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Global climate change, the ozone layer, and other world environmental issues

Global warming in the Wikipedia

A NASA reference article on global warming

Global Warming FAQs:

US National Climate Data Center
Natural Resources Defense Council
Union of Concerned Scientists
Skepticism About Global Warming from Brian Carnell's Skepticism.net
See Wikipedia for both sides of the debate

Information on abrupt climate change (Could something like the "Day After Tomorrow" scenario happen?)

Science @ NASA
The Weather Underground
Abrupt Climate Change FAQ from the Union of Concerned Scientists
The Wikipedia on abrupt climate change
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises — free online book from the National Academies Press

Ozone Layer FAQs:

Ozone Hole FAQ from The Weather Underground
Ozone Depletion FAQs from faqs.org
Ice Cores a Record of Past Climates
Jun 11, 2011
"How do ice cores provide glimpses into past climate?&"
Fukushima Radiation Emissions Worse Than Had Been Admitted
Jun 8, 2011
"Japan said that emissions from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the early days of the March 11 disaster might have been more than twice as large as a previous estimate."
Present Day Rapid Release of Carbon Into the Atmosphere
Jun 6, 2011
"The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago, the best analog we have for current global warming, according to an international team of geologists."
Climate Change and the Prospect of Famine
Jun 5, 2011
"As global warming puts stresses on farmers feeding a growing world population, financing to develop new crop varieties and new techniques has been slow to materialize."
Where Climate Change Could Produce Famine
Jun 3, 2011
"World regions that will bear the brunt of global warming's impact on food include India, Mexico and southern Africa"
Did Climate Change Drive the Vikings From Greenland?
Jun 1, 2011
Climate change may have sparked the demise of early Viking settlements in Greenland, according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, when temperatures cooled rapidly over several decades."
Carbon Dioxide Levels Higher Than Ever
May 31, 2011
"Preliminary data from the US government shows that carbon dioxide levels peaked last week at the highest levels on record"
The Outbreak of Powerful Tornadoes
May 26, 2011
"The recent series of devastatingly powerful tornadoes is linked to unusually warm surface water in the Gulf of Mexico"
Ice Loss in Greenland
May 25, 2011
"A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a 'high-definition picture' of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty."
Did Stratospheric Water Vapor Decrease Global Warming?
May 23, 2011
"Why Earth's surface temperature hasn't warmed as expected puzzles scientists. Water vapor in the stratosphere may be a factor, says a new study."