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Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Open
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vu…
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Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis Open
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the physical science basis of climate change. It considers in situ and remote ob…
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The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation Open
This paper explores the technical and economic characteristics of an accelerated energy transition to 2050, using new datasets for renewable energy. The analysis indicates that energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies are the co…
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Natural climate solutions Open
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (N…
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Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates Open
Significance Agricultural production is vulnerable to climate change. Understanding climate change, especially the temperature impacts, is critical if policymakers, agriculturalists, and crop breeders are to ensure global food security. Ou…
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The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 Open
Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH4) budget is important for assessing realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. Atmospheric emissions and concentrations of CH4 continue to increase, making CH4 the second most import…
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Global Carbon Budget 2020 Open
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand the …
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An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years Open
The response of Earth’s climate system to orbital forcing has been highly state dependent over the past 66 million years.
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Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges Open
Plant phenology, the annually recurring sequence of plant developmental stages, is important for plant functioning and ecosystem services and their biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks to the climate system. Plant phenology depends on …
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Is Green Growth Possible? Open
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Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review Open
Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region. The land and its ag…
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Global Carbon Budget 2022 Open
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the…
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Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming Open
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus report…
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Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability Open
The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify with global warming, which likely increases the intensity of extreme precipitation events and the risk of flooding. The changes, however, often differ from the theorized expectation of increa…
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Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Its Mitigation Strategies: A Review Open
Climate change is a global threat to the food and nutritional security of the world. As greenhouse-gas emissions in the atmosphere are increasing, the temperature is also rising due to the greenhouse effect. The average global temperature …
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Global Warming of 1.5°C Open
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future r…
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Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming Open
Model projections of tropical cyclone (TC) activity response to anthropogenic warming in climate models are assessed. Observations, theory, and models, with increasing robustness, indicate rising global TC risk for some metrics that are pr…
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Greenhouse gas emissions from soils—A review Open
Soils act as sources and sinks for greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), \nand nitrous oxide (N2O). Since both storage and emission capacities may be large, precise quantifications \nare needed to obtain relia…
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The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change Open
Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to climate change. Here, we use empirical data from 732 locat…
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Global Carbon Budget 2017 Open
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the global carbon budget – is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, sup…
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review Open
The effects of climate change can be direct or indirect, short-term or long-term. Acute events can act through mechanisms similar to that of traumatic stress, leading to well-understood psychopathological patterns. In addition, the consequ…
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Global Carbon Budget 2016 Open
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” – is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, s…
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The global methane budget 2000–2012 Open
The global methane (CH4) budget is becoming an increasingly important component for managing realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. This relevance, due to a shorter atmospheric lifetime and a stronger warming potential than carbon …
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Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis Open
The Third Pole (TP) is experiencing rapid warming and is currently in its warmest period in the past 2,000 years. This paper reviews the latest development in multidisciplinary TP research associated with this warming. The rapid warming fa…
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Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California Open
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During 1972–2018, California experienced a fivefold increase in ann…
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Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative forcing Open
New calculations of the radiative forcing (RF) are presented for the three main well‐mixed greenhouse gases, methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide. Methane's RF is particularly impacted because of the inclusion of the shortwave forcin…
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Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change Open
Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested‐interest gr…
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China CO2 emission accounts 2016–2017 Open
Despite China’s emissions having plateaued in 2013, it is still the world’s leading energy consumer and CO 2 emitter, accounting for approximately 30% of global emissions. Detailed CO 2 emission inventories by energy and sector have great …
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Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster Open
Global warming, climate change, and environmental pollution present plants with unique combinations of different abiotic and biotic stresses. Although much is known about how plants acclimate to each of these individual stresses, little is…
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The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C Open
The need to stabilize global climate Climate change will be the greatest threat to humanity and global ecosystems in the coming years, and there is a pressing need to understand and communicate the impacts of warming, across the perspectiv…