Climate Attribution

Extreme Events and Gender-Based Violence: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review

June 2022
Kim Robin van Daalen, Sarah Savić Kallesøe, Fiona Davey, Sara Dada, Laura Jung, Lucy Singh, Rita Issa, Christina Alma Emilian, Isla Kuhn, Ines Keygnaert, Maria Nilsson
The Lancet
This review paper examines the literature surrounding gender-based violence (GBV) during or after extreme events. Most reviewed studies show an increase in GBV following disasters, which may be exacerbated by climate change.Read More →

Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard

March 2022
Tyler J. Lark, Nathan P. Hendricks, Aaron Smith, Nicholas Pates, Seth A. Spawn-Lee, Matthew Bougie, Eric G. Booth, Christopher J. Kucharik, and Holly K. Gibbs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This article suggests that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the US Renewable Fuel Standard is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher.Read More →

The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

October 2021
Marina Romanello, Alice McGushin, Claudia Di Napoli, Paul Drummond, Nick Hughes, Louis Jamart, Harry Kennard, Pete Lampard, Baltazar Solano Rodriguez, Nigel Arnell, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Kristine Belesova, Wenjia Cai, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Stuart Capstick, Jonathan Chambers, Lingzhi Chu, Luisa Ciampi, Carole Dalin, Niheer Dasandi, Shouro Dasgupta, Michael Davies, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Robert Dubrow, Kristie L Ebi, Matthew Eckelman, Paul Ekins, Luis E Escobar, Lucien Georgeson, Delia Grace, Hilary Graham, Samuel H Gunther, Stella Hartinger, Kehan He, Clare Heaviside, Jeremy Hess, Shih-Che Hsu, Slava Jankin, Marcia P Jimenez, Ilan Kelman, Gregor Kiesewetter, Patrick L Kinney, Tord Kjellstrom, Dominic Kniveton, Jason K W Lee, Bruno Lemke, Yang Liu, Zhao Liu, Melissa Lott, Rachel Lowe, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Mark Maslin, Lucy McAllister, Celia McMichael, Zhifu Mi, James Milner, Kelton Minor, Nahid Mohajeri, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Karyn Morrissey, Simon Munzert, Kris A Murray, Tara Neville, Maria Nilsson, Nick Obradovich, Maquins Odhiambo Sewe, Tadj Oreszczyn, Matthias Otto, Fereidoon Owfi, Olivia Pearman, David Pencheon, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Elizabeth Robinson, Joacim Rocklöv, Renee N Salas, Jan C Semenza, Jodi Sherman, Liuhua Shi, Marco Springmann, Meisam Tabatabaei, Jonathon Taylor, Joaquin Trinanes, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Bryan Vu, Fabian Wagner, Paul Wilkinson, Matthew Winning, Marisol Yglesias, Shihui Zhang, Peng Gong, Hugh Montgomery, Anthony Costello, Ian Hamilton
The Lancet
This review article represents the consensus of leading researchers on the health impacts of climate change.Read More →

Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies

October 2021
Max Callaghan, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Shruti Nath, Quentin Lejeune, Thomas R. Knutson, Markus Reichstein, Gerrit Hansen, Emily Theokritoff, Marina Andrijevic, Robert J. Brecha, Michael Hegarty, Chelsea Jones, Kaylin Lee, Agathe Lucas, Nicole van Maanen, Inga Menke, Peter Pfleiderer, Burcu Yesil & Jan C. Minx
Nature Climate Change
This article uses machine learning to infer that attributable anthropogenic impacts may be occurring across 80% of the world’s land area, while revealing that researchers have disproportionately focused on high-income countries.Read More →

Challenges to Understanding Extreme Weather Changes in Lower Income Countries

October 2020
Friederike E. L. Otto, Luke Harrington, Katharina Schmitt, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Roop Singh, Joyce Kimutai, and Piotr Wolski
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This article outlines six focus areas to lessen barriers to understanding extreme weather changes in lower income countries.Read More →

How Fast Are the Oceans Warming?

January 2019
Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Zeke Hausfather, Kevin E. Trenberth
Science
This study presents observational records that show the rapid warming of the Earth’s oceans over the past few decades.Read More →