Impact Attribution Archives - Climate Attribution

Press Release: 16 Million Children Affected by Massive Flooding in South Asia, with Millions More at Risk

Published:September 2020

Author(s):United Nations International Children's Fund

Publisher:United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF)

This article describes how monsoon rains and catastrophic flooding in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh left 16 million children and their families were in urgent need of life-saving support. Read More →

Anthropogenic Climate Change and Glacier Lake Outburst Flood Risk: Local and Global Drivers and Responsibilities for the Case of Lake Palcacocha, Peru

Published:August 2020

Author(s):Christian Huggel, Mark Carey, Adam Emmer, Holger Frey, Noah Walker-Crawford, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

Publisher:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Analysis of lake Palcacocha's case in the Andes of Peru, which offers a representative model for other glacier lakes and related risks around the world because it features a dynamic evolution of flood risk driven by physical and socioeconomic factorsRead More →

Extinction risk assessment of a Patagonian ungulate using population dynamics models under climate change scenarios

Published:July 2020

Author(s):Carlos Riquelme, Sergio A. Estay, Rafael Contreras, Paulo Corti

Publisher:International Journal of Biometeorology

Huemul population is currently in a quasi-extinction process, with extinction probabilities increasing with climate change.These results are crucial for conservation of species like huemul that have low densities and are threatened by climate change.Read More →

Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon

Published:June 2020

Author(s):Cristian Proistosescu, Gernot Wagner

Publisher:Cell Press

Climate change has myriad physical and economic impacts. This study argues that uncertainties in climate and weather extremes only further increase the social cost of carbon emissions.Read More →

The Economic Costs of Hurricane Harvey Attributable to Climate Change

Published:May 2020

Author(s):David J.Frame, Michael F. Wehner, Ilan Noy, and Suzanne M. Rosier

Publisher:Climatic Change

This paper uses a probabilistic event attribution framework to estimate the costs associated with Hurricane Harvey that are attributable to anthropogenic influence on the climate system.Read More →

Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival

Published:February 2020

Author(s):Cristian Román-Palacios, John J. Wiens

Publisher:PNAS

This study addresses the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Read More →

Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents

Published:February 2020

Author(s):Peter Soroye, Tim Newbold, Jeremy Kerr

Publisher:Science

Using long-term data for 66 bumble bee species across North America and Europe, the study tested whether this mechanism altered likelihoods of bumble bee species’ extinction or colonization. Read More →

Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

Published:November 2019

Author(s):Frédérik Saltré, Joël Chadoeuf, Katharina J. Peters, Matthew C. McDowell, Tobias Friedrich, Axel Timmermann, Sean Ulm & Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study develops a statistical approach to infer spatio-temporal trajectories of megafauna extirpations (local extinctions) and initial human appearance in south-eastern Australia.Read More →

Climate Justice on a Carbon Budget

Published:September 2019

Author(s):Catriona McKinnon

Publisher:Climatic Change

This article argues that carbon budgets present consequences for the ethics of climate change and delves into such consequences. Read More →

Facts and Statistics: Wildfires

Published:August 2019

Author(s):Insurance Information Institute

Publisher:Insurance Information Institute

This online resource provides a comprehensive overview of wildfires in the United States, including the documentation of the most destructive fires by year and graphics analyzing the impact that wildfires have on a state and national level. Read More →

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