Rachel Licker

Datos Biográficos

ID6284576
NOMBRERachel Licker
NOMBRESRachel
APELLIDOLicker
FIRMALICKER R
AFILIACIONESUnion of Concerned Scientists
ORCID0000-0001-7191-0691
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS56
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers

    Open AccessShaina Sadai, Meghana Ranganathan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Global mean sea levels have risen at an accelerating rate over the past century in response, primarily to greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. We use MAGICC7, a reduced complexity climate-carbon cycle model, to quantify how emissions traced to the Carbon Majors, the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers, from 1854–2020 contributed to present-day surface air temperature rise, and sea level rise both historic…

  • Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests

    Open AccessKristina Dahl, John T Abatzoglou et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Increases in burned forest area across the western United States and southwestern Canada over the last several decades have been partially driven by a rise in vapor pressure deficit (VPD), a measure of the atmosphere’s drying power that is significantly influenced by human-caused climate change. Previous research has quantified the contribution of carbon emissions traced back to a set of 88 major fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers to …

  • Quantifying the impact of future extreme heat on the outdoor work sector in the United States

    Open AccessRachel Licker, Kristina Dahl et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2022

    Outdoor workers perform critical societal functions, often despite higher-than-average on-the-job risks and below-average pay. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of days when it is too hot to safely work outdoors, compounding risks to workers and placing new stressors on the personal, local, state, and federal economies that depend on them. After quantifying the number of outdoor workers in the contiguous United States and their…

  • Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers

    Open AccessRachel Licker, B Ekwurzel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Recent research has quantified the contributions of CO 2 and CH 4 emissions traced to the products of major fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers to global atmospheric CO 2 , surface temperature, and sea level rise. This work has informed societal considerations of the climate responsibilities of these major industrial carbon producers. Here, we extend this work to historical (1880–2015) and recent (1965–2015) acidification of the world’…

  • IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

    Open AccessBrian C O''Neill, Michael Oppenheimer et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2017

  • Climate variability and migration in the Philippines

    Open AccessPratikshya Bohra-Mishra, Michael Oppenheimer et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2017Citada por: 23Referencias: 41

    This study investigates the effects of climatic variations and extremes captured by variability in temperature, precipitation, and incidents of typhoons on aggregate inter-provincial migration within the Philippines using panel data. Our results indicate that a rise in temperature and to some extent increased typhoon activity increase outmigration, while precipitation does not have a consistent, significant effect. We also find that temperature a…

  • The influence of climate variability on internal migration flows in South Africa

    Open AccessMarina Mastrorillo, Rachel Licker et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Citada por: 33Referencias: 5

  • Closing the gap

    Open AccessMatt Johnston, Rachel Licker et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011

    Since the end of World War II, global agriculture has undergone a period of rapid intensification achieved through a combination of increased applications of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, the implementation of best management practice techniques, mechanization, irrigation, and more recently, through the use of optimized seed varieties and genetic engineering. However, not all crops and not all regions of the world have realize…

  • Mind the gap

    Open AccessRachel Licker, Matt Johnston et al.ARTICLEGlobal Ecology and Biogeography2010

    Aim As the demands for food, feed and fuel increase in coming decades, society will be pressed to increase agricultural production – whether by increasing yields on already cultivated lands or by cultivating currently natural areas – or to change current crop consumption patterns. In this analysis, we consider where yields might be increased on existing croplands, and how crop yields are constrained by biophysical (e.g. climate) versus management…