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Attributable Damage Liability in a Non-Linear Climate

February 2019
Luke J. Harrington, and Friederike EL Otto
Climatic Change
Emerging trends in different categories of climate change litigation suggest that the role of science will will only become more important in the future.Read More →

The Role of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change in the 2017/18 Tasman Sea Marine Heatwave

February 2019
S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, A. D. King; E. A. Cougnon, N. J. Holbrook, M. R. Grose, E. C. J. Oliver, S. C. Lewis, F. Pourasghar
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This article describes the record sea surface temperatures during the 2017/18 Tasman Sea marine heatwave and how climate models indicate that they were virtually impossible without anthropogenic influence. Read More →

Accelerating Changes in Ice Mass Within Greenland, and the Ice Sheet’s Sensitivity to Atmospheric Forcing

February 2019
Michael Bevis, Christopher Harig, Shfaqat A. Khan, Abel Brown, Frederik J. Simons, Michael Willis, Xavier Fettweis, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Finn Bo Madsen, Eric Kendrick, Dana J. Caccamise II, Tonie van Dam, Per Knudsen, Thomas Nylen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
This study describes research in monitoring ice loss in Greenland due to oceanic and atmospheric forcings and predicts that continued atmospheric warming will lead to southwest Greenland becoming a major contributor to sea-level rise.Read More →

2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

January 2019
IEA, GlobalABC, UNEP
UNEP
This report provides an overview of the global buildings and construction sector. It discusses the trends in energy demand, the role of policy, technological advancements, and investment in shaping a sustainable future for the sector.Read More →

Climate Influence on Legacy Organochlorine Pollutants in Arctic Seabirds

January 2019
Karen Foster, Birgit Braune, Anthony Gaston, Mark Mallory
Environmental Science and Technology
This peer-reviewed study uses samples from the eggs of two arctic seabird species to show that climate change has caused higher concentrations of organochlorine pollutants in seabird species.Read More →

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

January 2019
Prof Walter Willett, MD Prof Johan Rockström, PhD Brent Loken, PhD Marco Springmann, PhD Prof Tim Lang, PhD Sonja Vermeulen, PhD Tara Garnett, PhD David Tilman, PhD Fabrice DeClerck, PhD Amanda Wood, PhD Malin Jonell, PhD Michael Clark, PhD Line J Gordon, PhD Jessica Fanzo, PhD Prof Corinna Hawkes, PhD Rami Zurayk, PhD Juan A Rivera, PhD Prof Wim De Vries, PhD Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, PhD Ashkan Afshin, MD Abhishek Chaudhary, PhD Mario Herrero, PhD Rina Agustina, MD Francesco Branca, MD Anna Lartey, PhD Shenggen Fan, PhD Beatrice Crona, PhD Elizabeth Fox, PhD Victoria Bignet, MSc Max Troell, PhD Therese Lindahl, PhD Sudhvir Singh, MBChB Sarah E Cornell, PhD Prof K Srinath Reddy, DM Sunita Narain, PhD Sania Nishtar, MD Prof Christopher J L Murray, MD
The Lancet
The EAT Lancet quantitatively describe a universal healthy reference diet to provide a basis for estimating the health and environmental effects of adopting an alternative diet to standard current diets, many of which are high in unhealthy foods. Read More →

How Fast Are the Oceans Warming?

January 2019
Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Zeke Hausfather, Kevin E. Trenberth
Science
This study presents observational records that show the rapid warming of the Earth’s oceans over the past few decades.Read More →

Deadly Weather: The Human Cost of 2018’s Climate Disasters — Visual Guide

December 2018
Daniel Levitt, Peter Andringa, Frank Hulley-Jones, Lydia Smears, Jonathan Watts
The Guardian
This article describes the climate disasters that the world experienced in 2018 by month, including extreme temperatures in Europe, drought in Argentina, flooding in India, and hurricanes and wildfires in the United States.Read More →

Even Heavier Weather

December 2018
Richard Black
Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit
This report shows that in 2018, scientists published at least 43 research papers looking at links between climate change and extreme weather events, of which 32 found that climate change made the events more likely or more intense.Read More →

The role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in Sahel drought and recovery

December 2018
Alessandra Giannini and Alexey Kaplan
Climatic Change/Springer
This is only one of a variety of peer-reviewed articles that expand on the role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in late 20th century Sahel drought. It makes a case for attribution by linking human emissions to the changes in sea surface temperaturesRead More →

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