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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

Dr. James E. Hansen

Stern Report

RealClimate

UN Scientific Expert Group Report on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Union of Concerned Scientists

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (1992)

Club of Rome



U.S. Climate Change Science Program

US Environmental Protection Agency´s Climate Change Site

US Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

National Oceanic & Atmopspheric Administration (NOAA)

Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

Natural Resource Defense Council



TIME: Global Warming

The Worst Natural Disasters in U.S. History





Climatecrisis.net

The Climate Project

Al Gore.com

Threatened Species

worldplan.org








The amount of carbon dioxide in the air has already risen to a dangerous level.
The preindustrial carbon dioxide amount was 280 parts per million (ppm).

Humans, by burning coal, oil and gas have increased carbon dioxide to 385 ppm,
and it continues to grow by about 2 ppm per year.  James Hansen




Energy sources, world






World greenhouse-gas emissions by sector