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Links
Mainstream Environmental Groups
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
Global Warming Solutions page from CTC’s fiscal sponsor - Friends of the Earth
Along with Greenpeace, the leading U.S. environmental group backing carbon taxes. - Greenpeace USA
Along with Friends of the Earth, the leading U.S. environmental group backing carbon taxes. - Sierra Club
- World Resources Institute
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Environmental Defense
- Environmental Advocates of New York
Governmental Bodies
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Top international scientific body, represents scientific consensus on global warming - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Website of Kyoto signatories - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
U.S. Department of Energy’s climate-change data center - U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Warming FAQs
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Ongoing effort (begun 2003) to craft permit rules for cap-and-trade system governing carbon emissions from electricity generation in Northeast U.S.
Presentations, Visuals, etc.
- An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore’s consciousness-raising, Oscar-winning (2006) movie - Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
High-level UK report on the costs of not addressing climate change - Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
Map of climate impacts already evident - Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska - PBS
Video conveys vividly what climate change means - Time.Com - The Effects of Global Warming
Time Magazine’s 2001 cry of alarm - Nova and Frontline - What’s Up with the Weather
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Global Warming Basics
Climate / Environmental Activists
- Climate Crisis Coalition
Grassroots mobilizer for U.S. climate action; publishes superb “Daily Newsfeed” on energy and climate - Pay Your Air Share
Pay Your Air Share is a project of the Prometheus Institute, a libertarian think tank based in California, that supports carbon taxation - Holistic Politics
A Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax and Various Calculations - Sustainable Prosperity
Sustainable Prosperity is a charitable, non-partisan, multi-stakeholder initiative. Its aim is to build a greener and more prosperous economy for all Canadians. - FederalCarbonTax.Org
Initiative for resolutions by local governments in support of a federal carbon tax. - Oil Change International
DC-based but grassroots group seeking “separation of oil and state” to enable political progress on energy and climate - stopglobalwarming.org
The Stop Global Warming “Virtual March” - EcoEquity
Foremost “climate justice” organization. Trenchant analysis and terrific Resources page. Excellent links and bibliography. - Climate Ark
Climate Change and Global Warming Portal - Climate Progress
Timely, topical site run by climate policy expert (and former Clinton-era acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy) Joe Romm. - Ross Gelbspan
Author-journalist punctures oil corporations’ media smokescreen on climate change - EcoEarth.Info
Environment Portal and Search Engine
Climate News Digests
- Climate Crisis Coalition Daily Newsfeed
Selects and links to the day’s 8-10 breaking stories on climate science, politics and advocacy. Cogently edited, brilliantly written, indispensable. - Environmental Health News (Climate Change page)
Another fine daily digest; less selective (more entries) than CCC’s Newsfeed. - EESI Climate Change News
Superb weekly newsletter on climate and energy with a Congressional focus, from Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Policy Journals & Papers
- Global Policy Forum
Their Web page on Energy Taxes links to useful papers and articles on carbon and fuel taxes from 1997 to present. - William Nordhaus home page
Links to papers and economic models of the world’s leading carbon-energy-economy modeler - Holistic Politics
A Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax and Various Calculations - CBO Commentary on Carbon Tax vis-a-vis Cap and Trade
2008 Essay by Congressional Budget Office climate specialists Peter R. Orszag and Terry M. Dinan, critiquing noted academic Cass R. Sunstein’s article “Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols”
Essential Blogs
- Gristmill
Covers US & World eco developments with verve and a nose for news. - Streetsblog
NYC-based transport-focused blog, covers road pricing, bicycling, urban renaissance for policy wonks and activists alike.
