Areas of Focus

The Climate Impact Lab is developing highly-resolved climate projection frameworks capable of producing both the detail and the likelihood assessments needed for quantitative assessment of future climate risk.

While it is difficult to tie particular natural disasters to climate change, heat waves are the events scientists can most easily and robustly attribute to man-made changes in the atmosphere.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate-related changes in temperature and precipitation are expected to affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

The Social Cost of Carbon is an essential tool for incorporating the cost of climate change in policy-making, corporate planning and investment decision-making in the US and around the world.

Energy systems as currently designed are poorly prepared for future climatic changes. Rising temperatures, increased competition for water supply, and elevated storm surge risk will affect the cost and reliability of energy supply.

Rising average temperatures, greater temperature variability, and more frequent and severe temperature extremes will make it harder to sustain optimal working conditions for outdoor and indoor labor.

Coastal living carries risk as hurricanes and other coastal storms inflict trillions in property and infrastructure damage each year. Climate change will only elevate these risks.