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The Greenpeace Case Against Coal-Fired Power Generation new editor's pick

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/climate/caseagainstcoal0808.pdf

reviews the evidence and opinions of business and government leaders regarding the use of coal to generate power in the UK, including suggestions for meeting CO2 reduction goals by other means (pdf)

Added: Sep. 22, 2008 | Rate It

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) editor's pick

http://amap.no/acia/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

documents relating to arctic warming, including the important "Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment" (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Biofuel by Decree editor's pick

http://www.terraper.org/file_upload/BiofuelbyDecree.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report details how the Burmese military’s nation-wide campaign to plant eight million acres of the Jatropha tree for biodiesel production is resulting in human rights abuses including forced labor, land confiscation, loss of income and food insecurity (pdf)

Added: May. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Brief of Amici Curiae Climate Scientists editor's pick

http://www.communityrights.org/ClimateScientistsAmicusFinal.pdf

the legal brief filed by climate scientists to the Supreme Court in support of Massachusetts vs. EPA, 05-1120 which seeks to clarify that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that can and should be regulated by the EPA (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Carbon Neutral Myth, The - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins editor's pick

http://www.carbontradewatch.org/pubs/carbon_neutral_myth.pdf

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

report from Carbon Trade Watch highlights several ways in which the carbon offset approach to climate change is fundamentally flawed (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Consumer's Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers, A editor's pick

http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/ConsumersGuidetoCarbonOffsets.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report from Clean Air, Cool Planet which discusses what makes a good retail carbon offset provider, and seeks to provide guidance to those that are considering purchasing offsets to help reduce their "carbon footprints" to achieve "carbon neutrality" (pdf)

Added: Dec. 31, 2006 | Rate It

Energy [R]evolution editor's pick

http://www.energyblueprint.info/

report that provides a practical blueprint for how to half global CO2 emissions, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption by 2050, explaining how existing energy technologies can be applied in more efficient ways

Added: Mar. 11, 2007 | Rate It

Gardner's Guide to Global Warming, The editor's pick

http://www.nwf.org/gardenersguide/Gardeners_Guide.pdf

the National Wildlife Federation discusses the challenges and solutions (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

IPCC Working Group 2 Report, 2007 editor's pick

http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/

full report of the IPCC Working Group 2: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, part of Assessment Report 4, 2007

Added: Oct. 21, 2007 | Rate It

Living Within a Carbon Budget editor's pick

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/living_carbon_budget.pdf

a report by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, commissioned by Friends of the Earth and the Cooperative Bank, that presents new findings about the scale of emission reductions needed and about pathways to a low-carbon future (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment editor's pick

http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/

a collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of independent experts to develop and communicate a new assessment of climate change, impacts on climate-sensitive sectors, and solutions in the northeastern United States

Added: Jul. 13, 2007 | Rate It

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/peatfiresbackground.pdf

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Stern Review on the economics of climate change editor's pick

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_report.cfm

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

important report from the chief British government economist and former World Bank chief economist that concludes "there is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now" and that "the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting"

Added: Oct. 30, 2006 | Rate It

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change editor's pick

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Independent_Reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm

A report on the economics of climate change and development to the UK Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Economics of Climate Change by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report editor's pick

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), summarizing thousands of pages of scientific reports into a readable 26 page synopsis of the current scientific consensus regarding climate change (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity editor's pick

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/default.php

a synthesis and assessment report prepared by the US Department of Agriculture

Added: Jul. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Unconventional Oil editor's pick

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/unconventional_oil_final_lowres.pdf

report highlights perilous trends in the oil sector, where increased investment in unconventional fossil fuels, such as Canadian oil sands and US oil shales, may dangerously contribute to climate change and cause local ecological disaster (pdf)

Added: Jul. 30, 2008 | Rate It

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate editor's pick

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm

a report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research that outlines expected changes in extreme weather and climate events and our reactions to them

Added: Jun. 22, 2008 | Rate It

Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises popular

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074347

7 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council that shows periods of gradual change in Earth's past were punctuated by episodes of abrupt change

Added: Dec. 16, 2001 | Rate It

Global Roundtable on Climate Change popular

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/grocc/

4 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a stakeholder forum of leaders from industry, governments and NGOs, set up to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change

Added: Mar. 08, 2007 | Rate It

Global Warming Contributes to Australia's Worst Drought popular

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf2002drought_ut3s.pdf

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

WWF details new research that has found that human-induced global warming is a key reason why the Australian drought of 2002 has been so severe (pdf)

Added: Feb. 17, 2003 | Rate It

Sea Level Rise Reports popular

http://epa.gov/climatechange/effects/coastal/slrreports.html

5 out of 10 stars (6 votes)

reports from EPA's Sea Level Rise Project, whose mission since 1982 has been to accelerate the process by which people in the coastal zone prepare for the possible adverse effects of rising sea level

Added: May. 05, 2004 | Rate It

Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

http://www.i-s-e-t.org/Proceedings-final.pdf

final report from an international conference on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Delhi, January 2007, organized by the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, and Winrock International, India (pdf)

Added: Mar. 11, 2007 | Rate It

Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ABN_Agro.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty

Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It

Annual Air Quality/Air Emissions Reports

http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/

the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation provides a "report card" on the status of air quality and air pollutant emissions

Added: Oct. 27, 2001 | Rate It