Attribution of Extreme Climate Events
This article proposes a mechanistic or "storyline" approach to extreme event attribution and evaluates several case studies (extreme snow, flooding, and storm events) using this approach.Read More →
Attribution of Extreme Climate Events
This article suggests that it is more useful to regard extreme weather events as being largely unaffected by climate change, and questions whether known changes in the climate system's thermodynamic state affected the impact of the particular event. Read More →
Attribution of the Record High Central England Temperature of 2014 to Anthropogenic Influences
This study points to a large influence of human activities on extreme warm years despite the small region of study and the variable climate of Central England, demonstrating that climate change is clearly visible on the local-scale in this case.Read More →
Accelerating extinction risk from climate change
This study synthesized published studies in order to estimate a global mean extinction rate and determine which factors contribute the greatest uncertainty to climate change–induced extinction risks.Read More →
Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in Final Demand and Trade Using the OECD ICIO 2015
This paper explores estimates of CO2 emissions embodied in final demand since the early 1990s as a contribution to a better understanding of how CO2 world are driven by global consumption patterns.Read More →
Anthropogenic Warming Has Increased Drought Risk in California
This study finds that precipitation deficits in California were more than twice as likely to yield drought years if they occurred when conditions were warm. Read More →
Effects of Climate Extremes on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Concepts, Processes, and Potential Future Impacts
This paper reviews the literature on carbon cycle relevant responses of ecosystems to extreme climatic events, finding that ecosystem responses can exceed the duration of the climate impacts via lagged effects on the carbon cycle. Read More →
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2014
This Synthesis Report is based on the reports of the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Read More →
Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming
This study proposes that the lightning flash rate is proportional to the convective available potential energy (CAPE) times the precipitation rate. Read More →
Climate change and conflict: Making sense of disparate findings
This editorial provides an analysis of research on climate, climate change, and conflict.Read More →