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Links
This links page has been designed to help you connect to additional sources for information about agricultural impacts, risks, vulnerabilities and adaptation related to climate change. By clicking on the highlighted title you should connect directly to the web page(s) containing climate change information. We check the sources listed below regularly to ensure they are current and functioning. Please inform us if you discover problems with any of these links. We would also appreciate your passing on the addresses of relevant web sites to add to our list here. Please contact Johanna Wandel with your suggestions for additional links.
Government Organizations
Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations
Research Institutes
- Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (University of Sheffield) — Current experiments examine the long-term effects of manipulations of fertility, disturbance, rainfall, temperature, UVB and CO2.
- Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Technical Reports — A collection of technical reports covering different climate issues, from "doubling deserts" to El Nino.
- Climatic Research Unit — The Climatic Research Unit is widely recognised as one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
- Climate System Research Center — A research facility of the University of Massachusetts. Research focuses on the climate system, climate variability and global change issues.
- A Consortium for the Application of Climate Impact Assessments — ACACIA will use the best available scientific tools and knowledge to answer the climate-related questions of sponsors from the industrial, business and policy communities.
- Cornell University Northeast Regional Climate Center — Mission: "To facilitate and enhance the collection, dissemination and use of climate data as well as to monitor and assess climatic conditions and impacts in the twelve-state, northeastern region of the United States."
- Environmental and Societal Impacts Group — ESIG's mission is to conduct a coordinated research and outreach program on the societal implications of atmospheric and related environmental processes.
- Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research — Provides the UK government with up-to-date assessments of both natural and man-made climate change.
- Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) — ICLR is working to reduce disaster deaths, injuries and property damage. The institute is committed to the development of disaster prevention knowledge, and the broad dissemination of these research findings.
- International Research Institute for Climate Prediction — The site provides an overview of the organization's projects.
- Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative — Provides a description of the organization's research program and publications related to climate change in the Prairies.
- University of Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science — The Centre for Atmospheric Science is a joint venture between the Departments of Chemistry and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK.
- University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Department of Atmospheric Sciences — Conducts research centering around how global ozone and climate relate to changes occurring in the composition and distribution of trace constituents in the troposphere and stratosphere.
- Western Regional Climate Center — Projects and resources dealing with the climate and weather in the Western United States.
Networks and Newsletters
- Biocap Canada Foundation — The BIOCAP Canada Foundation is bringing together the nation's leading researchers and decision-makers to find biology-based solutions to the challenges of climate change.
- Climate Action Network — A coalition of 269 environmental organizations pushing for cuts in greenhouse gases.
- Climate Change Knowledge Network — The Climate Change Knowledge Network brings together expertise, experience and perspectives from more than a dozen organizations from developing, transitional and developed countries.
- CO2 Science Magazine — A weekly review of scientific research findings pertaining to carbon dioxide and global change.
- Drought Network News — Drought Network News is the newsletter of the IDIC, and is published three times a year.
- Greenhouse Network (U.S.) — This National Volunteer Speakers Network includes over 150 citizens in more than 33 states available to speak at no charge about global warming pollution, climate change policy and the path to a clean energy future.
- Nature — This popular weekly journal covers a variety of scientific areas, including climate change and other environmental issues.
- Ontario Corn Producer — The Ontario Corn Producers' Association Magazine is featuring a series of editorials on Climate Change and Agriculture. December 2002's edition featured an article on The Kyoto Debate: Implications for Farmers. In January 2003, Don McCabe, Chair, OCPA Research & Technology Committee wrote an article on Agriculture, Greenhouse Gases & the Kyoto Protocol.
- Ontario Weather Network — The primary focus of this project is to collect, process and archive environmental data in a near real-time fashion for the purpose of developing and marketing crop management decision tools.
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Research Networks — Twelve research networks are carrying out multidisciplinary studies in different branches of science and engineering.
- The World Climate Report — A leading publication covering the breaking news concerning the science and political science of global climate change.
