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| Charting Progress 2 - a comprehensive report on the state of the UK seas - a report by DEFRA, of the UK. | Charting Progress 2 |
| IPCC - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This body has been investigating the question of whether the increases in temperature that have been seen recently are 'natural', or are man made. IPCC doesn't do research itself, but evaluates studies carried out by thousands of researchers around the world. | IPCC |
| the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. This organisation has worked with the World Resources Institutute to produce data and analyses on the presence of greenhouse gases, (especially CO2), in the atmosphere. | Pew Center on Global Climate Change |
| the US Carbon Dioxide Information Centre. Produces data and analyses of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. | |
| UKCIP - the UK Climate Impacts Programme produces scenarios every few years and sends a monthly e-bulletin. | UKCIP |
| USNA - the US National Assessment, produced in 2000, remains the most exhaustive American study of national and regional impacts. | USNA |
| CCSP - the US Climate Change Science Program is conducting a series of trageted assessments. | CCSP |
| CSIRO - (Australian scenarios) | CSIRO |
| Environment Canada - (Canadian scenarios) | Environment Canada |
| ENSEMBLES - a massive modelling project for the European Union | ENSEMBLES |
| PRUDENCE - creating detailed projections for Europe in the 2071 - 2100 time range... | PRUDENCE |
| RAPID - a UK-funded programme on rapid climate change, including the possible slowdown of North Atlantic currents. | RAPID |
| Hadley Centre - A UK centre undertaking research in this area... | Hadley Centre |
| SAHFOS - the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science has been involved in research into plankton in the world's oceans for over 50 years, and more information can be found by entering 'global warming' in the search criteria at the top of the website. One of the links is to an article - see link to the right here. | (from SAHFOS website) |
| An important finding that Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science were able to contribute to is the way that populations of copepods have generally moved to the northern parts of the North Atlantic in the last 50 years, because of the rising temperatures of these parts of the sea in the area around the U.K. Although other kinds of copepods have filled the gaps to an extent, this has implications for the numbers of cod surviving in these parts of the sea, inasmuch as 'baby' cod are left to grow by their mothers at a time when large populations of certain copepods would have been abundant, and therefore offering easily available food for the growing cod. Now the main type of copepod that the 'baby' cod could feed on is in abundance at a different time of the year. | www.sahfos.ac.uk |
| The creator of the website shown has made great efforts to be scientific in the data that is presented, and it can be seen that the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and average depth of sea water, have been rising steadily in the past 20 years or so. However he shows that the average air temperature is showing a dip in the past few years, so that there is something quite complex going on. (Note: ice has 'coldness' bound up inside it, (water has quite a high value of latent heat for the changing of state of water at 0 degrees C, to ice at 0 degrees C), and it could well be that the melting of polar ice has offset temperature increases which might have occurred otherwise. Rising average levels of the seas over recent time would tend to support this argument. | www.climate4you.com |