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Detection and Attribution of Trends of Meteorological Extremes in Central America

April 2025
H. G. Hidalgo et al.
Climatic Change
This study examines whether extreme rainfall and temperature indices are associated with human-driven climate change or could be explained by natural causes.Read More →

Decreased Likelihood of Schooling as a Consequence of Tropical Cyclones: Evidence from 13 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

April 2025
Renzhi Jing, Sam Heft-Neal, Zetianyu Wang, Eran Bendavid
PNAS
This study assesses the impact of tropical cyclones on educational attainment using data from 5.4 million individuals in 13 countries. It emphasizes the need to protect schooling in the face of increasingly severe tropical cyclones.Read More →

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability

April 2025
Christopher W. Callahan, Justin S. Mankin
Nature
This peer-reviewed article outlines a transparent, reproducible and flexible framework to formalize how end-to-end attribution could inform litigation by assessing whose emissions are responsible for which harms.Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Expert Report of Daniel Swain, County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

April 2025
Daniel Swain
Legal Document – County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
In this expert report, filed by plaintiffs in "County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.," the author provides expert testimony on evidence that human-driven climate change influenced extreme weather events in Oregon.Read More →

Global Warming Drives a Threefold Increase in Persistence and 1°C Rise in Intensity of Marine Heatwaves

April 2025
Marta Marcos, Angel Amores, Miguel Agulles, Xiangbo Feng
PNAS
This study provides a quantitative assessment of global warming's impact on marine heatwaves and concludes that global warming has contributed to both the increased frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves.Read More →

Temperature Thresholds Induce Abrupt Shifts in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Montane Ecosystems Worldwide

April 2025
Xiao-Min Zeng, Miguel Berdugo, Tadeo Saez-Sandino, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
PNAS
This study finds that biodiversity and ecosystem services have abrupt responses to local temperature variation, which highlights the sensitivity of montane ecosystems to climate change.Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Expert Report of Richard Heede, County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

April 2025
Richard Heede
Legal Document – County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
In this expert report, filed by plaintiffs in "County of Multnomah v. Exxon Mobil Corp.," the author provides expert testimony regarding the results of a source attribution study on several fossil fuel and related companies.Read More →

People Exposed to Climate Change: December 2024-February 2025

March 2025
Raina DeFonza et al.
Climate Central
This report analyzes the influence of climate change on global temperatures between December 2024-February 2025 using Climate Central's Climate Shift Index (CSI)Read More →

Estimating the Sea Level Rise Responsibility of Industrial Carbon Producers

March 2025
Shaina Sadai et al.
Environmental Research Letters
This study attributes up to 58% of surface air temperature rise and up to 37% of observed global mean sea level rise to the 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers.Read More →

Attributing Global Impacts of Local Extremes to Climate Change for Improving Loss and Damage Estimates

March 2025
Camille J Mora et al.
Environmental Research Letters
This study addresses methodologies in attribution science to estimate loss and damages attributed to a climate change-driven extreme event.Read More →

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