Johnston's Archive Environmental Topics

climate and global warming:

• Global warming
• Comments on global warming
• Some scientific data on global climate change (graphs)
• Some scientific data on regional climate change (graphs)

• Historical data relating to global climate change (updated) (table)
• Facts and figures on sea level rise
• "What if all the ice melts?" Myths and realities
• The greenhouse effect: a conceptual demonstration

• Falsehoods in Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
• "Facts disprove warnings about global warming"
  • see also at The Brownsville Herald and Global Warming Debunking News and Views

• Global warming on other planets?

• Solar power (a discussion and exercise)
  • Solar power technical notes
• Environmental consequences of "renewable" energy
• Comparison of renewable and nuclear energy production (graph)

• Review of Addison-Wesley's Environmental Science: Ecology and Human Impact, 2nd ed. by Bernstein, Winkler, and Zierdt-Warshaw
• Review of Biology, 4th ed. by Raven and Johnson
• Review of Environmental Science Investigations by Kutscher
• Review of Environmental Science: Working with the Earth, 5th ed. by Miller (incomplete)
• Review of Living in the Environment, 12th ed. by Miller (incomplete)
• Review of Living in the Environment, 14th ed. by Miller (incomplete)
• Review of FOSS Solar Energy by Lawrence Hall of Science

• Microwave ovens, cellular phones, and cancer risks

• List of world nuclear power plants
• Your annual radiation dose (worksheet)
• Comparison of renewable and nuclear energy production (graph)

• Ozone depletion
• Some scientific data on the ozone issue (graphs and discussion)
• Historical data relating to the ozone layer (table)

• Population growth

• Recycling and deforestation

Environmental links

more recommended links:

• Access to Energy.
• Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.
• American Land Rights Association.
• British Antarctic Survey Ozone.
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center of the U.S. Department of Energy.
• Cato Institute.
• Competitive Enterprise Institute.
• Global Climate Coalition.
• Global Warming Information Page.
• Greening Earth Society and World Climate Report--science of global warming.
• Heartland Institute.
• Heritage Foundation.
• JunkScience.com.
• National Climate Data Center--at the NOAA.
• National Anxiety Center.
• National Wilderness Institute.
• Pacific Research Institute.
• PERC Center for Free Market Environmentalism.
• Petition Project--independent petition opposing the Kyoto treaty.
• Science and Environmental Policy Project.
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse.
• Thoreau Institute.
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer.
• USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program.
• Warwick Hughes.
• World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases--by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
• World Resources Insitute.

less recommended links:

• Bellona Foundation--foundation in Norway, primarily concerned with environmental impact of Soviet/Russian defense and nuclear activities.
• Environmental Protection Agency.
• Evangelical Environmental Network.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations.
• Natural Resources Defense Council.

Some recommended environmental documents

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