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Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability

Published:April 2012

Author(s):Booth, B.B., Dunstone, N.J., Halloran, P.R., Andrews, T. and Bellouin, N

Publisher:Nature

This paper uses a state-of-the-art Earth system climate model to show that aerosol emissions and periods of volcanic activity explain 76 per cent of the simulated multidecadal variance in detrended 1860–2005 North Atlantic sea surface temperatures. Read More →

A Decade of Weather Extremes

Published:March 2012

Author(s):Dim Coumou, Stefan Rahmstorf

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This article reviews the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme--notably heatwaves, but also precipitation extremes--there is now strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate.Read More →

Report of Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tools for Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

Published:February 2012

Author(s): Denef, K., K. Paustian, S. Archibeque, S. Biggar, D. Pape

Publisher:USDA

This report provides an overview of publicly accessible tools (calculators, protocols, guidelines and models) for quantifying GHG emissions/offsets from agricultural and forestry activities, with a focus on farm/entity/project-level GHG accounting. Read More →

On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

Published:January 2012

Author(s):Mark C. Urban, Josh J. Tewksbury and Kimberly S. Sheldon

Publisher:The Royal Society Publishing

This study develops a model of multiple competing species along a warming climatic gradient that includes temperature-dependent competition, differences in niche breadth and interspecific differences in dispersal ability.Read More →

Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review

Published:January 2012

Author(s):Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian

Publisher:The World Bank

This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences—in terms of future emissions allocations—of different approaches to equity. Read More →

Patterns of Change: Whose Fingerprint Is Seen in Global Warming?

Published:December 2011

Author(s):Gabriele Hegerl, Francis Zwiers, Claudia Tebaldi

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This article explores the physical arguments used in climate change attribution, and the statistical methods applied to explore the extent of attribution in recent climate records. Read More →

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Agriculture and Forestry: A Review of Emission Sources, Controlling Factors, and Mitigation Potential

Published:December 2011

Author(s):Denef, K., S. Archibeque, and K. Paustian

Publisher:USDA

This report presents the current state of the science regarding controlling factors and mitigation technologies for GHG emissions in U.S. agriculture and forestry, along with a summary of reported C sequestration and GHG emission reduction ranges. Read More →

Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World

Published:November 2011

Author(s):Stefan Rahmstorf, Dim Coumou

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

This study develops a theoretical approach to quantify the effect of long-term trends on the expected number of extremes, finding that climatic warming increases the number of extreme events and the number of new global-mean temperature records. Read More →

The Supply Chain of CO2 Emissions

Published:September 2011

Author(s):Steven J. Davis, Glen P. Peters, Ken Caldeira

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This paper presents a consistent set of carbon inventories that reveal vulnerabilities and benefits related to current patterns of energy use that are relevant to climate and energy policy. Read More →

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

Published:August 2011

Author(s):I-Ching Chen, Jane K. Hill, Ralf Ohlemüller, David B. Roy, Chris D. Thomas

Publisher:Science

Using a meta-analysis, this paper estimates that the distributions of species have recently shifted to higher elevations at a median rate of 11.0 meters per decade, and to higher latitudes at a median rate of 16.9 kilometers per decade.Read More →

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