Climate Change: A Parking Place Model for A Just Global Compact
This article describes a mechanism of emissions allocations that ensures equity and expeditious action on climate change by all.Read More →
Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate Change
This article concludes that anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally and in some continents.Read More →
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States
This report describes a regional, multivariable climate-change detection and attribution study that focuses on the changes that have already affected a primarily arid region with a large and growing population.Read More →
Forcing of Multiyear Extreme Ocean Temperatures that Impacted California Current Living Marine Resources in 2016
Significant impacts on California Current living marine resources in 2016 resulted from sustained extremely high ocean temperatures forced by a confluence of natural drivers and likely exacerbated by anthropogenic warming.Read More →
Bali Action Plan
The Bali Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation goals to combat climate change. This Plan came out of COP13.Read More →
Climate Change Justice
This article grapples with the responsibility of the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and considers how climate change will impact the U.S., compared to how it will impact other countries. Read More →
Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change.Read More →
Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming
This study shows that simple measures of growing season temperatures and precipitation explain variations in global average yields for the world’s six most widely grown crops, and that climate change negatively impacts crop yield. Read More →
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather
This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by estimating the effect of random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits.Read More →
IPCC AR4 WGI Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding the drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. Read More →