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Global Warming has the potential to cause the greatest changes in society.

Reports

EPA's Climate Change Site   http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/   This site "offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society"

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change   http://www.ipcc.ch/   This group was established "to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation."

IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios   http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/index.htm

Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD, John W. Williams, Stephen T. Jackson, and John E. Kutzbach. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0606292104v1
    Key risks associated with projected climate trends for the 21st century include the prospects of future climate states with no current analog and the disappearance of some extant climates.

Comments and additional information

Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure
S.E. Gill, J.F. Handley, A.R. Ennos, S. Pauleit
Built Environment, March 2007, 115-133
http://www.atypon-link.com/ALEX/doi/abs/10.2148/benv.33.1.115
Another version of the paper is here   http://www.planning-resnet.org.uk/papers/2006.htm
This paper says that adding more trees and other plants can greatly reduce city heat.

Global Climate Change   http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html   has a primer listed on the home page "Overview of Climate Change Research"   http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/primer/index.html   This outlines some of the uncertainties, for example, difficulties in measurement.

The Natural Resources Defense Council   http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/   has some basic guides and a solution guide.

The Republican Policy Committee has a number of papers, such as:
Global Warming: The Settled Versus The Unsettled Science   http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/022707GlobalWarmingPG.pdf   from Feb 2007
This paper is listed on the Environment page   http://rpc.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Issue&Issue_ID=15
Another is International Panel's Findings Seared by Peer Review: Scientists Set Off Wrong Alarm Bells With Global Warming Conclusions   http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/Sept1004GlobalWarmingPG.pdf   from Sept 2004

This article has some data: Global and hemispheric temperature anomalies--land and marine instrumental records   http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/temp/jonescru/jones.html   by P. D. Jones,1 D. E. Parker,2 T. J. Osborn,1 and K. R. Briffa

Clouds of Global-Warming Hysteria   http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.24335,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

Global Warming.org   http://www.globalwarming.org/   This site is aimed to "dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.

Just for information, this site says "This website is paid for and maintained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute." The CEI had been funded by Exxon up through 2005, at which time Exxon stopped funding this group. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020902081.html

The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change http://www.co2science.org/ argues against global warming.

This organization is listed here   http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/gcclinks.html
and here   http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/links/linka-c.htm
and here   http://fire.pppl.gov/global_clim_chang.html

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has a Global Warming Lecture   http://www.oism.org/oism/s32p686.htm    "A review of the research literature ... leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious effects upon global weather, climate, or temperature." They also have a petition project   http://www.oism.org/oism/s32p31.htm   signed by bunches of scientists.
This organization is listed here   http://republican.sen.ca.gov/opeds/31/oped3943.asp

Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog   http://climatesci.colorado.edu/   bunch of comments about the IPCC report and other issues.

A Yale collaborative on climate change   http://environment.yale.edu/climate/   call to do something about it.

Terrorism
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What is terrorism http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A330995    and   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1555265.stm from BBC. Very brief overviews.

What is terrorism   http://www.icst.psu.edu/whatisterrorism.html   from the International Center for the Study of Terrorism

Country Reports on Terrorism   http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/   Annual reports from the US Dept of State

Terrrorism reports from the US GAO   http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/featured/terrorism.html   mostly reports about specific areas like Iraq, or passenger rail safety.

UN Action to Counter Terrorism   http://www.un.org/terrorism/   links to strategies, other documents.

CDI's Terrorism Program   http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=39   documents on various terrorism related issues.

Council on Foreign Relations has this   http://www.cfr.org/issue/135/   section about terrorism.

The Terrorism Knowledge Base   http://www.tkb.org/   has data on terrorism.