| Information on Climate Change / Global Warming (some links to get you started, if you haven't read a lot about it):
Think Progress- Climate information, from the general to the very specific
Think Progress- Why climate scientists have consistently UNDERestsimated key global warming impacts
Wunderground- Climate change graphs and articles
BBC-Climate Change - Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Science Daily-Understanding methane's seabed escape
Science Daily- Methane Releases from Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated (Mar. 5, 2010)
Climate Progress- Bombshell: Recent warming is amazing and atypical--poised to destroy stable climate
The Energy Collective- Climate change and Sea Level Rise
The following links are for information on tar sands (oilsands) development and the Keystone XL pipeline:
Keystone XL Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane into Extinction
National Geographic - A Series of Photographs of areas in Alberta where tar sands extraction is being done
Natl. Geographic- Tar Sands-The Canadian Oil Boom - Scraping Bottom
Boreal Birds- 1,500 Scientists Worldwide Call for Protection of Canada's Boreal Forest
Boreal Birds- The Carbon the World Forgot
Pembina Institute- Why the oilsands matter to climate policy in Canada (and all the rest of us!)
Bold Nebraska- much tar sands and pipeline information!
WorldWatch Institute- Oil Sands: The Costs of Alberta's 'Black Gold'
OilSandsWatch- lots of information on tar sands development
Bold Nebraska- Two Major Unions Oppose the Keystone XL pipeline
Care2- Stop Tar petition
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