Environmental Health Center
Reporting on Climate Change:
Understanding the Science
Appendix A -- Sources for Additional Information
International Bodies
Global Climate Change - Les changements climatiques
Official Canadian government climate change site. Includes press area.
Climate Change Secretariat
55 Murray Street, Suite 600, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5M3
Phone: (613) 943-2671
Fax: (613) 943-2694
E-mail: secretariat@ccs.gc.ca
URL: http://climatechange.gc.ca/
Global Climate Change Information Programme
This UK site contains a wealth of information resources related to global change and the atmosphere.
GCCIP, ARIC, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street
Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
URL: http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/arichome.html
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The official site of the IPCC offers many official documents and reports,
although not some major book-length ones.
IPCC Secretariat, World Meteorological Organization Building, 7bis Avenue de la Paix, C.P. 2300, CH- 211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Phone: (+41-22) 730-8208
Fax: (+41-22) 730-8025
E-mail: ipcc_sec@gateway.wmo.ch
URL: http://www.ipcc.ch/
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) is an interdisciplinary scientific activity begun in 1986 and sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU). It seeks to provide an international, interdisciplinary framework for global change science, to set priorities in the scientific problems approached, to establish consistency in the methods used to approach them, and to achieve compatibility of the resulting data.
IGBP Secretariat, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: (+46-8) 16 64 48
Fax: (+46-8) 16 64 05
E-mail: sec@igbp.kva.se
Will Steffen, Executive Director, will@igbp.kva.se
Susannah Eliott, Science Communicator, susannah@igbp.kva.se
URL: http://www.igbp.kva.se/
Small Islands Information Network
Run by Institute of Island Studies of the University of Prince Edward Island.
Lots of links on the impact of climate change on islands.
URL: http://www.upei.ca/~siin/index.aspx
United Nations Environment Programme
Set up after the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, UNEP is the main UN environmental body and the organizational sponsor of many climate-related international efforts, including the IPCC and FCCC.
Mr Tore J. Brevik, Chief, Information and Public Affairs, UNEP, P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254-2-62-1234/3292
Fax: +254-2-62-3927/3692
E-mail: ipainfo@unep.org
URL: http://www.unep.ch/
UNEP Information Unit for Conventions
This public information unit of the United Nations Environment Programme publishes a series of solid fact sheets and useful information related to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (as well as other international environmental treaties).
Press contact: Michael Williams
Phone: (+41-22) 917 8242/44
Fax: (+41-22) 797 3464
E-mail: mwilliams@unep.ch or iuc@unep.ch
UNEP/IUC, Geneva Executive Center, C.P. 356, 1219 Châtelaine, Switzerland
Phone: (+41-22) 917-8244/8196/8111
Fax (+41-22) 797-3464
URL: http://www.unep.ch/iuc/
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The official site of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Framework Convention is the international treaty under which nations seek to limit greenhouse warming. The role of the FCCC secretariat is diplomatic rather than scientific. Site is searchable. Good source of treaty texts, info on negotiation sessions, and press contact info.
UN - FCCC, P.O. Box 260124, D-53153 Bonn, Germany
Phone: (49-228) 815-1000
Fax: (49-228) 815-1999
E-mail: secretariat@unfccc.de
URL: http://www.unfccc.de/index.aspx
The Met.Office (UK)
The Met. Office is the national weather service for the UK.
The Met.Office, Room PD9, London Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2SZ, United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 1344 855680
E-mail: dchardy@meto.gov.uk
Press Office 01344 856655
URL: http://www.meto.gov.uk/index.aspx
World Meteorological Organization
This UN subsidiary coordinates international networks of meteorological observations and exchange of data and research.
7 bis Avenue de la Paix, CP 2300 - 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 730-8111
Fax: +41 22 730 8181
Information and Public Affairs Office (IPA)
Phone: +41 22 730-8315
Fax: +41 22 730-8027
E-mail: ipa@www.wmo.ch
URL: http://www.wmo.ch/
U.S. Federal
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Global Warming Site
A good overall resource on climate change. Much of the material has an edge of advocacy. State-by-state breakdown of warming impacts promises more than it delivers. Good (if one-sided) set of links.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
EPA: Ozone Depletion Home Page
This Web site, maintained by EPA's Stratospheric Protection Division, contains information about the science of ozone depletion, U.S. laws and regulations to protect the ozone layer, international treaties, CFC substitutes, methyl bromide, the UV index, and other topics.
EPA Ozone Protection Hotline: (800) 296-1996 or (301) 614-3396
URL: http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/
Department of Energy Units
DOE: Energy Information Administration - Greenhouse Gases
Information on estimated emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States and worldwide. The EIA compiles and distributes energy statistics of all kinds.
URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/frntend.html
DOE: Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Climate Change Prediction Program
This is DOE's program to develop, compare, and use computer models to simulate climate change.
URL: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/chammp/chammp.html
DOE: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
This center is devoted to research and information about the global carbon cycle and its climate implications. Run by the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Lab.
URL: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cdiac/
DOE: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
This research program aims at measuring and understanding the flows of solar and thermal energy through Earth's climate system.
ARM Toll-Free Information Number: (888) 276-3282
URL: http://dev.www.arm.gov/
NASA Units
NASA Homepage
NASA's top agency-wide Web page allows searches of all NASA pages. See also NASA's http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/newsroom.html "Newsroom" page.
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Television (NTV) offers real-time coverage of Agency activities and missions for news media and others. NTV is broadcast on GE-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz. The schedule of upcoming video is downloadable from ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt. The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight EST or EDT.
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/
The NASA Daily News Summary (e-mail by listserv) is issued each business day at about 2 p.m. Eastern time. Members of the media who wish
to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, send an e-mail message to: Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov.
NASA's photo, video, and audio galleries are also handy at http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.aspx.
NASA HQ Press Contact: David Steitz
Phone: (202) 358-1730
E-mail: david.steitz@hq.nasa.gov
NASA: Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division
This NASA unit conducts research in a number of areas related to climate: atmospheric chemistry and physics, clouds, aerosols, stratospheric ozone, etc., using airborne instruments. It supports NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth." To receive Ames press releases via email, send an email with the word "subscribe" in subject line to: ames-releases-request@lists.arc.nasa.gov.
NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Mail Stop 245-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
E-mail: esd@gaia.arc.nasa.gov
Communication Branch: (650) 650-9000
URL: http://george.arc.nasa.gov/dx/
Earth Observing System Home Page
NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) uses a network of satellites carrying advanced instruments to make long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans. It also includes a system for collecting, storing, and analyzing the huge volume of data that will be generated.
Steve Cole, Senior Science Writer, (301) 441-4146, stephen.e.cole.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
Rob Gutro, Science Writer, (301) 441-4217, rgutro@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov
7701 Greenbelt Road, 3rd Floor
Greenbelt, MD 20770
NASA's Earth Observing System web site: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA's Earth Observatory web site: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
The Global Change Master Directory
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database includes descriptions of data sets covering climate change, the biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.
GCMD User Support Office:
Phone: (301) 794-3002
E-mail: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
URL: http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA: Goddard Space Flight Center — Climate and Radiation Branch
This NASA unit conducts a full range of climate research, including remote sensing and modeling — with special emphasis on the cutting-edge areas of aerosols and clouds.
Phone: (301) 614-6183
Fax: (301) 614-6307
Allen Kenitzer, (301) 286-2806
Lynn Chandler, (301) 614-5562
Cynthia O'Carroll, (301) 614-5563
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/
NASA: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
This NASA research institute, sited near Columbia University in New York, is a subdivision of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. GISS is primarily engaged in studies of global climate change. It is directed by Dr. James E. Hansen.
NASA/GISS, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 678-5500
URL: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
NASA Global Change Data Center
Site of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Directorate,
Greenbelt, MD. Data products from NASA and the Mission to Planet Earth.
URL: http://www-tsdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcdc/gcdc.html
NOAA Units
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This is the top home page leading to the many scattered NOAA offices and Web sites related to climate.
URL: http://www.noaa.gov/
NOAA Public and Constituent Affairs
There is a list of the names and phone numbers of various NOAA press contacts at http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/reporters.html.
NOAA Public & Constituent Affairs, Room 6013, 14th Street, Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230
Phone: (202) 482-6090
FAX: (202) 482-3154
Barbara Semedo, Director of Public Affairs
URL: http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NOAA's NCDC claims to be "the world's largest active archive of weather data." Especially useful are their publications analyzing weather variability, extreme weather, and climate trends. NCDC partners with regional climate centers, and state climatologists.
Climate Services Branch, National Climatic Data Center, Room 468, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina 28801-5001
Phone: (828) 271-4800
Fax: (828) 271-4876
E-mail: orders@ncdc.noaa.gov
URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
NOAA Office of Global Programs
NOAA's Office of Global Programs is the center of the agency's Climate and Global Change Program. The Web site offers useful information and links on many climate topics. Especially good on ENSO, with a full-featured site at http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso/.
NOAA Office of Global Programs, 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 427-2089
Fax: (301) 427-2073
Press Contact: John Kermond
Phone: (301) 427-2089 x137
E-mail: john.kermond@noaa.gov
URL: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/
NOAA Central Library
NOAA Central Library, 2nd Floor, Silver Spring Metro Center Building 3 (SSMC3), 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Reference Desk: (301) 713-2600 x124
URL: http://www.lib.noaa.gov/
NOAA Central Library — Online Free Photo Collection
This collection of more than 10,000 digitized images related to the atmosphere and oceans is copyright-free and available online.