Reports and Factsheets
- Agriculture:The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States
- Canadian Federation of Agriculture: Resource Catalog for Best Management Practices and Climate Change
- Climate Change 2001 — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
- Climate Change and Agriculture in the Great Lakes Region: The Potential Impacts and What We Can Do — March 22, 2002, East Lansing, Michigan
- Climate Change and Fruit Production: An Exercise in Downscaling
- Corn and Climate Change — Ontario Corn Producers'
Association
- Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our
Communities and Ecosystems — Union of Concerned Scientists
- Drought Information '02 — Ohio State University Extension Research
- Dry Conditions and Low Water — Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
- Estimating Future Probabilities of Extreme Weather Event — from the Tyndall Centre
- Great Lakes Regional Assessment Report — Chapter on Agriculture How can businesses adapt to climate change? — from the Tyndall Centre
- How to Prepare for Irrigation During Water Shortages — Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development and Manitoba Agriculture Workshop — March 23, 2000, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
- International Research Institute for Climate Prediction — Workshop Reports and Meeting Notes
- Measuring a Country's Vulnerability to Climate Change — from the Tyndall Centre
- Methods and Models of Vulnerability Research, Analysis and Assessment Workshop — 28–30 September 2001 Potsdam, Germany
- Modélisation de l'impact des changements climatiques sur les cultures végétales et leurs ravageurs — Centre de recherche et développement en horticulture Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
- Reducing Environmental Risk in Agriculture — (ACLE Workshop 2001) November 1-2, 2001, Atlantic Canada
- Worldwatch Report/book, Reading the Weathervane — Climate Policy from Rio to Johannesburg
Other Links of Interest
- Ag Answers - Purdue University — Ag Answers provides timely agricultural problem-solving advice, strategies, and reminders to help Indiana and Ohio farmers better manage their crops, livestock and marketplace transactions.
- Agronomic Drought Stress Information — Purdue University
- Canadian Climate Impacts Scenarios (CCIS) Project — The main role of the Canadian Climate Impacts and Scenarios project is to provide climate scenario information and scenario construction advice to impacts researchers in Canada.
- Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo — CICERO is an independent research center associated with the University of Oslo. CICERO's mandate is twofold: to both conduct research and provide information about issues of climate change.
- Climate Ark — The Climate Ark is a Climate Change Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to reviewed climate change and renewable energy news and information.
- Climate Change Action Fund Agricultural Awareness Partnership — The goals of the partnership are to increase awareness of producers and the general public of the GHG issues and solutions (carbon sequestration, emission reductions) relative to the agri-food industry; build and strengthen the national network of organizations, agencies, and instituitions that can contribute to agricultural solutions to GHG issues; and identify and promote Best Management Practices.
- Climate Change Solutions — An online resource centre of success stories, opportunity areas, tools, and resources on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Climate and Global Dynamics Division — The mission of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division is to understand Earth’s climate system and to develop the capability of predicting the evolution of the climate system to the degree possible.
- The Climate Institute: Agriculture — The Institute has distinguished itself as a world leader in promoting global climate balance with practical and cooperative approaches.
- Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory — CMDL's five research groups have been conducting sustained measurements for research related to climate, the ozone layer, and air quality at global Baseline Observatories and other locations for over 40 years in search of the answers which are needed to project the environmental future of this planet.
- Climate Prediction Center — Assess and forecast the impacts of short-term climate variability, emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related extreme events, for use in mitigating losses and maximizing economic gains.
- Climate System History and Dynamics (CSHD) — Climate System History and Dynamics (CSHD) is a multidisciplinary collaborative effort to integrate and develop national expertise in paleoclimate modelling and reconstruction.
- CLIVAR: An International Research Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability — CLIVAR is an international research programme addressing many issues of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. As part of the wider World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) CLIVAR is giving insights into the working of the climate system and hence answers to important questions.
- Crop Explorer — (USDA) provides information on crop and weather conditions around the world.
- Drought Monitor (U.S.) — Drought Monitor is a synthesis of multiple indices, outlooks and news accounts, that represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists.
- Earth System History — The goal of ESH is to encourage research to understand the natural variability of the Earth system through records preserved in geo-biologic archives and to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of climate change with annual to millennial resolution, including the forcing mechanisms, interactions and feedbacks among its components.
- Environmental Defense — Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.
- EPA's Global Warming Site — The EPA Global Warming Site is provided as a public service by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA's climate change programs and activities are an integral part of the Agency's mission and purpose.
- Farmwest
- Friends of the Earth Climate Change Site — Friends of the Earth is the largest international network of environmental groups in the world, represented in 68 countries.
- Global Change Master Directory — NASA's directory of earth science data.
