Impact Attribution Archives - Page 36 of 36

Integrated Model Shows that Atmospheric Brown Clouds and Greenhouse Gases Have Reduced Rice Harvests in India

Published:December 2006

Author(s):Maximilian Auffhammer, V. Ramanathan, Jeffrey R. Vincent

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America

This study suggests that adverse climate changes due to brown clouds and greenhouse gases contributed to the slowdown in harvest growth that occurred during the past two decades.Read More →

Scenarios of freshwater fish extinctions from climate change and water withdrawal

Published:August 2005

Author(s):Marguerite A. Xenopoulos David M. Lodge Joseph Alcamo Michael Märker Kerstin Schulze Detlef P. Van Vuuren

Publisher:Global Change Biology

This study combined two scenarios from the IPCC with a global hydrological model to build global scenarios of future losses in river discharge from climate change and increased water withdrawal.Read More →

Human-Modified Temperatures Induce Species Changes: Joint Attribution

Published:May 2005

Author(s):Terry L. Root,* Dena P MacMynowski, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Stephen H. Schneider

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This study demonstrates “joint attribution,” a two-step linkage: human activities contribute significantly to temperature changes and human-changed temperatures are associated with discernible changes in plant and animal traits. Read More →

Detecting the Effect of Climate Change on Canadian Forest Fires

Published:September 2004

Author(s):N. P. Gillett, A. J. Weaver, F. W. Zwiers, M. D. Flannigan.

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This report shows that human‐induced climate change has had a detectable influence on the area burned by forest fire in Canada over recent decades. Read More →

Ethics and Global Climate Change

Published:April 2004

Author(s):Stephen Gardiner

Publisher:Ethics

This article argues that climate change is an issue that should be of serious concern to both moral philosophers and humanity at large.Read More →

A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems

Published:January 2003

Author(s):Camille Parmesan & Gary Yohe

Publisher:Nature

This paper explores these differences, and applies diverse analyses to more than 1,700 species, and show that recent biological trends match climate change predictions. Read More →

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Published:May 1992

Author(s):United Nations

This document outlines the objectives of the 1992 UNFCCC. Read More →

Restoring the Quality of Our Environment

Published:November 1965

Author(s):President's Science Advisory Committee

Publisher:The White House

This book is designed to prompt appropriate Departments and Agencies to consider the problems and recommendations regarding emissions that the book reports on. Read More →

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