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Peer-reviewed Study

This category encompasses original research on attribution that has undergone peer review. It applies to specific studies; not to reviews or meta-analyses of the studies.

Anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation over global land areas seen in multiple observational datasets

July 2021
Gavin D. Madakumbura, Chad W. Thackeray, Jesse Norris, Naomi Goldenson & Alex Hall
Nature Communications
Climate change is rendering hurricanes, monsoons and other extreme events more destructive all over the world. Read More →

Attribution of the Role of Climate Change in the Forest Fires in Sweden 2018

July 2021
Folmer Krikken, Flavio Lehner, Karsten Haustein, Igor Drobyshev, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
This study investigates the impact of climate change on forest fires in Sweden during the summer of 2018. The findings suggest a moderate increase in fire weather probability with a more robust increase projected under future warming scenarios.Read More →

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation

June 2021
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Friederike E. L. Otto, Aisha I. Saad, Gaia Lisi, Petra Minnerop, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Kristin van Zwieten & Thom Wetzer
Nature Climate Change
The evidence submitted and referenced in climate mitigation cases lags considerably behind the state of the art in climate science, impeding causation claims.Read More →

High ambient temperature and child emergency and hospital visits in New York City

June 2021
Li Niu, Maria Teresa Herrera, Blean Girma, Bian Liu, Leah Schinasi, Jane E. Clougherty, Perry E. Sheffield
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
This study assesses the differing associations between high ambient temperatures and risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among children by age group in New York City.Read More →

The impacts of changing climate and streamflow on nutrient speciation in a large Prairie reservoir

June 2021
E. Akomeah, L.A. Morales-Marın, M. Carr, A. Sadeghian, K.E. Lindenschmidt
Elsevier
In this study, the impact of climate change on nutrient speciation in Lake Diefenbaker is examined using loosely linked SpAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) and CE-QUAL-W2 models. Read More →

Extent and Causes of Chesapeake Bay Warming

June 2021
Kyle E. Hinson, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, Pierre St-Laurent, Fei Da, Raymond G. Najjar
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
This study quantifies Chesapeake Bay warming and its causes since 1985.Read More →

The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

May 2021
A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera, N. Scovronick, A. Gasparrini
Nature Climate Change
Thirty-seven percent of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change and increased mortality is evident on every continent.Read More →

Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil’s climate change communications

May 2021
Geoffrey Supran; Naomi Oreskes
One Earth
ExxonMobil shapes public discourse on climate change using patterns that mimic the tobacco industry's documented strategy of shifting responsibility away from corporations.Read More →

Cloudiness reduces the bleaching response of coral reefs exposed to heat stress

May 2021
Pedro C. Gonzalez‐Espinosa, Simon D. Donner
Wiley
This study analyzes the impacts of temperature and cloudiness on coral bleaching. Read More →

Physiological Alteration in Sunflower Plants (Helianthus annuus L.) Exposed to High CO2 and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

May 2021
D. E. Benhadji Serradj, A. B. Sebitosi, S. O. Fadlallah
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Sunflower plants in a CO2-enriched atmosphere were used herein to examine the developmental and physiological effects of biofertilization with mycorrhizae.Read More →

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