link disabled)l the ThinkQuest Team that created this site if you have any questions or comments.

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/...global.htm climate research

    • The Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems   Program (CCME), led by Dan Fagre since 1991, seeks to understand  the effects of  past  climatic  variability on northern  Rocky Mountain resources, to document and understand climate-driven  changes in the regional landscape, and to project future changes.  This effort has been part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program  that has incorporated national parks in its research strategy,  with Glacier National Park as the study site for most of Fagre’s  research. By integrating available knowledge and information,  the CCME Program is able to assist natural resource  decision makers with the complex issues that climate change presents.  A variety of methods and research strategies have been employed  to understand climate related ecosystem processes. Integration  with  climate change research world-wide has created a program with global  significance in understanding the effects of climate change in  mountain ecosystems.

  • Mar 01, 08

    grads.iges.org/head.html el nino

    • Tropical Pacific SST Predictions with a Coupled GCM
        Ben P. Kirtman and J. Shukla
                

      These El Niño forecasts, Published   Quarterly in the Experimental Long-Lead   Forecast Bulletin, are part of an ongoing research effort at COLA,   and do not represent official forecasts. These forecasts should not be   used as the basis of any commercial, policy, or other decisions. They   are strictly research tools for advancing the understanding of the ocean-atmosphere   system.

  • Mar 01, 08

    chemistry.beloit.edu/...index.html about do global should warming we what

    • SESSION 7: What Should We Do About Global Warming?
        Culminating Activity

       
         

        In this culminating activity, you will be asked to conclude   what we should do about global warming. This activity will require you to   articulate what you have learned during the module and to support your conclusions   with scientific and quantitative data. Your instructor will decide the format   of this activity; papers, debates, posters and discussions are possibilities.   Several options are given as examples so you can start to think about how   you will respond.

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.panda.org/...index.cfm biodiversity threatened

    •  New research by the conservation organization WWF indicates that the speed with which global warming occurs is critically important for wildlife, and that the accelerating rates of warming we can expect in the coming decades are likely to put large numbers of species at risk. 

       Species in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where the warming will be greatest, may have to migrate. Plants may need to move 10 times faster than they did at the end of the last ice-age. Very few plant species can move at rates faster than one kilometer per year, and yet this is what will be required in many parts of the world.

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.undoit.org/home.cfm campaing end global to warming

    • In September 2003, Environmental Defense created the Undo It campaign to underline the urgency of curbing global warming. The response was overwhelming: More than half a million people joined in the call to undo global warming.

        

      Through other campaigns, we’re continuing our work to inform the public and steer Congress toward strong action.

        

      Here’s where to find the latest versions of the most popular material from this site:

        

      Sign the petition – Add your name to more than 600,000 citizen co-sponsors of strong global warming legislation

        

      What you can do – How you can fight global warming at home, at work and on the road

        

      What global warming is – An introduction to the science of global warming

        

      Myths and facts – A look at the science behind common questions

        

      Overview of global warming work at Environmental Defense

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.ualberta.ca/...front.html due global red squirrels to warming

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        A team of researchers led by Dr. Stan Boutin has discovered
       that red squirrels, like the one shown here holding a pup,
       have been altered genetically in adapting to climate change.        
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       A University of Alberta biologist and his research team have discovered that North American red squirrels are changing their genetic make-up to cope with global warming. It is the first time scientists have been able to demonstrate a genetic response in an animal species to warmer conditions. 

       Until now, biologists have only been able to show some animals demonstrate flexibility, or plasticity, in adapting to changes in their surroundings from year to year. But Boutin's findings show the red squirrel evolving genetically, from generation to generation, to cope with environmental forces. 

       Dr. Stan Boutin of the U of A Department of Biological Sciences has been studying a population of the squirrels in the southwest Yukon for almost 15 years. The squirrels, faced with increasingly warm spring temperatures and a corresponding increase in the amount of food available, have advanced the timing of breeding by 18 days over the last 10 years.

  • Mar 01, 08

    portal.iri.columbia.edu/...server.pt climate for institute international research society

    • Our approach is driven by the need to produce the best and most relevant climate information for effective climate risk management in sectors such as agriculture, water-resource operation, food security and public health.  The Climate Program develops tools for generating climate information products that are tailored to meet the needs of local decision makers. 

  • Mar 01, 08

    web.mit.edu/www and center energy global of

    • The MIT  JOINT PROGRAM ON THE SCIENCE  AND POLICY OF GLOBAL CHANGE was founded in 1991 as an  interdisciplinary organization that conducts research, independent policy analysis, and public communication on issues of global environmental change.  It is not a degree-granting entity.

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.unep.org/climatechange challenge change- climate critical

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      Climate Change
         
       

      Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts will range from affecting agriculture- further endangering food security-, sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural .. More »

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.exploratorium.edu/...index.html and animals climate effects of on plants

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        The   effects of climate change on plants and animals are difficult   to measure, but potentially dramatic. Many species inhabit   precisely bounded ecological niches, and even small changes   in climate may cause fundamental disruptions in habitat or food   availability. In the past, animals could respond to these pressures   by moving from one place to another. Today, however, land development   has constrained and fragmented ranges and travel routes, making   species migration in response to climate change much more difficult.   Moreover, loss of key predator or prey species may affect the   life cycles of other organisms in the food chain.

  • Mar 01, 08

    www.aip.org/climate info technical

    • A hypertext history of how scientists   came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate   change.

       

           This Website created by Spencer   Weart supplements his much shorter book, which tells the history   of climate change research as a single story. On this Website you   will find a more complete history in dozens of essays on separate   topics, updated annually.
             See what critics say about the   book - where to buy it.

       

      If you want basic facts   about climate change, or detailed current technical information,   you might do better using the links   page. But if you want to use history to really understand   it all...

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