A study by Noah Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke found that in the past 50 years warming had slowed economic growth in those parts of the world which have emitted the least carbon, perhaps by as much as 25 percent.
Stanford's Gabrielle Wong-Parodi and Jon Krosnick discuss how scholarly research about risk perception can help decisionmakers understand how individuals respond to catastrophic events and implement more effective policies.
“If land loses water, it tends to warm up much more quickly. If all the water is gone, there are no mechanisms to cool down,” said Salvatore Pascale, a research scientist in Earth system science.
Geophysics PhD student Ryan Schultz explained how hydraulic fracturing can cause earthquakes and how to build better practices to manage and mitigate their risks.
The current level of sugarcane production in India is sufficient to supply the amount of ethanol needed to meet E20 by 2030 if ethanol comes entirely from sugarcane juice, according to new research by Ju Young Lee, Steve Gorelick, Roz Naylor and Anjuli Jain Figueroa.
“It’s the road network that really is the key,” said Indraneel Kasmalkar, lead author of a new study with Jenny Suckale analyzing how coastal flooding impacts commute delays.
Stanford researchers contributed to a study that found that the coronavirus shutdowns led to “the longest and most coherent global seismic noise reduction in recorded history.”
"I have grave misgivings about gigaton-scale natural solutions," or forestry offsets, said Rob Jackson. "And gigaton-scale is the only thing that matters when we're talking about the coal and oil and natural gas industries."
“There’s a lot policymakers and companies can do to cut methane emissions. But in most places around the world, we aren’t doing them,” said Stanford scientist Rob Jackson.
Methane emissions have hit a record high, driven by coal mining, oil production, natural gas production, landfills and cattle and sheep ranching, according to research from the Global Carbon Project, an initiative led by Rob Jackson.
"There's a hint that we might be able to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions very soon. But we don't appear to be even close to peak methane," said environmental scientist Rob Jackson.
Global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, have reached the highest levels on record, according to new studies from the Global Carbon Project, a project led by Rob Jackson.
"Cows, oil and gas wells, rice paddies, landfills. These are some of the biggest sources of methane staining the atmosphere today," Rob Jackson and co-authors write in an op-ed describing their newly published studies of global methane emissions.
"Emissions from cattle and other ruminants are almost as large as those from the fossil fuel industry for methane," said Rob Jackson. "People joke about burping cows without realizing how big the source really is."
