Peer-reviewed Study Archives - Page 51 of 51

Scenarios of freshwater fish extinctions from climate change and water withdrawal

Published:August 2005

Author(s):Marguerite A. Xenopoulos David M. Lodge Joseph Alcamo Michael Märker Kerstin Schulze Detlef P. Van Vuuren

Publisher:Global Change Biology

This study combined two scenarios from the IPCC with a global hydrological model to build global scenarios of future losses in river discharge from climate change and increased water withdrawal.Read More →

Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003

Published:December 2004

Author(s):Peter A. Stott, D. A. Stone, M. R. Allen

Publisher: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 →

Detection of Human Influence on Sea-level Pressure

Published:March 2003

Author(s):Nathan P. Gillett, Francis W. Zwiers, Andrew J. Weaver & Peter A. Stott

Publisher: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 →

A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems

Published:January 2003

Author(s):Camille Parmesan & Gary Yohe

Publisher:Nature

This paper explores these differences, and applies diverse analyses to more than 1,700 species, and show that recent biological trends match climate change predictions. Read More →

Responsibility for Past and Future Global Warming: Time Horizon and Non-Linearities in the Climate System

Published:January 2002

Author(s):M.G.J. den Elzen, M. Schaeffer, B. Eickhout

Publisher:Dutch Ministry of Environment

This report suggests a new ‘non-linear’, but transparent, approach for attributing CO2 concentrations, which would generally reduce Annex-I contributions. Read More →

Optimal Fingerprints for the Detection of Time-Dependent Climate Change

Published:October 1993

Author(s):K. Hasselmann

Publisher:Journal of Climate

This paper details the application of optimal fingerprints to detect time-dependent, multivariable climate change signal in the presence of natural climate variability noise. Read More →

Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?

Published:August 1975

Author(s):Wallace S. Broecker

Publisher:Science

This article presents an early (mid-1970s) perspective that the planet is on the brink of a prolonged period of global warming, and that complacency is not an option. Read More →