Climate Attribution

IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2014

January 2015
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Myles R. Allen, Vicente R. Barros, John Broome, Wolfgang Cramer, Renate Christ, John A. Church, Leon Clarke, Qin Dahe , Purnamita Dasgupta, Navroz K. Dubash, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ismail Elgizouli , Christopher B. Field, Piers Forster, Pierre Friedlingstein, Jan Fuglestvedt, Luis Gomez-Echeverri, Stephane Hallegatte, Gabriele Hegerl, Mark Howden, Kejun Jiang, Blanca Jimenez Cisneros, Vladimir Kattsov, Hoesung Lee, Katharine J. Mach, Jochem Marotzke, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Leo Meyer, Jan Minx, Yacob Mulugetta, Karen O’Brien, Michael Oppenheimer, Joy J. Pereira, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Scott B. Power, Benjamin Preston, N.H. Ravindranath, Andy Reisinger, Keywan Riahi, Matilde Rusticucci, Robert Scholes, Kristin Seyboth, Youba Sokona, Robert Stavins, Thomas F. Stocker, Petra Tschakert, Detlef van Vuuren, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This Synthesis Report is based on the reports of the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Read More →

AR5 WGIII Report Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change

April 2014
Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Shardul Agrawala, Igor Alexeyevich Bashmakov, Gabriel Blanco, John Broome, Thomas Bruckner, Steffen Brunner, Mercedes Bustamante, Leon Clarke, Felix Creutzig, Shobhakar Dhakal, Navroz K. Dubash, Patrick Eickemeier, Ellie Farahani, Manfred Fischedick, Marc Fleurbaey, Reyer Gerlagh, Luis Gómez-Echeverri, Sujata Gupta, Jochen Harnisch, Kejun Jiang, Susanne Kadner, Sivan Kartha, Stephan Klasen, Charles Kolstad, Volker Krey, Howard Kunreuther, Oswaldo Lucon, Omar Masera, Jan Minx, Yacob Mulugetta, Anthony Patt, Nijavalli H. Ravindranath, Keywan Riahi, Joyashree Roy, Roberto Schaeffer, Steffen Schlömer, Karen Seto, Kristin Seyboth, Ralph Sims, Jim Skea, Pete Smith, Eswaran Somanathan, Robert Stavins, Christoph von Stechow, Thomas Sterner, Taishi Sugiyama, Sangwon Suh, Kevin Chika Urama, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, David G. Victor, Dadi Zhou, Ji Zou, Timm Zwickel
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Working Group III contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive and transparent assessment of the scientific literature on climate change mitigation.Read More →

IPCC AR5 WGII Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

January 2014
Christopher B. Field, Vicente R. Barros, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Katharine J. Mach, Mohamed A.-K. Abdrabo,W. Neil Adger, Yury A. Anokhin, Oleg A. Anisimov, Douglas J. Arent, Jonathon Barnett, Virginia R. Burkett, Rongshuo Cai, Monalisa Chatterjee, Stewart J. Cohen,Wolfgang Cramer, Purnamita Dasgupta, Debra J. Davidson, Fatima Denton, Petra Döll, Kirstin Dow, Yasuaki Hijioka , Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Richard G. Jones, Roger N. Jones, Roger L. Kitching , R. Sari Kovats, Joan Nymand Larsen, Erda Lin, David B. Lobell, Iñigo J. Losada, Graciela O. Magrin, José A. Marengo, Anil Markandya, Bruce A. McCarl, Roger F. McLean, Linda O. Mearns, Guy F. Midgley, Nobuo Mimura, John F. Morton , Isabelle Niang, Ian R. Noble, Leonard A. Nurse, Karen L. O’Brien, Taikan Oki , Lennart Olsson, Michael Oppenheimer, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Joy J. Pereira, Elvira S. Poloczanska, John R. Porter, Hans-O. Pörtner, Michael J. Prather, Roger S. Pulwarty, Andy Reisinger, Aromar Revi, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Oliver C. Ruppel, David E. Satterthwaite, Daniela N. Schmidt, Josef Settele, Kirk R. Smith, Dáithí A. Stone, Avelino G. Suarez, Petra Tschakert, Riccardo Valentini, Alicia Villamizar, Rachel Warren, Thomas J.Wilbanks, Poh Poh Wong, Alistair Woodward, Gary W. Yohe
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This report considers climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. It provides a comprehensive picture of the current state of knowledge and level of certainty, based on the available scientific, technical, and socio-economic literature.Read More →

Northeast Colorado Extreme Rains Interpreted in a Climate Change Context

December 2013
Martin Hoerling, Klaus Wolter, Judith Perlwitz, Xiaowei Quan, Jon Eischeid, Hailan Wang, Siegfried Schubert, Henry Diaz, Randall Dole
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This article suggests that the probability for an extreme five-day September rainfall event over northeast Colorado, as was observed in early September 2013, has likely decreased due to climate change. Read More →

Shifts in the Seasonal Distribution of Deaths in Australia, 1968–2007

April 2013
Charmian M. Bennett, Keith B. G. Dear, Anthony J. McMichael
International Journal of Biometeorology
This study examines the ratio of summer to winter deaths in Australia with a background of rising average annual temperature over four decades, and finds that change has been driven more by reduced winter mortality than by increased summer mortality.Read More →

Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock – A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities

January 2013
Gerber, P.J., Steinfeld, H., Henderson, B., Mottet, A., Opio, C., Dijkman, J., Falcucci, A. & Tempio, G.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This report provides a snapshot of the current state of FAO’s assessment work on livestock’s contribution to climate change. It draws on three technical reports addressing emissions from dairy cattle, ruminants and monogastrics.Read More →

Cusk (Brosme brosme) and Climate Change: Assessing the Threat to a Candidate Marine Fish Species Under the US Endangered Species Act

December 2012
Jonathan A. Hare, John P. Manderson, Janet A. Nye, Michael A. Alexander, Peter J. Auster, Diane L. Borggaard, Antonietta M. Capotondi, Kimberly B. Damon-Randall, Eric Heupel, Ivan Mateo, Loretta O'Brien, David E. Richardson, Charles A. Stock, Sarah T. Biegel
ICES Journal of Marine Science
This study examines changes in distribution and abundance of a number of marine fish in the Northwest Atlantic that have been linked to climate variability and change, suggesting that both fishing and climate may affect the status of cusk. Read More →