Earth Sciences: Quaternary Studies: Quaternary Climate Change

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.

University of California Santa Cruz. Research areas include climate variability, warm climate transitions, Milankovitch forcing of early Cenozoic climates.

A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education.

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.

Article about the potential climatic impacts of disruptions in the thermohaline circulation system in the North Atlantic.

On-line syllabus and curriculum materials for a university science course on climate change (past, present, and future), its causes and effects.

"Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience.

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.

The International Marine Global Change Study - investigating the ocean's role in climatic changes during the Late Quaternary, using data from long marine sediment cores.

Examines the climate variation in the pas, and the link with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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.

100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist.