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Robert A. Berner, Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: The rise of trees and their effect on Phaneozoic CO₂ Abstract, Symposium Snowbird, Utah; December 6 - 8, 2001. See also here, and there.

Robert A. Berner, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT: Atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time. PNAS, Vol. 96, Issue 20, 10955-10957, September 28, 1999.

Donald L. Blanchard: Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions. A model for climactic change.

Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Academy Press, Washington, DC: Effects of Past Global Change on Life. Panel on Effects of Past Global Change on Life, National Research Council; 272 pages, 1995. This "Open Book" presentation is a free, browsable, nonproprietary, fully and deeply searchable version of the publication.

Science of Earth Systems (SES), Cornell University (the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences Engineering, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Astronomy, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering): Evolution of the Earth System. This course describes highlights of the co-evolution of life and the physical/chemical Earth system: Go to: L9. Formation and Evolution of the Atmosphere.

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA: Climate.

Robert A. Gastaldo, Auburn University, William A. DiMichele, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, & Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Out of the Icehouse into the Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic Analog for Modern Global Vegetational Change.

Christoph Heubeck, Sabine Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Götze, Ulla and Michael Schudack, David Völker, Christoph Dobmeier, Joachim Müller, Henry Wuttke and Henriette Peters, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin: Die Erde. An introduction to Geosciences. Go to: Die Entwicklung der Atmosphäre, and Zusammensetzung der Atmosphäre und Greenhouse/Icehouse-Zyklen im Phanerozoikum, or Eiszeiten in der Erdgeschichte (in German).

Monte Hieb and Harrison Hieb, Plant Fossils of West Virginia: Global Warming.

Paul F. Hoffman and Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University: Snowball Earth. Feature Article from Scienific American.

Illinois State Museum, Springfield: Ice Ages. An easy-to-understand online exhibition describing the ice ages and how and why they occurred.

M. Alan Kazlev, Kheper website, Australia: The Oxygen Atmosphere.

S. Mager and S. Fitzsimons, Department of Geography, University of Otago: Climate Change of the Past, Introduction to Palaeoclimatology and Sources of Palaeoclimatic Data. Lecture outline.

Andreas Manschke, Fachbereich 5 - Geowissenschaften, University of Bremen: Links to other www-servers dealing with (paleo)climate.

Mark McCaffrey, NOAA: Paleoclimatology Slide Sets. A comprehensive online set of attractive slides, providing background on a variety of paleoclimatology subjects, including Ice Ages, Tree Rings, Ice Cores, Coral Reefs and much more.

Charles Garrett Messing, Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center Dania, (Department of Geological Science, University of Miami), Florida: THE TRIASSIC PERIOD (245-208 mya) - GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE AND TECTONICS Part of the course: "THE AGE OF DINOSAURS (BIOL 1090)".

Nature (Macmillan Publishers), Feature of the Week: Flowers and foliage.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado. What is Paleoclimatology? Introduction to paleoclimatology.

Jonathan T. Overpeck, NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder, Colorado: Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Paleogeographic Atlas Project, University of Chicago: Permian Introduction, and Jurassic Geography and Climates. Detailed paleotopographic and paleobathymetric maps. See also: Jurassic Floras and Climate.

Judith Totman Parrish and Paul Koch, (Paleo21): Paleoclimatology in the 21st Century.

Timothy Patterson, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa: Climate Change: A Geological Perspective. Offered primarily as a general interest course for non-majors.

Report on the International Workshop for a Climatic, Biotic, and Tectonic, Pole-to-Pole Coring Transect of Triassic-Jurassic Pangea. Held June 5-9, 1999 at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Navigate from here. Biotic change in a Hot-House world. The biotic change in a Hot-House world theme deals with biological patterns at three scales: global biogeographic patterns characteristic of the Hot-House world; Triassic-Jurassic evolution; and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction. Go to: Global Climate and Phytogeography.

Richard L. Reynolds, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, and John W. King, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island: Magnetic records of climate change. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

David Schimel and Elizabeth Sulzman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado: Variability in the earth climate system: Decadal and longer timescales. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Norman H. Sleep, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California: Plate tectonics and the evolution of climate. U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 (Reviews of Geophysics Vol. 33 Supplement 1995); prepared by the American Geophysical Union.

Robert A.Spicer and the Palaeoenvironmental Research Group (A.B.Herman, P.M. Rees, E. M. Kennedy), Earth Sciences Dept., The Open University, Milton Keynes: Plants as Climatic Indicators.

U.S. Geological Survey, Global Change Research Program: Global Change Data Sets.

W. M. White, Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University: Paleoclimatology I and Paleoclimatology II. Parts (Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3) of of the lecture notes: Isotope Geochemistry.

Udo Zindel and Detlef Clas, Südwestrundfunk 2: Erdzeit - Wie die Welt wurde, was sie ist. Die Sauerstoff-Katastrophe: Vom Wandel der Atmosphäre. Easy-to-understand real audio file, online-script and references (in German). Script also available via e-mail.