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Links you might enjoy! Please feel free to suggest additions, or note problems.

For basic scientific information:

IPCC - all working group reports and a synthesis report

CLIMATE PORTAL to lots of global change data data and analysis from NOAA's Climate Services

GLOBAL WARMING Science from EPA, NASA, Union of Concerned Scientists; related research from climate modeling centers NASA GISS and NCAR

EL NINO information: Basic info and ENSO portal from NOAA; another nice portal to all things ENSO from Columbia IRI; latest discussion of conditions and forecasts from NOAA; good summary papers by Collins et al. and Vecchi and Wittenberg on ENSO and the future.

ABRUPT climate change from NOAA and Woods Hole

DROUGHT: current conditions from the Drought Monitor; research from Columbia's Richard Seager and pals

SW REGIONAL UPDATES from UA-CLIMAS: (click the latest "climate outlook") and their Southwest Climate Change Network

WESTERN REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTER for access to climate data from the west

US Global Change Research Program: reports on Impacts of climate change, and scientific assessments on 21 key topics

CARBON CYCLE: The Global Carbon Project accounts for annual CO2 sources and sinks (latest full accounting is for 2008; expect 2009 this fall); the NOAA ESRL lab provides data and plots of greenhouse gases.

For science-based counterarguments to climate change deniers:

Real Climate, Skeptical Science, New Scientist

Climate blogs by knowledgeable (scientifically literate and politically well-informed) authors:

Dot Earth, Climate Progress, Real Climate, SWCCN**

**full disclosure - I post on SWCCN sometimes.