The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program (Boulder, Colorado) archives many paleoclimatic data sets.
An introduction to paleoclimatology science and a presentation titled "A paleo perspective on global warming" are provided.
Pollen Viewer, an animation showing changes in distribution, abundance and association of plant taxa (as pollen percentages) in North America during the late Quaternary, the last 21,000 years (developed by The Quaternary Environments Group at Brown University on the basis of pollen data in the North American Pollen Database)
PAGES: Past Global Changes (PAGES) Core Project - International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
Internet links to paleoclimate resources, provided by R.H. Cummins, Miami University, Ohio (note some links dead).
Internet links to climatology and paleoclimatology resources and a glossary mostly on oceanography and related geosciences by S. Baum, Texas A&M University.
The World Wide Web Virtual Library of Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography maintained by P. Farrar, Naval Oceanographic Office.
The North Atlantic Oscillation, an information page provided by the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Another NAO site (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/cag/NAO/index.html) maintained by D. B. Stevenson, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK.
El Niņo Theme Page, one of El Niņo Web locations maintained by various branches of NOAA.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a presentation from Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington.
The WW2010 (Weather World 2010) Web site from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program coordinates much of the global change research undertaken in the United States, including that dealing with long-term environmental change.
The NOAA Office of Global Programs web pages describe many of the individual research projects that focus on global change issues.
The Carbon Dioxide Information Center (CDIAC) also archives many modern and paleo-data sets on environmental change.
The Global Change Master Directory, presented by Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an extensive directory of descriptive and locational information about data sets relevant to global change research.
The U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides an introduction to climate change and links to Web resources on global change.
The U.S. Geological Survey home page contains information on a variety of environmental change issues.
The 15 February 2000 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences featured an editorial, nine perspectives, and six research articles related to rapid climate change. (accessible from Lehigh University)
The July-August 1999 issue of American Scientist had an article by K. Taylor titled "Rapid climate change."
The May 1997 issue of Scientific American featured an article by T. Karl, N. Nicholls, and J. Gregory titled "The Coming Climate."
The 1 April 1999 issue of Environmental Science and Technology had an article by D. Schoen titled "Learning from polar ice core research."
The Winter 1996 issue of Consequences had an article by J. Lean and D. Rind titled "The Sun and climate."