Global Warming: What You Need to Know

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Introduction

• Binder Cover (PDF)
• Letter from Phil Clapp, Managing Director, Pew Environment Group (PDF)
• Table of Contents (PDF)

The Basics

• The Science of Global Warming (PDF)
• Sources of Greenhouse Gases in the United States (PDF)
• The Impacts of Climate Change: An Overview (PDF)
• The Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change (PDF)
• National Security and Global Stability in a Warming Climate (PDF)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: An Overview (PDF)
• Key Findings of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 2007 (PDF)
• IPCC Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report: Summary for Policy Makers (PDF)

Policies and Proposals

• Federal Global Warming Emissions Reduction Policies (PDF)
• The Basics of a Cap-and-Trade Program (PDF)
• U.S. State and Regional Action on Global Warming (PDF)
• Supreme Court Decision on Greenhouse Gas Regulation (PDF)
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration: The Key to Coal’s Future? (PDF)
• Scientific American: Energy’s Future Beyond Carbon(Purchase a digital copy from Scientific American)

Legislation

• Side by Side Comparison of Climate Change Bills in the 110th Congress (PDF)
• Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act (iCAP Act): Executive Summary (PDF)
• iCAP Act: Subtitle-by-Subtitle Summary (PDF)
• iCAP Act: Funding Charts (PDF)
• The Climate MATTERS Act (Climate Market, Auction, Trust & Trade Emissions Reduction System): Detailed Summary (PDF)
• Summary of the Safe Climate Act of 2007 (PDF)
• The Safe Climate Act of 2007: Detailed Summary (PDF)
• Boxer Substitute Amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act: A Summary (PDF)
• Q&A on the Boxer Substitute Amendment to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (PDF)
• How the Substitute Amendment for the Climate Security Act Allocates (PDF)
• Permit Distribution & Cumulative Value Under the Climate Security Act Charts (PDF)
• WRI Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress (PDF)

International Action

• International Policy Initiatives to Address Global Warming (PDF)
• Global Warming Action in the Developing World (PDF)
• Designing Climate Change Legislation: Improving the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (PDF)
• A Guide to the Latest United Nations Negotiations (PDF)
• "Decisions of the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Bali, Indonesia," Statement of Philip Clapp, Deputy Managing Director, Pew Environment Group before the Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming (PDF)

Public Opinion

• Global Warming Polling Update: American Attitudes toward Climate Change (PDF)
• Editorials supporting action to curb global warming (January–December 2007) (PDF)

Global Warming 101: Glossary of Terms (PDF)