Links and Resources

More about Abrupt Climate Change

• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  http://www.pewclimate.org/
• Minnesota Public Radio's Science Roundtable on Climate Change
  http://access.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/0309_climate/
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's site on abrupt climate change
  http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/ct_abruptclimate.htm
• Union of Concerned Scientists' site on abrupt climate change and the movie The Day After Tomorrow
  http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=1405
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on abrupt climate change
  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/story.html
• The Exploratorium science museum site on global climate change
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/
• Secrets of the Ice, a site developed by the Museum of Science, Boston and The Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine
  http://www.secretsoftheice.org/index.html
• The discovery of rapid climate change from Physics Today magazine
  http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-8/p30.html
• The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
  http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/vision/overview.htm

Documenting change in the Arctic

• Arctic Transect 2004, the Will Steger Expedition
  http://polarhusky.com/public/home.asp?menuID=home
• "Adapting to Climate Change" - a case study conducted by the University of Manitoba and the Inuvialuit people of Canada's western Arctic
  http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol5/iss2/art18/

Climate change and public policy

• "An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security" - a report prepared for the Pentagon
  http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/pubs/Abrupt_Climate_Change_Scenario.pdf
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  http://unfccc.int/

Sustainable Development Resources

• Danish Wind Industry Association
  http://www.windpower.org/composite-8.htm
• PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers site on wind power
  http://www.pbs.org/now/science/wind.html
• An overview of current community and collective wind projects, from Windustry
  http://www.windustry.com/community/default.htm
• Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an American organization that has been promoting sustainable development for twenty years
  http://www.ilsr.org/
• The U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  http://www.nrel.gov/
• Home Power Magazine, a for-profit magazine aimed at individuals who want to produce their own electricity
  http://www.homepower.com/
• Earth Island Institute , an environmental advocacy organization promoting alternative energy sources
  http://www.earthisland.org/

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