Attribution of extreme events to climate change

FEL Otto - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Within the past decade, the attribution of extreme weather events and their impacts has
enabled scientists, the public, and policymakers alike to connect real-world experiences of …

Progress in extreme heat management and warning systems: A systematic review of heat-health action plans (1995-2020)

R Kotharkar, A Ghosh - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent decades, rising trend in the number of heat waves (HWs) has exacerbated the risk
of heat-related mortality and morbidity. The frequent deadly HWs precipitated a multitude of …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

Globally unequal effect of extreme heat on economic growth

CW Callahan, JS Mankin - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Increased extreme heat is among the clearest impacts of global warming, but the economic
effects of heat waves are poorly understood. Using subnational economic data, extreme …

The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves

V Thompson, D Mitchell, GC Hegerl, M Collins… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of
excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event …

Current and projected regional economic impacts of heatwaves in Europe

D García-León, A Casanueva, G Standardi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extreme heat undermines the working capacity of individuals, resulting in lower productivity,
and thus economic output. Here we analyse the present and future economic damages due …

Humidity's role in heat-related health outcomes: a heated debate

JW Baldwin, T Benmarhnia, KL Ebi, O Jay… - Environmental …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: As atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, temperature
and humidity will increase further, causing potentially dire increases in human heat stress …

[PDF][PDF] Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development

J Birkmann, E Liwenga, R Pandey, E Boyd, R Djalante… - 2022 - orbi.uliege.be
Adverse impacts of climate change, development deficits and inequality exacerbate each
other. Existing vulnerabilities and inequalities intensify with adverse impacts of climate …

Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate

A Robinson, J Lehmann, D Barriopedro… - npj Climate and …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the last decade, the world warmed by 0.25° C, in-line with the roughly linear trend
since the 1970s. Here we present updated analyses showing that this seemingly small shift …

Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

A Ciavarella, D Cotterill, P Stott, S Kew, S Philip… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Over the first half of 2020, Siberia experienced the warmest period from January to June
since records began and on the 20th of June the weather station at Verkhoyansk reported …