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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability

April 2025
Christopher W. Callahan, Justin S. Mankin
Nature
This peer-reviewed article outlines a transparent, reproducible and flexible framework to formalize how end-to-end attribution could inform litigation by assessing whose emissions are responsible for which harms.Read More →

Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales

November 2023
T. Laepple, E. Ziegler, N. Weitzel, R. Hébert, B. Ellerhoff, P. Schoch, B. Martrat, O. Bothe, E. Moreno-Chamarro, M. Chevalier, A. Herbert, K. Rehfeld
Nature Geoscience
This peer-reviewed study reviews the evidence regarding the scale of natural temperature variability during recent millennia, and concludes that existing models may underestimate regional variability in climate outcomes over multi-decadal timescales.Read More →

Understanding and Attribution of Extreme Heat and Drought Events in 2022: Current Situation and Future Challenges

October 2023
Lixia Zhang, Xiaojing Yu, Tianjun Zhou, Wenxia Zhang, Shuai Hu, Robin Clark
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This review article examines the role of climate change in notable events of the year in five major regions of the world: China’s Yangtze River region, western Europe, the western U.S., the Horn of Africa and central South America.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 →

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 →

Climate Shift Index

September 2022
Climate Central
Climate Central
Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels indicate how much climate change has altered the frequency of daily temperatures at a particular location. Read More →