Climate Attribution

Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

August 2022
Camilo Mora, Tristan McKenzie, Isabella M. Gaw, Jacqueline M. Dean, Hannah von Hammerstein, Tabatha A. Knudson, Renee O. Setter, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kira M. Webster, Jonathan A. Patz & Erik C. Franklin
Nature Climate Change
This study is a systematic search for empirical examples about the impacts of ten climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions on each known human pathogenic disease.Read More →

National attribution of historical climate damages

July 2022
Christopher W. Callahan & Justin S. Mankin
Climatic Change
This study combines historical data with climate models in an integrated framework to quantify each nation’s culpability for historical temperature-driven income changes in every other country.Read More →

A multi-method framework for global real-time climate attribution

June 2022
Daniel M. Gilford, Andrew Pershing, Benjamin H. Strauss, Karsten Haustein, and Friederike E. L. Otto
Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
This study introduces a new framework to enable the production and communication of global real-time estimates of how human-driven climate change has changed the likelihood of daily weather events.Read More →

Extreme Weather Impacts of Climate Change: An Attribution Perspective

June 2022
Ben Clarke, Friederike Otto, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Luke Harrington
Environmental Research: Climate
This review highlights the significant role of extreme event attribution in understanding the specific contributions of climate change. It emphasizes the need for improved methodologies to better capture and attribute these events' impacts globally.Read More →

Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally

May 2022
Kelton Minor, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sigga Svala Jonasdottir, Sune Lehmann, Nick Obradovich
OneEarth
This study finds that increased temperature shortens sleep primarily through delayed onset, increasing the probability of insufficient sleep, and that those in hotter regions experience comparably more sleep loss per degree of warming.Read More →

Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C

May 2022
Kelly Trout, Greg Muttitt, Dimitri Lafleur, Thijs Van de Graaf, Roman Mendelevitch, Lan Mei, and Malte Meinshausen
Environmental Research Letters
This study conducts the first bottom-up assessment of committed CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-producing infrastructure, defined as existing and under-construction oil and gas fields and coal mines.Read More →