Critical Issues Series - AIChE March 1012, 2002, Los Angeles, California. Forum on global climate change, alternative energy options, and the future of nuclear power. http://www.aiche.org/criticalissues/
Extractions: It's in the news and on everyone's mind - the possibility that terrorist attacks on petroleum, chemical and nuclear facilities could cause catastrophic damage and releases of hazardous materials. How vulnerable are these facilities and what can be done to protect them? How can we balance the public's right to know against the danger that terrorists will easily access such public information? Leaders from industry, government, public interest groups and others will discuss these and other issues in this very important forum. Toward a Sustainable Water Supply Water was once treated as an inexhaustible resource. But few people hold that belief today in the face of droughts in the United States, Africa and elsewhere; conflicts between states and nations over river flows and water rights; and competing claims for water by communities, industry, fishing interests and hydro-electric power generators. A panel of four speakers representing the diverse perspectives of government, engineering, industry and society will present the facts and address the issues involved in the development of more effective water use technologies and practices.
WELCOME TO ACT Provides training and research on the human dimension of global environment to graduate and undergraduate students. http://www.indiana.edu/~act/home.html
The World Revolution An idea for a new, global grassroots social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era. http://www.worldrevolution.org/
Extractions: welcome The World Revolution is an idea for a new, global activist social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era. Major issue areas of the World Revolution include: peace, human rights, the environment, and world poverty One child in 12 is forced into the "worst forms" of labor, including slavery, the sex trade and hazardous and illicit activities, the British branch of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report. UNICEF UK said that 350 million children aged five to 17 worked, and that 180 million of them were "involved in the worst forms of child labour. more...
Extractions: Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center You may subscribe to HGDEC, a SEDAC-sponsored mailing list that serves as a forum for the exchange of information and opinions on the human dimensions of global environmental change, by sending email to majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org. The body of your message should read, "subscribe hgdec". Archived messages from HGDEC are accessible at http://listhost.ciesin.org Text Browser Utilities:
Global Environmental Change Programme Home Page This is the home page of the global Environmental change Research Programme of the United Kingdom s Economic and Social Research Council. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/gec/
Extractions: The Global Environmental Change Programme is in its final year. Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Programme has run since 1991 and will end in June 2000. In that time, it has supported 150 empirical research projects, Fellowships and PhD studentships across the UK. Our web site is split into two sections: Recent Programme Highlights , including Chris Williams' report The Environmental Threat to Human Intelligence , details of the launch of the Programme Summaries and our influential report on 'The Politics of GM Food: Risk, Science and Public Trust' and supporting documents Overview Contact information Our Research How we operate ... Search this site These pages are designed by the Global Environmental Change Programme Office and will be maintained until the end of the Programme in June 2000.
CBL - File Not Found a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea. http://cbl.umces.edu/fogarty/usglobec/
CIESIN Agriculture Guide Conversely, global climate change could affect agriculture by reducing the amount of land Human Causes of global Climate change Related to Agriculture http://ciesin.columbia.edu/TG/AG/AG-home.html
Extractions: CIESIN Thematic Guides Welcome to the CIESIN Thematic Guide on Agriculture and Global Environmental Change. The purpose of this guide is to help you locate key documents and data sets that pertain to human dimensions of global environmental change related to agriculture. Although the aim is to provide the most relevant sources and data, this guide offers only an overview of available information. Agriculture is as ancient as human civilization itself and is the fundamental activity through which humans survive on earth. Especially in developing countries, agriculture is the primary contributor to the nation's economy. Agricultural practices, however, may contribute to global climate change: Arable farming, burning and clearing of forests, wetland rice cultivation, raising of livestock, and use of nitrogenous fertilizer can lead to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. Conversely, global climate change could affect agriculture by reducing the amount of land available for cultivation, decreasing crop yields, and threatening food security, especially in the developing countries. Therefore, systematically documenting and disseminating information related to the impact of agricultural activities on the global climateand vice versaare important tasks. Identifying appropriate technological and policy interventions to mitigate global climate change is crucial at the national, regional, and local levels. Considering indigenous environmental knowledge, including human adaptive strategies, is necessary to strengthen technological and policy initiatives.
