Man made climate change may have prevented near permanent ice age

Another view of human induced climate change is now appearing. Some
scientists (small percentage) believe that higher than normal levels
of CO2 are in fact preventing earth from going into a extremely severe
and long duration ice age!

You can read the article at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16026-humans-may-have-prevented-super-ice-age.html

It's always good to know both sides of the story.

Rudolph

Climate change links

The exploratorium has a few very nice features and graphical ways to explaining global warming.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html

Web links

Here are a number of links for anyone who wants to gain some insight into the causes and effects of climate change.
An inconvenient truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

The carbon fund
http://www.carbonfund.org/

Earthshare
http://www.earthshare.org/

United Nations Environmental Program Climate Change Program
http://unep.org/themes/climatechange/

WWF - The World Wildlife Fund - Climate Change
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/index.cfm

Climatechange.org
http://climatechange.org.za/

The US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change page
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

The Australian Government - Bureau of Metereology
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/

Greenpeace Climate Change Campaign
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change

BBC Climate change site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Department of Environmental food and rural affairs - Climate and Energy
http://www.defra.gov.uk/ENVIRONMENT/climatechange/index.htm

European Environmental Agency - Climate Change Site
http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/climate

The World Bank
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/ENVIRONMENT/EXTCC/0,,menuPK:407870~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:407864,00.html

Climate research
http://www.climateresearch.net/

The Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/

The Wikipedia definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

The World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/