LINK PAGES

The Climate Ark is an excellent all round site with a massive archive news and information and a link directory of 400 of the best climate change and renewable energy sites. Best of all, it is the only site with a search engine that allows you to search all these other climate sites: http://www.climateark.org/

Long comprehensive lists of links can be found at: Friends of the Earth

There is a good range of links listed on the London Rising Tide site.

GROUPS INVOLVED IN GRASSROOTS MOBILISATION

Many of the grassroots groups, especially those in Third World groups, are members of the Climate Action Network. They can be found on the CAN database http://www.climnet.org which can be searched by country. US Ozone Action was originally formed to campaign to save the ozone layer and now works on weather too. Mostly student groups campaigning against corporations- and successfully forced some to pull out from the greenwash Climate Coalition. Their website also provides a useful list of their US funders. http://www.ozone.org/

Activists Legal Project Briefings: including briefings on arrest and trial process in the UK. http://members.gn.apc.org/~activist/

GENERAL PROTESTS

A good site for information on protests, including climate change http://www.protest.net/ For information on the radical protests during the COP6 climate conference in November 2000, http://climateconference.org/

BIG CAMPAIGN GROUPS

Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/energy_and_climate/climatechange/real.htm Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/index.htm WWF International http://www.panda.org/~climate Sierra Club The largest environmental campaign group in the US. http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/

CAMPAIGN NETWORKS

Risingtide in the Netherlands (http://www.risingtide.nl) is the hub for the European Risingtide network of grassroots climate activists. They are links on their site to many of the groups currently involved. The Climate Action Network is a network of 320 organisations in 81 countries. Most of the work of CAN has been concerned with the intergovernmental process rather than mobilisation or protest. They have three sites; International (http://www.climatenetwork.org/), Europe (http://www.climnet.org), and UK (***).

PURE SCIENCE

Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia A great site with large archives http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/

RESEARCH AND THINK TANKS

Global Commons Institute. It is well worth reading about Contraction and Convergence, the brainchild of Aubrey Meyer. Although the proposals for carbon trading are controversial, it is the only proposal so far considered in the UNPCC process that argues for social justice in emissions reductions. http://www.gci.org/. Ben Matthews has combined the present scientific data in a superb interactive model http://www.chooseclimate.org/applet/mf.htm/ that enables the users to change any variable (time, emissions, level of cuts etc.) and shows how this will effect the global outcome. This model clearly demonstrates the dangers of delays. The US Pew Centre can be infuriatingly cautious and conservative, but some of its reports are well researched and useful. http://www.pewclimate.org/ The Washington based World Resources Insititute has no principles about who it works with or takes funding from, and has consistently failed to recognise the inequalities of the UN process. However, its reports are sometimes useful. http://www.wri.org/wri/cpi/

Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st Century

http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk/index.html

We believe that humankind is in serious trouble due to an economic and political system which is destroying our ability to sustain our existence on this planet. Our aims are:

• to bring together committed people from diverse college-based, academic disciplines, as well as independent researchers, to analyse the nature of the crisis in a genuinely holistic way
• to put that knowledge to positive use so that ordinary people can apply global knowledge to local contexts
• to develop this initiative as an independent research-based 'centre' through projects, publications and study programmes.

REDUCING PERSONAL EMISSIONS

A great site to calculate the carbon cost of any flight. http://www.chooseclimate.org/flying/mapcalc.htm/ Friends of the Earth have done a survey of "green" electricity companies http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/energy_and_climate/climatechange/real.htm

GOVERNMENT SITES

The Californian government campaigns against itself. Strange but true http://www.nextgeneration.org/globalwarming/

POLITICAL PROCESS

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website, with all the reports downloadable in Acrobat. http://www.ipcc.ch/ You can also read each thrilling installment of the Conference of Parties negotiations. Incomprehensible except for insiders http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/climate/ Details of upcoming meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.unfccc.de/index.htm The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on the impacts of air travel In the UK the campaign against airport expansion needs your support AIR

TRAVEL

Air travel is a huge and ever expanding source of greenhouse gases, but is largely ignored because the Kyoto Protocol decided to exclude emissions from international transport (including internal flights) from the national emissions calculations. A great site to calculate the carbon cost of any flight. Especially notice the box showing how much more the flight would cost if aviation fuel was taxed. http://www.chooseclimate.org/flying/mapcalc.htm/ Friends of the Earth Netherlands are running a campaign against jet travel. http://www.milieudefensie.nl/airtravel/

CARS CARBON TRADING AND OFFSETS

The Kyoto Protocol encourages rich countries to exchange and trade carbon credits. There are many problems with the whole idea of carbon trading: However, not surprisingly, many new companies have emerged offering to buy carbon for a price. The UK organisation Climate Care Climate Care http://www.climatecare.org , http://www.chooseclimate.org/applet/mf.htm/

"SKEPTICS", GREENWASH AND ENEMIES OF THE CLIMATE CAMPAIGN

For an excellent criticism of the fossil fuel lobby, see: http://www.heatisonline.org/ We didn't want to give any publicity to the corrupt characters which make a living in the pay of the fossil fuel industry arguing against action on climate chaos. However, bearing in mind that Gandhi always said one learns most from ones enemies, we will recommend two sites: The campaign funded by coal and oil interests to persuade Americans that implementing Kyoto will be too expensive. http://www.globalwarmingcost.org/ A UK "weather forecast" company that claims everything is due to sunspots http://www.weatheraction.co.uk/pr/pro11dec98.htm A long sycophantic interview with **, head of the Western Fuels campaign. All the strategies of the fossil fuel lobby are to be found here:

INSANE TECHNOFIXES

A good report summarising the current "technofixes" such as firing mirrors into space and tipping iron filings into the oceans http://www.chooseclimate.org/cleng/mf.htm/ , http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/99148e.htm