Studying the causes of recent climate change

Santer, Benjamin D. (2011) Studying the causes of recent climate change. In: Physics of Sustainable Energy II. AIP Conference Proceedings . UNSPECIFIED, USA, pp. 183-197. ISBN 9780735409729

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Abstract

This chapter describes progress in the field of "detection and attribution" (D&A) research, which seeks to identify certain "fingerprints," or patterns of climate change, and to correlate them with possible human factors influencing the climate. Such studies contributed to the scientific confidence with which the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was able to assert that anthropogenic greenhouse gases had had a discernible effect on global warming since the mid-20th century. D&A methods have greatly improved to incorporate many more climate variables and to include increasingly finer variations in space and time. The chapter also describes the intercomparison of global climate models and the comprehensive data base of model simulations now available to anyone free of charge. The following is the testimony given by Benjamin Santer to the U.S. House of Representative Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, on November 17, 2010. It is adapted from a chapter that Tom Wigley and Benjamin Santer published in a book edited by the late Stephen Schneider [1] and from previous testimony given by Dr. Santer to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.[2]

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	physics and astronomy(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2026 16:31
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2026 16:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102468
DOI:	10.1063/1.3653851

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