Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

AK Magnan, ELF Schipper, M Burkett… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some
specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance …

The economic impacts of climate change

RSJ Tol - Review of environmental economics and policy, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article reviews the economic impacts of climate change and the policy implications of
the results. Current estimates indicate that climate change will likely have a limited impact on …

Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached

NS Diffenbaugh, EA Barnes - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Leveraging artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained on climate model output, we use the
spatial pattern of historical temperature observations to predict the time until critical global …

Global warming has increased global economic inequality

NS Diffenbaugh, M Burke - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the causes of economic inequality is critical for achieving equitable
economic development. To investigate whether global warming has affected the recent …

Contribution of historical precipitation change to US flood damages

FV Davenport, M Burke… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Precipitation extremes have increased across many regions of the United States, with further
increases anticipated in response to additional global warming. Quantifying the impact of …

Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

NS Diffenbaugh, D Singh, JS Mankin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Efforts to understand the influence of historical global warming on individual extreme climate
events have increased over the past decade. However, despite substantial progress, events …

Heat wave and mortality: a multicountry, multicommunity study

Y Guo, A Gasparrini, BG Armstrong… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Few studies have examined variation in the associations between heat waves
and mortality in an international context. Objectives: We aimed to systematically examine the …

Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries

CF Schleussner, JF Donges… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Projecting exposure to extreme climate impact events across six event categories and three spatial scales

S Lange, J Volkholz, T Geiger, F Zhao, I Vega… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The extent and impact of climate‐related extreme events depend on the underlying
meteorological, hydrological, or climatological drivers as well as on human factors such as …

Vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change: The development of a pan-tropical Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment to inform sub-national decision …

L Parker, C Bourgoin, A Martinez-Valle, P Läderach - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
As climate change continues to exert increasing pressure upon the livelihoods and
agricultural sector of many developing and developed nations, a need exists to understand …