• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Climate Attribution

  • Home
  • Search
    • Climate Change Attribution
    • Extreme Event Attribution
    • Impact Attribution
    • Source Attribution
    • Court Attribution
  • About
    • Contact
    • Sitemap
  • Related Resources
    • Conference – January 9-10, 2025
  • Subscribe

Climate Change Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at understanding how human activities are affecting the global climate system, which includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. The resources listed below focus on how increasing concentrations of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases affect other climate variables, such as atmospheric temperature, ocean heat content, global mean sea level, and sea ice concentration. These resources include some data sets that are integral to attribution research.

Go to Sub-Topic:
Text Search:
Sort:
Filter by Resource Type:
Filter by Locale:
Current Filters:

Attributing Ocean Acidification to Major Carbon Producers

December 2019
Licker, R, B Ekwurzel, S C Doney, S R Cooley, I D Lima, R Heede, and P C Frumhoff
Environmental Research Letters
This paper has informed societal considerations of the climate responsibilities of these major industrial carbon producers.Read More →

Limiting global warming to 1.5º C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change

November 2019
Hideo Shiogama, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Daisuke Murakami, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Katsumasa Tanaka, Seita Emori, Izumi Kubota, Manabu Abe, Yukiko Imada, Masahiro Watanabe, Daniel Mitchell, Nathalie Schaller, Jana Sillmann, Erich Fischer, John Scinocca, Ingo Bethke, Ludwig Lierhammer, Jun'ya Takakura, Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll, Sebastian Ostberg, Hannes Schmeid, Fahad Saeed, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Environmental Research Letters
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and socioeconomic indexes to predict the impact of extreme events under 1.5º C and 2º C of warming, especially their impact on least developed countries.Read More →

Attributing long-term sea-level rise to Paris Agreement emission pledges

November 2019
Alexander Nauels, Johannes Gütschow, Matthias Mengel, Malte Meinshausen, Peter U. Clark, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
PNAS
This study uses GMSLR modeling that can handle emission scenarios flexibly to establish the link between pledged NDC emissions and GMSLR until 2300, thus highlighting the longer-term climate change implications of current climate mitigation efforts.Read More →

Climate Justice on a Carbon Budget

September 2019
Catriona McKinnon
Climatic Change
This article argues that carbon budgets present consequences for the ethics of climate change and delves into such consequences. Read More →

A 40-y Record Reveals Gradual Antarctic Sea Ice Increases Followed by Decreases at Rates Far Exceeding the Rates Seen in the Arctic

July 2019
Claire L. Parkinson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (PNAS)
This analysis of 40 years of satellite records reveals a gradual increase in Antarctic sea ice which reversed in 2014. The rapid rates of decrease far exceed those in the Arctic and reduced the Antarctic sea ice to their lowest values in the record. Read More →

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

July 2019
A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, Janin Guzman‐Morales, Daniel A. Bishop, Jennifer K. Balch, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Earth's Future
This report highlights how anthropogenic climate change has influenced wildfires in California. Read More →

Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years

June 2019
J. M. Maurer, J. M. Schaefer, S. Rupper, and A. Corley
Science Advances
Ice loss across the Himalayas is explained by climate forcing as a dominant drivers of glacier change.Read More →

Attaching a Price to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with a Carbon Tax or Emissions Fee: Considerations and Potential Impacts

March 2019
Jonathan L. Ramseur, Jane A. Leggett
Congressional Research Service
This article focuses on the policy considerations and potential impacts of using a carbon tax or greenhouse gas emissions fee to control greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →

The Role of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change in the 2017/18 Tasman Sea Marine Heatwave

February 2019
S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, A. D. King; E. A. Cougnon, N. J. Holbrook, M. R. Grose, E. C. J. Oliver, S. C. Lewis, F. Pourasghar
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This article describes the record sea surface temperatures during the 2017/18 Tasman Sea marine heatwave and how climate models indicate that they were virtually impossible without anthropogenic influence. Read More →

Accelerating Changes in Ice Mass Within Greenland, and the Ice Sheet’s Sensitivity to Atmospheric Forcing

February 2019
Michael Bevis, Christopher Harig, Shfaqat A. Khan, Abel Brown, Frederik J. Simons, Michael Willis, Xavier Fettweis, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Finn Bo Madsen, Eric Kendrick, Dana J. Caccamise II, Tonie van Dam, Per Knudsen, Thomas Nylen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
This study describes research in monitoring ice loss in Greenland due to oceanic and atmospheric forcings and predicts that continued atmospheric warming will lead to southwest Greenland becoming a major contributor to sea-level rise.Read More →

Footer

This website provides educational information. It does not, nor is it intended to, provide legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is established by use of this site. Consult with an attorney for any needed legal advice. There is no warranty of accuracy, adequacy or comprehensiveness. Those who use information from this website do so at their own risk.

© 2026 Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Made with by Satellite Jones