About climate change from the geological viewpoint, along with the science of the ocean, ice and atmosphere.
Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter.
A skeleton key to this enormous topic.
An impressive worldwide set of mini-Stonehenges is pinning down firm numbers for the CO2 debate.
Geologists can find traces of storms past.
Sand fused by lightning strikes preserves evidence of ancient times.
Climatology is more than an eclectic specialty: it promises, eventually, to put our hands on the controls of the atmosphere.
A retired scientist with time on his hands proposes to alter global climate.
Learn the seven essential principles of climate science, whether you're a teacher, a student or a citizen.
A multiyear, multidisciplinary, interagency program of research into this crucial part of the climate equation is being conducted under the guidance of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
The CDIAC, located at Oak Ridge National Lab, is the head climate-data arm of the U.S. Department of Energy.
New Scientist issued this set of short articles setting the record straight about 26 different climate-change issues. (May 2007)
In this project in distributed computing, you run a unique climate model in the background on your machine to help improve global climate models.
The home page for the White House's 2003 climate research program, created with extensive input from the scientific community.
This huge effort to bootstrap climate models is how scientists are doing the hard work of improving our understanding of how climate works.
NOAA's contribution to the International Year of the Reef includes this site providing information on ancient climates as recorded by corals and sclerosponges.
An immense site by author Spencer Weart giving an authoritative history of modern climate science. Food for months of study.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's hub for more data than you can click a mouse at.
This interagency program is the central node of the government's climate change research effort.
A fairly stated set of answers from the climate specialists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (being updated as of February 2008).
The American Geophysical Union, the world's largest organization of climate-related scientists, issued this statement on where we stand in January 2008. Worth reading in detail.
This optimistic group, funded by the G7 countries and energy companies, is eager to roll up its sleeves and tackle climate change through technology innovations.
Northernmost Europe was strongly affected by climate changes of the last 1500 years. Scott Mandia of SUNY Suffolk recounts the ups and downs of the Viking settlements on Iceland and Greenland during this time.
The central site for access to scientific data sets, as well as information for the public.
We can wait for more data with the passage of time, or we can mine history for data about climate that's already happened. This U.S. government site is all about the latter.
The National Research Council's June 2001 special report to the Bush Administration was a very good thing, and still relevant.
An international program to coordinate research into the past climates of the Earth—the only source of new data we have.
This nonaligned think tank issues reports laying out the climate-change consensus among the government-industrial complex that will probably carry the day in the climate debate.
