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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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Widespread phytoplankton blooms triggered by 2019–2020 Australian wildfires

September 2021
Weiyi Tang, Joan Llort, Jakob Weis, Morgane M. G. Perron, Sara Basart, Zuchuan Li, Shubha Sathyendranath, Thomas Jackson, Estrella Sanz Rodriguez, Bernadette C. Proemse, Andrew R. Bowie, Christina Schallenberg, Peter G. Strutton, Richard Matear, & Nicolas Cassar
Nature
This study connects climate-change-drive wildfires in Australia with anomalously widespread phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean.Read More →

Sea ice reduction drives genetic differentiation among Barents Sea polar bears

September 2021
Simo Njabulo Maduna, Jon Aars, Ida Fløystad, Cornelya F. C. Klütsch, Eve M. L. Zeyl Fiskebeck, Øystein Wiig, Dorothee Ehrich, Magnus Andersen, Lutz Bachmann, Andrew E. Derocher, Tommi Nyman, Hans Geir Eiken, and Snorre B. Hagen
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
This study assesses the climate-induced loss of genetic diversity among Barents Sea polar bears.Read More →

Anthropogenic climate change has altered lake state in the Sierra Nevada (California, USA)

September 2021
Laura C. Streib, Jeffery R. Stone, Eva C. Lyon, Hung H. Quang, Kevin M. Yeager, Susan R. H. Zimmerman, Michael M. McGlue
Global Change Biology
This study illustrates the profound influence of anthropogenic climate warming on high-elevation lakes and the ecosystem services they provide in the Sierra Nevada.Read More →

The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability

September 2021
Jarmo S Kikstra, Paul Waidelich, James Rising, Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope, and Chris M Brierley
IOP Science
This study demonstrates that determining the level of persistence of economic damages is one of the most important factors in calculating the SCCO2 and indicates that the mean estimate for the SCCO2 may have been strongly underestimated.Read More →

Air Quality Life Index Annual Update

September 2021
Ken Lee and Michael Greenstone
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Assessing the health impacts of air pollution, with a section on how climate change is exacerbating air pollution.Read More →

Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States

September 2021
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
This reports measures the ways in which socially vulnerable populations may be disproportionately exposed to the highest impacts of climate change.Read More →

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

August 2021
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC's most up-to-date report on physical understanding of the climate system, concluding unequivocally that human activity is driving climate change in every part of the world. Read More →

Enhanced Rare Earth Element Mobilization in a Mountain Watershed of the Colorado Mineral Belt with Concomitant Detection in Aquatic Biota: Increasing Climate Change-Driven Degradation to Water Quality

August 2021
Garrett P. Rue and Diane M. McKnight
Environmental Science and Technology
This study reports on climate change-driven water quality impacts in the Snake River watershed.Read More →

Climate change attribution and legal contexts: evidence and the role of storylines

August 2021
Elisabeth A. Lloyd & Theodore G. Shepherd
Climatic Change
This article assesses the storyline approach to attribution and argues that the storyline approach aligns well with the concept of legal evidence. Read More →

Extreme Heat: The Economic and Social Consequences for the United States

August 2021
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Atlantic Council
This report quantifies the impacts of heat under current and future conditions.Read More →

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