NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory [2]

This research component of NOAA conducts all kinds of basic monitoring programs to compile long-term series of measurements and observations of the conditions that may be involved in climate change. The CMDL has now been merged into the Global Monitoring Division of the Earth System Research Laboratory.

NOAA National Climatic Data Center [7]

This is the repository ("world's largest") of much of the raw data about the U.S. and planetary temperature record and other climate data. It is in Asheville, North Carolina.

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory [9]

Another pioneering climate lab that specializes in computer modeling of climate. No longer headed by the now-retired Dr. Jerry D. Mahlman, it is keeping a lower public profile these days. It is near Princeton University.

NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies [11]

One of the largest, oldest, and best-respected federal labs working on climate, GISS is headed by Dr. James Hansen. It is in New York City.

US Climate Change Science Program [13] (Interagency)

The coordinating point for all federal agencies working on climate science, the CCSP reports to the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy via NOAA and the Commerce Department.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [15]

The IPCC is the umbrella organization that articulates not only the consensus among climate scientists, but also the breadth of opinion among them. It assembles and synthesizes the work of some 2,000 scientists in scores of disciplines from about 150 countries. Wikipedia. [16] Press Contact. [17]

The Science of Global Climate Change [20]

This 20-page text distributed free in pdf format is by Mike MacCracken, former head of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. 

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

by John T. Houghton (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994 New York) (Paperback) [22]. See also "Overview of the Climate Change Issue" [23].

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