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We will be completing a technical report on the Kyoto Accord and Climate Change. **Your first assignment is to use effective search techniques to find online resources that are reliable and to create an annotated bibliography for two of these resources. Your annotations must be posted here on the wiki for all students to use and access.** **You may not publish the same site as another student.** Please include a hyperlink in your citation so that other students can easily review your sources.
 * **Assignment #1**

You will be assessed on your ability to choose appropriate sources as well as your annotations. Remember to write well-written paragraphs for your annotations. Paragraphs start with topic sentences and each sentence or idea within the paragraph is related to the main topic for your sentence. Finish your paragraph with a concluding sentence.

Consider the following questions when evaluating websites: Accuracy: Authority: Objectivity: Currency: Relevance
 * Who wrote the page and how can you contact the author?
 * How is this person qualified to write this document?
 * What institution publishes and maintains this website?
 * Is the publisher making a profit off this site and how can you tell?
 * Is there a history of the organization/company or a mission statement? If so, summarize.
 * What are the stated goals of this page and are they met?
 * Why was this page written and for whom?
 * When was the site produced and when was it last updated?
 * Are there any links that are broken or do not work?
 * Is the site relevant to your research questions? Is it useful for your technical report?

In your technical paper, you will answer the following questions:
 * 1) What is climate change, and how is it being impacted by human activity? Why is climate change a better description than global warming?
 * 2) Summarize the evidence that relates climate change to human activity.
 * 3) What are the projected consequences of continued climate change if it continues at its current rate?
 * 4) How is the emmission of greenhouse gases related to energy consumption? (Consider all of the forms of energy commonly used in Canada's urban and rural environment)
 * 5) What is the Kyoto Protocol, and what is Canada's obligation sunder this agreement?
 * 6) Where is the international community going with this issue post-Kyoto?
 * 7) What are the key strategies of Canada's Climate Change Action Plan?

Please consider all of these questions when you do your internet searching. || include component="navigation" ||