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Likelihood of Cape Town water crisis tripled by climate change

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Friederike E. L. Otto, Piotr Wolski, Flavio Lehner, Claudia Tebaldi, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sanne Hogesteeger, Roop Singh, Petra Holden, Neven S. Fučkar, Romaric C. Odoulami, Mark New

Publisher:World Weather Attribution

In this update posted to World Weather Attribution, scientists shared findings that climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of a "day zero" drought in Cape Town.Read More →

Red-hot Planet: All-time heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Jason Samenow

Publisher:The Washington Post

This article describes the all-time record-setting heat wave in the Northern Hemisphere in summer 2018 and cautions that these heat records are consistent with the extremes scientists expect to see in a warming world. Read More →

How to include the impact of climate change in the extinction risk assessment of policy plant species?

Published:July 2018

Author(s):Fabio Attorre, Thomas Abeli, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Alessio Farcomeni, Giuseppe Fenu, Michele de Sanctis, Domenico Gargano, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Chiara Montagnani, Graziano Rossi, Fabio Conti, Simone Orsenigo

Publisher:Journal for Nature Conservation

This study presents an approach in which the effect of climate change on plant species spatial distribution is used to prioritize conservation within IUCN categories.Read More →

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 →

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