Climate Attribution

Effects of Climate Extremes on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Concepts, Processes, and Potential Future Impacts

March 2015
Dorothea Frank, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Kirsten Thonicke, David Frank, Miguel D. Mahecha, Pete Smith, Marijn van der Velde, Sara Vicca, Flurin Babst, Christian Beer, Nina Buchmann, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Wolfgang Cramer, Andreas Ibrom, Franco Miglietta, Ben Poulter, Anja Rammig, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Ariane Walz, Martin Wattenbach, Miguel A. Zavala, Jakob Zscheischler
Global Change Biology
This paper reviews the literature on carbon cycle relevant responses of ecosystems to extreme climatic events, finding that ecosystem responses can exceed the duration of the climate impacts via lagged effects on the carbon cycle. Read More →

Attributing Weather Extremes to ‘Climate Change’: A Review

June 2014
Mike Hulme
Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
This report surveys the science of extreme weather event attribution by examining the field in four stages: motivations for extreme weather attribution, methods of attribution, some example case studies and the politics of weather event attribution.Read More →

How does climate change cause extinction?

January 2013
Abigail E. Cahill, Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens, M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid, Xia Hua, Caitlin J. Karanewsky, Hae Yeong Ryu, Gena C. Sbeglia, Fabrizio Spagnolo, John B. Waldron, Omar Warsi and John J. Wiens
The Royal Society Publishing
This study systematically reviewed the proximate causes of climate-change related extinctions and their empirical support. Read More →

Patterns of change: whose fingerprint is seen in global warming?

December 2012
Gabriele Hegerl, Francis Zwiers, Claudia Tebaldi
This letter communicates the physical science basis of climate change attribution research, and discusses the statistical methods applied to explore the extent to which different possible causes can be used to explain the recent climate records.Read More →

Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review

January 2012
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
The World Bank
This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences—in terms of future emissions allocations—of different approaches to equity. Read More →

Climate Change Epidemiology: Methodological Challenges

November 2009
Wei W. Xun, Aneire E. Khan, Edwin Michael, Paolo Vineis
International Journal of Public Health
This article reviews a number of challenges that climate change presents to epidemiology, including topics such as exposure assessment, bias, confounding, causal complexities, and uncertainties. Read More →

Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate Change

May 2008
Cynthia Rosenzweig, David Karoly, Marta Vicarelli, Peter Neofotis, Qigang Wu, Gino Casassa, Annette Menzel, Terry L. Root, Nicole Estrella, Bernard Seguin, Piotr Tryjanowski, Chunzhen Liu, Samuel Rawlins, Anton Imeson
Nature
This article concludes that anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally and in some continents.Read More →