Global Archives - Page 2 of 26 - Climate Attribution

Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Giguere, Otto, Tannenbaum, Vahlberg, et al.

Publisher:Climate Central, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, World Weather Attribution

This report assesses the influence that climate change has had on heat waves from May 1, 2024 to May 1, 2025, finding that human-driven climate change is making heat events longer and more likely.Read More →

Heat Action Day Report: Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Otto Giguere et al.

Publisher:Worldwide Weather Attribution

This study finds that, over the past 12 months, 4 billion people experienced at least 30 extra days with extreme heat and climate change made extreme heat days at least twice as likely.Read More →

Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Sifang Feng, Jakob Zscheischler, Zengchao Hao & Emanuele Bevacqua

Publisher:Nature - NPJ Climate Action

This peer-reviewd study examines the causal links between human induced climate change and wildfires, finding that warming increased the probability of wildfires by ~5%/decade between 2002-2015. Read More →

Irreversible Glacier Change and Trough Water for Centuries after Overshooting 1.5°C

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Lilian Schuster et al.

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This study examines the impact of exceeding 1.5°C of global warming on mountain glaciers, sea levels, and water availability.Read More →

Granger causal inference for climate change attribution

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Mark D Risser, Mohammed Ombadi and Michael F Wehner

Publisher:Environmental Research: Climate

This peer-reviewed study evaluates the usefulness of different attribution analysis techniques, finding that Granger causation can be particularly helpful in certain circumstances, including rapid attribution analysis.Read More →

Risks of Unavoidable Impacts on Forests at 1.5 °C with and without Overshoot

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Gregory Munday et al.

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This study examines the risk of irreversible impacts to forests under different warming scenarios.Read More →

Globally Increased Cropland Soil Exposure to Climate Extremes in Recent Decades

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Luwei Feng et al.

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study analyzes soil quality and soil degradation in areas with higher vulnerability to climate extremes.Read More →

High-Income Groups Disproportionately Contribute to Climate Extremes Worldwide

Published:May 2025

Author(s):Sarah Schöngart, Zebedee Nicholls, Roman Hoffmann, Setu Pelz, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This study finds that two-thirds of global warming is attributable to the GHG emissions of the wealthiest 10% of people. Read More →

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability

Published:April 2025

Author(s):Christopher W. Callahan, Justin S. Mankin

Publisher:Nature

This peer-reviewed article outlines a transparent, reproducible and flexible framework to formalize how end-to-end attribution could inform litigation by assessing whose emissions are responsible for which harms.Read More →

Temperature Thresholds Induce Abrupt Shifts in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Montane Ecosystems Worldwide

Published:April 2025

Author(s):Xiao-Min Zeng, Miguel Berdugo, Tadeo Saez-Sandino, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

Publisher:PNAS

This study finds that biodiversity and ecosystem services have abrupt responses to local temperature variation, which highlights the sensitivity of montane ecosystems to climate change.Read More →