This article is from the Climate Change FAQ, by Jan Schloerer jan.schloerer@medizin.uni-ulm.de with numerous contributions by others.
If this article is too technical for your taste, you might try
the introduction by Granger Morgan, Tom Smuts, and others at
http://www.gcrio.org/gwcc/toc.html
The quarterly _Consequences_, edited by John A. Eddy, has readable
articles by first rate scientists on past climates, climate models,
and more. Published by Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan.
http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/introCON.html
For summaries of the 1995 IPCC reports see
http://www.unep.ch/ipcc/ipcc95.html
UNEP's Information Unit on Climate Change (IUCC) at Geneva offers
concise fact sheets covering science, impacts and responses:
http://www.unep.ch/iucc/fs-index.html
Some entry points to the myriad of research and other web sites:
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (Global Change)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/met.links.html
http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/
http://www.ucar.edu/dss/faq/ (Meteorology FAQ)
Some sites linked to sci.environment
http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/
ftp://ftp.access.digex.net/pub/access/rmg3/sci.faqs/
http://www.mnsinc.com/richp/sci_env.html/
Introduction to sea level change and ice sheets by Robert Grumbine,
Robert Parson's Ozone Depletion FAQ, Torsten Brinch's FAQ on ground
level ozone, an article on atmospheric CO2, and more.
 
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