Extractions: Home Policy Archive Search Sponsored Listings Free Trial Issue - E/The Environmental Magazine : A 10-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is chock full of everything environmental from recycling to rainforests, and from the global village to our own backyards. Free Trial Issue Questia : Search over 400,000 books and journals at Questia online. FastWeb Free Scholarship Search : Find free money for college or an advanced degree. var site="sm3pwl1776" Larry Pakerr, Congressional Research Service Updated October 1, 2002 SUMMARY The possibility that human activities are releasing gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), at rates that could affect global climate has resulted in proposals for national programs to curtail emissions. An international framework for specific reductions in greenhouse gases was negotiated at a meeting in Kyoto in December 1997. Concern about costs has encouraged consideration of CO2 reduction proposals that employ market-based mechanisms. The passage in 1990 of a tradeable allowance system for sulfur dioxide (SO2) control in the United States to reduce acid rain provides a precedent for such mechanisms. The specific effects of both a carbon tax and tradeable permit program would depend on the specific levy (carbon tax) or allocation scheme (tradeable permit) chosen, the scope of the program, the timing of the reductions, and the recycling of any revenues.
Center For Environmental Prediction Homepage Specializes in research and education in regional and global environmental prediction, particularly with reference to climate change modeling. http://www.cep.rutgers.edu
Extractions: CEP News Center for Environmental Prediction Scholarships for George H. Cook Scholars. The Center for Environmental Prediction (CEP) announces the availability of two $1000 scholarships to support two undergraduates in their senior year who are conducting research consistent with the objectives of CEP. Find out more here College Meteorology Club Wins Prestigious Award! Congratulations to the Rutgers/Cook College Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. They have won the 2002-2003 Student Chapter of the Year award! We are very proud of our students and their outstanding accomplishments. They truly make this a great club to be part of! Find out more here
The Global Warming Information Center Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research; fact sheets, media kits, research, and links critical of the manmade climate change orthodoxy. http://www.nationalcenter.org/Kyoto.html
Center For Energy And Environmental Studies - Boston University Undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental policy, environmental science, remote sensing, energy analysis, international relations and policy. Research on global climate change, energy flow modeling and indicators on sustainable development. Includes course contents, international options, project on human development. http://www.bu.edu/cees/
Alexander Shlyakhter's Home Page: Variation Of Fundamental Constants; Neutron Ac Researcher at Harvard University. Interests include variation of fundamental constants, nucleosynthesis, neutron cross sections, radiation risk, uncertainty analysis, risk analysis, monte carlo simulation, and global climate change. http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/~ilya_shl/alex/
Extractions: Professional: papers on nuclear physics risk analysis (If you need a copy of any paper not downloadable from here, please email ilya_shl@mit.edu Direct test of the constancy of fundamental nuclear constants , A. I. Shlyakhter, Nature Vol. 264 November 25, p. 340 1976 Direct Test of the Time-Independence of Fundamental Nuclear Constants Using the Oklo Natural Reactor , A. I. Shlyakhter, ATOMKI (Debrecen, Hungary) Report A/1 (1983) ( tex source scanned original ps Direct Test for the Constancy of Fundamental Nuclear Constants Using the Oklo Natural Reactor , A. I. Shlyakhter, LNPI preprint 260, September 1976 ( abstract For recent references revisiting the subject, see Y. Fujii et al. Nuclear Data in Oklo and Time-Variability of Fundamental Coupling Constants
GLOBEC Home Page aims to advance our understanding of the global ocean ecosystem and how it responds to global climate change. GLOBEC investigates the links between climate and marine ecosystems. http://www.globec.org/
Extractions: //Top Navigational Bar III v3.4.1.1b (By BrotherCake @ cake@brothercake.net) //Permission granted/modified by Dynamicdrive.com to include script in archive //For this and 100's more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ //This notice MUST stay intact for legal use GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS GLOBEC is the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) was initiated by SCOR and the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations comprising a major component of oceanic ecosystems. The aim of GLOBEC is to advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and its response to physical forcing so that a capability can be developed to forecast the responses of the marine ecosystem to global change. Publications
The Woods Hole Research Center - Home Page Addresses the great issues of environment through scientific research and education and through applications of science in public affairs. Focus is on climate change and the warming of the earth, as well as global forests because of their controlling influence on climate. http://www.whrc.org
