Shaina Sadai

Hitz Fellow for Litigation-Relevant Science

Shaina Sadai is the former Hitz Fellow for Litigation-Relevant Science at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Selected publications

Sadai, S., Ranganathan, M., Nauels, A., Nicholls, Z., Merner, L.D., Dahl, K.A., Licker, R. and Ekwurzel, B. (2025) Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers. Environmental Research Letters 20, https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f

Sadai, S., Spector, R. A., DeConto, R., and Gomez, N. 2022. The Paris Agreement and climate justice: Inequitable impacts of sea level rise associated with temperature targets. Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF002940.

Dong, Y., Pauling, A. G., Sadai, S., Armour, K. C. 2022. Antarctic ice-sheet meltwater reduces transient warming and climate sensitivity through the sea-surface temperature pattern effect. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101249.

Sadai, S., Condron, A., DeConto, R., Pollard, D. 2020. Future climate response to Antarctic Ice Sheet melt caused by anthropogenic warming, Science Advances. 6(39), 1–9.

DeConto, R.M., Pollard, D., Alley, R.B., Velicogna, I., Gasson, E., Gomez, N., Sadai, S., Condron, A., Gilford, D.M., Ashe, E.L., and Kopp R.E., Li, D., Dutton, A. 2021. The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica. Nature 593(May), 83–89.