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Climate Institute [1]

Climate Institute [2]

The Climate Institute, founded in 1986, is possibly the oldest single-issue group focused on climate change. Its style is more informational than advocacy-driven, and large conferences and symposia are characteristic activities.

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Pew Center [6]

Pew Center [7]

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which is ultimately based on the family fortunes of the descendants of the founder of the Sun Oil Co. The Pew climate program is a centrist, non-profit advocacy organization "working to create a policy environment that leads to the adoption of mandatory federal limits on emissions that contribute to global warming." Pew works intensely with Fortune 500 companies.

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Sierra Club [8]

Sierra Club [9]

Sierra is perhaps the largest and most politically active of U.S. membership-based environmental groups. Their long-established climate change program is focused on grass-roots organizing and policy advocacy. Wikipedia [10]. Press Contact [11].

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology [12]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT has several entities involved in climate research. The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change [13] is a cross-cutting program that melds work from MIT's Center for Global Change Science [14] and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research [15].

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [16]

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute at Columbia University [17]

A major research institute with over 200 scientists focusing on all earth sciences, especially strong on climate-related topics.

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National Center for Atmospheric Research [18]

National Center for Atmospheric Research [19]

NCAR is perhaps the greatest U.S. climate research institution. It draws not merely post-docs, but prominent researchers from around the U.S. and around the globe. It is federally funded via the National Science Foundation and administered by a consortium of universities (UCAR).

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U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change (2000) [20]

U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change [21]

This comprehensive study of the vulnerabilities and potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. was mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990. It includes studies looking specifically at 19 different U.S. regions. Assembled by hundreds of experts from academia and elsewhere, it was completed in the late Clinton administration and partly suppressed by the Bush administration.

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Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions [22]

National Academy of Sciences
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USGS Global Change Science [23]

USGS Global Change Science [24]

The US Geological Survey offers information on various climate change topics, publications, news, FAQs, related links, briefings, podcasts, and more.

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US Global Change Research Information Office [25]

US Global Change Research Information Office [26]

The US is required by a 1990 law to maintain the GCRIO to disseminate scientific research and other information useful in preventing, mitigating, or adapting to the effects of global change. Unable to disband the office, the Bush administration has given it little funding support. Its online library of key studies and documents from past years is still valuable.

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