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Even Heavier Weather

Published:December 2018

Author(s):Richard Black

Publisher:Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit

This report shows that in 2018, scientists published at least 43 research papers looking at links between climate change and extreme weather events, of which 32 found that climate change made the events more likely or more intense.Read More →

Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for their Contribution to Climate Change: Where Does the Law Stand?

Published:October 2018

Author(s):Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz

Publisher:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

This article analyzes a San Francisco case that explores the question of whether and to what extent it is possible to legally attribute harmful impacts associated with climate change to specific actors or conduct. Read More →

Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Climate Change-Related Health Impacts, Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience

Published:September 2018

Author(s):Kristie L. Ebi, Christopher Boyer, Kathryn J. Bowen, Howard Frumkin, Jeremy Hess

Publisher:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This paper describes an approach to climate and health indicators, including characteristics of the indicators, implementation, and research needs.Read More →

Extreme Weather Event Attribution Science and Climate Change Litigation: An Essential Step in the Causal Chain?

Published:April 2018

Author(s):Sophie Marjanac, Lindene Patton

Publisher:Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law

This article explores the discipline of event attribution science to lawyers, discusses some technical issues related to the use of this evidence in court, and makes some suggestions regarding the types of ‘climate change’ cases it may influence. Read More →

Introduction to Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 From a Climate Perspective

Published:March 2018

Author(s):Stephanie C. Herring, Nikolaos Christidis, Andrew Hoell, James P. Kossin, Carl J. Schreck, III, Peter A. Stott

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This 2016 BAMS report explains extreme events in 2016 from a climate perspective and is the first BAMS report to find that some extreme events were not possible in a preindustrial climate.Read More →

Climate Change Attribution: When Is It Appropriate to Accept New Methods?

Published:February 2018

Author(s):Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Naomi Oreskes

Publisher:Earth’s Future

This article argues that the risk-based approach and storyline approach to extreme event attribution are complementary and that there is no “right” or “wrong” approach to detection and attribution in any absolute sense.Read More →

CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global Warmth During 2016

Published:January 2018

Author(s):Thomas R. Knutson, Jonghun Kam, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This study presents the findings of the CMIP5 simulations, which demonstrate that the 2016 record global warmth was only possible due to substantial centennial-scale anthropogenic warming. Read More →

Attributable Human-Induced Changes in the Likelihood and Magnitude of the Observed Extreme Precipitation During Hurricane Harvey

Published:December 2017

Author(s):Mark Risser, Michael Wehner

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This report analyzes observed precipitation to find that human-induced climate change likely increased the chances of the observed precipitation accumulations during Hurricane Harvey in the most affected areas of Houston. Read More →

The Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Review

Published:May 2017

Author(s):Michael Burger, Justin Gundlach

Publisher:United Nations Environment Programme

This report offers a comprehensive survey of global climate change litigation, an overview of litigation trends, and descriptions of key issues that courts must resolve in the course of climate change cases. Read More →

Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire Across Western US Forests

Published:October 2016

Author(s):John Abatxoglou, A. Park Williams

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This article uses modeled climate projections to estimate the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to observed increases in eight fuel aridity metrics and forest fire area across the western United States.Read More →