The Attribution Question
This article explores how understanding the changing risks of extreme events in a warming world requires both a thermodynamic perspective and an understanding of changes in atmospheric circulation.Read More →
A Review of Recent Advances in Research on Extreme Heat Events
This article reviews recent literature and reports that changes in extreme heat event characteristics such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global-scale warming. Read More →
A Common Framework for Approaches to Extreme Event Attribution
This article argues that a risk-based approach and storyline approach to extreme event attribution should be viewed within a common framework, where the most useful level of conditioning will depend on the questions and uncertainties involved.Read More →
Causal Counterfactual Theory for the Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Events
This article gives an overview of the main concepts underpinning the causal theory and proposes methodological extensions for the causal attribution of weather and climate-related events. Read More →
Attribution of extreme weather and climate‐related events
This article provides an overview of event attribution assessments and how they are developed. Read More →
Distributive Fairness: A Mutual Recognition Approach
This article "translates" the UNFCCC principles of responsibilities and capabilities into 15 allocation schemes and explores the implications of these schemes for the mitigation obligations and costs of seven potentially pivotal actors. Read More →
Climate and Conflict
This paper reviews the emerging literature on climate and conflict and finds that conflict increases with temperature.Read More →
Use of Models and Observations in Event Attribution
This perspective to a paper studying extreme heat in Central England (King et al 2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 054002) underscores the importance of such research towards improving the reliability of event attribution results.
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Attribution of Extreme Climate Events
This article suggests that it is more useful to regard extreme weather events as being largely unaffected by climate change, and questions whether known changes in the climate system's thermodynamic state affected the impact of the particular event. Read More →
Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in Final Demand and Trade Using the OECD ICIO 2015
This paper explores estimates of CO2 emissions embodied in final demand since the early 1990s as a contribution to a better understanding of how CO2 world are driven by global consumption patterns.Read More →