The next time you encounter a climate projection — in a news article, in a risk assessment, in an economic outlook — take a moment to acknowledge the under-appreciated integrated assessment model.

Global climate mitigation scenarios are essential for designing effective strategies to counter climate change. Integrated assessment models (IAMs), which project these scenarios, commonly use the ...

Over the past four years, the Biden Administration relied extensively on integrated assessment models (IAMs) to quantify the economic effects of carbon-dioxide emissions via a construct known as the ...

Climate change has serious consequences for the environment and people and is a major threat to economic stability. A new assessment reviews innovative, integrated research that underpins the economic ...

“Science has worked, and always will work, through a process of constant interrogation and review, whether that be during the course of research, in peer review or in post publication assessment,” ...

B. H. Strauss, S. Kulp, A. Levermann, Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 13508–13513 (2015 ...

From heat domes in the Pacific Northwest to floods in Henan, China, 2021 has been a year riddled with extreme weather events. Identifying appropriate ways to tackle climate change is more crucial and ...

Jia Xing, Xi Lu, Shuxiao Wang, Tong Wang, Dian Ding, Sha Yu, Drew Shindell, Yang Ou, Lidia Morawska, Siwei Li, Lu Ren, Yuqiang Zhang, Dan Loughlin, Haotian Zheng, Bin ...

Climate systems are social systems, too, and political scientists and the foreign policy community need to take that into account Climate models are complicated things. They must consider a staggering ...

The DSCIM model, which was adopted by the Biden Administration, attempts to quantify the social cost of carbon (SCC). Adjusting DSCIM to more reasonable assumptions results in a substantial reduction ...