Climate Change

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This Wikibook deals with climate change and global warming. If you care to share your knowledge of this topic, please contribute.

Although this book is still in a very preliminary state, we seem to be moving toward a cohesive structure. The book is really two parts: first, a primer on the science of climate change, and second, a study of societal implications of climate change. The first part deals with much more concrete, physically based principles. As such, it can be developed more easily. The second part is potentially more controversial, but not necessarily so; for the early stages of development, the second part should probably be limited to generalities and external links.

[edit] Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Science
• Evidence of Change
• Causes
• Effects
• Mitigation Strategies

[edit] Appendices

• Press Cuttings - the sub-page where we should post press cuttings
• Further Reading - References and recommendations... non-technical, text, and scientific work to supplement this wikibook.
• Frequently Asked Questions

[edit] External Links

• National Energy Foundation Home
• CO₂ calculator
• MIT's Global Change website
• Global Warming
• A distributed computing project to predict climate change
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change - news, explanation, policy, and activism
• The Climate Ark is a Climate Change Portal and Search Engine
• Introduction to climate change... good for younger audience too.
• US Global Change Research Program
• Canada's introduction, including Kyoto Protocol information
• Local effects of climate change
• RealClimate
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change