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# Climate and Environment Science

Some articles on climate science I came across ... I include here research articles as well as surveys and evaluations.


- Nasa Science: **A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter**, [Part 1](https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2878/a-degree-of-concern-why-global-temperatures-matter/) and [Part 2](https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2865/a-degree-of-concern-why-global-temperatures-matter/). 2019.

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- [The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud](https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/), Feb 2022.
- [How Atmospheric Water Vapor Supercharges Earth's Greenhouse Effect](https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-supercharges-earths-greenhouse-effect/), Feb 2022.
- [Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00695-3), March 2021.
- [Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years](https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3124/global-climate-change-impact-on-crops-expected-within-10-years-nasa-study-finds/), Nov  2021.
- [Earth is headed for well over two degrees of warming](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03507-1), Dec 2021
- [Earth Could Be Alien to Humans by 2500](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-alien-to-humans-by-2500/), Sep 2021.
- [Rainfall at the highest point on the Greenland Ice Sheet](https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2021/08/rain-at-the-summit-of-greenland/). Aug 2021.
- [Signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01097-4), Aug 2021.
- [Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6), July 2021.
- [Climate Change Indicators: Heat-Related Deaths](https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-related-deaths), April 2021.
- [Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00790-5), July 2021.
- [Emissions Gap Report 2020](https://www.unep.org/emissions-gap-report-2020), Dec 2020.
- [The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.15712), Sep 2020.
- [Predicting collapse of adaptive networked systems without knowing the network](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57751-y), Jan 2020.
- [ Macroeconomic and Financial Policies for Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of the Literature](https://lnkd.in/d99xp7Y). IMF Working Paper, Sep 2019. "There is growing agreement between economists and scientists that the tail risks are material and the risk of catastrophic and irreversible disaster is rising, implying potentially infinite costs of unmitigated climate change, including, in the extreme, human extinction"
- [The biomass distribution on Earth](https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/25/6506.full.pdf). "the biomass of humans and the biomass of livestock far surpass that of wild mammals [...] the biomass of domesticated poultry is about threefold higher than that of wild birds. In fact, humans and livestock outweigh all vertebrates combined, with the exception of fish." June 2018.
- [Defeating the Merchants of Doubt](https://www.nature.com/articles/465686a), 2010.
