A Dangerous
Experiment
A Dangerous
Experiment
Task:
Give an introduction to global warming, its effects, and solutions to the problem
Resources:
Internet:
Sierra Club - The Sierra Club Global Warming Site. Information and links to resources.
EPA Global Warming Site - gives information about the climate system, impacts of global warming, and actions to be taken.
Global Change Home Page - Access the Global Change and the Global Change Digest. Each provides information on climate change, greenhouse gases and ozone depletion.
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) - Archives of data and publications which include information that would be of value to users concerned with the greenhouse effect, global climate change and more.
Global Warming - Union of Concerned Scientists address global warming issues.
National Resource Defense Counsel - Information on Global Warming
Greenpeace - Page on Climate Change
Environmental Defense Fund - Global Warming Focus on the Future: Interactive explainations of the phenomina
Library:
| Johnson, R. | The Greenhouse Effect: Life on aWarmer Planet |
| Blashfield, J. and Black,W. | Global Warming |
| Lantier, P. (ed.) | Endangered Environments |
| Gallant, R | Earth’s Vanishing Forests |
| Pringle, L. | Global Warming: Assessing the Greenhouse Threat |
| Willis, T. and Black, W. | Cars: An Environmental Challenge |
| Hare, T. | The Greenhouse Effect |
| Suplee, C. | "Unlocking the Climate Puzzle" in National Geographic, May 1998 |