Extractions: SiteMap Contact Information Our Mission Who's Who ... WHRC in the News (Hold mouse over text to halt scroll.) Please share in our work for the health of the planet by supporting the Center with a secure online donation. Signup to receive the Woods Hole Research Center's NEWSLETTER - July 6, 2005 "Understanding the Water Resources of Amazonia." - June 20, 2005 Research Center Annual Repo rt 2004 (pdf format - 1.7MB). January 13, 2005. is to understand the causes and consequences of environmental change as a basis for policy solutions for a better world, stabilizing climate and protecting the integrity of the global environment. New Program, Central Africa Forests The Research Center expands its program in landcover and land use analysis to the forests of Central Africa. Green Building Monitoring System The Center's building monitoring system tracks the efficiency of a high-performance building New Program, Mid-Atlantic states
CEI Issues Index of CEI research papers, opinion articles, speeches, and other publications on climate change, the Kyoto Treaty, and related topics. http://cei.org/sections/section17.cfm
Extractions: Home Focus Areas Called the best environmental think tank in the country by The Wall Street Journal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute focuses on the development and promotion of free market approaches to environmental policy. We believe that where individual property rights exist in environmental resources, the environment is most likely to be protected, and that market institutions more effectively allow for the realization of environmental values than political agencies and bureaucracies. As a leading proponent of free market environmentalism, CEIs program includes both an overall effort to reframe the environmental debate and a series of targeted projects to reform specific policies, ranging from risk regulation to global warming. Focus Areas CEI is working to change the nature of the regulatory reform debate through its Death by Regulation Project. In the past, such debates have usually been lopsided affairs: On one side were regulatory advocates claiming to protect our health and safety; on the other side were reformers portrayed as being interested only in saving money. The Death by Regulation Project attempts to reframe this debate by examining how overregulation itself can be deadly. CEI has pioneered in exposing the lethal effects of a number of such regulations, such as automotive downsizing due to federal fuel economy standards and the delayed availability of new medical therapies due to Food and Drug Administration rules.
CRYSTAL-FACE Outreach Educational sites and games related to the study of cirrus clouds, rain, climate change, and global warming. http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/crystalface/outreach.html
Extractions: CRYSTAL-FACE Outreach Droplet and The Water Cycle - Game What on Earth - Game Global Warming - Education Atmospheric Radiation - Quiz Abrupt Climate Change - Radio Series Other Greenhouse Gases - Radio Series Aerosols and Climate - Radio Series Climate Change and Hardwood Forests - Radio Series Predicting Climate Change - Radio Series Complexity of Clouds - Radio Series Effect of Clouds - Radio Series Global Warming and Ozone - Radio Series Heavy Cloud, No Rain
Nat' Academies Press, Reconciling Observations Of Global Temperature Change (200 A detailed investigation into the relationship and differences between the surface temperature record (provided by weather stations) and that of the lower troposphere (provided by satellites and weather balloons). http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068916/html/
Extractions: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xvi Executive Summary, pp. 1-4 Part I: Overview and Conclusions, pp. 5-6 1 Introduction, pp. 7-8 2 Background, pp. 9-20 3 Findings, pp. 21-23 4 Recommendations, pp. 24-26 Part II: Technical Background , pp. 27-28 5 Introduction, pp. 29-31 6 Surface Temperature Observations, pp. 32-40 7 MSU Observations, pp. 41-49 8 Radiosonde Observations, pp. 50-57 9 Trend Comparisons, pp. 58-71 References, pp. 72-80 Appendix A: Biographical Information on Panel Members, pp. 81-84 Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations, pp. 85-86 GO TO PAGE: Front Matter i-xvi Executive Summary skim Part I: Overview and Conclusions skim ... skim The Open Book page image presentation framework is not designed to replace printed books. Rather, it is a free, browsable, nonproprietary, fully and deeply searchable version of the publication which we can inexpensively and quickly produce to make the material available worldwide.
Trends Online Contents Methane Emissions Carbon Flux from LandCover change Related data on carbon flux from changes in land use and land cover. Climate. Temperature Clouds http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm
HIA: Hemp Industries Association: Hemp Trade Group, Education & Industry Develop At the forefront of the drive for fair and equal treatment of Industrial Hemp and the installation of a level playing field on which to compete with other natural resources and synthetics. The HIA seeks changes in government policies to encourage global production of hemp as a raw material for industry. http://www.thehia.org/index.html
Extractions: The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) is a non-profit trade group representing hemp companies, researchers and supporters. We are at the forefront of the drive for fair and equal treatment of industrial hemp. Since 1992, the HIA has been dedicated to education, industry development, and the accelerated expansion of hemp world market supply and demand. The hemp industry has positioned itself over the past decade to once again become a major global economic force in the 21st century. Hemp is one of
