Global warming is the term used to describe the scientific theory that the Earth is getting warmer because of human influence.
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- PBS - What's Up With the Weather? NOVA and Frontline report that examines the science and politics of global warming and what climatologists really know about the greenhouse effect. Includes interactive tutorials.
- International Carbon Bank & Exchange - Carbon For Kids Helps kids learn about greenhouse gases and global warming.
- US Department of Energy - ARM: Climate Research Facility Research into global climate change. Features a daily quiz, information on research locations, photographs and an explanation of global warming.
- GCSE - Climate Change Introduction to the problem of climate change including global warming, together with a look at the impact various energy-generating technologies have.
- Sila: Clue in to Climate Change Experience how climate change is affecting different parts of the world, take a quiz, or learn what can be done to stop global warming. Sila is the Inuktitut word for climate and all things that surround us. [English, French]
- Global Warming: Early Warning Signs Map illustrates fingerprints and harbingers including observed consequences as indicated by periods of unusually warm weather, coastal flooding, and changes in glaciers and polar regions.
- Exploratorium: Global Climate Change Educational site provides scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, and their living organisms. Teaches how scientists study natural phenomena: how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
- Classroom of the Future - Exploring the Environment: Global Climate Change Analyzes the situation, explores how carbon dioxide relates to global climate change, and how remote sensing can be used to detect climate change.
- Classroom of the Future - Exploring the Environment: Earth on Fire Introduction to the carbon cycle, and possible solutions to global warming.
- World View of Global Warming Photographic documentation of climate change around the world. Focuses on effects such as shrinking glaciers, coral bleaching, insect and animal range changes, phenology, and rising sea level.
- AIP - The Discovery of Global Warming A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change, told in a set of hyperlinked essays by Spencer Weart. From the American Institute of Physics.
- Guide to Cimate Change An interactive visual presentation of different possible futures for the Earth, depending on how the current environmental problems are managed.
- US EPA - Climate Change Kids Site Explains climate change and the climate system, climate and weather, the greenhouse effect, can we change the climate, what's the big deal, and how to make a difference.
- WeatherQuestions.com - What is the Greenhouse Effect? Simple description of the greenhouse effect by a climate scientist.
- Abelard - Global Warming Summarizes current arguments concerning global warming. Includes various points of view and some of the basic problems in following the science.
- OneWorld.net's Kids Channel - Hot Earth Tiki the Penguin explains climate change, greenhouse gases and what you can do to stop it.
- PESWiki - Directory of Global Warming Contains links to scientific studies of the human, non-natural contribution to global warming. Plus, possible ways that alternative energy can help solve this problem.
- New Scientist - Climate Change News, comment and analysis along with 'Climate change: A guide for the perplexed', FAQ and web resources.
- ABC.net.au - Changing Times Article explains how Australia's animals and plants are already reacting to climate change, such as fairy penguins breeding earlier, and gum trees flowering at different times. Gives information for each state, with photographs. From Scribbly Gum, part of ABC Science Online.
- GlobalChange.com - Global Warming Videos: What You Can Do Professor Sam Berry explains global warming in this short video.