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LEGAL RESOURCE – Expert Report of Prof. Will Steffan – Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning

Published:June 2018

Author(s):Will Steffan

Publisher:Legal Document - Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning

In this expert report, submitted in support of the New South Wales' Minister for Planning's denial of a coal mine permit, Professor Will Steffan assesses the impact of emissions from Australia's coal mining sector on global climate change.Read More →

Early 21st century anthropogenic changes in extremely hot days as simulated by the C20C+ detection and attribution multi-model ensemble

Published:June 2018

Author(s):Michael Wehner, Dáithí Stone, Hideo Shiogama, Piotr Wolski, Andrew Ciavarella, Nikolaos Christidis, Harinarayan Krishnan

Publisher:Elsevier

We find that most regions experience increases in the frequency and intensity of extremely hot three day periods due to anthropogenic climate change.Read More →

Hurricane Harvey Links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation

Published:May 2018

Author(s):Kevin E. Trenberth, Lijing Cheng, Peter Jacobs, Yongxin Zhang, John Fasullo

Publisher:Earth's Future

This article uses ocean and atmosphere observations to demonstrate links between increased upper ocean heat content due to global warming with the extreme rainfalls from recent hurricanes.Read More →

Quantitative attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall in Texas

Published:April 2018

Author(s):S-Y Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, Robert R Gillies

Publisher:IOPscience

The 60 member ensemble simulations suggest that post-1980 climate warming could have contributed to the extreme precipitation that fell on southeast Texas during 26–29 August 2017 by approximately 20%.Read More →

Quantitative Attribution of Climate Effects on Hurricane Harvey’s Extreme Rainfall in Texas

Published:April 2018

Author(s):S-Y Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, Robert R Gillies

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study suggests that post-1980 climate warming could have contributed to the extreme precipitation of Hurricane Harvey. Read More →

Extreme Weather Event Attribution Science and Climate Change Litigation: An Essential Step in the Causal Chain?

Published:April 2018

Author(s):Sophie Marjanac, Lindene Patton

Publisher:Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law

This article explores the discipline of event attribution science to lawyers, discusses some technical issues related to the use of this evidence in court, and makes some suggestions regarding the types of ‘climate change’ cases it may influence. Read More →

Quantifying statistical uncertainty in the attribution of human influence on severe weather

Published:April 2018

Author(s):Christopher J.Paciorek, Dáithí A.Stone, Michael F.Wehner

Publisher:Elsevier

The authors present a new statistical framework for quantifying the effect of sampling uncertainty on estimation of the risk ratio and propose the use of statistical methods that are new to climate event attribution.Read More →

Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard

Published:April 2018

Author(s):Emerson Pontes-da-Silva, William E. Magnuson, Barry Sinervo, Gabriel H. Caetano, Donald B. Miles, Guarino R. Colli, Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, Jessica Fenker, Juan C. Santos, Fernanda P. Werneck

Publisher:Journal of Thermal Biology

The study's results support the hypothesis that tropical-lizard taxa are at high risk of local extinction caused by increasing temperatures.Read More →

Introduction to Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 From a Climate Perspective

Published:March 2018

Author(s):Stephanie C. Herring, Nikolaos Christidis, Andrew Hoell, James P. Kossin, Carl J. Schreck, III, Peter A. Stott

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This 2016 BAMS report explains extreme events in 2016 from a climate perspective and is the first BAMS report to find that some extreme events were not possible in a preindustrial climate.Read More →

Climate Change Increased the Likelihood of the 2016 Heat Extremes in Asia

Published:March 2018

Author(s):Yukiko Imada, Hideo Shiogama, Chiharu Takahashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Masato Mori, Youichi Kamae, Shuhei Maeda

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This article describes how the 2016 extreme warmth across Asia would not have been possible without climate change, and how the 2015/16 El Niño also contributed to regional warm extremes over Southeast Asia and the Maritime Continent.Read More →

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