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Red-hot Planet: All-time heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week

July 2018
Jason Samenow
The Washington Post
This article describes the all-time record-setting heat wave in the Northern Hemisphere in summer 2018 and cautions that these heat records are consistent with the extremes scientists expect to see in a warming world. Read More →

Introduction to Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 From a Climate Perspective

March 2018
Stephanie C. Herring, Nikolaos Christidis, Andrew Hoell, James P. Kossin, Carl J. Schreck, III, Peter A. Stott
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This 2016 BAMS report explains extreme events in 2016 from a climate perspective and is the first BAMS report to find that some extreme events were not possible in a preindustrial climate.Read More →

Consumption-Based GHG Emissions Of C40 Cities

March 2018
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), University of Leeds, University of New South Wales, Arup
C40 Cities
This report presents the methodology and results of a study investigating the consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions from 79 cities, carried out by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40).Read More →

Climate Change Attribution: When Is It Appropriate to Accept New Methods?

February 2018
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Naomi Oreskes
Earth’s Future
This article argues that the risk-based approach and storyline approach to extreme event attribution are complementary and that there is no “right” or “wrong” approach to detection and attribution in any absolute sense.Read More →

Widespread persistent changes to temperature extremes occurred earlier than predicted

January 2018
Chao Li, Yuanyuan Fang, Ken Caldeira, Xuebin Zhang, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Anna M. Michalak
nature
This paper shows that persistent changes to temperature extremes have already occurred over large parts of the Earth and climate models forced with natural and anthropogenic historical forcings underestimate these changes.Read More →

CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global Warmth During 2016

January 2018
Thomas R. Knutson, Jonghun Kam, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This study presents the findings of the CMIP5 simulations, which demonstrate that the 2016 record global warmth was only possible due to substantial centennial-scale anthropogenic warming. Read More →

IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC

January 2018
Myles R. Allen, Mustafa Babiker, Yang Chen, Heleen de Coninck, Sarah Connors, Renée van Diemen, Opha Pauline Dube, Kristie L. Ebi, Francois Engelbrecht, Marion Ferrat, James Ford, Piers Forster, Sabine Fuss, Tania Guillén Bolaños, Jordan Harold, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Daniel Huppmann, Daniela Jacob, Kejun Jiang, Tom Gabriel Johansen, Mikiko Kainuma, Kiane de Kleijne, Elmar Kriegler, Debora Ley, Diana Liverman, Nathalie Mahowald, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, J.B. Robin Matthews, Richard J. Millar, Katja Mintenbeck, Angela Morelli, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, Luis Mundaca, Maike Nicolai, Chukwumerije Okereke, Minal Pathak, AntonyPayne, Roz Pidcock, Anna Pirani, Elvira Poloczanska, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Aromar Revi, Keywan Riahi, Debra C. Roberts, Joeri Rogelj, Joyashree Roy, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Priyadarshi R. Shukla, James Skea, Raphael Slade, Drew Shindell, Chandni Singh, William Solecki, Linda Steg, Michael Taylor, Petra Tschakert, Henri Waisman, Rachel Warren, Panmao Zhai, Kirsten Zickfeld
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This IPCC special report explores the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. Read More →

Future Changes in Event Attribution Methodologies

January 2018
Peter A. Stott, Nikos Christidis, Stephanie C. Herring, Andrew Hoell, James P. Kossin, Carl J. Schreck III
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This report covers a range of events, including rain storms, droughts, tropical storms, and wildfires, as well as heat waves. Read More →

Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective

January 2018
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events, presenting peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather events across the world in 2018. Read More →

Assessing direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases in road transportation, taking into account the role of uncertainty in the emissions inventory

December 2017
Alessandra La Notte, Stefania Tonin, Greti Lucaroni
Elsevier
This paper considers how to reduce uncertainty in estimating GHG emissions from road transportation, with specific reference to a regional emissions inventory in Italy.Read More →

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