United in science 2023
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Climate Science
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Assessing physical risks from climate change: do companies and financial organizations have sufficient guidance?
The purpose of this paper is to provide companies and financial organizations with a common understanding of climate-related physical risks according to climate science, to identify gaps in the publicly
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State of the Climate 2020
State of the Climate draws on the latest climate research, encompassing observations, analyses and projections to describe year-to-year variability and longer-term changes in Australia’s climate. Co-developed
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More frequent summer heat waves in southwestern China linked to the recent declining of Arctic sea ice
<p>Southwestern China (SWC) has suffered from increasing frequency of heat wave (HW) in recent summers. While the local drought-HW connection is one obvious mechanism for this change, remote controls remain
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Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature
<p>Indigenous Peoples globally are among those who are most acutely experiencing the mental health impacts of climate change; however, little is known about the ways in which Indigenous Peoples globally
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Record-setting ocean warmth continued in 2019
<p>Human-emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) have resulted in a long-term and unequivocal warming of the planet. More than 90% of the excess heat is stored within the world’s oceans, where it accumulates
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Treeline migration and settlement recorded by Himalayan pencil cedar tree-rings in the highest alpine zone of western Himalaya, India
<p>Himalayan pencil cedar (Juniperus polycarpos) is an evergreen tree distributed from Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Kagan valley, Kashmir, Lahaul-Spiti to upper reaches of western Tibet.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Treeline-migration.pdf"
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Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
<p>Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia, raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic climate <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/WWA-attribution_bushfires-March2020.pdf"
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Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models
<p>Equilibrium climate sensitivity, the global surface temperature response to CO$_2$ doubling, has been persistently uncertain. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/climate-sensitivity.pdf"
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Climate risk and response: physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts
After more than 10,000 years of relative stability—the full span of human civilization—the Earth’s climate is changing. As average temperatures rise, climate science finds that acute hazards such as heat
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United in science: high-level synthesis report of latest climate science information convened by the Science Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019
The United in Science Report has been created by the world’s leading climate science organizations who have joined forces to produce a unified assessment in preparation for the United Nations Climate Action