Recent Global Climate Change-Related News and Publications

A sampling of what CDIAC staff members have been following:

• NOAA's State of the Climate Report for 2012. Released January, 2013.
• Global Temperature Update Through 2012 - J. Hansen et al. (NASA-GISS). January, 2013.
• New Scientist has produced the Your Warming World interface that enables plotting the above Hansen et al. temperature anomaly data for anywhere in the world. January, 2013.
• NOAA's Arctic Report Card - Arctic continues to break records in 2012: Becoming warmer, greener region with record losses of summer sea ice and late spring snow. December, 2012.
• The challenge to keep global warming below 2°C, Peters, G.P. et al., 2012, Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/nclimate1783.
• Spring snow cover extent reductions in the 2008–2012 period exceeding climate model projections , C. Derksen and R. Brown, 2012, Geophysical Research Letters 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL053387.
• International Surface Temperature Initiative, The first beta version of the global land surface databank, constructed under the auspices of the International Surface Temperature Initiative’s Databank Working Group, contains monthly average temperatures from stations around the globe that have been made available without restriction. October, 2012.
• Dead Heat: Overturning the World's Hottest Temperature, Weather Underground Inc., 2012.
• Perception of climate change, James Hansen, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy, 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205276109.
• Trends in record-breaking temperatures for the conterminous United States, Clinton M. Rowe and Logan E. Derry, 2012, Geophysical Research Letters 39, doi: 10.1029/2012GL052775.
• Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions, Nancy L. Harris, Sandra Brown, Stephen C. Hagen, Sassan S. Saatchi, Silvia Petrova, William Salas, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Alexander Lotsch, 2012, Science 336(6088) 1573-1576, doi:10.1126/science.1217962.
• Localized subduction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the Southern Hemisphere oceans, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Richard J. Matear, Stephen R. Rintoul & Andrew Lenton, 2012, Nature Geoscience 5, 579–584, doi:10.1038/ngeo1523.
• U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2011, U.S. Energy Information Administration (2012).
• Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years, A. P. Ballantyne, C. B. Alden, J. B. Miller, P. P. Tans and J. W. C. White, 2012, Nature 488, 70–72 doi:10.1038/nature11299.
• Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Dennis Baldocchi, T. Andrew Black, Allen H. Goldstein, Beverly E. Law, Walter C. Oechel, Kyaw Tha Paw U & Russel L. Scott, 2012, Nature Geoscience 5, 551–556, doi:10.1038/ngeo1529
• Climate Change: Lines of Evidence Booklet, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2012.