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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.

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Attributing Mortality from Extreme Temperatures to Climate Change in Stockholm, Sweden

October 2013
Daniel Oudin Åström, Bertil Forsberg, Kristie L. Ebi, Joacim Rocklöv
Nature Climate Change
This study seeks to understand the extent to which mortality due to temperature extremes in Stockholm, Sweden during 1980– 2009 can be attributed to climate change that has occurred since their reference period (1900–1929). Read More →

The Challenge to Detect and Attribute Effects of Climate Change on Human and Natural Systems

August 2013
Dáithí Stone, Maximilian Auffhammer, Mark Carey, Gerrit Hansen, Christian Huggel, Wolfgang Cramer, David Lobell, Ulf Molau, Andrew Solow, Lourdes Tibig, Gary Yohe
Climatic Change
This paper describes the current conceptual framework of detection and attribution and outlines a number of conceptual challenges.Read More →

The Impact of Powder River Basin Coal Exports on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

May 2013
Thomas Michael Power, Donovan S. Power
The Energy Foundation
This report details and responds to the arguments that there will be no net increase in global GHG emissions as a result of the expansion of PRB coal mining and the construction of rail and port infrastructure on the West Coast.Read More →

Shifts in the Seasonal Distribution of Deaths in Australia, 1968–2007

April 2013
Charmian M. Bennett, Keith B. G. Dear, Anthony J. McMichael
International Journal of Biometeorology
This study examines the ratio of summer to winter deaths in Australia with a background of rising average annual temperature over four decades, and finds that change has been driven more by reduced winter mortality than by increased summer mortality.Read More →

Building EORA: A Global Multi-Region Input–Output Database at High Country and Sector Resolution

March 2013
Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Arne Geschke
Economic Systems Research
This paper describes results from a project to create an multi-region input-output (MIRO) table that represents all countries at a detailed sectoral level. Read More →

Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts

March 2013
Cynthia Rosenzweig, and Peter Neofotis
WIREs Climate Change
This paper argues that the expansion of methods of detection is key to discerning the climate sensitivities of sectors and systems in regions where the impacts of climate change currently remain elusive. Read More →

Report of the Conference of the Parties on its Eighteenth Session, held in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012

February 2013
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This report shares the climate change mitigation and adaptation agreements of the Parties to the COP18. Read More →

IPCC AR5 WGI Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

January 2013
Lisa V. Alexander, Simon K. Allen, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, François-Marie Bréon, John A. Church, Ulrich Cubasch, Seita Emori, Piers Forster, Pierre Friedlingstein, Nathan Gillett, Jonathan M. Gregory, Dennis L. Hartmann, Eystein Jansen, Ben Kirtman, Reto Knutti, Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla, Peter Lemke, Jochem Marotzke, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Gerald A. Meehl, Igor I. Mokhov, Shilong Piao, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Qin Dahe, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, David Randall, Monika Rhein, Maisa Rojas, Christopher Sabine, Drew Shindell, Thomas F. Stocker, Lynne D. Talley, David G. Vaughan, ShangPing Xie
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This report considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. Read More →

Patterns of change: whose fingerprint is seen in global warming?

December 2012
Gabriele Hegerl, Francis Zwiers, Claudia Tebaldi
This letter communicates the physical science basis of climate change attribution research, and discusses the statistical methods applied to explore the extent to which different possible causes can be used to explain the recent climate records.Read More →

Cusk (Brosme brosme) and Climate Change: Assessing the Threat to a Candidate Marine Fish Species Under the US Endangered Species Act

December 2012
Jonathan A. Hare, John P. Manderson, Janet A. Nye, Michael A. Alexander, Peter J. Auster, Diane L. Borggaard, Antonietta M. Capotondi, Kimberly B. Damon-Randall, Eric Heupel, Ivan Mateo, Loretta O'Brien, David E. Richardson, Charles A. Stock, Sarah T. Biegel
ICES Journal of Marine Science
This study examines changes in distribution and abundance of a number of marine fish in the Northwest Atlantic that have been linked to climate variability and change, suggesting that both fishing and climate may affect the status of cusk. Read More →

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