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Impact Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at understanding how global climate change affects human and natural systems. The resources listed below deal with localized physical impacts, such as floods, droughts, and sea level rise, and the corresponding effects on infrastructure, public health, ecosystems, agriculture, and economies.

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Influence of climate change impacts and mitigation costs on inequality between countries

February 2020
Nicolas Taconet, Aurélie Méjean, Céline Guivarch
Climatic Change
By computing the evolution of country-by-country GDP, scenarios are built that account for the joint effects of mitigation costs and climate damages on inequality.Read More →

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

February 2020
Cristian Román-Palacios, John J. Wiens
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

February 2020
Peter Soroye, Tim Newbold, Jeremy Kerr
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

November 2019
Frédérik Saltré, Joël Chadoeuf, Katharina J. Peters, Matthew C. McDowell, Tobias Friedrich, Axel Timmermann, Sean Ulm & Corey J. A. Bradshaw
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

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 →

Facts and Statistics: Wildfires

August 2019
Insurance Information Institute
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 →

Severe Continental-Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Happening Now: Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast

July 2019
Russell C. Babcock, Rodrigo H. Bustamante, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Derek J. Fulton, Michael D. E. Haywood, Alistair James Hobday, Robert Kenyon, Richard James Matear, Eva E. Plagányi, Anthony J. Richardson, Mathew A. Vanderklift
Frontiers in Marine Science
This article provides an analysis of the impacts of climate events on marine habitats.Read More →

Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift

July 2019
Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich Jr., Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales
Nature
Examination of continuous rainfall records for coastal NC since 1898 reveals a trend toward increasingly high precipitation associated with tropical cyclones over the last 120 yearsRead 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 →

Climate Change and Poverty – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

June 2019
Human Rights Council
This report focuses on the impact of climate change on human rights and especially the rights of people living in or near poverty; the response so far by the human rights community and its reluctance to engage robustly with climate change.Read More →

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