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Chapter 10, Major Chemical Cycles

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Carbon Dioxide. Covers photosynthesis and the role of carbon dioxide in the greenhouse effect.

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. The primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Many resources, including a comprehensive FAQ list and newsletters.

Feedback Mechanism Regulating Marine Life May Help Control the Level of Atmospheric Oxygen. Researchers have identified a simple feedback effect that may help control oxygen levels in the Earth's atmosphere by altering the productivity of marine organisms.

The Carbon Cycle. A concise description of the carbon cycle.

The Carbon Cycle in Lakes of the Upper Mississippi Basin. USGS.

Quaternary Carbon Storage in Global Ecosystems. Includes sections on conversion from organic matter to carbon storage, soil and peat carbon, natural disturbance of vegetation, broad-scale disequilibrium in the past.

Earth's Cycles. Includes an interesting discussion of the dynamics of the carbon cycle, a nice diagram of the carbon cycle and plate tectonics.

Oxygen Isotope Study of the Princess Elizabeth Trough, Antarctica.

Changes in Time of the Temperature of the Earth. Includes a set of graphs that portray a sampling of estimated surface temperatures through the last 180 million years of Earth's history.

Introduction to Paleoceanography.

The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program archives reconstructions of past climatic conditions. Included are reconstructions of past temperature, precipitation, vegetation, and other climatic conditions.

Johns Hopkins Sedimentology Group. Abstract of a research project on the evolution of Phanerozoic ocean chemistry.

Late Cretaceous Climate Change. In particular, see the section on Isotope Evidence.

Fossils Indicate Greenhouse Effect Has Occurred Before. An article from UniScience News Net on new fossils found in the Canadian arctic that provide evidence for rapid global warming about 90 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Could Deep Carbon Reservoirs Save the Warming Earth? UniScience News Net article.

W. H. Freeman's Global Warming web site. Articles on "Global Warming" and "Humans as Agents of Environmental Change."

The Rising Seas. Article from the August 1998 issue of Scientific American offers evidence that global warming may not lead to a rise in sea level.

The Coming Climate. Article from the May 1997 issue of Scientific American. Meteorological records and computer models permit insights into some of the broad weather patterns of a warmer world.

The Science of Global Warming. Union of Concerned Scientists. Comprehensive resource on global warming: summaries of papers on recent developments in the science of global warming, previous developments, the issues, and more.

Publications from the EPA Global Warming Site.

Global Warming. Woods Hole Research Center.

The Great Climate Flip-Flop. William H. Calvin's article from the January 1988 edition of Atlantic Monthly discusses the possibility that we are heading toward "global cooling."

Global Warming Skeptics Page. Links to web pages and papers skeptical of global warming.

Climate Change Skeptics. More links to web pages skeptical of global warming.

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