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Sustainability Directory: What is Climate Change?

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Sustainability SEQ Home - Climate Change - What is Climate Change?

What is Climate Change?

General information describing what Climate Change is, and what it does.

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Queensland
National
International

Queensland

Climate change and greenhouse

The website is Queensland Government’s portal for climate change and greenhouse. Besides explaining the greenhouse effect, this site aims to provide communities, businesses, industries and schools with the latest information and actions they can take. It also obtains information on climate science, emissions reporting and adaptation measures undertaken on a state, national or international basis.

http://www.climatechange.qld.gov.au/

Impacts: What is Climate Change?

The Long Paddock is a governmental website providing climate management information for rural Australia. Subheadings are dealing with projected atmospheric change and possible impacts, Adaptation and mitigation, Conclusions and biophysical impacts of climate change on Queensland.

http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/ClimateChanges/
impacts/whatis.html

National

Climate Change Science; Facts and Fiction

[PDF] This document published by The Australian Government Depart ment of Climate Change explains questions frequently asked in regards to Climate Change and related issues. The questions Is the Earth’s Climate really hotting up? and What is the Carbon Cycle? are answered on page 3, and 6 respectively of the document.

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/science.aspx

Climate Education; Climate Change

Australia’s bureau of meteorology gives information about Long-term climate variability in Australia, The greenhouse effect, Observed long-term climate trends in Australia, Reverence climate stations (RCS) and Data quality.

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/climch/climch.htm

Greenhouse effect

Section of website by the Victorian Environment and Protection Authority explaining Climate Change and its various impacts and related effects. Includes links to Victorian Government’s greenhouse website. Subcategories include Industry Greenhouse Programs (achievements and case studies), Energy and Greenhouse Requirements, Energy and Greenhouse Management Toolkits and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting and Disclosure Pilots.

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/greenhouse/default.asp

Resources, Q&A

Question and Answer section of 1° website, presenting many answers to questions on climate change, carbon dioxide and global warming. Other links to climate change can be found throughout the site, with many pages indirectly related to the topic. The Links section of the Resources category also includes many websites associated with climate change.

http://www.1degree.net.au/resources/qa

International

About IPCC

The user guide to the IPCC website gives links to detailed information about scientific basis for climate change, climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, climate change mitigation, synthesis of the latest findings and more information about related topics.

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Global Change & Global Warming: An elementary introduction to the problems surrounding man-made climate change.

Earthguide is one part of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, belonging to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The website gives an introduction to the problems surrounding man-made climate change. There are three subtitles: Global Warming, The Scope of the Problem; The Greenhouse Effect; and The Keeling Curve.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/globalchange/index.html

The Greenhouse Effect and the Carbon Cycle

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/items/
2903.php