Alberta Election
A Citizens' Guide to a Climate Change Action Plan
for JustEarth: A Coalition for Environmental Justice
Key Resources on Climate Change
Hengeveld, Henry et al. ed. An Introduction to Climate
Change: a Canadian Perspective. Environment Canada. Ottawa:
Ministry of Public Works and Government Services. 2005
Also available at www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/scienceofclimatechange
A very good overview of the scientific background to the
issue.
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth. (DVD) Paramount Pictures,
2006.
http://www.climatecrisis.net
The former American Vice-President's presentation on global
warming. The website has a downloadable education guide
Monbiot, George. Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.
Toronto: Doubleday, 2006.
Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How We are Changing
the Climate and What It Means for Life On Earth. Toronto:
HarperCollins, 2006.
Two books that lay out the case for global warming and give
suggestions for action.
The website for the UN-sponsored
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
"The
Stern Report" A very important report from the UK on
climate change
Action in the United States on climate change
See the Ontario government's website on climate change: http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/air/climatechange/index.php
Other Resources
http://biblio.pacinst.org/biblio/ A good climate change resource library search engine
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fgwscience2006.asp A n annotated bibliography on climate change for 2006
Environmental organization websites, government
agencies with relevant information on climate change, activities
National
Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Pembina
Institute
Climate
Action Network Canada
Sierra
Club Canada
Greenpeace
Canada
David
Suzuki Foundation
Science
for Peace
Post
Carbon Toronto
International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Earth
Charter
Clean
Energy Alliance
Alternatives
Journal
Global Alliance
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