URL: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
This is NOAA's climate modeling research center, where some of the most advanced computers in the world are applied to climate modeling.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory / NOAA, P.O. Box 308, Princeton, NJ 08542-0308
Phone: (609) 452-6500
Fax: (609) 987-5063
Press Contact: Mark Crane
Phone: (609) 452-6582
E-mail: mwc@gfdl.gov
URL: http://www.gfdl.gov/
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL: Seattle, WA)
This major center of NOAA oceanographic research maintains the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) Array — a system of buoys spanning the tropical Pacific, which is one of the major guages of El Niño activity. PMEL also maintains the El Niño Theme Page (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html), one of the best sources of ENSO-related information on the Web.
NOAA R/PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: (206) 526-6239
Fax: (206) 526-6815
URL: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/
NOAA National Weather Service
The National Weather Service contains a host of resources relevant to climate change and variability. The NWS has a substantial central press office and a system of regional press offices. Its press office Web site is full of useful background material.
Press Contacts: Curtis Carey, John Leslie, Susan Weaver
Phone: (301) 713-0622
URL: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/pa/
NWS Warnings & Forecasts page (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/) neatly packages all sorts of weather-related warnings.
NOAA-NCEP Climate Prediction Center site (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/) offers short-term climate (or long-term weather) predictions from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/), including everything from the state of the ozone hole and ENSO to the outlooks for drought and floods. Press contact: (301) 763-8000, ext 7007.
Other NOAA Research Offices
Within NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), several different labs, programs, and institutes conduct research on global warming, ozone depletion, weather, and oceans. Press contacts for OAR and the offices below are: Jana Goldman, (301) 713-2483, ext. 181
Barbara McGehan (Boulder, Colorado) (303) 497-6288
NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, CO)
The Aeronomy Laboratory conducts fundamental research on the chemical and physical processes of Earth's atmosphere. This research concentrates on the troposphere and stratosphere.
David Skaggs Research Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO
URL: http://www.al.noaa.gov/
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
CDC aims to identify the nature and causes of climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries to develop the ability to predict important climate variations on these time scales.
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) studies basic and applied problems associated with the physics and chemistry of the solid earth and its atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere.
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, NOAA/OAR/CDC - (R/CDC1), 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303, or
University of Colorado, Campus Box 216, Boulder, CO 80309-0216
Fax: (303) 497-7013
URL: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/
NOAA Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory (Boulder, CO)
NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) conducts research related to atmospheric constituents that could force change in the climate or that may deplete the ozone layer. CMDL monitors greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone, ozone-depleting gases, and solar and terrestrial radiation at global sites including four Baseline Observatories.
Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory, 325 Broadway R/CMDL, Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: (303) 497-6074
URL: http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program — Greenhouse Effect
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, 325 Broadway, Code E/GC, Boulder, CO 80303-3328
E-mail: paleo@ngdc.noaa.gov
Phone: (303) 497-6160
Fax: (303) 497-6513
URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:8800/paleo/greenhouse.html
Other Federal and National Sources
White House Initiative — Global Climate Change
The official site of the Clinton White House initiative on global change.
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Climate/main.html
US Global Change Research Program
This White House-level interagency program coordinates federal research on global change in many agencies and universities. President Bush created it in 1989, replacing earlier federal coordinating structures. It was formally mandated by Congress in a 1990 law, and is now under the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
URL: http://www.usgcrp.gov/
US Global Change Research Information Office Home Page
The site of the information arm of the U.S. Global Change Research Program provides access to many of the most important products of federally sponsored research. Includes a searchable bibliographic database. Implemented by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University.
GCRIO User Services, PO Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964
E-mail: help@gcrio.org
Phone: (914) 365-8930
Phone: (914) 365-8922
URL: http://www.gcrio.org/
U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
A major gateway to climate-related data resources from many federal agencies. Science-oriented.
URL: http://www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/
U.S. State Department
(Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs)
This site for the State Department's environmental office is a good source
for official U.S. positions on international climate negotiations. Links
to State's public affairs office (http://www.state.gov/www/outreach.html).
Office of Press Relations (Room 2109), U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20520-6180
Phone: (202) 647-2492 (press queries)
Press briefings on Web: http://secretary.state.gov/www/briefings/index.aspx
Press briefings via fax on demand: (202) 736-7720. Especially useful is the Department's "Spotlight on Climate Change" (http://www.state.gov/www/global/global_issues/climate/index.aspx).
URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/index.aspx
USDA National Water and Climate Center
This site, maintained by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, includes information on agriculture's vulnerability to climate variability like drought, as well as mitigation measures.
