An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

SC Sherwood, MJ Webb, JD Annan… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of
atmospheric CO2, characterized by an effective sensitivity S. This evidence includes …

What do we learn from the weather? The new climate-economy literature

M Dell, BF Jones, BA Olken - Journal of Economic literature, 2014 - aeaweb.org
A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature,
precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

NL Bindoff, PAA Stott, KM AchutaRao… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - hal.science
This chapter assesses the causes of observed changes assessed in Chapters 2 to 5 and
uses understanding of physical processes, climate models and statistical approaches. The …

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

NJ Abram, HV McGregor, JE Tierney, MN Evans… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The evolution of industrial-era warming across the continents and oceans provides a context
for future climate change and is important for determining climate sensitivity and the …

Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

R Wilson, K Anchukaitis, KR Briffa, U Büntgen… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Large-scale millennial length Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstructions have
been progressively improved over the last 20 years as new datasets have been developed …

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

Nature geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-
temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions …

Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

J Rogelj, M Meinshausen, R Knutti - Nature climate change, 2012 - nature.com
Climate projections for the fourth assessment report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) were based on scenarios from the Special Report on Emissions …

Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest

EJAL Pereira, LC de Santana Ribeiro… - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Since his inauguration on January 1, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro, a declared right-wing candidate
nicknamed “Tropical Trump,” has introduced measures to reduce environmental restrictions …