Nature Climate Change Contents January 2012 Volume 2 Number 1 pp 1-58

TABLE OF CONTENTS January 2012 Volume 2, Issue 1 In This Issue Editorial Correspondence Commentaries News Feature Snapshots Interview Policy Watch Market Watch Research Highlights Corrections News and Views Letters Beyond Boundaries Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   WE'RE ONE STEP AWAY FROM A BETTER FUTURE. Click here to meet the 13 finalists for the Zayed Future Energy Prize.   Advertisement The Third Industrial Revolution by bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin A revealing look at how a new global 'Energy Internet' will soon replace the old electrical grids, ending all fossil fuel wars, averting climate change and transforming markets and governments. For more information or to order your copy, click here.   In This Issue Top In this issue doi:10.1038/nclimate1355 Full Text | PDF Editorial Top Don't forget the vulnerable p1 doi:10.1038/nclimate1367 Regardless of what happened at the Durban climate summit, immediate action is required on climate change, and poor nations must be treated fairly. Full Text | PDF Correspondence Top Rapid growth in CO2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis pp2 - 4 Glen P. Peters, Gregg Marland, Corinne Le Quéré, Thomas Boden, Josep G. Canadell and Michael R. Raupach doi:10.1038/nclimate1332 Full Text | PDF Commentaries Top Accounting for carbon removals pp4 - 6 Katharina Plassmann doi:10.1038/nclimate1333 Methods for assessing the carbon footprints of products can favour low- over high-yielding agricultural systems when carbon removals are included. Full Text | PDF Valuing temporary carbon storage pp6 - 8 Annie Levasseur, Miguel Brandão, Pascal Lesage, Manuele Margni, David Pennington, Roland Clift and Réjean Samson doi:10.1038/nclimate1335 Temporary carbon-sequestration and carbon-storage projects help offset fossil-fuel carbon emissions, but how effective are they? Full Text | PDF Islands, resettlement and adaptation pp8 - 10 Jon Barnett and Saffron J. O'Neill doi:10.1038/nclimate1334 Resettlement of people living on islands in anticipation of climate impacts risks maladaptation, but some forms of population movement carry fewer risks and larger rewards in terms of adapting to climate change. Full Text | PDF News Feature Top The final carbon frontier pp11 - 14 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1340 It is responsible for the fastest-growing and second-largest source of carbon emissions, so can transport clean up its act? Europe is leading the charge on tackling the problem. Full Text | PDF Snapshots Top A sinking world p15 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1342 Full Text | PDF In the spirit of Scott p16 Gaia Vince doi:10.1038/nclimate1345 Full Text | PDF Interview Top Fiddling with climate change pp17 - 18 doi:10.1038/nclimate1322 Composer and string musician, turned award-winning environmentalist, Aubrey Meyer tells Nature Climate Change why he is campaigning for countries to adopt his 'contraction and convergence' model of global development to avoid dangerous climate change. Full Text | PDF Policy Watch Top An energy revolution pp19 - 20 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1337 Meeting agreed targets for the decarbonization of Europe's energy sector is a tall order, but progress is being made — Sonja van Renssen reports. Full Text | PDF Market Watch Top Duty down under pp20 - 21 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1339 As Australia anticipates its carbon tax, Anna Petherick contends that of the world's dirtiest economies, this nation is leading the way in the design of policies to price emissions. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Emissions trade: The effects of Kyoto | Ecology: Moving trees | Carbon storage: When peat dries | Oceanography: Atlantic current slowdown | Climatology: Teak record for Burma | Forestry: Selective logging | Technology: Liquid hydrogen | Modelling: Slower warming | Biology: Growing up too fast Corrections Top Feedbacks feeding back p23 doi:10.1038/nclimate1349 Full Text | PDF The drought child p23 doi:10.1038/nclimate1350 Full Text | PDF News and Views Top Policy: National effects of global policy pp24 - 25 David G. Victor doi:10.1038/nclimate1338 It is argued by many that market-based policies along with cash transfers will make it easier for nations to forge deals to cut carbon emissions. However, emission-intensive manufacturing in China and India could be hit especially hard by this approach. Full Text | PDF Carbon cycle: Wind bias and ocean carbon uptake pp25 - 26 Peter R. Gent doi:10.1038/nclimate1299 The systematic bias in the position and strength of the 'roaring forties' that is found in climate models affects our present ability to predict carbon dioxide uptake by the Southern Ocean. