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The Decade of Attribution Science

December 2019
Jane C. Hu
Slate
This article provides an introduction to attribution science, exploring how climate change's role in extreme weather events and how the new field is shaping policy and litigation attempting to deal with climate change.Read More →

Limiting global warming to 1.5º C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change

November 2019
Hideo Shiogama, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Daisuke Murakami, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Katsumasa Tanaka, Seita Emori, Izumi Kubota, Manabu Abe, Yukiko Imada, Masahiro Watanabe, Daniel Mitchell, Nathalie Schaller, Jana Sillmann, Erich Fischer, John Scinocca, Ingo Bethke, Ludwig Lierhammer, Jun'ya Takakura, Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll, Sebastian Ostberg, Hannes Schmeid, Fahad Saeed, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Environmental Research Letters
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and socioeconomic indexes to predict the impact of extreme events under 1.5º C and 2º C of warming, especially their impact on least developed countries.Read More →

Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

November 2019
Frédérik Saltré, Joël Chadoeuf, Katharina J. Peters, Matthew C. McDowell, Tobias Friedrich, Axel Timmermann, Sean Ulm & Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Nature Communications
This study develops a statistical approach to infer spatio-temporal trajectories of megafauna extirpations (local extinctions) and initial human appearance in south-eastern Australia.Read More →

Attributing long-term sea-level rise to Paris Agreement emission pledges

November 2019
Alexander Nauels, Johannes Gütschow, Matthias Mengel, Malte Meinshausen, Peter U. Clark, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
PNAS
This study uses GMSLR modeling that can handle emission scenarios flexibly to establish the link between pledged NDC emissions and GMSLR until 2300, thus highlighting the longer-term climate change implications of current climate mitigation efforts.Read More →

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment Part I: Detection and Attribution

October 2019
Thomas Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo, Johnny C. L. Chan, Kerry Emanuel, Chang-Hoi Ho, James Kossin, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Masaki Satoh, Masato Sugi, Kevin Walsh, Liguang Wu
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This paper reviews the detection and attribution of changes in tropical cyclone activity due to climate change. It examines how developments in science have advanced understanding of tropical cyclone activity under changing climatic conditions. Read More →

Climate Justice on a Carbon Budget

September 2019
Catriona McKinnon
Climatic Change
This article argues that carbon budgets present consequences for the ethics of climate change and delves into such consequences. Read More →

Facts and Statistics: Wildfires

August 2019
Insurance Information Institute
Insurance Information Institute
This online resource provides a comprehensive overview of wildfires in the United States, including the documentation of the most destructive fires by year and graphics analyzing the impact that wildfires have on a state and national level. Read More →

Severe Continental-Scale Impacts of Climate Change Are Happening Now: Extreme Climate Events Impact Marine Habitat Forming Communities Along 45% of Australia’s Coast

July 2019
Russell C. Babcock, Rodrigo H. Bustamante, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Derek J. Fulton, Michael D. E. Haywood, Alistair James Hobday, Robert Kenyon, Richard James Matear, Eva E. Plagányi, Anthony J. Richardson, Mathew A. Vanderklift
Frontiers in Marine Science
This article provides an analysis of the impacts of climate events on marine habitats.Read More →