- Global Change Program Office Website — The Global Change Program Office (GCPO) operates within the Office of the Chief Economist and functions as the Department-wide coordinator of agriculture, rural and forestry-related global change program and policy issues facing USDA. The Office ensures that USDA is a source of objective, analytical assessments of the effects of climate change and proposed mitigation strategies. The Office also serves as USDA's focal point for climate change issues and is responsible for coordinating activities with other Federal agencies, interacting with the legislative branch on climate change issues affecting agriculture and forestry, and representing USDA on U.S. delegations to international climate change discussions.
- Global Hydrology and Climate Center — The GHCC studies a variety of climate and environmental issues that all connect in a complex, interactive Earth-Atmosphere system.
- Global Warming: Early Warning Signs map — The map illustrates global climate change indicators or "hot spots" such as sea-level rise, melting glaciers, heat waves, floods, and shifting plant and animal ranges.
- Great Lakes Regional Climate Change Assessment — Provides information on climate change in the Great Lakes Region.
- Greenpeace Climate Impacts Database — The most comprehensive climate data base on the web, complete with search engine.
- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) — As one of four international global environmental change research programmes, IGBP works towards its objective in close collaboration with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and DIVERSITAS, an international programme of biodiversity science.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UNEP and WMO. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
- IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
— A climate information system
- Massachussetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Scienced and Policy of Global Change — The program is an interdisciplinary organization that conducts research, independent policy analysis, and public communication on issues of global environmental change.
- Minnesota's Agriculture: Facing the Threats to Farmers — Farmers can play a significant role in slowing climate change by taking advantage of new business opportunities agriculture.
- The Minnesota Climatology Working Group — Presents a broad view of the influence of climate on the myriad of interactions which occur between various human interests and the environment.
- National Biological Information Infrastructure - Invasive Species — Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species. On this site you can learn about the impacts of invasive species and the Federal government's response, as well as read select species profiles and find links to agencies and organizations dealing with invasive species issues.
- National Climatic Data Center — NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data.
- The National Center for Atmospheric Research's Climate and Global Dynamics Division — The mission of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division is to understand Earth’s climate system and to develop the capability of predicting the evolution of the climate system to the degree possible.
- National Drought Mitigation Center — The National Drought Mitigation Center helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought.
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Paleoclimatology program — The program is a central location for paleoclimatic data, research, and education.
- Natural Environment Research Council — NERC is the leading body in the UK for research, survey, monitoring and training in the environmental sciences.
- PAGES — The research community that lies at the heart of the PAGES project works towards a better understanding of the Earth's changing environment in the geologically recent past, focusing always on those aspects that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations.
- A general list of paleoclimate links from the University of Massachussetts Climate System Research Center.
- The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project — The aim of the PMIP project is to evaluate climate models under paleoclimate conditions and improve our understanding of past climate changes.
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change — The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings a new cooperative approach and critical scientific, economic and technological expertise to the global debate on climate change.
- Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change — An effort to understand what climate change means in the United States.
- Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) — Develops improved methods and tools for the diagnosis, validation and intercomparison of global climate models and engages in research on a wide variety of outstanding problems in climate modeling and analysis.
- Understanding the Earth's Climate System — from the U.S. Global Change Research Program: Climate Variability and Change — links to related web sites.
- Union of Concerned Scientists — Based on the widely acclaimed climate change impacts report, "Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region: Prospects for Sustaining our Ecological Heritage," the web feature contains a wealth of information on climate change solutions options, as well as an in-depth look at the potential impacts of climate change upon Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — Includes methodologies and tools to evaluate strategies for adaptation to climate change.
- United Nations World Meteorological Organization — The World Meteorological Organization coordinates global scientific activity in several areas, including: air pollution research, climate change and ozone depletion studies.
- U.S. Global Change Research Information Office — The site provides research program summaries.
- U.S. Global Change Research Program — Helping to understand, assess and predict global change.
- Weathervane — A digital forum on global climate change presented by Resources for the Future.
- World Climate Research Programme — The objectives of the programme are to develop the fundamental scientific understanding of the physical climate system and climate processes needed to determine to what extent climate can be predicted and the extent of human influence on climate.
- Worldwatch Institute — A nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.
- World Wildlife Fund Climate Change Campaign — Presents information on climate causes, impacts, and solutions.
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