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Human-Modified Temperatures Induce Species Changes: Joint Attribution

May 2005
Terry L. Root,* Dena P MacMynowski, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Stephen H. Schneider
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This study demonstrates “joint attribution,” a two-step linkage: human activities contribute significantly to temperature changes and human-changed temperatures are associated with discernible changes in plant and animal traits. Read More →

Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003

December 2004
Peter A. Stott, D. A. Stone, M. R. Allen
Nature
This article analyzes the contribution of increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases to unusually high mean summer temperatures throughout Europe, estimating that it is very likely that human influence has at least doubled the risk of a heatwave.Read More →

Ethics and Global Climate Change

April 2004
Stephen Gardiner
Ethics
This article argues that climate change is an issue that should be of serious concern to both moral philosophers and humanity at large.Read More →

Detection of Human Influence on Sea-level Pressure

March 2003
Nathan P. Gillett, Francis W. Zwiers, Andrew J. Weaver & Peter A. Stott
Nature
This study found increases in sea-level pressure due to human activity and observed that climate models underestimate the magnitude of the sea-level pressure response, leading to an underestimation of the climate impacts on the European climate. Read More →

Introduction: An Architecture for Climate Protection

January 2002
Kevin A. Baumert, Nancy Kete
Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate
This chapter describes the issue of climate change and addressing it and probes the key architectural elements that could collectively constitute an international climate protection architecture. Read More →