Global Warming
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These documents are organized in descending chronological order, from the most recent:
October 2006
Budgets are falling in resarch on global warming. NYT More
May 2006
US Climate Change Science Program
Temperature Changes in the Lower Atmosphere. 
The study eliminates many discrepencies that had been used to question the accuracy of previous climate change models. See www.climatescience.gov for more.
Feb 24, 2006
Gus Speth's letter to the New York Times on the global warming emergency.
December 3-UN Climate Conference in Montreal
USA based Climate Crisis calls for the US to join the rest of the world
in recognizing the urgency of global warming and to take action to
reduce greenhouse gasses.
Rank
and Rile
Read Ted Glick's article in Grist Magazine about how we must build a
national movement to deal with global warming.
Study Links Destructive Hurricanes to Global Warming
A study published in Nature Magazine by MIT climatologist Kerry Emmanuel
finds that in the past three decades, Atlantic-basin hurricanes
have grown more than twice as powerful, with a notably sharp upswing
since 1995. The researcher links the formation of intensified storms
to an increase in average ocean-surface temperature of nearly one degree
Fahrenheit during the same period -- due in part to climate change.
Scientific American (March 2005)
How
did humans first alter global climate?
On Wednesday, February 16th, 140 nations signed the Kyoto Treaty, a worldwide consensus on the dangers of global warming and a commitment to reduce emissions by 2012. The United States and Australia did not sign the treaty. However, there is a citizens petition circulating instead, sponsored by the Climate Crisis Coalition. Sign the People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty here.
Intergovernmental Task Force on
Climate Change: (UK, USA, Australia)(January
2005)
"Climate change represents one of the most
serious and far-reaching challenges facing humankind in the twenty-first
Century. The international consensus of scientific opinion, led by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is agreed that global
temperature is increasing and that the main cause is the accumulation
of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a
result of human activities.1 Scientific opinion is also agreed that
the threat posed will become more severe over coming decades.
The cost of failing to mobilise in the face of this threat is likely
to be extremely high. The economic costs alone will be very large: as
extreme weather events such as droughts and floods become more destructive
and frequent; communities, cities, and island nations are damaged or
inundated as sea level rises; and agricultural output is disrupted.3
The social and human costs are likely to be even greater, encompassing
mass loss of life, the spread or exacerbation of diseases, dislocation
of populations, geopolitical instability, and a pronounced decrease in
the quality of life.4 Impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity are also
likely to be devastating.5 Preventing dangerous climate change, therefore,
must be seen as a precondition for prosperity and a public good, like
national security and public health. "
Read the whole report (40
pages 2.3Mb)
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
The world's most authoritative source on climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) which has been working for over a decade synthesizing scientific research from many countries. It was the work of the IPCC that led to the proposal for the Kyoto Accords.
IPCC
web site
Climate
Change 2001:The Scientific Basis
Climate
Change 2001 Synthesis Report
Download the report from the IPCC web site.
According to the EPA, by 2100, carbon dioxide concentrations are projected to be 30-150% higher than today’s levels.
Business Week (August 16, 2004,
cover story)
Business leaders are acting to reduce global warming
in the corporate sector, while the US government continues to deny
that global warming is taking place. (We cannot include this article
for copyright reasons, but you can order it online from Business Week)
