Climate and Global Change

  1. Global Warming and Climate Change
  2. Satellite Imaging
  3. Review from John Hopkins
  4. The Great Climate Flip-Flop: Go here.
  5. Stories in the ice: Antarctica. (Also click on almanac, water world, etc.)
  6. El Niņo: Learn about it here.
  7. Brush up on the latest news about Ozone Holes. Also, check out current issues in Global Warming.
  8. Terrestrial Impact Craters. Background on comet and asteroid impacts can be found here.
  9. Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Read about FACE here.
  10. Global Warming at the Smithsonian.
  11. Global Warming. Lots of good links!
  12. Plants as Climatic Indicators.
  13. Changing Climate and the Effect on Plant Life.
  14. Climate Change Information Kit.
  15. English Sparrows and European Starlings: Destroy them all!
  16. Why do species become endangered?
  17. Introduction of exotic wildlife. See also the state of the environment report.
  18. Invasive species links and info is here.
  19. Introduced marine exotic species are here.
  20. Convention on Biodiversity.
  21. Grassland Vegetation Changes and Nocturnal Global Warming.
  22. Effects of vegetation on global climate.
  23. West Nile Virus Maps
  24. Journal of Emerging Infectious
  25. Diseases.Population Growth
  26. Climate Change
  27. Hormones and Hormone Disruptors in the Environment
  28. Pesticides and other contaminants in the environment
  29. Water
  30. Ecosystem Simplification
  31. Invasive Species
  32. Loss of Biodiversity
  33. Mass Extinction
  34. Transgenic Crops
  35. Emerging Diseases
  36. BioTerrorism

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A question of uncertainties. Climate forcing from 1850 to the present. Positive forcing corresponds to warming and negative forcing to cooling of the atmosphere. Large uncertainties exist, particularly in the aerosol forcing.