Integrated assessment models (IAMs) typically ignore the impact of climate change on economic growth. These models assume that the shocks caused by climate change impacts dissipate and have no persistence at all, affecting only the period when they occur. Persistence of shocks is a stylized fact of most macroeconomic time series and it provides a mechanism that could justify much larger losses ...

This paper estimates the economic impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. I estimate the e¤ect of random year-to-year variation in weather on agricultural output using a 40-year district-level panel data set covering over 200 Indian districts. These panel estimates incorporate farmers’within-year adaptations to annual weather shocks. I argue that these estimates, derived from short-run ...

Climate change is expected to have a large impact on water resources worldwide. A major problem in assessing the potential impact of a changing climate on these resources is the difference in spatial scale between available climate change projections and water resources management. Regional climate models (RCMs) are often used for the spatial disaggregation of the outputs of global circulation ...

Bioclimatic models aimed assessing a species’ sensitivity to climate change incorporate mean shifts in climate variables; however the more acute threat to the persistence of species may result from increased frequency of extreme climatic events, including increased duration and severity of droughts. Here we assess climate-change sensitivity using niche modeling that unlike bioclimatic modeling ...

Ozone and methane are chemically active climate-forcing agents affected by climate–chemistry interactions in the atmosphere. Key chemical reactions and processes affecting ozone and methane are presented. It is shown that climate-chemistry interactions have a significant impact on the two compounds. Ozone, which is a secondary compound in the atmosphere, produced and broken down mainly in the t...

This bibliometric study of a large publication set dealing with research on climate change aims at mapping the relevant literature from a bibliometric perspective and presents a multitude of quantitative data: (1) The growth of the overall publication output as well as (2) of some major subfields, (3) the contributing journals and countries as well as their citation impact, and (4) a title word...