GEOL-412 - Climate Change: past, present & future

A remnant of the Larsen B ice shelf Antarctica (http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/larseniceshelf/)
 

Resources

 
Erik recommends these websites for information on climate change
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3  This NASA site has great graphics on the Earth in general and many on climate change topics.  You can subscribe to receive a weekly e-mail update of new topics.
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/  This is another NASA website with lots of information on climate change.
http://www.realclimate.org/  This is a website written by climate scientists from around the world providing information and commentary on climate-change issues.
 
 

Geological time-scale  For your reference, here are links to two versions of the geological time scale.  The second one is the official one from the Int. Union of Geological Scientists.  timescale.gif / iugs-timescale.pdf
 
Information on past and future climate change in BC from the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, the FORREX watershed management bulletin Streamline and the BC Ministry of Forests
PCIC.ClimateOverfiew.pdf, streamline-1-2-1.pdf, streamline-1-2-2.pdf, min-for-tr045.pdf

Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (U. Vic.) http://pacificclimate.org/aboutus/program/
 
Steve's presentation on the factors that control the earth's climate: climate-system-2011.pdf
 
Greg's PowerPoint presentation on solar variation: GEOL412-Sun-2011.pdf
 
Information and links from Erik's presentation on C chemistry:  chem of carbon and GWPS 2010.pdf
 
David GG presentation on biological sequestration david-GG-biosequestration.pdf
 
Steve's presentation on plate tectonics and climate change plate-tectonics.pdf
 
Jeff's presentation on Snowball Earth snowball-earth.pdf
 
Oxygen isotopes: oxygen-isotope-fractionation.pdf, Orbital cycles: 125-graphs.pdf, eccentricity-table.pdf, orbitals.xls
 
Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum - Carbon isotopes and methane hydrates and the PETM
 
Millenial-scale climate changes of the last glaciation    Summaries of Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich cycles: DO-Heinrich.htm and Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles.pdf  Link to the NOAA slide set on Heinrich cycles: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slides/slideset/index19.htm, The EPICA file on the European ice coring effort in Antarctica, and their interpretation of Greenland vs Antarctica variation during DO events: epica-Oer2008a.pdf
 
Climate change since deglaciation  - Scientific American article by Ruddiman - Human activities & Climate Change In-class presentation on ocean cycles: Ocean cycles.pdf and report on the British-American project to measure the Atlanitc thermohaline circulation: Bryden_rapid4oopc.pdf
 
Modern climate forcing and climate-change impacts  Ocean current cycles - Climate forcing factors - Tropical Storms and climate change - Pine beetle and climate change - Ocean Acidification
 
Present and Future Climate change IPPC Projections - Copenhangen and COP 15 - 350 ppm - Hansen et al, 2008, Lenton and Vaughn 2009