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NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/
A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |