Changes in the geopotential height at 500 hPa under the influence of external climatic forcings
A significant global increase in the annual and seasonal mean geopotential height due to human influence is detected.Read More →
Climate Change Effects on Heat- and Cold-Related Mortality in the Netherlands: A Scenario-Based Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment
This article explores the impacts of climate change on heat and cold-related mortality, illustrating that model outcomes are not only highly dependent on climate scenarios, but also on adaptation assumptions. Read More →
The Timing of Anthropogenic Emergence in Simulated Climate Extremes
This study uses climate models to demonstrate that temperature extremes generally emerge slightly later from their quasi-natural climate state than seasonal means.Read More →
Quantifying Historical Carbon and Climate Debts Among Nations
This study explores countries' varied levels of responsibility for climate change by examining historical carbon emissions. Read More →
Distributive Fairness: A Mutual Recognition Approach
This article "translates" the UNFCCC principles of responsibilities and capabilities into 15 allocation schemes and explores the implications of these schemes for the mitigation obligations and costs of seven potentially pivotal actors. Read More →
Climate and Conflict
This paper reviews the emerging literature on climate and conflict and finds that conflict increases with temperature.Read More →
Attribution of Extreme Climate Events
This article suggests that it is more useful to regard extreme weather events as being largely unaffected by climate change, and questions whether known changes in the climate system's thermodynamic state affected the impact of the particular event. Read More →
Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in Final Demand and Trade Using the OECD ICIO 2015
This paper explores estimates of CO2 emissions embodied in final demand since the early 1990s as a contribution to a better understanding of how CO2 world are driven by global consumption patterns.Read More →
Effects of Climate Extremes on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Concepts, Processes, and Potential Future Impacts
This paper reviews the literature on carbon cycle relevant responses of ecosystems to extreme climatic events, finding that ecosystem responses can exceed the duration of the climate impacts via lagged effects on the carbon cycle. Read More →
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2014
This Synthesis Report is based on the reports of the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Read More →