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Press Release: 16 Million Children Affected by Massive Flooding in South Asia, with Millions More at Risk

Published:September 2020

Author(s):United Nations International Children's Fund

Publisher:United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF)

This article describes how monsoon rains and catastrophic flooding in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh left 16 million children and their families were in urgent need of life-saving support. Read More →

Attribution of the July 2016 Extreme Precipitation Event Over China’s Wuhang

Published:January 2018

Author(s):Chunlüe Zhou, Kaicun Wang, Dan Qi

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Human-induced warming and El Niño may have substantially increased the probability of the occurrence of such events as the July 2016 extreme precipitation over China’s Wuhan.Read More →

Extreme Rainfall (R20mm, RX5day) in Yangtze–Huai, China, in June–July 2016: The Role of ENSO and Anthropogenic Climate Change

Published:January 2018

Author(s):Qiaohong Sun, Chiyuan Miao

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Both the 2015/16 strong El Niño and anthropogenic factors contributed to the June–July 2016 extreme precipitation (R20mm, RX5day) in Yangtze–Huai, China. Combined, they increased the risk of the event tenfold.Read More →

The Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity in India and Pakistan in Summer 2015

Published:January 2017

Author(s):Michael Wehner, Dáithí Stone, Hari Krishnan, Krishna AchutaRao, Federico Castillo

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This article finds that the deadly heat waves in India and Pakistan in 2015 were exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, though the events themselves were not connected to each other. Read More →

The Impact of Powder River Basin Coal Exports on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Published:May 2013

Author(s):Thomas Michael Power, Donovan S. Power

Publisher:The Energy Foundation

This report details and responds to the arguments that there will be no net increase in global GHG emissions as a result of the expansion of PRB coal mining and the construction of rail and port infrastructure on the West Coast.Read More →

The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods

Published:July 2012

Author(s):Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, Stephanie Herring

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Using a variety of methodologies, six extreme events of the previous year are explained from a climate perspective.Read More →

Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring

Published:May 2012

Author(s):Troy Sternberg

Publisher:Applied Geography

Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices, resulting in price spikes with economic impacts in Egypt, where bread prices tripled. Read More →

Impact of Growing Season Temperature on Wheat Productivity in China

Published:June 2009

Author(s):LiangzhiYou, Mark W.Rosegrant, StanleyWood, DongshengSun

Publisher:Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

This article emphasizes the necessity of including such major influencing factors as physical inputs into the crop yield-climate function in order to have an accurate estimation of climate impact on crop yields.Read More →