GLOBAL MELTDOWN

The catalogue of disasters that are happening right now

Across the planet, rising temperatures are taking their toll

CARBON DIOXIDE

New research has found that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - the main cause of global warming - are higher than at any time in the past 625,000 years. HOTTEST EVER

This year is expected to be the warmest ever recorded; 1998 was the hottest so far, but the past three years currently occupy the next three places.

DESERTIFICATION

The giant Kalahari desert, already four times the size of Britain, threatens to become larger still, covering farmland in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.

EXPANDING OCEANS

The level of the world's seas and oceans is rising twice as fast as in the past, as their waters expand in rising temperatures and glaciers melt.

OCEAN EXILES

The people of the Carteret Islands, a scattering of atolls off Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific, have started to leave as their homes succumb to rising seas.

HURRICANES

Hurricane Epsilon - the 14th of the year - is forming in the Atlantic, even though the worst recorded hurricane season by far formally ended on Wednesday.

GLACIER MELT

Greenland glaciers have suddenly started racing towards the sea and melting. Much the same is beginning to happen to glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

WATER SHORTAGE

Areas such as the western USA, which depend on mountain snows for their water supplies, are running short as less snow falls - and what does fall melts earlier.

DISAPPEARING SPECIES

Sealife and birdlife have declined catastrophically this year along America's north-west Pacific coast, after a similar meltdown in the North Sea.

CORAL REEFS

Corals on the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching out and dying as sea temperatures rise and scientists fear that the whole reef may perish by 2050.
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101 best climate change links, from openDemocracy

Media and Information

  1. British Council Zero Carbon Cities
    http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-zerocarboncity.htm
  2. BBC Climate Change
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2004/climate_change/default.stm
  3. Climate Ark
    http://www.climateark.org/
  4. Climate Wire
    http://www.climatewire.org/
  5. Yahoo climate gateway
    http://dir.yahoo.com/...
  6. Grist Magazine: Climate Change links
    http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2002/07/31/links/index.html
  7. The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/0,12374,782494,00.html
  8. NewScientist.com
    http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/climate/climatelinks.jsp
  9. The New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/earth/index.html
  10. Red Pepper
    http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
  11. One World
    http://www.oneworld.net/article/archive/45/
  12. Science and Development Network
    http://www.scidev.net/
  13. IISD climate and atmosphere
    http://www.iisd.ca/media/climate_atmosphere.htm
  14. Mother Jones
    http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html
  15. Tiempo
    http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/
  16. Greenhouse Gas Online
    http://www.ghgonline.org/

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The science of climate change

  1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    http://www.ipcc.ch/
  2. World Meteorological Organisation
    http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html
  3. Real Climate
    http://www.realclimate.org
  4. "The Discovery of Global Warming"
    http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html
  5. Hadley Centre - UK unit of MET office to deal with Climate Change issues
    http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre
  6. Tyndall Centre, UK
    http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/
  7. Climate Prediction
    http://www.climateprediction.net/
  8. Centre for Science and Environment, India
    http://www.cseindia.org/
  9. Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University
    http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/
  10. World Climate Research Programme
    http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/wcrp-home.html
  11. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
    http://www.pik-potsdam.de/index_html
  12. Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research
    http://www.cicero.uio.no/index_e.asp
  13. NASA Global Change directory
    http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  14. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre
    http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/
  15. Earth Simulator - A UK-Japan joint research project
    http://www.earthsimulator.org.uk/
  16. MIT Centre for Global Climate Change
    http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/
  17. Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK
    www.cru.uea.ac.uk
  18. US Global Change Research Programme
    http://www.usgcrp.gov/
  19. Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
    http://www.stabilisation2005.com/
  20. US National Academy of Sciences report on climate change
    http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/climate?OpenDocument

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Intergovernmental and governmental

