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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 →

IPCC AR4 WGIII Report Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change

May 2007
Terry Barker, Igor Bashmakov, Lenny Bernstein, Jean Bogner, Peter Bosch, Rutu Dave, Ogunlade Davidson, Brian Fisher, Michael Grubb, Sujata Gupta, Kirsten Halsnaes, BertJan Heij, Suzana Kahn Ribeiro, Shigeki Kobayashi, Mark Levine, Daniel Martino, Omar Masera Cerutti, Bert Metz, Leo Meyer, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Adil Najam, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Hans Holger Rogner, Joyashree Roy, Jayant Sathaye, Robert Schock, Priyaradshi Shukla, Ralph Sims, Pete Smith, Rob Swart, Dennis Tirpak, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Zhou Dadi
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) focuses on recently published literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic, and social aspects of mitigation of climate change.Read More →

IPCC AR4 WGII Report Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

April 2007
Neil Adger, Pramod Aggarwal, Shardul Agrawala, Joseph Alcamo, Abdelkader Allali, Oleg Anisimov, Nigel Arnell, Michel Boko, Osvaldo Canziani, Timothy Carter, Gino Casassa, Ulisses Confalonieri, Rex Victor Cruz, Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz, William Easterling, Christopher Field, Andreas Fischlin, Blair Fitzharris, Carlos Gay García, Clair Hanson, Hideo Harasawa, Kevin Hennessy, Saleemul Huq, Roger Jones, Lucka Kajfež Bogataj, David Karoly, Richard Klein, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Murari Lal, Rodel Lasco, Geoff Love, Xianfu Lu, Graciela Magrín, Luis José Mata, Roger McLean, Bettina Menne, Guy Midgley, Nobuo Mimura, Monirul Qader Mirza, José Moreno, Linda Mortsch, Isabelle Niang-Diop, Robert Nicholls, Béla Nováky, Leonard Nurse, Anthony Nyong, Michael Oppenheimer, Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Anand Patwardhan, Patricia Romero Lankao, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Stephen Schneider, Serguei Semenov, Joel Smith, John Stone, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, David Vaughan, Coleen Vogel, Thomas Wilbanks, Poh Poh Wong, Shaohong Wu, Gary Yohe
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change, the vulnerability of natural and human environments, and the potential for response through adaptation.Read More →