Links

• Governmental Bodies

  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
    Top international scientific body, represents scientific consensus on global warming
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    Website of Kyoto signatories
  • Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
    U.S. Department of Energy's climate-change data center
  • U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Warming FAQs
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
    Ongoing effort (begun 2003) to craft permit rules for cap-and-trade system governing carbon emissions from electricity generation in Northeast U.S.

• Climate News Digests

  • Climate Crisis Coalition Daily Newsfeed
    Selects and links to the day's 8-10 breaking stories on climate science, politics and advocacy. Cogently edited, brilliantly written, indispensable.
  • EESI Climate Change News
    Superb weekly newsletter on climate and energy with a Congressional focus, from Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
  • Environmental Health News (Climate Change page)
    Another fine daily digest; less selective (more entries) than CCC's Newsfeed.

• Essential Blogs

  • Gristmill
    Covers US & World eco developments with verve and a nose for news.
  • Streetsblog
    NYC-based transport-focused blog, covers road pricing, bicycling, urban renaissance for policy wonks and activists alike.

• Climate / Environmental Activists

  • Climate Crisis Coalition
    Grassroots mobilizer for U.S. climate action; publishes superb "Daily Newsfeed" on energy and climate
  • Pay Your Air Share
    Pay Your Air Share is a project of the Prometheus Institute, a libertarian think tank based in California, that supports carbon taxation
  • Holistic Politics
    A Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax and Various Calculations
  • Sustainable Prosperity
    Sustainable Prosperity is a charitable, non-partisan, multi-stakeholder initiative. Its aim is to build a greener and more prosperous economy for all Canadians.
  • FederalCarbonTax.Org
    Initiative for resolutions by local governments in support of a federal carbon tax.
  • Oil Change International
    DC-based but grassroots group seeking "separation of oil and state" to enable political progress on energy and climate
  • stopglobalwarming.org
    The Stop Global Warming "Virtual March"
  • EcoEquity
    Foremost "climate justice" organization. Trenchant analysis and terrific Resources page. Excellent links and bibliography.
  • Climate Ark
    Climate Change and Global Warming Portal
  • Climate Progress
    Timely, topical site run by climate policy expert (and former Clinton-era acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy) Joe Romm.
  • Ross Gelbspan
    Author-journalist punctures oil corporations' media smokescreen on climate change
  • EcoEarth.Info
    Environment Portal and Search Engine

• Mainstream Environmental Groups

  • Environmental Law and Policy Center
    Global Warming Solutions page from CTC's fiscal sponsor
  • Friends of the Earth
    Along with Greenpeace, the leading U.S. environmental group backing carbon taxes.
  • Greenpeace USA
    Along with Friends of the Earth, the leading U.S. environmental group backing carbon taxes.
  • Sierra Club
  • World Resources Institute
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Environmental Defense
  • Environmental Advocates of New York

• Policy Journals & Papers

  • Global Policy Forum
    Their Web page on Energy Taxes links to useful papers and articles on carbon and fuel taxes from 1997 to present.
  • William Nordhaus home page
    Links to papers and economic models of the world's leading carbon-energy-economy modeler
  • Holistic Politics
    A Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax and Various Calculations
  • CBO Commentary on Carbon Tax vis-a-vis Cap and Trade
    2008 Essay by Congressional Budget Office climate specialists Peter R. Orszag and Terry M. Dinan, critiquing noted academic Cass R. Sunstein's article “Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols”

• Presentations, Visuals, etc.

  • An Inconvenient Truth
    Al Gore's consciousness-raising, Oscar-winning (2006) movie
  • Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
    High-level UK report on the costs of not addressing climate change
  • Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
    Map of climate impacts already evident
  • Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska - PBS
    Video conveys vividly what climate change means
  • Time.Com - The Effects of Global Warming
    Time Magazine's 2001 cry of alarm
  • Nova and Frontline - What's Up with the Weather
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Global Warming Basics