Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

D Degroot, K Anchukaitis, M Bauch, J Burnham… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …
V Brovkin, E Brook, JW Williams, S Bathiany… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The geological record shows that abrupt changes in the Earth system can occur on
timescales short enough to challenge the capacity of human societies to adapt to …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti, JP Dunne… - 2021‏ - ora.ox.ac.uk
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years

J Esper, M Torbenson, U Büntgen - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Including an exceptionally warm Northern Hemisphere summer,, 2023 has been reported as
the hottest year on record,–. However, contextualizing recent anthropogenic warming …

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

U Büntgen, O Urban, PJ Krusic, M Rybníček… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Europe's recent summer droughts have had devastating ecological and economic
consequences, but the severity and cause of these extremes remain unclear. Here we …

Future of the human climate niche

C Xu, TA Kohler, TM Lenton, JC Svenning… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are
unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations …

The 4.2 ka event is not remarkable in the context of Holocene climate variability

NP McKay, DS Kaufman, SH Arcusa, HR Kolus… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract The “4.2 ka event” is a commonly described abrupt climate excursion that occurred
about 4200 years ago. However, the extent to which this event is coherent across regional …

The fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire

K Harper - The Fate of Rome, 2017‏ - degruyter.com
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

R Neukom, N Steiger, JJ Gómez-Navarro, J Wang… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Earth's climate history is often understood by breaking it down into constituent climatic
epochs. Over the Common Era (the past 2,000 years) these epochs, such as the Little Ice …

[HTML][HTML] Unprecedented warmth: A look at Spain's exceptional summer of 2022

R Serrano-Notivoli, E Tejedor, P Sarricolea… - Atmospheric …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The warming of the global climate system is expected to result in significant socio-economic
stress, primarily through the occurrence of extreme weather and climate events, with the …