Quaternary Climate Change

Astronomical Theory of Climate Change - 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.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/milankovitch.html

Climate and Global Change - "Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience.
earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyonecl.html

The International Marine Past Global Change Study - IMAGES is an organization investigating the ocean's role in climatic changes during the Late Quaternary, using data from long marine sediment cores.
www.images-pages.org/

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

Paleoclimate and Carbon Dioxide - Examines the climate variation in the pas, and the link with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/paleoclimate.htm

Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group - University of California Santa Cruz. Research areas include climate variability, warm climate transitions, Milankovitch forcing of early Cenozoic climates.
www.es.ucsc.edu/~lcsloan/

USITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition - 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.
www2.umaine.edu/USITASE/

The Great Climate Flip-Flop - 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. <small>(January, 1998)</small>
faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/1990s/1998AtlanticClimate.htm

A New European Ice Age? - Article about the potential climatic impacts of disruptions in the thermohaline circulation system in the North Atlantic. <small>(November 1, 1997)</small>
www.naturalscience.com/ns/cover/cover5.html

Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age - 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. <small>(July 11, 1997)</small>
www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ice-age-sediments.html

Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record - 100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist. <small>(January, 1996)</small>
gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/geoclimate.html