URL: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/
Regional, State, and Local
U.S. National Assessment — The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
The National Assessment is a trove of informed estimates of the potential
regional, state, and even local impacts of global climate change. Organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, it is meant to contribute to the work of the IPCC. It breaks the United States down into 20 regions and 5 economic sectors.
URL: http://www.nacc.usgcrp.gov/
USGCRP Regional Seminars
Reports on the regional workshops on climate change impacts that preceded USGCRP's National Assessment.
URL: http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/ipccrev7.html
Regional Climate Centers
This site contains links to the six U.S. regional climate centers.
URL: http://www.wrcc.sage.dri.edu/rcc.html
Western Regional Climate Center
One of the six regional climate centers, the WRCC maintains a site
with an especially rich array of climate and weather info.
URL: http://wrcc.sage.dri.edu/
American Association of State Climatologists
Includes a listing of all state climatologists with contact info.
URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/aasc.html
Cities for Climate Protection Home Page
Cities for Climate Protection is a global campaign of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. More than 300 local governments worldwide participate in the campaign, including more than 50 cities and counties in the United States.
URL: http://www.iclei.org/co2/co2.htm
Skeptics
Global Warming
This Web site is a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition. It is affiliated with an organization called Consumer Alert. It is funded by groups with a politically conservative and anti-regulatory agenda, some of which are industry-funded.
Cooler Heads Coalition, c/o Consumer Alert, Suite 1128, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 22036
Phone: (202) 467-5809
Fax: (202) 467-5814
URL: http://www.globalwarming.org/index.htm
The Science & Environmental Policy Project
The Science & Environmental Policy Project was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. The site is a major collection of the arguments of greenhouse skeptics.
Dr. S. Fred Singer , Science & Environmental Policy Project, 4084 University Drive, Suite 101, Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 934-6940
Fax: (703) 352-7535
E-mail: ssinger1@gmu.edu
URL: http://www.sepp.org/
World Climate Report
The electronic edition of the flagship periodical of the global warming
skeptics, founded by University of Virginia's Pat Michaels. It is funded
by the Western Fuels Association (coal industry) through the Greening Earth Society. Site includes archives.
URL: http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/climate/
George C. Marshall Institute
This organization, originally focused on nuclear defense issues, says it wants to bring sound science to bear on public policy. Its interest has turned to global warming. Its funding comes from private foundations, corporations, and individuals, although their exact identity is unclear and controversial. Its board consists of eminent scientists.
Contact: Jeffrey Salmon, GCMI, 1730 K Street N.W., Suite 905, Washington, DC, 20006-3868
Phone: (202) 296-9655 or
Fax: (202) 296-9714
URL: http://www.marshall.org/
Junk Science Page
An iconoclastic review of science stories with a skeptical viewpoint. While it claims to debunk bad science driven by special agendas, it has an anti-regulatory agenda of its own. It is published by Steven J. Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
URL: http://www.junkscience.com/
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
This group is run by Arizona State Univ. geographer Craig D. Idso and botanist Keith E. Idso (both sons of pioneering climatology iconoclast Sherwood Idso). It is less ideology-driven than other skeptical organizations, and its strength is in its focus on the role of plants in the global carbon cycle (for example, the carbon dioxide "fertilizer" effect").
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, P.O. Box 25697, Tempe, AZ 85285-5697
Phone: (480) 491-3637
Fax: (480) 491-3868
E-mail: info@co2science.org
URL: http://www.co2science.org/
NGOs
CIESIN — Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CIESIN is part of Columbia University's Earth Institute, supported by various government funding, although it is a non-governmental organization. It is located on Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus in Palisades, New York. Ceisin operates the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) and the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). It also takes part in the World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment.
CIESIN, 61 Route 9W, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964
Phone: (914) 365-8988
Fax: (914) 365-8922
Fort Collins, CO Office
Phone: (970) 490-8387
Fax: (970) 490-8399
Washington, DC Office
Phone: (202) 314-3822
Fax: (202) 488-8679
E-mail: Roberta Balstad Miller, Director, roberta@ciesin.org
URL: http://www.ciesin.org/
Solstice: Sustainable Energy and Development Online
Solstice is the Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST).
Contact: Mary Kathryn Campbell, 1612 K Street, NW, Suite 410, Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 293-2898
Fax: (202) 293-5857
URL: http://solstice.crest.org/index.shtml
SEDAC: Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project
The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center is an element of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). It is a good starting point for background on climate modeling and the health effects of increased UV exposure from ozone depletion.
URL: http://sedac.ciesin.org/ozone/
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 550, Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: (703) 516-4146
Fax: (703) 841-1422
URL: http://www.pewclimate.org/
Environmental Health Center
A Division of the National Safety Council
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200,
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 293-2270 (tel); (202) 293-0032 (fax)
