Nature Climate Change Contents December 2011 Volume 1 Number 9 pp 425-478

TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2011 Volume 1, Issue 9 In this Issue Editorial Commentaries News Feature Snapshots Books and Arts Interview Policy Watch Market Watch Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Beyond Boundaries Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Attending the AGU Meeting in San Francisco? Visit us at the Nature Publishing Group booth #1716 to: - 'Spin-the-Wheel' for your chance to win one of many prizes* - Talk to our Advertising Manager about your plans for 2012 - Browse and take free sample copies of leading journals from NPG, including Nature, Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change - Save up to 30% on personal subscriptions *While stocks last.   In this Issue Top In this issue doi:10.1038/nclimate1321 Full Text | PDF Editorial Top Business as usual? p425 doi:10.1038/nclimate1326 The inspirational political leadership needed to tackle dangerous climate change may be lacking, but some business leaders are taking the initiative. Full Text | PDF Commentaries Top Business leaders pp426 - 427 Åsa Persson and Johan Rockström doi:10.1038/nclimate1290 As the United Nations climate negotiations flounder, businesses are forging ahead with their own low-carbon standards. Have we passed a political tipping point for momentum on carbon action? Full Text | PDF An integrated approach to energy sustainability pp428 - 429 David L. McCollum, Volker Krey and Keywan Riahi doi:10.1038/nclimate1297 Policies to protect the global climate offer an effective entry point for achieving society's multiple objectives for energy sustainability. Full Text | PDF News Feature Top Removing the baseline pp430 - 432 Mason Inman doi:10.1038/nclimate1296 Budget cuts earlier this year to the US agency that collects and analyses energy data are worrying industry experts. Many fear that businesses and policymakers won't have vital information to make decisions regarding infrastructure, from building design to grid deployment. Full Text | PDF Snapshots Top The polar bear struggle p433 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1306 Full Text | PDF Bolivia's marchers p434 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1310 Full Text | PDF Books and Arts Top Climate in the media pp435 - 436 Bud Ward doi:10.1038/nclimate1303 Full Text | PDF On our bookshelf p435 doi:10.1038/nclimate1311 Full Text | PDF Interview Top Global warming 'confirmed' pp437 - 438 doi:10.1038/nclimate1292 In October, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, funded in part by climate sceptics, concluded that the Earth is warming based on the most comprehensive review of the data yet. Nature Climate Change talks to the project's director, physicist Richard Muller. Full Text | PDF Policy Watch Top Cleaning up rubbish pp439 - 440 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1305 Rotting food and other biological waste produce potent greenhouse-gas emissions. Tapping these gases and improving recycling rates would reap multiple benefits, reports Sonja van Renssen. Full Text | PDF Market Watch Top Refreshing REDD pp440 - 441 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1308 The United Nations programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has matured substantially in the past year. Now the field must innovate to accommodate its growth, says Anna Petherick. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Mitigation: Accounting for air freight | Mitigation: Gauging unconventional gas | Climatology: On blocking | Energy: Attributing carbon emissions | Ecology: Seaweeds recede | Biogeography: In hot water | Climatology: Feedbacks feeding back | Meteorology: Sooty cyclones | Meteorology: The drought child News and Views Top Ecology: Drought and dead trees pp444 - 445 Richard Birdsey and Yude Pan doi:10.1038/nclimate1298 Drought has emerged as a major threat to the world's forests. A study shows that tree mortality in Canada's boreal forests has increased by nearly 5% per year — much higher than expected — owing to water stress from regional warming. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Changhui Peng et al. Energy: Boosting biofuel yields pp445 - 446 Joseph Fargione doi:10.1038/nclimate1300 Biofuels could be an important energy source, but they compete with food for cropland. An analysis of current crop production suggests that increasing yields of biofuel crops on existing cropland could avoid agricultural expansion and its associated impacts. Full Text | PDF Adaptation: Contributing to the common good pp447 - 448 Shardul Agrawala doi:10.1038/nclimate1307 Public policy and investments alone cannot reduce vulnerability to climate change. Research shows that, with adequate institutional mechanisms, private adaptation choices can play an important role in improving society's climate resilience. Full Text | PDF Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Feedbacks between vegetation and climate - PhD position Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Post-doc Opportunity in Molecular Infection Biology / Microbiology and Chemical Biology Umeå University, Department of Clinical Microbiology and The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) Early Stage Researcher (ESR) PhD project: Palaeogenomic analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletal remains Johannes Gutenberg Univerity Post-Doctoral Fellow University of Western Ontario Research Assistant Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT Environmental Pollution and Public Health 17.05.12 Shanghai, China More science events from Review Top Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries pp449 - 456 U. Rashid Sumaila, William W. L. Cheung, Vicky W. Y. Lam, Daniel Pauly and Samuel Herrick doi:10.1038/nclimate1301 Global marine fisheries research shows how climate change is likely to impact the economics of world fisheries by affecting primary productivity, distribution and the potential yield of exploited species. Despite the gaps in understanding climate change effects on fisheries, the available information highlights the need for mitigation and adapation policies to minimize impacts. Full Text | PDF Letters Top Long-term climate implications of twenty-first century options for carbon dioxide emission mitigation pp457 - 461 P. Friedlingstein, S. Solomon, G-K. Plattner, R. Knutti, P. Ciais and M. R. Raupach doi:10.1038/nclimate1302 Decisions about how soon, how quickly and by how much carbon dioxide emissions are reduced will determine whether the climate target of limiting warming to 2 °C can be met. Research reveals that it will probably only be possible if ambitious reductions are implemented within the next two decades and emissions eventually fall to zero. Full Text | PDF Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement pp462 - 466 Ding Ding, Edward W. Maibach, Xiaoquan Zhao, Connie Roser-Renouf and Anthony Leiserowitz doi:10.1038/nclimate1295 A significant proportion of the US public believe that climate scientists widely disagree about climate change. Now a survey-based study investigates whether this misperception is important and finds that individuals who believe there is broad scientific disagreement tend to feel less certain that global warming is occurring and show less support for climate policy. Full Text | PDF A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada's boreal forests pp467 - 471 Changhui Peng, Zhihai Ma, Xiangdong Lei, Qiuan Zhu, Huai Chen, Weifeng Wang, Shirong Liu, Weizhong Li, Xiuqin Fang and Xiaolu Zhou doi:10.1038/nclimate1293 Drought-induced forest dieback has emerged as a global concern and is expected to increase worldwide under projected future climate change. A study using long-term forest plots now provides a quantitative estimate of drought-induced increase in tree mortality across Canada's boreal forests—one of the most important terrestrial carbon sinks. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Richard Birdsey et al. Importance of background climate in determining impact of land-cover change on regional climate pp472 - 475 A. J. Pitman, F. B. Avila, G. Abramowitz, Y. P. Wang, S. J. Phipps and N. de Noblet-Ducoudré doi:10.1038/nclimate1294 Both greenhouse gas emissions and changes in land use and cover have modified the Earth’s climate since preindustrial times. A modelling study now shows that the impact of land-cover change on regional climate depends critically on how snow cover and rainfall change under increased greenhouse gases. Full Text | PDF Beyond Boundaries Top Social values p478 doi:10.1038/nclimate1309 Biologist Petteri Vihervaara gathered together specialists in geography, ecology, forestry, cultural studies and ethnography to analyse people's attitudes about the ecosystem services of different plantations in the context of rapid afforestation in Uruguay. Full Text | PDF Advertisement Please take a look at this article that recently published in Heredity! A steep cline in ladybird melanism has decayed over 25 years: a genetic response to climate change? 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