A New European Ice Age? - http://www.naturalscience.com/ns/cover/cover5.html
Article about the potential climatic impacts of disruptions in the thermohaline circulation system in the North Atlantic. |
Astronomical Theory of Climate Change - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/milankovitch.html
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovitch theory, which explains changes in the seasons as a result of changes in the earth's orbit around the sun. |
Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age - http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ice-age-sediments.html
Article about research suggesting that cyclical changes in the location of the Earth's orbit causing differing amounts of extraterrestrial debris to come into the atmosphere, and not the Milankovitch theory, explain cycles of glaciation in the last million years. |
Climate and Global Change - http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyonecl.html
"Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience. |
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/
A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education. |
Paleoclimate and Carbon Dioxide - http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/paleoclimate.htm
Examines the climate variation in the pas, and the link with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group - http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~lcsloan/
University of California Santa Cruz. Research areas include climate variability, warm climate transitions, Milankovitch forcing of early Cenozoic climates. |
Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record - http://gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/geoclimate.html
100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist. |
The Great Climate Flip-Flop - http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/1990s/1998AtlanticClimate.htm
Atlantic Monthly article reviews the abrupt (less than a decade transition) climate changes of the past, analyzes the role of the Gulf Stream's thermohaline circulation switching modes of operation, and presents three scenarios for the future, including potential methods for stabilizing the flip-flop tendencies. |
The International Marine Past Global Change Study - http://www.images-pages.org/
IMAGES is an organization investigating the ocean's role in climatic changes during the Late Quaternary, using data from long marine sediment cores. |