Climate Change

Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)

This paper assesses whether ExxonMobil Corporation has in the past misled the general public about climate change. We present an empirical document-by-document textual content analysis and comparison of 187 climate change communications from ExxonMobil, including peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, internal company documents, and paid, editorial-style advertisements ('advertorials') in The New York Times.

Publication Date: 
23/08/2017
Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes
Environmental Research Letters
12
8
1-19
Tags:
Energy, Industry, United States Of America (US), Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science
Climate Change

Minimal geological methane emissions during the Younger Dryas–Preboreal abrupt warming event

Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas and plays a key part in global atmospheric chemistry. Natural geological emissions (fossil methane vented naturally from marine and terrestrial seeps and mud volcanoes) are thought to contribute around 52 teragrams of methane per year to the global methane source, about 10 per cent of the total, but both bottom-up methods (measuring emissions)1 and top-down approaches (measuring atmospheric mole fractions and isotopes)2 for constraining these geological emissions have been associated with large uncertainties.

Publication Date: 
24/08/2017
Vasilii V. Petrenko, Andrew M. Smith, Hinrich Schaefer & et al
Nature
548
443–446
Tags:
Global Warming, Methane, Climate Science, Green House Gases, Climate Change, Antarctica, Fossil Fuels
Climate Change

Building capacity for risk management in a changing climate: a synthesis report from the Raising Risk Awareness project

This report provides a summary of the Raising Risk Awareness project’s results and learning. In summarising both the project’s activities and stakeholders’ responses, this report may prove useful to scientists, development agencies and civil society-based organisations who wish to build on this foundational work in the future.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2017
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Science, Extreme Weather Events, Droughts, Floods, Heat Waves, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Bangladesh, Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

Climate change over India: an interim report

This Interim Report on Climate Change over India prepared by the Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR) in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, is intended to provide a brief overview of (a) Updated assessment of observed climate change over India (b) Future climate projections over India (c) Development of the IITM Earth

Publication Date: 
27/07/2017
R. Krishnan, J. Sanjay
Centre for Climate Change Research
Tags:
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, India, Rainfall, Monsoons, Climate Science
Climate Change

Raising risk awareness: using climate science for disaster risk management

This policy brief concludes that, from the climate science perspective, results show the 2016-17 drought is less severe than the 2010-11 drought in Lamu, while in Marsabit they are comparable. In general, the return time of the event over the regions analysed was low, meaning that this kind of drought is a relatively common event.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2017
Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS)
Tags:
Disaster Management, Climate Science, Kenya, Droughts, Disaster Preparedness, Africa

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