Climate Attribution

Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World

November 2011
Stefan Rahmstorf, Dim Coumou
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
This study develops a theoretical approach to quantify the effect of long-term trends on the expected number of extremes, finding that climatic warming increases the number of extreme events and the number of new global-mean temperature records. Read More →

The Supply Chain of CO2 Emissions

September 2011
Steven J. Davis, Glen P. Peters, Ken Caldeira
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This paper presents a consistent set of carbon inventories that reveal vulnerabilities and benefits related to current patterns of energy use that are relevant to climate and energy policy. Read More →

Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008

May 2011
Glen P. Peters, Jan C. Minx, Christopher L. Weber, and Ottmar Edenhofer
PNAS
This study explores the growth in emission transfers via international trade and suggests that countries monitor emission transfers via international trade, in addition to territorial emissions, to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions. Read More →

Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980

May 2011
David B. Lobell, Wolfram Schlenker, Justin Costa-Roberts
Sciencexpress
This study highlights that that in the cropping regions and growing seasons of most countries, with the important exception of the United States, temperature trends for 1980-2008 exceeded one standard deviation of historic year-to-year variability.Read More →

The Supply Chain of CO2 Emissions

January 2011
Steven Joseph Davis, Glen P. Peters, Ken Caldeira
PNAS
This study presents a consistent set of carbon inventories that spans the full supply chain of global CO2 emissions and reveals vulnerabilities and benefits related to current patterns of energy use relevant to climate and energy policy. Read More →

Specific Climate Impact of Passenger and Freight Transport

July 2010
Jens Borken-Kleefeld, Terje Berntsen, and Jan Fuglestvedt
Environmental Science and Technology
This peer-reviewed study uses global climate models to determine the net climate impact of various modes of transportation. Climate impact of transportation can vary over time because of competing cooling and warming effects. Read More →

Consumption-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions

March 2010
Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America
This paper presents a global consumption-based CO2 emissions inventory and calculations of associated consumption-based energy and carbon intensities.Read More →

Climate Change Epidemiology: Methodological Challenges

November 2009
Wei W. Xun, Aneire E. Khan, Edwin Michael, Paolo Vineis
International Journal of Public Health
This article reviews a number of challenges that climate change presents to epidemiology, including topics such as exposure assessment, bias, confounding, causal complexities, and uncertainties. Read More →