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TABLE OF CONTENTS April 2012 Volume 2, Issue 4 In This Issue Editorial Correspondence Commentary News Feature Snapshots Books and Arts Interview Policy Watch Market Watch Research Highlights News and Views Perspective Review Letters Article Corrigendum Beyond Boundaries Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Planet Under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge Towards Solutions 26-29 March 2012, London, UK REGISTER NOW Join more than 2500 delegates and renowned plenary speakers at this major international conference. More than 100 sessions and side events will provide a state of the planet assessment for Rio +20. Final programme now available at www.planetunderpressure2012.net In This Issue Top In this issue doi:10.1038/nclimate1484 Full Text | PDF Editorial Top We are one p211 doi:10.1038/nclimate1488 Nature Climate Change is one year old. Here we reflect on the aims and scope of the journal, using articles from this issue as illustrative examples. Full Text | PDF Correspondence Top Decomposing the 2010 global carbon dioxide emissions rebound pp213 - 214 Frank Jotzo, Paul J. Burke, Peter J. Wood, Andrew Macintosh and David I. Stern doi:10.1038/nclimate1450 Full Text | PDF Commentary Top Psychological effectiveness of carbon labelling pp214 - 217 Geoffrey Beattie doi:10.1038/nclimate1468 Despite the decision by supermarket-giant Tesco to delay its plan to add carbon-footprint information onto all of its 70,000 products, carbon labelling, if carefully designed, could yet change consumer behaviour. However, it requires a new type of thinking about consumers and much additional work. Full Text | PDF News Feature Top Cooking up fuel pp218 - 220 Mason Inman doi:10.1038/nclimate1466 Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could solve our waste and energy problems at the same time, by turning one into the other? Attempts have been made to do just that, by making fuel from waste through pyrolysis. Full Text | PDF Snapshots Top Arctic melt leads to weather extremes p221 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1474 Full Text | PDF A drop to drink p222 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1475 Full Text | PDF Books and Arts Top An unwinnable fight pp223 - 224 doi:10.1038/nclimate1459 Full Text | PDF On our bookshelf p223 doi:10.1038/nclimate1485 Full Text | PDF Interview Top Living in the doughnut pp225 - 226 doi:10.1038/nclimate1457 Kate Raworth, a senior researcher at the aid charity Oxfam, has created a doughnut-shaped concept for achieving 11 societal goals within the framework of 9 planetary boundaries. She talks to Nature Climate Change about a safe and just operating space for humanity. Full Text | PDF Policy Watch Top Europe walks its talk pp227 - 228 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1464 The European Union has proposed an impressive budget that 'mainstreams' its climate commitments across funding sectors, but will it reduce carbon emissions, asks Sonja van Renssen. Full Text | PDF Market Watch Top Enumerating adaptation pp228 - 229 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1472 As poor nations put together their climate change budgets and strategies, Anna Petherick looks at the challenges of calculating national costs of adapting to global warming. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Economics: China's export carbon tax | Biodiversity: Rarity value | Ecology: No escaping the heat | Climate feedbacks: Open water and cloudy skies | Psychology: Moral dimension | Impacts: Climate and health | Meterology: Skating on thin ice | Biogeochemistry: High Arctic carbon News and Views Top Climate modelling: IPCC gazes into the future pp232 - 233 Sarah Raper doi:10.1038/nclimate1467 In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will report on the next set of future greenhouse-gas emission scenarios, offering a rational alternative pathway for avoiding dangerous climate change. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Joeri Rogelj et al. Health: A new measure of health effects pp233 - 234 Patrick L. Kinney doi:10.1038/nclimate1460 It has long been known that temperature extremes are associated with an increased risk of death. Research now directly relates future climate warming to people's lifetime. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Cunrui Huang et al. Soil science: Fungal friends against drought pp234 - 235 Johan Six doi:10.1038/nclimate1392 Fungal-based food webs of undisturbed grasslands resist and adapt to the effects of drought more than bacterial-based food webs of agricultural soils, indicating how soil biota might be able to withstand long-term climate change. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Franciska T. de Vries et al. Sociology: Shaping US climate opinion pp236 - 237 Steven R. Brechin doi:10.1038/nclimate1469 Exposure to scientific information cannot explain entirely the levels of public concern about global warming in the United States. Now research shows that US views on climate change are largely affected by the actions of political groups. Full Text | PDF Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Senior Researcher in Evolutionary Plant Ecology Aarhus University of Denmark Researcher in Climate & Computing Climate Risk Analysis Two PhD Fellowships - Environment & development studies (2012 / 474) Norwegian University of Life Sciences Full Professorship (W3) for Polar Biological Oceanography University of Bremen/ Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Professor of Human-Environment Systems ETH Zurich More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT The Mars Recent Climate Change Workshop 15.-17.05.12 California, USA More science events from Perspective Top Climate change-driven species' range shifts filtered by photoperiodism pp239 - 242 Kari Saikkonen, Kari Taulavuori, Terho Hyvönen, Pedro E. Gundel, Cyd E. Hamilton, Irene Vänninen, Anne Nissinen and Marjo Helander doi:10.1038/nclimate1430 Shifts in the geographic distribution of species caused by climate change could detrimentally affect ecosystems and biodiversity. This Perspective highlights the importance of adaptations to day length in predicting the latitudinal range shifts of different species under global warming. Full Text | PDF Review Top Climate change and moral judgement pp243 - 247 Ezra M. Markowitz and Azim F. Shariff doi:10.1038/nclimate1378 Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that climate change fails to generate strong moral intuitions and therefore it does not stimulate an urgent need for action. However, adequate communication strategies could enhance moral intuitions about climate change and therefore motivate greater support for ameliorative actions and policies. Full Text | PDF Letters Top Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates pp248 - 253 Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen and Reto Knutti doi:10.1038/nclimate1385 Models and scenarios on which climate projection are based vary between IPCC reports. To facilitate meaningful comparison, this study provides probabilistic climate projections for different scenarios in a single consistent framework, incorporating the overall consensus understanding of the uncertainty in climate sensitivity, and constrained by the observed historical warming. