2017 Hurricane Season Was Most Expensive in U.S. History
This article highlights the economic impacts of the United States' 2017 hurricane season. Read More →
The Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Review
This report offers a comprehensive survey of global climate change litigation, an overview of litigation trends, and descriptions of key issues that courts must resolve in the course of climate change cases. Read More →
Economic Burden of Hospitalizations for Heat-Related Illnesses in the United States, 2001–2010
This research explores costs associated with hospitalizations for heat-related illness in the United States using the 2001 to 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Read More →
This peer-reviewed study examined the effect of anthropogenic warming on precipitation in southern England and contribution to severe flooding and economic damages.Read More →
Climate Justice and the Application of Probabilistic Event Attribution to Summer Heat Extremes in the California Central Valley
This study applies probabilistic event attribution (PEA) to explore the climate attribution of recent extreme heat events in California's Central Valley. Read More →
Working Group III Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This report presents an assessment climate change mitigation options, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere. Read More →
Detection and Attribution of Observed Impacts
This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate change.Read More →
Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring
Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices, resulting in price spikes with economic impacts in Egypt, where bread prices tripled. Read More →
Climate Change Hits Poor Hardest in U.S.
Review of a study that found that climate change is disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities in the United States. 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 →