Climate Attribution

A Synthesis of Carbon in International Trade

August 2012
G. P. Peters, S. J. Davis, R. Andrew
Biogeosciences
This paper synthesizes carbon transfer through emissions embodied in goods and services that are produced in one country but consumed in others, as well as carbon physically present in fossil fuels and other sources. Read More →

Consumption-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions

March 2010
Steven J. Davis, Ken Caldeira
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America
This paper presents a global consumption-based CO2 emissions inventory and calculations of associated consumption-based energy and carbon intensities.Read More →

What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse?

March 2009
S. T. Lindley, C. B. Grimes, M. S. Mohr, W. Peterson, J. Stein, J. T. Anderson, L. W. Botsford, , D. L. Bottom, C. A. Busack, T. K. Collier, J. Ferguson, J. C. Garza, A. M. Grover, D. G. Hankin, R. G. Kope, P. W. Lawson, A. Low, R. B. MacFarlane, K. Moore, M. Palmer-Zwahlen, F. B. Schwing, J. Smith, C. Tracy, R. Webb, B. K. Wells, T. H. Williams
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This report reviews possible causes for the decline in Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon for which reliable data were available.Read More →

Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

January 2008
Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Celine Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, Tapash Das, Govindasamy Bala, Andrew W. Wood, Toru Nozawa, Arthur A. Mirin, Daniel R. Cayan, Michael D. Dettinger
Sciencexpress
This report describes a regional, multivariable climate-change detection and attribution study that focuses on the changes that have already affected a primarily arid region with a large and growing population.Read More →

IPCC AR4 Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report

November 2007
Lenny Bernstein, Peter Bosch, Osvaldo Canziani, Zhenlin Chen, Renate Christ, Ogunlade Davidson, William Hare, Saleemul Huq, David Karoly, Vladimir Kattsov, Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Jian Liu, Ulrike Lohmann, Martin Manning, Taroh Matsuno, Bettina Menne, Bert Metz, Monirul Mirza, Neville Nicholls, Leonard Nurse, Rajendra Pachauri, Jean Palutikof, Martin Parry, Dahe Qin, Nijavalli Ravindranath, Andy Reisinger, Jiawen Ren, Keywan Riahi, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Matilde Rusticucci, Stephen Schneider, Youba Sokona, Susan Solomon, Peter Stott, Ronald Stouffer, Taishi Sugiyama, Rob Swart, Dennis Tirpak, Coleen Vogel, Gary Yohe
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups (WGs) of the IPCC and provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Read More →