For Research Paper:

1) Describe the problem

2) What are possible and realistic solutions to reduce or eliminate the problem.

I'm not going to do your homework for you, but I'll throw some useful links at you:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

http://www.realclimate.org/

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (I posted a question asking people to give links to information at varying levels of experience)

Good luck! (and please ignore the many denialists who will probably answer this question)

Don't listen to Maxx nonsense. The Great Global Warming Swindle has been debunked.

http://kingsgreenpad.ca/?p=1527

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...

Global warming is happening

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010...

And we are causing it

http://c1planetsavecom.wpengine.netdna-c...

The ten warmest years in the instrumental record are 2010, 2005, 2009, 2007, 2002, 1998, 2006, 2003, 2011 and 2012.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

We can solve global warming using clean energy sources, such as solar, wind and nuclear power.

First start off with defining Climate Change in a legal or scientific method.

Once you see that the IPCC hasn't even bothered to define Climate Change in this form you will readily see that there really is no definable problem.

Quotes by H.L. Mencken, famous columnist: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed ― and hence clamorous to be led to safety ― by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."

Your question has built-in false assumptions.

There is no man-made Global Warming or Climate Change. CO2 doesn't drive warming.

You need to see what the experts say:

The Great Global Warming Swindle