Country-level social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach
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Human drivers of national greenhouse-gas emissions
Human stress on the environment has long been debated and different views about the human drivers of greenhouse-gas emissions have emerged. Now research synthesizes the debate by looking at empirical evidence
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Climate change and the South Asian summer monsoon
More than one billion people live in regions affected by the South Asian summer monsoon. This Review provides an overview of our understanding of summer monsoon rainfall variability and its causes, and
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Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard
In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats in the United States proposed mandating clean electricity generation. Research has now analysed public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES) and
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Twenty-first-century projections of North Atlantic tropical storms from CMIP5 models
This study looks at changes in North Atlantic tropical storm occurrence in the twenty-first century, and finds that over the first half of the century, storm frequency increases were caused by radiative
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Impact of intensified Indian Ocean winds on mesoscale variability in the Agulhas system
South of Africa, the Agulhas ocean current system transports warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. This study shows that the mesoscale variability of the Agulhas system has intensified
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Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for structurally novel ecosystems
Increasing shrub cover on Arctic tundra is linked to climate warming, which is partially amplified by sea ice feedbacks, but the nature of these interactions remains poorly understood. Now research indicates
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Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change
Using information on current species distributions and dispersal traits, this study forecasts climate-driven range dynamics of plant species across the European Alps. Simulations predict moderate range
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Coral resilience to ocean acidification and global warming through pH up-regulation
This study provides a quantitative approach that predicts the response of coral calcification to the combined effects of ocean acidification and global warming. The analysis suggests that warm-water aragonitic
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Transfer payments in global climate policy
An international agreement on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions requires large financial flows from richer to poorer countries. However, the amount and justification for such transfers is still contested.
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Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings
The Tibetan Plateau and surroundings contain the largest number of glaciers outside the polar regions. These glaciers are at the headwaters of many prominent Asian rivers and are largely experiencing shrinkage,