Climate Change Justice
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 →
IPCC AR4 WGIII Report Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change
The Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) focuses on recently published literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic, and social aspects of mitigation of climate change.Read More →
IPCC AR4 WGII Report Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
This report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change, the vulnerability of natural and human environments, and the potential for response through adaptation.Read More →
Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming
This study shows that simple measures of growing season temperatures and precipitation explain variations in global average yields for the world’s six most widely grown crops, and that climate change negatively impacts crop yield. Read More →
IPCC AR4 WGI Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding the drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. Read More →
Climate Agreements Based on Responsibility for Global Warming: Periodic Updating, Policy Choices, and Regional Costs
This article explores regional mitigation costs resulting from global allocation schemes based on the Brazilian Proposal, and assess policy options available for calculating historical responsibility. Read More →
Navigating the Numbers: Greenhouse Gas Data and International Climate Policy
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's greenhouse gas emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change.Read More →
Human-Modified Temperatures Induce Species Changes: Joint Attribution
This study demonstrates “joint attribution,” a two-step linkage: human activities contribute significantly to temperature changes and human-changed temperatures are associated with discernible changes in plant and animal traits. Read More →
Ethics and Global Climate Change
This article argues that climate change is an issue that should be of serious concern to both moral philosophers and humanity at large.Read More →
Detection of Human Influence on Sea-level Pressure
This study found increases in sea-level pressure due to human activity and observed that climate models underestimate the magnitude of the sea-level pressure response, leading to an underestimation of the climate impacts on the European climate.
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