A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

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 …

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 …

Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

K Rennert, F Errickson, BC Prest, L Rennels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) measures the monetized value of the damages
to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO2 emissions and is a key metric …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 C

M Meinshausen, J Lewis, C McGlade, J Gütschow… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Over the last five years prior to the Glasgow Climate Pact, 154 Parties have submitted new
or updated 2030 mitigation goals in their nationally determined contributions and 76 have …

The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA

M Burke, ML Childs, B de la Cuesta, M Qiu, J Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Steady improvements in ambient air quality in the USA over the past several decades, in
part a result of public policy,, have led to public health benefits,,–. However, recent trends in …

Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

FC Moore, K Lacasse, KJ Mach, YA Shin, LJ Gross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential in determining
greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the scale of climate change impacts …

Toward solar-driven carbon recycling

H Lin, S Luo, H Zhang, J Ye - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Carbon recycling will become a dominant trend toward alleviating extreme climate change
and coping with the increasing energy demand in the coming years. Solar-driven strategies …

RCP8.5 tracks cumulative CO2 emissions

CR Schwalm, S Glendon… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate simulation-based scenarios are routinely used to characterize a range of plausible
climate futures. Despite some recent progress on bending the emissions curve, RCP8. 5, the …