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Emerging low-cloud feedback and adjustment in global satellite observations

March 2026
Paulo Ceppi, Sarah Wilson Kemsley, Hendrik Andersen, Timothy Andrews, Ryan J. Kramer, Peer Nowack, Casey J. Wall, and Mark D. Zelinka
EGU: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
This peer-reviewed study investigates the human-caused decline in global cloudiness, and its subsequent contribution to the Earth's energy imbalance and climate change.Read More →

Aerosols overtake greenhouse gases causing a warmer climate and more weather extremes toward carbon neutrality

November 2023
Pinya Wang, Yang Yang, Daokai Xue, Lili Ren, Jianping Tang, L. Ruby Leung, Hong Liao
Nature Communications
This peer-reviewed study assesses the impacts of changing greenhouse gases, aerosols, and tropospheric ozone on a carbon neutral pathway, and finds that as we approach carbon neutrality, atmospheric aerosols become a more important factor.Read More →

The Largest Ever Recorded Heatwave—Characteristics and Attribution of the Antarctic Heatwave of March 2022

August 2023
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Tyler Cox, Zachary I. Espinosa, Aaron Donohoe
Geophysical Research Letters
This peer-reviewed study focuses on the record-breaking Antarctic heatwave in March 2022, assesses the implications of this heatwave for widely-used climate models, and models the impact of anthropogenic climate change on this and future heatwaves. Read More →

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western U.S. forest wildfire activity

August 2023
Zachary Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles Luce, W. Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared Oyler, Dyer Warren, Russell Parsons, and David Affleck
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and statistical analysis of precipitation trends from 1979 to 2015 in the western United States to show that declines in summer precipitation contributed to the area of land burned by wildfires.Read More →

Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release

April 2023
S. Wilkinson, R. Andersen, P. Moore, S. Davidson, and J. Waddington
Nature Climate Change
This peer-reviewed study uses datasets from natural, degraded, and restored northern peatlands to show that increased wildfire incidence caused by human activity reduces the carbon sink provided by peatlands.Read More →

Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

March 2023
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This Synthesis Report summarizes the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and socio-economic literature since 2014.Read More →