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Sierra Club [1]

Sierra Club [2]

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 [3]. Press Contact [4].

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Climate Change [5]
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology [8]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT has several entities involved in climate research. The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change [9] is a cross-cutting program that melds work from MIT's Center for Global Change Science [10] and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research [11].

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Climate Change [5]
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [12]

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute at Columbia University [13]

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

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Climate Change [5]
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National Center for Atmospheric Research [14]

National Center for Atmospheric Research [15]

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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Climate Change [5]
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U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change (2000) [16]

U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change [17]

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 [5]
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Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions [18]

National Academy of Sciences
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Climate Change [5]
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USGS Global Change Science [19]

USGS Global Change Science [20]

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

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Climate Change [5]
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US Global Change Research Information Office [21]

US Global Change Research Information Office [22]

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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Climate Change [5]
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US Forest Service Research and Development — Climate Change [23]

US Forest Service Research and Development — Climate Change [24]

USFS has an extensive ongoing R&D program regarding climate change. The program provides long term research, scientific knowledge, expertise, regional resources and tools that can be used to manage, restore, and conserve forests and rangelands.

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Climate Change [5]
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DOE Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center [25]

DOE Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center [26]

An arm of the Energy Dept.'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the CDIAC focuses on research and data collection about carbon dioxide and the Earth's carbon cycle. It also tracks other greenhouse gases through its World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases.

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Climate Change [5]
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