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Forcing of Multiyear Extreme Ocean Temperatures that Impacted California Current Living Marine Resources in 2016

January 2008
Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Nathan J. Mantua, James D. Scott, Gaelle Hervieux, Robert S. Webb, Francisco E. Werner
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Significant impacts on California Current living marine resources in 2016 resulted from sustained extremely high ocean temperatures forced by a confluence of natural drivers and likely exacerbated by anthropogenic warming.Read More →

Bali Action Plan

December 2007
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Bali Action Plan outlines mitigation and adaptation goals to combat climate change. This Plan came out of COP13.Read More →

Climate Change, Elevational Range Shifts, and Bird Extinctions

December 2007
Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Stephen H. Schneider, John P. Fay, Scott R. Loarie
Society for Conservation Biology
Using elevational limits in a tested, standardized, and robust manner can improve conservation assessments of terrestrial species and will help identify species that are most vulnerable to global climate change. Read More →

How Unusual Was Autumn 2006 in Europe?

November 2007
G. J. van Oldenborgh
Climate of the Past
This study analyzes the record high temperatures in large parts of Europe in the autumn of 2006 and the implications for the accuracy of climate models, which well underestimated the observed mean rise in autumn temperatures. Read More →

IPCC AR4 Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report

November 2007
Lenny Bernstein, Peter Bosch, Osvaldo Canziani, Zhenlin Chen, Renate Christ, Ogunlade Davidson, William Hare, Saleemul Huq, David Karoly, Vladimir Kattsov, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Jian Liu, Ulrike Lohmann, Martin Manning, Taroh Matsuno, Bettina Menne, Bert Metz, Monirul Mirza, Neville Nicholls, Leonard Nurse, Rajendra Pachauri, Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Dahe Qin, Nijavalli Ravindranath, Andy Reisinger, Jiawen Ren, Keywan Riahi, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Matilde Rusticucci, Stephen Schneider, Youba Sokona, Susan Solomon, Peter Stott, Ronald Stouffer, Taishi Sugiyama, Rob Swart, Dennis Tirpak, Coleen Vogel, Gary Yohe
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups (WGs) of the IPCC and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Read More →

Differentiating (Historic) Responsibilities for Climate Change

October 2007
Benito Müller, Niklas Höhne, Christian Ellermanm
Oxford Climate Policy
The report recognizes two distinct kinds of responsibility--strict (or unlimited) responsibility, and limited responsibility--which are based on cumulative historic emissions of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O. Read More →

Climate Change Justice

August 2007
Eric A. Posner, Cass R. Sunstein
John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 354
This article grapples with the responsibility of the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and considers how climate change will impact the U.S., compared to how it will impact other countries. Read More →

Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends

July 2007
Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, F. Hugo Lambert, Nathan P. Gillett, Susan Solomon, Peter A. Stott & Toru Nozawa
Nature
This study shows that anthropogenic forcing has had a detectable influence on observed changes in average precipitation within latitudinal bands, and that these changes cannot be explained by internal climate variability or natural forcing.Read More →