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Trends in Atmospheric Methane

March 2020
Global Monitoring Laboratory, NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Monitoring Laboratory
This online resource presents trends in globally-averaged monthly and yearly atmospheric methane levels determined from marine surface sites. Read More →

Trends in Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide

March 2020
Global Monitoring Laboratory, NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Monitoring Laboratory
This online resource presents trends in globally-averaged monthly and yearly atmospheric nitrous oxide levels determined from marine surface sites. Read More →

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 →

Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

January 2020
Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Jiang Zhu, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Bin Zhang, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Michael E. Mann
Springer
This article presents new ocean heat content data for the year 2019.Read More →

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

January 2020
Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti
Nature Climate Change
The fingerprint of climate change is detected from any single day in the observed global record since early 2012, and since 1999 on the basis of a year of data.Read More →

The Decade of Attribution Science

December 2019
Jane C. Hu
Slate
This article provides an introduction to attribution science, exploring how climate change's role in extreme weather events and how the new field is shaping policy and litigation attempting to deal with climate change.Read More →

Limiting global warming to 1.5º C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change

November 2019
Hideo Shiogama, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Daisuke Murakami, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Katsumasa Tanaka, Seita Emori, Izumi Kubota, Manabu Abe, Yukiko Imada, Masahiro Watanabe, Daniel Mitchell, Nathalie Schaller, Jana Sillmann, Erich Fischer, John Scinocca, Ingo Bethke, Ludwig Lierhammer, Jun'ya Takakura, Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll, Sebastian Ostberg, Hannes Schmeid, Fahad Saeed, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Environmental Research Letters
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and socioeconomic indexes to predict the impact of extreme events under 1.5º C and 2º C of warming, especially their impact on least developed countries.Read More →

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment Part I: Detection and Attribution

October 2019
Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, Liguang Wu
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This paper reviews the detection and attribution of changes in tropical cyclone activity due to climate change. It examines how developments in science have advanced understanding of tropical cyclone activity under changing climatic conditions. 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 →

Twentieth-Century Hydroclimate Changes Consistent with Human Influence

May 2019
Kate Marvel, Benjamin I. Cook, Céline J. W. Bonfils, Paul J. Durack, Jason E. Smerdon, A. Park Williams
Nature
This study reconstructs the Palmer drought severity index obtained with data from tree rings, demonstrating that human activities were probably affecting the worldwide risk of droughts as early as the beginning of the twentieth century. Read More →

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