Impact Attribution Archives - Page 26 of 36

Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for their Contribution to Climate Change: Where Does the Law Stand?

Published:October 2018

Author(s):Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz

Publisher:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

This article analyzes a San Francisco case that explores the question of whether and to what extent it is possible to legally attribute harmful impacts associated with climate change to specific actors or conduct. Read More →

Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Climate Change-Related Health Impacts, Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience

Published:September 2018

Author(s):Kristie L. Ebi, Christopher Boyer, Kathryn J. Bowen, Howard Frumkin, Jeremy Hess

Publisher:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This paper describes an approach to climate and health indicators, including characteristics of the indicators, implementation, and research needs.Read More →

Marine Heatwaves Under Global Warming

Published:August 2018

Author(s):Thomas L. Frölicher, Erich M. Fischer, Nicolas Gruber

Publisher:Nature

This report argues that marine heat waves (MHWs) are becoming longer-lasting and more frequent, extensive and intense in the past few decades, and that this trend will accelerate under further global warming.Read More →

Scientists See Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over California’s Wildfires

Published:August 2018

Author(s):Kurtis Alexander

Publisher:San Francisco Chronicle

This article discusses how climate change is influenced the jet stream that drives California's wildfires.Read More →

Wildfires Rage Across Europe as Countries Battle Intense Heat Wave

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Melissa Etehad

Publisher:Los Angeles Times

This article describes the heatwave in Europe in summer 2018, and its devastating effects as wildfires have scorched large swaths of land in dozens of countries.Read More →

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Andrew J. Suggitt, Robert J. Wilson, Nick J. B. Isaac, Colin M. Beale, Alistair G. Auffret, Tom August, Jonathan J. Bennie, Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Simon Duffield, Richard Fox, John J. Hopkins, Nicholas A. Macgregor, Mike D. Morecroft, Kevin J. Walker & Ilya M. D. Maclean

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This study shows that microclimatic heterogeneity has strongly buffered species against regional extirpations linked to recent climate change.Read More →

Heat Records Fall in the Arctic as Fires Erupt in Sweden and Siberia

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Andrew Freedman

Publisher:AXIOS

This article describes the devastating wildfires in Scandinavia and Siberia in summer 2018 due to an unprecedented heatwave that swept across the Arctic Circle.Read More →

How to include the impact of climate change in the extinction risk assessment of policy plant species?

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Fabio Attorre, Thomas Abeli, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Alessio Farcomeni, Giuseppe Fenu, Michele de Sanctis, Domenico Gargano, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Chiara Montagnani, Graziano Rossi, Fabio Conti, Simone Orsenigo

Publisher:Journal for Nature Conservation

This study presents an approach in which the effect of climate change on plant species spatial distribution is used to prioritize conservation within IUCN categories.Read More →

Hurricane Harvey Links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation

Published:May 2018

Author(s):Kevin E. Trenberth, Lijing Cheng, Peter Jacobs, Yongxin Zhang, John Fasullo

Publisher:Earth's Future

This article uses ocean and atmosphere observations to demonstrate links between increased upper ocean heat content due to global warming with the extreme rainfalls from recent hurricanes.Read More →

Quantitative Attribution of Climate Effects on Hurricane Harvey’s Extreme Rainfall in Texas

Published:April 2018

Author(s):S-Y Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, Robert R Gillies

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study suggests that post-1980 climate warming could have contributed to the extreme precipitation of Hurricane Harvey. Read More →

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