A review of recent advances in research on extreme heat events

RM Horton, JS Mankin, C Lesk, E Coffel… - Current Climate Change …, 2016 - Springer
Reviewing recent literature, we report that changes in extreme heat event characteristics
such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing climate change impacts on open sandy coasts: A review

R Ranasinghe - Earth-science reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The world's coastlines are shaped by mean sea level, wave conditions, storm surge, and
riverflows. Climate change (CC) driven variations in these environmental forcings will …

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

L Kemp, C Xu, J Depledge, KL Ebi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse

CE Richards, RC Lupton, JM Allwood - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
There is increasing concern that climate change poses an existential risk to humanity.
Understanding these worst-case scenarios is essential for good risk management. However …

Evaluating flood resilience strategies for coastal megacities

JCJH Aerts, WJW Botzen, K Emanuel, N Lin… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Recent flood disasters in the United States (2005, 2008, 2012); the Philippines (2012, 2013);
and Britain (2014) illustrate how vulnerable coastal cities are to storm surge flooding. Floods …

Hurricane Harvey links to ocean heat content and climate change adaptation

KE Trenberth, L Cheng, P Jacobs, Y Zhang… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
While hurricanes occur naturally, human‐caused climate change is supercharging them and
exacerbating the risk of major damage. Here using ocean and atmosphere observations, we …

Changes in ecologically critical terrestrial climate conditions

NS Diffenbaugh, CB Field - Science, 2013 - science.org
Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with
temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans. Here, we …

Observed changes in extreme wet and dry spells during the South Asian summer monsoon season

D Singh, M Tsiang, B Rajaratnam… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The South Asian summer monsoon directly affects the lives of more than 1/6th of the
world's population. There is substantial variability within the monsoon season, including …

The impacts of climate policy uncertainty on stock markets: Comparison between China and the US

X Xu, S Huang, BM Lucey, H An - International Review of Financial …, 2023 - Elsevier
The interplay between climate policy uncertainty and stock market performance has
emerged as a pressing research question in light of the challenges posed by climate change …

Implications of climate change for railway infrastructure

EJ Palin, I Stipanovic Oslakovic… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Weather phenomena can result in severe impacts on railway infrastructure. In future,
projected changes to the frequency and/or intensity of extreme weather events could change …