  1. Kyoto Protocol
    http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
  2. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    http://unfccc.int/2860.php
  3. United Nations Environment Programme
    http://climatechange.unep.net
  4. European Commission Climate Change homepage
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/home_en.htm
  5. EU Emissions Trading Scheme
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/emission.htm
  6. WHO Programme on Global Change and Health
    http://www.euro.who.int/globalchange
  7. The World Bank
    http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/envext.nsf/46ByDocName/ClimateChange
  8. Alliance of Small Island States
    http://www.sidsnet.org/aosis/
  9. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
    http://www.acia.uaf.edu/
  10. World Council for Renewable Energy
    http://www.world-council-for-renewable-energy.org/
  11. Asia-Pacific Network on Climate Change
    http://www.world-council-for-renewable-energy.org/
  12. OECD Climate Change page
    http://www.oecd.org/about/0,2337,en_2649_34361_1_1_1_1_37425,00.html
  13. Official UK government site for G8
    http://www.g8.gov.uk/
  14. UK DEFRA site on climate change
    http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/
  15. US Environmental Protection Agency
    http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
  16. Methane to Markets - US climate change initiative
    http://www.epa.gov/methanetomarkets/basicinfo.htm

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Business

  1. Alliance to Save Energy
    http://www.ase.org/
  2. Point Carbon
    http://www.pointcarbon.com/
  3. Climatebiz
    http://www.climatebiz.com/
  4. Safe Climate for Business
    http://www.safeclimate.net/business/newsandlibrary/library_links.php
  5. Climate Solutions
    http://www.climatesolutions.org/
  6. The Carbon Trust
    http://www.carbontrust.co.uk
  7. The Centre for Environmental Leadership in Business
    http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/
  8. The Climate Group
    http://www.theclimategroup.org
  9. International Emissions Trading Association
    http://www.ieta.org/ieta/www/pages/index.php
  10. Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange
    http://www.greentie.org/
  11. Energy Saving Trust
    http://www.est.org.uk/
  12. International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
    http://www.ipieca.org/
  13. The Greening Earth Society
    http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/
  14. Climate Technology Initiative
    http://www.climatetech.net/
  15. Association of British Insurers
    http://www.abi.org.uk/climatechange
  16. CERES
    http://www.ceres.org

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Research, campaigning organizations and others

  1. Tearfund
    http://www.tearfund.org/Campaigning/Issues/Climate+change.htm
  2. Kyoto USA
    www.kyotousa.org
  3. Pew Centre for Climate Change
    http://www.pewclimate.org/
  4. TATA Energy and Resources Institute, India
    http://www.teriin.org/
  5. Set America Free
    http://www.setamericafree.org
  6. Union of Concerned Scientists
    http://www.ucsusa.org
  7. World Resources Institute
    http://climate.wri.org
  8. Rocky Mountain Institute
    http://www.rmi.org/
  9. Natural Resources Defence Council
    http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp
  10. The Sierra Club
    http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/
  11. Climate Change Knowledge Network
    http://www.cckn.net/
  12. Climate Action Network
    http://www.climatenetwork.org/
  13. Greenpeace Climate Change Links
    http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/
  14. World Wildlife Fund
    http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/index.cfm
  15. Friends of the Earth: Climate Links
    http://www.foe.org.uk/campaigns/climate/links.html
  16. International Institute for Environment and Development
    http://www.iied.org/climate_change/index.html
  17. Campaign against Climate Change
    http://www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net/
  18. Rising Tide
    http://www.risingtide.org.uk/pages/resources/resources.htm
  19. Global Commons Institute
    http://www.gci.org.uk/
  20. People and Planet
    http://www.peopleandplanet.org.uk/
  21. New Economics Foundation
    http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/climate_change_top.aspx
  22. Exxon secrets
    http://www.exxonsecrets.org/
  23. Green Alliance
    http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/
  24. Carbon Trade Watch
    http://www.carbontradewatch.org/
  25. Carbon Development Mechanism Watch, Indonesia
    http://www.cdmwatch.org/
  26. Climate and Development Initiatives, South Africa
    http://www.inforse.org/africa/
  27. Corporate Watch
    http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=100
  28. Climate Justice
    http://www.climatelaw.org/
  29. Platform
    http://www.carbonweb.org/
  30. Earthlife Africa Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership
    http://www.earthlife.org.za/a>

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Other languages

  1. In French
    http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/oei/relief/
  2. In Spanish
    http://www.madrimasd.org/cienciaysociedad/Kioto/enlaces/default.asp
  3. In German
    http://www.aktion-klimaschutz.de/

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