Global Warming Research Guide
Scope
This guide will help the user to locate articles, books, and websites on the subject of global warming.
Overview
The following resources will provide the user with general background information on this topic.
AccessScience Available online.
Sample searches:
"global warming"
"climate change"
"greenhouse effect"
Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society
WB Reference Collection: GE 149 .E47 2002
Refer to “Global Warming” volume 1 pp 540-557.
Books, e-books and audiovisual resources
Use the Moraine Park Catalog to find books, e-books, and videos on this subject.
Sample keyword searches:
"global warming"
"climate change"
"greenhouse effect"
Periodical Articles
Use the following databases to find articles on this topic.
Ebsco
Contains articles from over 5000 magazines and journals covering a wide variety of topics.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Contains viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Facts on File
The “Issues and Controversies” and “Today’s Science” sections contain much useful information on this topic.
NewsBank
This database includes news from the United States and around the globe.
Websites
NCDC: Global Warming
This site contains brief answers to 10 of the most frequently asked questions concerning global warming.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC is made up of members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out new research nor does it monitor climate related data. It bases its assessment mainly on published and peer reviewed scientific technical literature."
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
A lengthy article by Richard S. Lindzen who is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Lindzen describes how relying on experimental models to predict actual events can be dangerous.
Global Warming and Climate Change
This is an online version of a brochure that was written by members of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The topics covered include the impacts of climate change on animals and plants along with what policies have been put forward to address the problem.
Global Warming - UCS
The Union of Concerned Scientists produce this site which includes links, analysis, and updates about global warming.
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
The Center was created to "disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content." The site contains, among other things, mini-reviews of journal articles, instructions for classroom experiments, and a dictionary of terms related to global change.
New Scientist Environment Report Climate Change
This site has current news stories dealing with climate change along with a section of FAQs, a greenhouse timeline, and links to other sites.
Updated 9/2009
