Recent Articles Relevant to Global Change in Scientific American
You can read summaries of articles and in some cases whole linked articles for recent issues at Scientific American's web site (www.scientificamerican.com). Here are a few full-length articles of possible interest from 1996 and 1997.
Chaotic Climate February 1995
Collisions With Comets and Asteroids March 1996
Special Issue on Cancer September 1996
Global Climate Change on Mars November 1996 (also online www.scientificamerican.com/1196issue/1196kargel.html with links to NASA, etc.)
Atmospheric Dust and Acid Rain December 1996
Trends in Climate Research: The Rising Seas March 1997
The Greenland Ice Cores: Frozen in Time February 1998
These articles in the monthly newsletter of the Geological Society of America are short, informative, general summaries. See Prof. DiVenere if interested.
Metamorphic CO2 Degassing and Early Cenozoic Paleoclimate March 1994
Acid Trauma at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Eastern Montana May 1996
Out of the Icehouse into the Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic analog for Modern Global Vegetational Change October 1996
Will Our Ride into the Greenhouse Future be a Smooth One? May 1997
Postglacial Ponds and Alluvial Fans: Recorders of Holocene Landscape History October 1997
Subject and author indexes of all articles for each year are contained in the last issue of the year (eg. the 1997 index is in the December 18/25 issue). Following are a few articles from the 1997 index.
Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations 3 July 1997
Extraterrestrial impacts: Earth rocked by combination punch
The age of the Popigai impact event and its relation to events at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary 24 July 1997
Influence of CO2 emission rates on the stability of the thermo-haline circulation 28 August 1997
Climate change: Icy message from Antarctica
Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records 4 September 1997
Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary 11 September 1997
Implication of recent CO2 emission-limitation proposals for stabilization of atmospheric concentrations 20 November 1997
A resonance in the Earth's obliquity and precession over the past 20 Myr driven by mantle convection 18/25 December 1997
(For more articles of interest always check the references at the end of each article)