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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The gigatonne gap in China’s carbon dioxide inventories
Reliable statistics are important for both climate science and international negotiations about emission-reduction targets. However, China is often questioned in terms of its data transparency and accuracy.
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Vulnerability of US and European electricity supply to climate change
Thermoelectric power in Europe and the United States is vulnerable to climate change. Here research relates lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures as a result of climate change to
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Timing of carbon emissions from global forest clearance
Agricultural expansion and deforestation contribute to approximately 17% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The fate of cleared wood and subsequent carbon storage as wood products, however, has not been
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Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals
Using a comprehensive data set of thermal tolerance limits, latitudinal range boundaries and latitudinal range shifts of cold-blooded animals, this study explores the likely consequences of climate change
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Reconciling disparate twentieth-century Indo-Pacific ocean temperature trends in the instrumental record
Accurately characterizing natural versus forced sea surface temperature variability in observations is needed to validate and verify climate models used for projections of future climate change. This study
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Geothermal energy in China
The potential for power generation from geothermal energy in China is vast but as yet largely untapped.
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Measuring the carbon emissions of megacities
Carbon emissions from cities represent the single largest human contribution to climate change. Here we present a vision, strategy and roadmap for an international framework to assess directly the carbon
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Agricultural futures
Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Recently she has taken on another role co-leading the Agricultural Model Intercomparison
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Legislating for energy efficiency
Full implementation of the European Union's new energy-efficiency law faces many hurdles, explains Sonja van Renssen.
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Relative outcomes of climate change mitigation related to global temperature versus sea-level rise
A modelling study shows that cutting greenhouse-gas emissions has the potential to stabilize global temperature increases, but predicts that sea level will continue to rise for centuries, and rapidly so,