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by N. C. Swart et al. Attribution: Robustness of warming attribution pp26 - 27 Robert Vautard and Pascal Yiou doi:10.1038/nclimate1343 Climate change can be robustly attributed to human activities using different datasets, despite uncertainties in the processing of observational data. Full Text | PDF Policy: A challenging future for cars pp28 - 29 David A. Howey doi:10.1038/nclimate1336 The rising demand for road vehicles increases Europe's oil dependency and carbon emissions. Switching to alternative cars and fuels can help energy security and climate change policy, if consumers can be persuaded. Full Text | PDF Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Tier 1 NSERC Canada Research Chair - Climate Change Impacts / Adaptation in Northern Canada Carleton University Senior Researcher Position in Climate and Energy Economics Research Programme on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Researcher Position in Climate and Energy Economics Research Programme on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Climate Projections Research Scientist CSIRO The role of flavonoids in the ecology of some mediterranean species in a global change scenario. UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE - Dipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Vegetali, del Suolo e dell'Ambiente Agroforestale. More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT Environmental Pollution and Public Health (EPPH2012), Special Track within iCBBE2012 17.-20.05.12 Shanghai, China More science events from Letters Top Rapid transgenerational acclimation of a tropical reef fish to climate change pp30 - 32 J. M. Donelson, P. L. Munday, M. I. McCormick and C. R. Pitcher doi:10.1038/nclimate1323 Tropical species are considered especially sensitive to climate change, but research now shows that a tropical reef fish can rapidly acclimate over multiple generations. Acute exposure to a 1.5 °C and 3.0 °C temperature rise decreased an individual’s ability to perform aerobic activities such as swimming or foraging by 15% and 30% respectively, but this did not occur when both parents and offspring were reared at the higher temperature. Full Text | PDF Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes pp33 - 37 Lothar Stramma, Eric D. Prince, Sunke Schmidtko, Jiangang Luo, John P. Hoolihan, Martin Visbeck, Douglas W. R. Wallace, Peter Brandt and Arne Körtzinger doi:10.1038/nclimate1304 One of the impacts of ocean warming is a decrease in dissolved oxygen, with implications for valuable pelagic fish species. A study shows that the oxygenated upper ocean layer in the tropical northeast Atlantic thinned at a rate of around one metre per year between 1960 and 2010, and, by tracking individually tagged fish, demonstrates that this contraction in the oxygenated layer limited the movement of blue marlin. Full Text | PDF Reduced early life growth and survival in a fish in direct response to increased carbon dioxide pp38 - 41 Hannes Baumann, Stephanie C. Talmage and Christopher J. Gobler doi:10.1038/nclimate1291 Adult fish seem relatively resilient to increased carbon dioxide levels, but how early-life-stage fish fare remains less clear. In a study, the estuarine fish Menidia beryllina experienced severely reduced survival and growth rates in its early life stages under levels of ocean acidification expected later this century. This suggests that ocean acidification may affect fish populations, because small changes in early-life survival can generate large fluctuations in adult-fish abundance. Full Text | PDF Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification pp42 - 46 Andrea Y. Frommel, Rommel Maneja, David Lowe, Arne M. Malzahn, Audrey J. Geffen, Arild Folkvord, Uwe Piatkowski, Thorsten B. H. Reusch and Catriona Clemmesen doi:10.1038/nclimate1324 Ocean acidification—resulting from anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere—has been shown to affect fish growth rates and reproduction. Now research shows detrimental effects of ocean acidification on the development of Atlantic cod larvae—a mass-spawning fish species of high commercial importance—suggesting that ocean acidification could cause additional larval mortality, affecting populations of already exploited cod stocks. Full Text | PDF Ocean carbon uptake and storage influenced by wind bias in global climate models pp47 - 52 N. C. Swart and J. C. Fyfe doi:10.1038/nclimate1288 Global climate models have a well-known bias in the position and strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. Research reveals that this bias increases carbon uptake by the ocean, reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, in climate model simulations—a result that should help constrain uncertainties in climate model projections. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Peter R. Gent Increased estimates of air-pollution emissions from Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol pp53 - 57 C-C. Tsao, J. E. Campbell, M. Mena-Carrasco, S. N. Spak, G. R. Carmichael and Y. Chen doi:10.1038/nclimate1325 Biofuels are often promoted as a way of mitigating climate change, but their impacts on climate and air quality remain uncertain. Estimates of air-pollutant emissions from the production and use of sugar-cane ethanol in Brazil indicate that this biofuel may have larger impacts on regional climate and human health than previously thought. Full Text | PDF Beyond Boundaries Top Mapping vulnerabilities p58 doi:10.1038/nclimate1341 With expertise in coastal resources and an interdisciplinary background in marine biology and social science, Tim Daw joined a team of natural and social scientists to study how coastal communities are affected by the impacts of climate change on coral reefs. Full Text | PDF Advertisement Stay connected to Nature Climate Change on: Facebook and Twitter   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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