Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
Heat extremes have become more likely by at least a factor of 2 due to the
long-term warming trend.Read More →
Spatial and temporal changes in climate extremes over northwestern North America: the influence of internal climate variability and external forcing
This study contains an assessment of the impacts of climate change on extreme temperature and precipitation over the Columbia, Fraser, Peace and Campbell River basins in northwestern North America.Read More →
Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions
In 2015, food-system emissions amounted to 18 Gt CO2 equivalent per year globally, representing 34% of total GHG emissions. Read More →
Multidecadal climate oscillations during the past millennium driven by volcanic forcing
Using an ensemble of climate models to evaluate the causes of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the authors find no evidence to show that it has been purely internally generated during the last millennium.Read More →
Spatiotemporal patterns of industrial carbon emissions at the city level
This study aimed to measure the industrial carbon emissions by energy consumption and the cement production process in Guangdong from 2005–2015.Read More →
Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Climate change that stimulates tree growth can make smaller trees produce more seeds per year, but also can render larger trees less able to reproduce.Read More →
Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
Using a global dataset spanning 1979–2016, the authors show agricultural losses from past heat waves are up to an order of magnitude larger than suggested by standard approaches.Read More →
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
Long-term pollen data from 60 North American stations and Earth system model simulations quantify the role of human-caused climate change in continental patterns in pollen concentrations.Read More →
Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought
The authors conclude that continued global warming may further increase drought extents, requiring adaptation of regional drought management strategies.Read More →
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat
The retreat of Palcaraju glacier cannot be explained by natural variability alone, as human-induced warming equals between 85 and 105% (5–95% confidence interval) of the observed 1 °C warming in this region.Read More →