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A Brief History of Environmentalism
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science
/nature/environment.html
A whistlestop tour of environmentalism. From the lone pioneers camped out in the American wildernesses to 65,000 people from all over the world gathering at the Johannesburg Earth Summit.

The Environment
www.channel4.com/science/
microsites/E/environment/index.html
Global warming - out of your control? No, it's not. Get back to basics and find out some of the simple things you can do to ensure a safe future for you and yours.

Global Warming – Back to the Future
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science
/nature/globalwarming.html
Looks back at global temperature fluctuations of the past and asks whether man's impact on the current climate is cause for concern.

Nuclear Power – Cure for Global Warming?
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science
/society/nuclearpower.html
Is it time to reconsider nuclear power?

The Politics of Carbon
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science
/nature/politics_of_carbon.html
Scientists calculate that the only way to prevent devastating climate change is to reduce global carbon emissions by about 60% from today's levels by 2050. How will the international community tackle this? Can the politicians pull it off?

UK Weather 2080 – Global Warming Predictions
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/U/ukweather2080/
Global warming is changing the climate. What will become of the Great British weather? Powerful computers have been attempting to predict this. You can find out here what's in store for us.

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Websites

Bringing facts and compassion to the global warming issue
www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?
idCategory=4&idarticle=436
Individuals like James Shikwati, Director of the Inter-Region Economic Network, bring ethical concerns to the debate of climate change and state that denying electricity to the world's poorest people is 'lethal eco-imperialism' – the height of immorality.

Centre for Alternative Technology
www.cat.org.uk
Aims to inspire, teach and enable people to live in a more environmentally sustainable way and offers practical solutions to environmental problems through renewable energy, environmental building, energy efficiency, organic food and alternative sewage systems.

Changing Sun Changing Climate
www.aip.org/history/climate/solar.htm
Since it is the sun's energy that drives the weather system, might climate change be connected to solar variations? This article discusses that possibility.

Cosmic Rays and Climate
http://denmark.dk/portal/page?_pageid=
374,931599&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Danish scientists Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen forwarded a controversial climate theory in 1997. They proposed that as solar activity increases, cloud formation on Earth is significantly diminished, and the temperature rises. This article discusses that theory.

Earth Times
www.earthtimes.org
Online newspaper offering environmental news and information.

Earthwatch Institute in Europe
www.earthwatch.org/europe
Earthwatch engages people from diverse countries, cultures and organisations in programmes and partnerships, inspiring them to take responsibility for the environment and support objective scientific research. This work informs key decisions on important environmental issues.

Exxon Secrets
www.exxonsecrets.org/
Greenpeace presents an incredible amount of information on how Exxonmobil funds the climate change sceptics.

Global Warming Controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
Masses of information for and against the theory that global warming is largely caused by humans.

Global warming skeptics: guess who's funding the global warming doubt shops?
www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=4870
In 1998, Exxon devised a plan to stall action on global warming. The plan was outlined in an internal memo that promised, 'Victory will be achieved when uncertainties in climate science become part of the conventional wisdom' for 'average citizens' and 'the media'. Read the pdf of that memo here.

Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm
Article by a climatologist who asserts that global warming is not due to human contribution of carbon dioxide.

Melting the facts about Greenland's ice sheet
www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?id
Category=4&idarticle=1001
Viking history, ice core samples, and observations of solar cycles cast doubt on human responsibility for climate change.

Milankovich Cycles in Paleoclimate
http://deschutes.gso.uri.edu/~rutherfo/milankovitch.html
Milankovich cycles are cycles in Earth's orbit that influence the amount of solar radiation striking different parts of Earth at different times of year. They are named after a Serbian mathematician, Milutin Milankovitch, who explained how these orbital cycles cause the advance and retreat of the polar ice caps.

Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html
Guardian article from February 2007 that reveals how scientists and economists were offered $10,000 each by the American Enterprise Institute, a lobby group funded by ExxonMobil, to undermine a major climate change report.

The Sun and Climate
www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/sunclimate.html
Easy to follow overview of the many causes of climatic change, including solar radiation.

Understanding Climate Change
www.nrsp.com/news.html
Website of the Canadian campaigners against the Kyoto Protocol includes online radio interviews on the subject of climate change. Interviewees include Tim Ball who featured in the Channel 4 programme and who is the chairman of this group the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.

Some like it hot as the world burns
www.motherjones.com/news/
feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html
What do forty public policy groups have in common? They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing Earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.

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Books

	Meltdown: The predictable distortion of global warming by scientists, politicians, and the media by Patrick J Michaels (Cato Institute, 2004) Michaels argues that scientists, politicians and the media too often exaggerate their claims about the environment, especially with regard to global warming. He documents hundreds of exaggerations, misstatements and errors that have appeared in major peer-reviewed scientific journals. Get this book
	The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001) A former member of Greenpeace criticises the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence by offering a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a corrective to the more alarmist accounts. Get this book
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn (University of Chicago Press, 1996) Thomas S Kuhn's work explains the process of scientific discovery and has been used to cast doubt on the idea of scientific progress. Get this book
	Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 years by S Fred Singer and Dennis Avery (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) Presents in popular language and supported by in-depth scientific evidence, the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Explains why we're warming, why it's not very dangerous, and why we can't stop it anyway. Get this book

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