Surf these sites: Berkeley Lab - Research News -- "Astronomical Theory offers New Explanation For Ice Age" Climate Change: A Geological Perspective - Carleton University, Canada -- On-line syllabus and curriculum materials for a university science course on climate change (past, present, and future), its causes and effects. Climate and Global Change -- "Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program -- A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education. Natural Science -- A new European ice age? Orbital Variations and Milankovitch Theory -- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovic theory or astronomical theory of climate change, which is an explanation for changes in the seasons which result from changes in the earth''s orbit around the sun. Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group -- 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 -- 100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist. 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. Visualization of the Milankovitch Orbital Theory -- Visualize the changes in solar insolation linked to the changes in Earth''s orbital characteristics (eccentricity, obliquity, and precession).
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