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Frequently Asked Questions

Anne Gillis

Lists compiled by several organizations offer answers to "frequently asked questions" (FAQs) about aspects of climate change issues. A selection of these are offered below, including one list of legal questions compiled by CRS. Please note: CRS does not endorse the choice of questions or the answers offered by outside organizations in these lists, but provides them as tools for researchers who may wish to be acquainted with how these questions might be posed and answered by the compiling organizations.

Selected Legal Questions About the Kyoto Protocol
CRS Report 98-349 [pdf: 3/29/01] [html: 1/10/01]

compiled by the American Law Division of CRS

CDIAC FAQs
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/cdiac/pns/faq.html

compiled by the Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

GCMD Frequently Asked Questions
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/FAQS/faqpage.html

from NASA's Global Climate Change Master Directory

Common Questions About Climate Change
http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/qa/cover.html

from the United Nations Environment Programme

Science Q&A: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/faq/index.cfm

from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


Page last updated March 9, 2000. Updated by NCSE: September 6, 2001.

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