Hazards & Controls
Environmental Health
Climate Change

Identifies 11 essential elements for effective global change assessments.

Risk managers need to focus their efforts on comprehensive risk analysis to anticipate their vulnerabilities

Evidence supports the theory that global warming has contributed to stronger hurricanes

Designed to help resolve scientific uncertainties related to global climate change

A non-profit voluntary registry for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and related programs

What should we be doing to minimize the damage and costs of the rising risk of similar events in the future?

Selected Climate Change Terms and Acronyms

Review of existing information on economic costs of climate change at a European level.

Primer in the basic economics of environmental protection

Health and environmental effects, greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy and more

Study shows the vast majority of the world’s active climate scientists accept the evidence for global warming

Research results - assessing cities worldwide for environmental sustainability

An overview of greenhouse gas emissions

Online calculator that converts greenhouse gas emissions reduction technical terms to terms easier to conceptualize

International accounting tool for government and business leaders to manage greenhouse gas emissions

Researchers conclusively link disease severity and ocean temperature

Examines effects, costs, benefits of a variety of technologies for reducing emissions

The science and management of climate change

Where climatologists are building models of atmospheric change

Climate change acting as a “threat multiplier” for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world

News stories on the topic of climate change

Northern forests play a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought

Online calculator to obtain an estimate of your personal greenhouse gas emissions or your family’s emissions

2006 report - earth surface temperatures and the implications for understanding global climate change

A multi-state & tribe collaboration aimed at developing & managing a common greenhouse gas emissions reporting system

Prepared annually by EPA, presents estimates of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks

Homepage of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Energy-related emissions data & environmental analyses

Information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies

Integrates federal research on climate and global change

A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America

Official greenhouse gas emissions reporting system (voluntary) - Federal 1605b Program

Technologies helping cities to become more sustainable

Research results of evaluations of North American cities' sustainability achievements

2006 report - analyzes how uncertainty can be better estimated in weather and climate forecasting decisions

Weather and climate basics