Global Warming Issue Project- Need info!!!?

Question

I am doing a research project on global warming and need information. Information- NOT opinions, please. I need to know sites that will help me with it, and information that might possibly help. Anything that would help- and again, PLEASE no personal opinions, please. Thank you! :)

Answer 1

wikipedia is always good, just for the general science, but one of the most comprehensive guide's to global warming that i've ever read is Marlo Lewis' "Al Gore's Science Fiction" or.....i think it's called that....anyway, here's the link. hope it helps!

http://www.cei.org/pdf/5820.pdf

Answer 2

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/su...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

Answer 3

Short summary of the verified and peer reviewed data:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

Lots of good graphs of peer reviewed data:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com

Good stuff, easy to read:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Good site, but a little disorganized.  Better for researching a specific sub-issue:

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

The best summaries of data about causes and impacts, not the easiest to read:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

The answer to the "It's the Sun" theory.  (It's mostly not).  Also see the very first graph.  The sun is responsible for about 10%.  The sun is extremely well studied and measured.  To think that climatologists don't consider it and include it in their calculations is silly.

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-...

Answer 4

I would suggest starting with Wikipedia. It has a very good page on global warming with many links to good sites. Pro and con view points are represented (link 1).

If you want a more scientific perspective I would recommend the Real Climate site. It is run by several atmospheric scientists and discusses new research both pro and con (link 2).

The next site is to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Global Monitoring Devision of the Earth Monitoring Research Laboratory. It will give you access to research by the US government. (link 3)

The last site is to Science News online. (link 4). Although it is a subscription site it may still help. Do a search on that site key words "Global Warming", while you can only see the articles if you subscribe even the article titles and the brief summary may be useful to you to find issues that you would like to research using Google or Wikipedia.



There are of couse thousands of global warming related sites out there now. The ones I have given you are a few of the ones that are unbiased and science based.

Answer 5

The book 'Rough Guide to Climate Change' is an excellent source of information on global warming theory. It is somewhat biased as it attempts to explain the reason why scientists believe humans are responsible for the recent climate change. But it references most of its sources, and generally contains only the science.

Another excellent source is RealClimate.org, a Blog run by fifteen highly qualified climate scientists currently doing active research in the field. The site avoids letting any politics into their articles, so it's mostly just the straight science.

And, of course, the de facto source on anything global warming related is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their site can be found below. You can read the entire report for free right on the site, or download it and print it out if you wish. And on the off chance you don't already know, the ipcc report is a paper constructed by over 2000 scientists which gathers together all the information regarding global climate change and lumps it into one package, and represents possibly the single largest scientific paper ever published. Pretty much required reading for anyone interested in the science behind global warming.

And last, there's this excellent little site I found that has absolutely no bias whatsoever. It's simply a quick rundown of Earth's climate history, and it's one of my favorite sources of info on the subject.