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Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

August 2021
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC's most up-to-date report on physical understanding of the climate system, concluding unequivocally that human activity is driving climate change in every part of the world. Read More →

Enhanced Rare Earth Element Mobilization in a Mountain Watershed of the Colorado Mineral Belt with Concomitant Detection in Aquatic Biota: Increasing Climate Change-Driven Degradation to Water Quality

August 2021
Garrett P. Rue and Diane M. McKnight
Environmental Science and Technology
This study reports on climate change-driven water quality impacts in the Snake River watershed.Read More →

Climate change attribution and legal contexts: evidence and the role of storylines

August 2021
Elisabeth A. Lloyd & Theodore G. Shepherd
Climatic Change
This article assesses the storyline approach to attribution and argues that the storyline approach aligns well with the concept of legal evidence. Read More →

Legal Resource – Expert Report of Climatological Experts – The Planet v. Bolsonaro

August 2021
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Ben J. Clarke, Luke J. Harrington, Friederike E.L. Otto
Legal Document – The Planet v. Bolsonaro
In this expert report, filed by plaintiffs in "The Planet v. Bolsonaro," the authors provide expert testimony regarding the impact of deforestation in Brazil on climate change and global consequences. Read More →

Extreme Heat: The Economic and Social Consequences for the United States

August 2021
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Atlantic Council
This report quantifies the impacts of heat under current and future conditions.Read More →

Northern shrimp Pandalus borealis population collapse linked to climate-driven shifts in predator distribution

July 2021
R. Anne Richards and Margaret Hunter
PLOS One
This study links climate-driven shifts in longfin squid to the collapse of the northern shrimp population in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies

July 2021
Michael P. Moore, Kaitlyn Hersch, Chanont Sricharoen, Sarah Lee, Caitlin Reice, Paul Rice, Sophie Kronick, Kim A. Medley, and Kasey D. Fowler-Finn.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Dragonflies consistently adapt to warmer climates across space and time by evolving less male melanin ornamentation—a mating-related trait that also absorbs solar radiation and heats individuals above ambient temperatures.Read More →

Anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation over global land areas seen in multiple observational datasets

July 2021
Gavin D. Madakumbura, Chad W. Thackeray, Jesse Norris, Naomi Goldenson & Alex Hall
Nature Communications
Climate change is rendering hurricanes, monsoons and other extreme events more destructive all over the world. Read More →

Attribution of the Role of Climate Change in the Forest Fires in Sweden 2018

July 2021
Folmer Krikken, Flavio Lehner, Karsten Haustein, Igor Drobyshev, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
This study investigates the impact of climate change on forest fires in Sweden during the summer of 2018. The findings suggest a moderate increase in fire weather probability with a more robust increase projected under future warming scenarios.Read More →

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation

June 2021
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Friederike E. L. Otto, Aisha I. Saad, Gaia Lisi, Petra Minnerop, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Kristin van Zwieten & Thom Wetzer
Nature Climate Change
The evidence submitted and referenced in climate mitigation cases lags considerably behind the state of the art in climate science, impeding causation claims.Read More →

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