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COLE – Carbon Online Estimator

Published:October 2020

Author(s):United States Department of Agriculture

COLE is a program that draws from US Forest Service FIA Data and allows users to generate estimates for forest carbon inventory and carbon growth-and-yield curves within a user-defined region of the continental United States or Alaska. Read More →

Combined Impacts of Warm Central Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures and Anthropogenic Warming on the 2019 Severe Drought in East China

Published:October 2020

Author(s):Shuangmei Ma, Congwen Zhu, Juan Liu

Publisher:Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Warm central equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature and anthropogenic warming were possibly responsible for the severe drought that occurred in East China from August to October 2019. Read More →

Challenges to Understanding Extreme Weather Changes in Lower Income Countries

Published:October 2020

Author(s):Friederike E. L. Otto, Luke Harrington, Katharina Schmitt, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Roop Singh, Joyce Kimutai, and Piotr Wolski

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

This article outlines six focus areas to lessen barriers to understanding extreme weather changes in lower income countries.Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Supporting Technical Report of Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre – Institute of Amazonian Studies v. Brazil

Published:September 2020

Author(s):Carlos Afonso Nobre

Publisher:Legal Document - Institute of Amazonian Studies v. Brazil

This Expert Report filed by plaintiffs in a Brazilian Federal District Court assesses the impact of Amazon deforestation on global climate change, and on climate change impacts in Brazil.Read More →

Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic

Published:September 2020

Author(s):Laura Landrum, Marika M. Holland

Publisher:Nature

This study shows how the Arctic is transitioning from a dominantly frozen state.Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Independent Expert Report of Dr. Karl Mallon – Sharma & Others v. Minister for the Environment

Published:September 2020

Author(s):Karl Mallon

Publisher:Legal Document - Sharma & Others v. Minister for the Environment

This Independent Expert Report, submitted in Sharma v. Minister for the Environment, assesses the foreseeable future impacts of a new coal mine in Australia on people in Australia between the ages of zero and 18 in the year 2020.Read More →

Extreme heat and stock market activity

Published:September 2020

Author(s):Jonathan Peillex, Imane El Ouadghiri, Mathieu Gomes, Jamil Jaballah

Publisher:Elsevier

Empirical analyses show that, on average, trading volumes fall significantly (between 4% and 10%) when maximum daily temperatures exceed 30 °C (86 °F).Read More →

Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary

Published:September 2020

Author(s):Jason Hickel

Publisher:Elsevier

This analysis proposes a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate changeRead More →

The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

Published:September 2020

Author(s):D.S. Lee, D.W. Fahey, A. Skowron, M.R. Allen, U. Burkhardt, Q. Chen, S.J. Doherty, S. Freeman, P.M. Forster, J. Fuglestvedt, A. Gettelman, R.R. De León, L.L. Lim, M.T. Lund, R.J. Millar, B. Owen, J.E. Penner, G. Pitari, M.J. Prather, R. Sausen, L.J. Wilcox,

Publisher:Atmospheric Environment

Global aviation contributes a few percent to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Comprehensive and quantitative calculations of aviation effects are presented.Read More →

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 →

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