Collective behavioural change toward less environmentally-impactful lifestyles, particularly in industrialised nations, remains a substantial and obdurate barrier to mitigating the impacts of serious environmental problems, particularly global climate change.
Achieving Robust Results on the Causes of Recent Global Warming
A recent review discussed the difficulties of applying, through the use of Global Climate Models, the idea of robustness in climatic attribution studies, i.e., the search for the fundamental causes of recent global warming.
The Role of Theology and Imagination in Climate Ethics
In a focus article recently published within WIREs Climate Change, Clingerman and O’Brien analyze these two very different ways of framing the moral problem of climate change, proposing that each leads to different outcomes for climate ethics and policy.
Is Local Knowledge An Extractable Resource?
A team of Fulbright NEXUS researchers takes stock of the literature and charts a path forward for situating the ‘local’ in climate change adaptation. (Image credit: Pekchar/Fotolia)
Amplified Arctic Warming and Mid-Latitude Weather: New Perspectives on Emerging Connections
How the Arctic’s rapid warming may influence weather patterns – and in particular extreme weather events caused by persistent conditions — in heavily populated regions (the mid-latitudes) of the northern hemisphere is discussed in a new article.
Understanding Heat in Australia’s Monsoon Tropics
Australia is well known as a hot country, but how individuals and organizations understand ‘heat’ is surprisingly varied, and is explored in a recent review.
Will the Paris Agreement Accelerate the Pace of Change?
An article recently published explores the main policy and political shifts that the Paris Agreement represents, and explains why this new paradigm of international climate policy, politics and cooperation is key to accelerating the pace of change and avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Climate Information Websites: An Evolving Landscape
The average person seeking climate information is likely to begin with the internet, and this quickly leads to a confusing array of very dissimilar climate information websites. A recent article reviews a representative sample of such websites from across the world, and draws out key issues for consideration in the ongoing evolution of them.
Carbon Pricing in Climate Policy: Seven Reasons
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. As there is much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers.
The Link between Climate Change and Gender Inequality
While women are more likely to express concerns about climate change and to accurately grasp its science, they are also more likely to underestimate their knowledge.