Start Your Research on the Greenhouse Effect or Greenhouse Gases

Websites

The Hong Kong Observatory: http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/climat/greenhs/e_grnhse.htm This page examines all the basics of greenhouse effect and provides definitions for the phenomenon, types of greenhouse gases, global warming potential of different gases, trends in greenhouse gas concentrations, etc.
Climate Change from the BBC Weather Center: http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/ This website designed by the BBC is dedicated to climate changes. There is one section (http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/evidence/greenhouse_effect.shtml) that goes over the greenhouse effect/gases phenomenon.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/index.html#ggo This is the official U.S. government website of the EPA. It will provide you, among other things, with statistics (inventories) of greenhouse gas emissions.
Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php This website provides access to the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol and its rulebook (including the text of the protocol itself). The protocol was meant to give countries limits and reduction targets on their greenhouse gases emissions.

Books

Dotto, Lydia. Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier U P for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1993.
Call Number: QC 981.8 .G56 D68 1993

Gelbspan, Ross. The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-up, the Prescription. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998.
Call Number: QC 981.8 .G56 G45

Kraljic, Matthew A.The Greenhouse Effect. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1992.
Call Number: QC912.3 .G69 1992

Hassol, Susan Joy. Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2004.
Call Number: QC994.8 .H3 2004
Electronic Resource

Articles

Britannica Online
This the online version of the famous Encyclopedia Britannica. The encyclopedia has references to greenhouse effect and gases in many different articles. Click on the link below and type greenhouse effect in the search box. Link: http://rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.eb.com/

Nature Magazine
Search Nature using words such as Greenhouse Gases
Link: http://rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.nature.com/nature

Science Magazine
Search Science using words such as Greenhouse Gases
Link: http://rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.sciencemag.org

EBSCOHost-Academic Search Premier.
Search EBSCOHost using keywords such as Greenhouse Effect AND Policy or Greehouse Effect AND Science
Link: http://web.ebscohost.com

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