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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition
(Annual Reviews, 2017)Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, ... -
Climate Change and Overfishing Increase Neurotoxicant in Marine Predators
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-08)Over three billion people rely on seafood for nutrition but fish are also the predominant source of exposure to the potent neurotoxicant, methylmercury (MeHg). In the United States (U.S.), 82% of the population-wide MeHg ... -
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010)We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular. All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some ... -
Climate Change as an Intergenerational Problem
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Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence
(MIT Press, 2012)Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and archaeological evidence, although richer ... -
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-07)Migration is a widely used adaptation strategy to climate change impacts. Yet resource constraints caused by such impacts may limit the ability to migrate, thereby leading to immobility. Here, we provide a quantitative, ... -
Climate change: Insurance for a warming planet
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Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)We define the radiative forcings used in climate simulations with the SI2000 version of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) global climate model. These include temporal variations of well-mixed greenhouse gases, ... -
Climate impacts and adaptation in US dairy systems 1981–2018
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-10-21)Temperature and humidity directly influence milk yields, suggesting that climate change may pose a fundamental challenge to maintaining the high productivity of US dairy systems. However, the sensitivity of the dairy sector ... -
The Climate of Early Mars
(Annual Reviews, 2016)The nature of the early martian climate is one of the major unanswered questions of planetary science. Key challenges remain, but a new wave of orbital and in situ observations and improvements in climate modeling have led ... -
Climate policy under uncertainty: a case for solar geoengineering
(Springer Nature, 2012)Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has two characteristics that make it useful for managing climate risk: it is quick and it is cheap. SRM cannot, however, perfectly offset CO2-driven climate change, and its use introduces ... -
Climate response to the increase in tropospheric ozone since preindustrial times: A comparison between ozone and equivalent CO 2 forcings
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)We examine the characteristics of the climate response to anthropogenic changes in tropospheric ozone. Using a general circulation model, we have carried out a pair of equilibrium climate simulations with realistic present-day ... -
Climates of History, Histories of Climate: From History to Archaeoscience
(MIT Press - Journals, 2019-05)The new scientific climate history is about more than just the history of climate. It is developing in a new climate of history; it forms one of several leading edges in archaeoscience, the broader transdisciplinary ... -
A Climatic Driver for Abrupt Mid-Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and the Hemlock Decline in New England
(Ecological Society of America, 2006)The mid-Holocene decline of eastern hemlock is widely viewed as the sole prehistorical example of an insect- or pathogen-mediated collapse of a North American tree species and has been extensively studied for insights into ... -
Climatic Drivers of Hemispheric Asymmetry in Global Patterns of Ant Species Richness
(Blackwell Science, 2009)Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern and southern hemispheres. Here we examine the latitudinal pattern ... -
Climatic Effects of 1950-2050 Changes in US Anthropogenic Aerosols - Part 1: Aerosol Trends and Radiative Forcing
(European Geosciences Union, 2012)We calculate decadal aerosol direct and indirect (warm cloud) radiative forcings from US anthropogenic sources over the 1950–2050 period. Past and future aerosol distributions are constructed using GEOS-Chem and historical ... -
Climatic Effects of 1950-2050 Changes in US Anthropogenic Aerosols - Part 2: Climate Response
(European Geosciences Union, 2012)We investigate the climate response to changing US anthropogenic aerosol sources over the 1950–2050 period by using the NASA GISS general circulation model (GCM) and comparing to observed US temperature trends. Time-dependent ... -
Climatic Impacts of Wind Power
(Elsevier BV, 2018-12)Wind power can impact the climate by altering the atmospheric boundary layer, with at least 40 papers and 10 observational studies now linking wind power to climatic impacts. We make the first comparison between the climatic ... -
Climatic niche shift predicts thermal trait response in one but not both introductions of the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus to Miami, Florida, USA
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Global change is predicted to alter environmental conditions for populations in numerous ways; for example, invasive species often experience substantial shifts in climatic conditions during introduction from their native ... -
Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016)How will ecological communities change in response to climate warming? Direct effects of temperature and indirect cascading effects of species interactions are already altering the structure of local communities, but the ...