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Sarah Raper Limited forcing of glacier loss through land-cover change on Kilimanjaro pp254 - 258 Thomas Mölg, Martin Großhauser, Andreas Hemp, Marlis Hofer and Ben Marzeion doi:10.1038/nclimate1390 A study shows that regional atmospheric change driven by land-cover change contributes little to glacier mass loss on Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. More generally, this finding suggests that local land-cover change may have limited impact on mountain glaciers in the tropics and elsewhere, compared with that of global climate change. Full Text | PDF Earlier wine-grape ripening driven by climatic warming and drying and management practices pp259 - 264 L. B. Webb, P. H. Whetton, J. Bhend, R. Darbyshire, P. R. Briggs and E. W. R. Barlow doi:10.1038/nclimate1417 Trends in phenological phases associated with climate change are widely reported, yet attribution remains rare. Attribution analysis of trends in wine-grape maturity in Australia indicates that two climate variables—warming and declines in soil water content—are driving a major portion of the earlier-ripening trend. Crop-yield reductions and evolving management practices have also contributed. Full Text | PDF The impact of temperature on years of life lost in Brisbane, Australia pp265 - 270 Cunrui Huang, Adrian G. Barnett, Xiaoming Wang and Shilu Tong doi:10.1038/nclimate1369 Previous research has examined temperature-related excess deaths or mortality risks. A study now uses years of life lost to provide a new measure of the impact of temperature on mortality, and finds an increase in the years of life lost for cold and hot temperatures. The loss will greatly increase further if future temperature rise goes beyond 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Patrick L. Kinney Changes in marine dinoflagellate and diatom abundance under climate change pp271 - 275 Stephanie L. Hinder, Graeme C. Hays, Martin Edwards, Emily C. Roberts, Anthony W. Walne and Mike B. Gravenor doi:10.1038/nclimate1388 There has been concern that climate change may cause increases in harmful algal blooms (HABs). Research now shows that previously abundant HAB and non-HAB dinoflagellates have decreased since 2006, whereas common diatoms, including both HAB and non-HAB species, have recently increased in abundance. Full Text | PDF Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought pp276 - 280 Franciska T. de Vries, Mira E. Liiri, Lisa Bjørnlund, Matthew A. Bowker, Søren Christensen, Heikki M. Setälä and Richard D. Bardgett doi:10.1038/nclimate1368 A study shows that soil food webs directly help mitigate the effects of drought on soil nutrients. The fungal-based food webs of grassland were more resistant to bouts of drought than the bacterial-based food webs of intensively managed wheat, and retained more carbon and nitrogen in the soil. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Johan Six Biotic carbon feedbacks in a materially closed soil–vegetation–atmosphere system pp281 - 284 Alexandru Milcu, Martin Lukac, Jens-Arne Subke, Pete Manning, Andreas Heinemeyer, Dennis Wildman, Robert Anderson and Phil Ineson doi:10.1038/nclimate1448 Feedbacks between the living and non-living components of the terrestrial carbon cycle present a major source of uncertainty in climate predictions. Now research using materially closed soil-vegetation-atmosphere chamber experiments with carbon amounts proportional to the main terrestrial carbon pools suggests that short-term biotic responses could potentially buffer a temperature increase of 2.3 °C without significant positive feedbacks to atmospheric carbon dioxide. Full Text | PDF Climate-induced range contraction drives genetic erosion in an alpine mammal pp285 - 288 Emily M. Rubidge, James L. Patton, Marisa Lim, A. Cole Burton, Justin S. Brashares and Craig Moritz doi:10.1038/nclimate1415 A comparison of specimens collected from the same locations but nearly a century apart shows that an alpine chipmunk has suffered reduced genetic diversity and gene flow as a result of climate-driven habitat loss in Yosemite National Park, USA. This study highlights one important impact of climate change on biodiversity Full Text | PDF Article Top Global trends in tropical cyclone risk pp289 - 294 P. Peduzzi, B. Chatenoux, H. Dao, A. De Bono, C. Herold, J. Kossin, F. Mouton and O. Nordbeck doi:10.1038/nclimate1410 Assessments of tropical cyclone risk trends are typically based on reported losses, which are biased by improvements in information access. Now research based on thousands of physically observed events and contextual factors shows that, despite projected reductions in tropical cyclone frequency, projected increases in demographic pressure and tropical cyclone intensity can be expected to exacerbate disaster risk. Full Text | PDF Corrigendum Top Increased estimates of air-pollution emissions from Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol p294 C-C. Tsao, J. E. Campbell, M. Mena-Carrasco, S. N. Spak, G. R. Carmichael and Y. Chen doi:10.1038/nclimate1471 Full Text | PDF Beyond Boundaries Top More than carbon price p296 doi:10.1038/nclimate1470 In collaboration with experts in agroforestry, agricultural economics and policy, development economist Utkur Djanibekov estimated the viability of small-scale Clean Development Mechanism afforestation in Uzbekistan. Full Text | PDF Advertisement Microbes in thawing permafrost: the unknown variable in the climate change equation FREE David E Graham et al The ISME Journal ¦ doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.163 Considering that 25% of Earth's terrestrial surface is underlain by permafrost, our understanding of the diversity of microbial life in this extreme habitat is surprisingly limited. 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