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 …

Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979

M Rantanen, AY Karpechko, A Lipponen… - … earth & environment, 2022 - nature.com
In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster than in the rest of the
world, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Numerous studies report that the Arctic …

Observationally-constrained projections of an ice-free Arctic even under a low emission scenario

YH Kim, SK Min, NP Gillett, D Notz… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The sixth assessment report of the IPCC assessed that the Arctic is projected to be on
average practically ice-free in September near mid-century under intermediate and high …

Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Lenton, JW Gregg, SM Natali… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus …

Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming

CW Thackeray, A Hall, J Norris, D Chen - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
A key indicator of climate change is the greater frequency and intensity of precipitation
extremes across much of the globe. In fact, several studies have already documented …

Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass

W Zhang, H Wu, J Cheng, J Geng, Q Li, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the temperature divergence between Holocene proxy reconstructions and
model simulations remains controversial, but it possibly results from potential biases in the …

Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia

RM Hantemirov, C Corona, S Guillet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. Putting this rapid warming into
perspective is challenging because instrumental records are often short or incomplete in …

Earth's ice imbalance

T Slater, IR Lawrence, IN Otosaka… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
We combine satellite observations and numerical models to show that Earth lost 28 trillion
tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017. Arctic sea ice (7.6 trillion tonnes), Antarctic ice …