Tag: climate change

Peer-reviewed Publications

Li et al. (2025): Warming increases the phenological mismatch between carbon sources and sinks in conifers

X. Li, R. Silvestro, E. Liang, M. Mencuccini, J. J. Camarero, C. B. K. Rathgeber, J. D. Sylvain, C. Nabais, A. Giovannelli, A. Saracino, L. Saulino, R. Guerrieri, et al., IN: Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02474-z

The dynamics of carbon allocation in trees affect carbon storage of forest ecosystems and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on Earth. Here, using carbon fluxes and xylem phenology from 84 conifer forests across the Northern Hemisphere, the authors quantify the phenology of carbon sources (photosynthesis) and sinks (stem growth) along a thermal gradient from −4.4 to 18.2 °C in mean annual temperature.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Douglas et al. (2025): Drivers of Regional Variation in the De-Emergence of Climate Change under Negative Emissions

Hunter C. Douglas, Laura E. Revell, Manoj Joshi, Andrew King, Luke J. Harrington, David J. Frame IN: Journal of Climate, 38, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0257.1

A central question of climate change impact assessments is identifying when the signal of change emerges from the noise of natural variability, though to date, this framework has been almost exclusively applied under warming conditions. In this work, the authors investigate the phenomenon of de-emergence, where temperatures rise beyond a given threshold and subsequently drop back below that threshold as forcing reverses. Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also referred to as negative emissions, has been proposed to lower global average temperatures and to mitigate damage to the Earth system, though the regional effects of this have been understudied to date. Here, the authors analyze the results of eight Earth system models (ESMs) that participated in the CDR Model Intercomparison Project (CDRMIP).

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Reports

Report: Reducing the Risks of Climate Change

by Climate Overshoot Commission, 14 September 2023

The risk of climate overshoot – that is, of exceeding the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5°C – is high and rising, and with it the risk of worsening impacts on human health, food security, water availability, social stability, and ecosystems. People worldwide would welcome a safer, cleaner, more equitable world. All countries could, and should, act now to help bring about such a world. The CARE agenda offers an integrated set of recommendations for achieving this by

  • Cutting emissions of greenhouse gasses
  • Adapting to the unavoidable impacts of climate change
  • Removing carbon from the atmosphere
  • Exploring solar radiation modification

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Media

Analysis: How UK newspapers changed their minds about climate change

by Josh Gabbatiss, Sylvia Hayes, Joe Goodman, Tom Prater on Carbon Brief

The past decade has seen a significant shift in the attitudes of UK newspapers towards climate change, according to new analysis undertaken by Carbon Brief. Drawing from a database of more than 1,300 editorials, which are the formal “voice” of a newspaper, this work examines how the language used to describe human-caused climate change, as well as renewables, fracking and nuclear power, has shifted since 2011.

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Calls

Call for Session and Workshop proposals submission for the 5th symposium on Climate Change Effects on the World’s Ocean

Deadline: January 31, 2022

ECCWO5 will host events on a diverse and exciting range of topics and disciplines within and across the natural and social sciences that can potentially contribute to the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR7), the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, implementation of actions identified in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the goals and climate negotiations in COP27. Join them in Bergen, Norway, in 17-21 April 2023.

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The conversation: Scientists call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments take real action

The authors argue that the time has come for scientists to agree to a moratorium on climate change research as a means to first expose, then renegotiate, the broken science-society contract. The related publication is written by Bruce C. Glavovic, Timothy F. Smith & Iain White (2021): The tragedy of climate change science, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2021.2008855.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Pereira et al. (2021): From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative

Laura M. Pereira, David R. Morrow, Valentina Aquila, Brian Beckage, Sam Beckbesinger, Lauren Beukes, Holly J. Buck, Colin J. Carlson , Oliver Geden, Andrew P. Jones, David P. Keller, Katharine J. Mach, Mohale Mashigo, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Daniele Visioni, Simon Nicholson, Christopher H. Trisos IN: Ecology and Society 26(4):30; https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12856-260430

“We offer a step-by-step guide to the modified Manoa Mash-up method to generate more integrative, creative, and dynamic scenarios; reflect on broader implications of using this method for generating more dynamic scenarios for climate change research and policy; and provide examples of using the scenarios in climate policy communication, including a choose-your-own adventure game called Survive the Century (https://survivethecentury.net/), which was played by over 15,000 people in the first 2 weeks of launching.”

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Science-Policy Documents

Stoddard, Isak et al. (2021): Three decades of climate mitigation: Why haven’t we bent the global emissions curve?

Isak Stoddard, Kevin Anderson, Stuart Capstick, Wim Carton, Joanna Depledge, Keri Facer, Clair Gough, Frederic Hache, Claire Hoolohan, Martin Hultman, Niclas Hällström, Sivan Kartha, Sonja Klinsky, Magdalena Kuchler, Eva Lövbrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Peter Newell, Glen P. Peters, Youba Sokona, Andy Stirling, Matthew Stilwell, Clive L. Spash, Mariama Williams IN: Annual Review of Environment and Resources Vol. 46: 653-689, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

REVIEW: Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses—covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve.

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