News about Climate Change

• Environmental Health News: Climate Change
• Google News: Climate Change
• Google News: Global Warming
• Inter Press Service News Agency: Earth Alert: Confronting Climate Change

Earth to Sky: Sharing a World of Resources - a partnership between NASA's Space and Earth Science disciplines and the National Park Service

• Global Climate Change

Environmental Protection Agency: Global Warming – Individual Actions Make a Difference

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4): Synthesis Report - Summary for Policymakers - November 16, 2007 (6.36 MB PDF)
• Working Group I Report: "The Physical Science Basis" - February 2, 2007
• • Working Group I Report: "The Physical Science Basis" – Summary for Policy Makers - February 2, 2007 (3.67 MB PDF)
• Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" – April 6, 2007
• • Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" – Summary for Policy Makers - April 6, 2007 (923 KB PDF)
• Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" – May 4, 2007
• • Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" – Summary for Policy Makers - May 4, 2007 (631 KB PDF
    
• Other IPCC Assessment & Special Reports

National Academy of Sciences

• Global Change at the National Academies
• Understanding and Responding to Climate Change - March 2006 (4.81 MB PDF)

The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Natural Resources Defense Council

• Losing Ground: Western National Parks Endangered by Climate Disruption - July 2006 (1.84 MB PDF)

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission maps

U.S. Climate Change Science Program

US Global Change Research Program

• Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (2000)
• Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (2000): Overview Report
• Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (2000): Region: California

Economic Impact of Global Climate Change

• The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction — A Review and Assessment by the Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) at the University of Maryland (October 2007)
• Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change (2006)

Businesses -- particularly the insurancy industry -- are recognizing the realities and implications of climate change as well.

• Lloyds' 360 Risk Project: Climate Change
• Swiss Re Publications on climate change

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Statements and Testimony of Department of the Interior Officials before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies regarding Climate Change – April 26, 2007

• DOI - Lynn Scarlett (Deputy Secretary of the Interior) (21 KB PDF)
• BLM - Ron Huntsinger (National Science Coordinator) (29 KB PDF)
• BLM - Mike Pellant (Great Basin Restoration Initiative Coordinator) (35 KB PDF)
• NPS - Dan Kimball (Superintendent, Everglades NS) (25 KB PDF)
• NPS - Don Neubacher (Superintendent, Point Reyes NS) (42 KB PDF)
• USFWS - Sam Hamilton (Southeast Regional Director) (39 KB PDF)
• USGS - Thomas Armstrong (Senior Advisor for Global Change Program) (29 KB PDF)

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