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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov:80/cdiac/
Every possible kind of data on global change that you can imagine. This site contains all the data that is used in the graphs and spreadsheets in this module. This site is designed for the serious research scientist, so it can be hard to find data in a simple understandable form.

EPA Global Warming
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/home.htm
Excellent site with lots of information. Written for the ordinary person. Many good links.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Links to this important United Nations group can be found at
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/IPCCINFO.html
They are tasked by the United Nations with making sense of all the data and suggesting where further research should be conducted. This group has published many excellent articles (executive summaries are the best).

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Excellent site for temperature data. Many good graphs, and the data is easily downloaded for further study.

Channel Pi Video Productions
http://metosrv2.umd.edu/~owen/CHPI/
Exellcent educational site by a University of Maryland professor. Many good tutorials on all aspects of global climate change.

The Global Impact of Biomass Burning http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/biomass_burn/globe_impact.html
Excellent glossary of terms.

The Global Change Master Directory
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Global Climate Change Student Information Guide http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/arichome.html
Excellent introductory materials on many issues related to global warming.

EOS Project Science Office
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Earth Observing System Project home page.

Global Change Data Center
http://www-tsdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcdc/gcdc.html
Another site with tons of data.

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