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 millio |
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 p |
USITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition « http://www2.umaine.edu/USITASE/ | | Description , publications , and other scientific contributions from investigations to reconstruct 200 - 2000 years of past climatic and environmental changes in antarctica , using remote sensing , ice cores , geophysics , and other methods. |