General Web Resources
- Agriculture, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
- Climate Action Network - a worldwide network of over 550 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
- Climate Action: Energy For A Changing World
- Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
- CLIWOC: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850
- Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms For Storm Spotters
- European Environmental Agency
- Global Change Master Directory - Descriptions of and links to data sets on many aspects of earth science.
- NASA's Earth Observing System
- Sila: Clue in to Climate Change - A site from the Canadian Museum of Nature focused on climate change in the Arctic.
- Stormtrack - This site is designed to allow amateur storm chasers to get the latest weather data from the National Weather Service, and serves as an access point for their reports and photographs of tornados and severe thunderstorms.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Created jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the Un Environment Program, this body serves as the international forum for assessing current scientific data on the impact of climate shifts and their socio-economic impacts globally.
- UM Weather (University of Michigan) - "The Internet's premier source of weather information, over 300 weather sites."
- WIND and SEA: the oceanic and atmospheric sciences Internet locator - An up-front index lists 40 main topics, from air pollution to wetlands. Of these, oceanography, weather, climate, coastal studies, endangered species, the history of oceanic and atmospheric sciences, and wetlands are categories most relevant geography.
Subject Guide
Robert Ridinger
Contact:
268A Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL 6015-2868.