Section of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) website explaining Climate Change by also considering
The Greenhouse Effect and the Carbon Cycle. Subcategories provide additional background information on, but not limited to,
Current evidence of climate change, Future effects, Kyoto Protocol, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/
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Section of the US Environment Protection Agency website explaining the global warming effect. Links to further subcategories on the topic.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/
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Section of the European Commission website providing material for teachers to discuss the issue of climate change in class. The site features a pledge, a student’s guide, a PowerPoint presentation, an encyclopaedia, discussion ideas, and more. Link to the student’s section which includes a quiz and a painting competition.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/campaign/teachers_en.htm
Site of the free encyclopedia
wikipedia, providing a good overview over the topic. Although the articles are not per se peer reviewed (Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world), they inform about Global warming, greenhouse effect, human influence and many other aspects of the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Website of Ellie Christa is explaining the greenhouse effect in easy understandable terms. The site provides a link to
global warming and one to
References and Links.
http://www.crystalinks.com/greenhouseffect.html
Short animation for a better understanding of Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect. Diagrams have been designed by Earthguide, a part of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, based at University of California, San Diego.
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/