Speaking to Carbon Brief when the paper was published in April, co-lead author Dr Colin Carlson, a global change biologist at Georgetown University in Washington DC, explained: The world’s “biodiversity hotspots” and densely populated parts of Asia and Africa are most likely to be affected. It finds that climate change is increasingly driving new encounters between mammal species, raising the risk of novel disease spread. The research uses modelling to map how climate change could shift the geographic ranges of 3,100 mammal species and the viruses they carry by 2070. Published in Nature, the study warns that mammals forced to move to cooler climes amid rising global temperatures are “already” spreading their viruses further – with “undoubtable” impacts for human health. Just outside the overall top 50, in 56th place, is “ Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk”. Those five include two papers on monkeypox (since renamed “mpox”), one on the global burden of drug-resistant bacteria, one that identifies the Epstein-Barr virus as “the leading cause of multiple sclerosis”, and one finding that, in 2020, firearms became the main cause of deaths in children in the US.Ĭontinuing the theme, the most talked-about climate and energy paper of 2022 also relates to the Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic prominenceĪs in 20, the most talked-about scientific research of the past year has been about Covid-19.Īll but five of the 50 highest scoring papers of 2022 relate to the coronavirus. The infographic above shows which papers made it into the top 10, while the chart at the end of the article shows which journals feature most frequently in the top 25. Using Altmetric data for 2022, Carbon Brief has compiled its now-traditional list of the 25 most talked-about climate or energy-related papers that were published the previous year.įrom megafloods to megadroughts and insects to polar bears, last year saw a broad range of headline-grabbing research – as well as a new record-high Altmetric score for a paper in a Carbon Brief annual review. Tracking all these “mentions” was Altmetric, an organisation that scores academic papers according to the media attention they receive. These studies were picked up around the world by online news outlets and shared on social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Frontpages around the world were dominated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and a UK prime minister outlasted by a lettuce.īut in yet another hectic year for news coverage, climate change still made headlines – not least because of the thousands of peer-reviewed journal papers about climate and energy that are published every year.
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