Climate Attribution

Bigger than Oil or Gas? Sizing Up Coal Mine Methane

March 2022
Ryan Driskell Tate
Global Energy Monitor
This report finds that coal mining emits 52.3 million tonnes of methane per year, rivaling oil (39 million tonnes) and gas (45 million tonnes), and comparable to the climate impact of the CO2 emissions of all coal plants in China.Read More →

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

February 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This report assesses the impacts of climate change and reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt.Read More →

Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863

February 2022
Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little, & Benjamin P. Horton
Nature Communications
This study shows that globally, it is very likely that rates of sea-level rise emerged above pre-industrial rates by 1863 CE, which is similar in timing to evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt.Read More →

Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches

February 2022
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
This report highlights the role of climate change and human influence in the changing wildfire regimes around the world, and the role of climate change in disrupting the life cycle patterns of plant and animal species.Read More →

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

February 2022
Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, Adam L. Mahood, Joseph McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau & A. Park Williams
Nature
This study predicts that continued night-time warming owing to anthropogenic climate change will promote more intense, longer-lasting and larger fires.Read More →

Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters

February 2022
Thomas Lauvaux, Clément Giron, Matthieu Mazzolini, Alexandre d'Aspremont, Riley Duren, Dan Cusworth, Drew Shindell, Philippe Ciais
Science
This study finds that ultra-emitters constituted 8 to 12% (~8 million metric tons of methane per year) of the global oil and gas production methane emissions.Read More →

Global Methane Tracker 2022

February 2022
International Energy Agency
International Energy Agency
The 2022 update of the IEA Global Methane Tracker provides a complete set of country-level estimates for methane emissions from the energy sector.Read More →