Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
Using a global dataset spanning 1979–2016, the authors show agricultural losses from past heat waves are up to an order of magnitude larger than suggested by standard approaches.Read More →
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
Long-term pollen data from 60 North American stations and Earth system model simulations quantify the role of human-caused climate change in continental patterns in pollen concentrations.Read More →
Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought
The authors conclude that continued global warming may further increase drought extents, requiring adaptation of regional drought management strategies.Read More →
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat
The retreat of Palcaraju glacier cannot be explained by natural variability alone, as human-induced warming equals between 85 and 105% (5–95% confidence interval) of the observed 1 °C warming in this region.Read More →
Nonlinear influence of urbanization on China’s urban residential building carbon emissions: New evidence from panel threshold model
This study explores the dynamic influence mechanism of the urbanization on urban residential building CO2 emissions.Read More →
Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1
The authors quantify and analyse a wide range of present-day anthropogenic effective radiative forcings with the UK's Earth System Model, UKESM1.Read More →
Extreme Climate and Absence from Work: Evidence from Jamaica
This study investigated the impact of extreme climate events on work absence in Jamaica.Read More →
Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
The number of coronaviruses in an area is strongly correlated with local bat species richness, which in turn is affected by climatic conditions. Climate change may have played a key role in the evolution or transmission of the two SARS CoVs.Read More →
Earth’s Ice Imbalance
Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, and the rate of ice loss has risen by 57 % since the 1990s.Read More →
An Initialized Attribution Method for Extreme Events on Subseasonal to Seasonal Time Scales
This paper describes a method to attribute extreme weather and climate events to observed increases in atmospheric CO2 using an initialized subseasonal to seasonal coupled global climate prediction system.Read More →