DESIGN
FOR THE COMING CLIMATE LINKS
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/
The Climate Independent Media
Centre
http:// www.climateconference.org
This site focuses on the media presence of climate change issues, particularly
around the COP-6 meeting, making it like a single issue version of Green
Clips. While it provides up-to-date reports on policy and activism issues,
overall one gets the impression that if this site is to achieve longevity,
it is going to have to broaden its view of climate change and its impacts.
The Climatic Research
Unit
http:// www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/cru.htm
The Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK is one
of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural
and anthropogenic climate change. This site surveys the Unit's Academic
programs, the state of the art climate modelling technologies they use
and their latest scientific research. While this kind of pure and applied
science is likely to effect the greatest changes at the level of government
policy, it does somehow perpetuate the idea that climate change is happening
'out there' - it realises climate change as a 'natural' event. It doesn't
make the kinds of leaps that perhaps need to be made for the consequences
of climate change to arrive in our everyday environments. However if you
are inclined to think relationally anyway, this site is well worth visiting.
It also has information sheets on a variety of climate change issues for
the 'layperson' and excellent climate related links.
New Scientist Global Warming
Report
http:// www.newscientist.com/global/
First hand press reports, FAQ's, article chronology and related links.
InterMet
http:// www.magma.ca/~intermet/metoftxt.htm
International Meteorological Office links
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
http:// /www.bom.gov.au
