Climate Attribution

Incorporating Model Quality Information in Climate Change Detection and Attribution Studies

August 2009
B. D. Santer, K. E. Taylor, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, D. W. Pierce, T. M. L. Wigley, C. Mears, F. J. Wentz, W. Brüggemann, N. P. Gillett, S. A. Klein, S. Solomon, P. A. Stott, M. F. Wehner
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
This study examines whether water vapor detection and attribution results are sensitive to the quality of climate models, finding that estimates of an anthropogenic water vapor fingerprint are insensitive to current model uncertainties.Read More →

Climate Change and Human Health

June 2009
George Luber, PhD, and Natasha Prudent, MPH
Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association
Increased global temperatures and extreme weather events have led to human health problems. This paper stresses the need for public health strategies that incorporate climate mitigation efforts to manage the impacts of climate change effectively. Read More →

Prolonged Suppression of Ecosystem Carbon Dioxide Uptake After an Anomalously Warm Year

September 2008
John A. Arnone III, Paul S. J. Verburg, Dale W. Johnson, Jessica D. Larsen, Richard L. Jasoni, Annmarie J. Lucchesi, Candace M. Batts, Christopher von Nagy, William G. Coulombe, David E. Schorran, Paul E. Buck, Bobby H. Braswell, James S. Coleman, Rebecca A. Sherry, Linda L. Wallace, Yiqi Luo, David S. Schimel
Nature
This study suggests that more frequent anomalously warm years, a possible consequence of increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide levels, may lead to a sustained decrease in carbon dioxide uptake by terrestrial ecosystems.Read More →

Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate Change

May 2008
Cynthia Rosenzweig, David Karoly, Marta Vicarelli, Peter Neofotis, Qigang Wu, Gino Casassa, Annette Menzel, Terry L. Root, Nicole Estrella, Bernard Seguin, Piotr Tryjanowski, Chunzhen Liu, Samuel Rawlins, Anton Imeson
Nature
This article concludes that anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally and in some continents.Read More →

Bali Action Plan

December 2007
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Bali Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation goals to combat climate change. This Plan came out of COP13.Read More →

IPCC AR4 Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report

November 2007
Lenny Bernstein, Peter Bosch, Osvaldo Canziani, Zhenlin Chen, Renate Christ, Ogunlade Davidson, William Hare, Saleemul Huq, David Karoly, Vladimir Kattsov, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Jian Liu, Ulrike Lohmann, Martin Manning, Taroh Matsuno, Bettina Menne, Bert Metz, Monirul Mirza, Neville Nicholls, Leonard Nurse, Rajendra Pachauri, Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Dahe Qin, Nijavalli Ravindranath, Andy Reisinger, Jiawen Ren, Keywan Riahi, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Matilde Rusticucci, Stephen Schneider, Youba Sokona, Susan Solomon, Peter Stott, Ronald Stouffer, Taishi Sugiyama, Rob Swart, Dennis Tirpak, Coleen Vogel, Gary Yohe
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups (WGs) of the IPCC and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Read More →

Differentiating (Historic) Responsibilities for Climate Change

October 2007
Benito Müller, Niklas Höhne, Christian Ellermanm
Oxford Climate Policy
The report recognizes two distinct kinds of responsibility--strict (or unlimited) responsibility, and limited responsibility--which are based on cumulative historic emissions of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O. Read More →

Climate Change Justice

August 2007
Eric A. Posner, Cass R. Sunstein
John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 354
This article grapples with the responsibility of the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and considers how climate change will impact the U.S., compared to how it will impact other countries. Read More →