Nature Climate Change Contents September 2012 Volume 2 Number 9 pp 635-702

TABLE OF CONTENTS September 2012 Volume 2, Issue 9 Editorial Correspondence Commentaries Research Highlights News and Views Perspective Review Letters Article Beyond Boundaries Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Climate Change: Security, Resilience and Diplomacy 15 - 16 October Chatham House, London Senior policymakers, international business leaders, adaptation financiers and climate scientists will discuss strategies to manage the impact of climate change. Keynotes by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC, and Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action.   Editorial Top Clarion call p635 doi:10.1038/nclimate1681 Research scientists and other concerned academics should be more willing to join the climate change debate. Full Text | PDF Correspondence Top Science literacy still matters p636 Mark McCaffrey and Joshua Rosenau doi:10.1038/nclimate1644 Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Dan M. Kahan et al. Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt pp636 - 637 Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, Pieter De Frenne and Arndt Hampe doi:10.1038/nclimate1667 Full Text | PDF See also: Correspondence by Vincent Devictor et al. Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt pp638 - 639 Vincent Devictor, Chris van Swaay, Tom Brereton, Lluís Brotons, Dan Chamberlain, Janne Heliölä, Sergi Herrando, Romain Julliard, Mikko Kuussaari, Åke Lindström, Jirí Reif, David B. Roy, Oliver Schweiger, Josef Settele, Constantí Stefanescu, Arco Van Strien, Chris Van Turnhout, Zdenek Vermouzek, Michiel Wallis De Vries, Irma Wynhoff and Frédéric Jiguet doi:10.1038/nclimate1668 Full Text | PDF See also: Correspondence by Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez et al. Commentaries Top A new paradigm for climate change pp639 - 640 Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows doi:10.1038/nclimate1646 How climate change science is conducted, communicated and translated into policy must be radically transformed if 'dangerous' climate change is to be averted. Full Text | PDF The co-benefits of carbon management on country pp641 - 643 Donna Green and Liz Minchin doi:10.1038/nclimate1643 Carbon offsetting is a fraught science, but there are schemes that have additional benefits beyond their carbon-mitigation value. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Economic impacts: Global flood risk | Emissions accounting: International freight impact | Cryoscience: Loss captured | Mitigation: Climate implications of CCS | Human health: Dengue fever transmission News and Views Top Emissions accounting: China's uncertain CO2 emissions pp645 - 646 Gregg Marland doi:10.1038/nclimate1670 Climate change mitigation commitments and basic carbon-cycle science both require reliable information on carbon dioxide emissions. Uncertainties in energy data and carbon dioxide emissions estimates are particularly important when they involve large emitters. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Dabo Guan et al. Oceanography: Pacific temperature trends pp646 - 647 Mat Collins doi:10.1038/nclimate1673 There has been much debate on how tropical Pacific sea surface temperature will change under global warming. Now research sheds light on this debate by removing the El Niño/Southern Oscillation signal to provide a clearer story. Full Text | PDF See also: Article by Amy Solomon et al. Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Assistant Professor - Climate Change Tufts University California Climate Scientist Union of Concerned Scientists International Climate Protection Fellowships Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Career Opportunities in Climate Research Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) Philomathia Postdoctoral Fellowship in Energy and Climate Research University of California, Berkeley More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT 16th Annual Chatham House Conference on Climate Change 10.-11.10.12 UK More science events from Perspective Top Communication of climate projections in US media amid politicization of model science pp648 - 654 Karen Akerlof, Katherine E. Rowan, Dennis Fitzgerald and Andrew Y. Cedeno doi:10.1038/nclimate1542 The complexity and politicization of climate computer models can hinder communication of their science, uses and limitations. Evidence suggests that information on climate models in US newspapers is declining and that when it appears, it is often within sceptic discourses. Furthermore, model projections are frequently portrayed as probably being inaccurate, and political opinion outlets provide more explanation of model results than many news sources. Full Text | PDF Review Top The hydrology of the humid tropics pp655 - 662 Ellen Wohl, Ana Barros, Nathaniel Brunsell, Nick A. Chappell, Michael Coe, Thomas Giambelluca, Steven Goldsmith, Russell Harmon, Jan M. H. Hendrickx, James Juvik, Jeffrey McDonnell and Fred Ogden doi:10.1038/nclimate1556 Hydrological processes in the humid tropics differ from other regions in having greater energy inputs and faster rates of change. In this Review it is argued that understanding of the key hydrological interactions there remains limited, and a vision of future research designed to address these shortcomings is outlined. Full Text | PDF Letters Top Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings pp663 - 667 Tandong Yao, Lonnie Thompson, Wei Yang, Wusheng Yu, Yang Gao, Xuejun Guo, Xiaoxin Yang, Keqin Duan, Huabiao Zhao, Baiqing Xu, Jiancheng Pu, Anxin Lu, Yang Xiang, Dambaru B. Kattel and Daniel Joswiak doi:10.1038/nclimate1580 Glacial melting in the Tibetan Plateau affects the water resources of millions of people. This study finds that—partly owing to changes in atmospheric circulations and precipitation patterns—the most intensive glacier shrinkage is in the Himalayan region, whereas glacial retreat in the Pamir Plateau region is less apparent. Full Text | PDF Climate–society feedbacks and the avoidance of dangerous climate change pp668 - 671 A. J. Jarvis, D. T. Leedal and C. N. Hewitt doi:10.1038/nclimate1586 Future greenhouse-gas emissions need to deviate from a fossil-fuel intensive scenario to avoid dangerous climate change, and this implies feedback links between climate change and societal actions. Research shows that the global growth of new renewable energy post-1990 represents an annual climate–society feedback of ~0.25% per degree increase in global mean temperature. Full Text | PDF The gigatonne gap in China’s carbon dioxide inventories pp672 - 675 Dabo Guan, Zhu Liu, Yong Geng, Sören Lindner and Klaus Hubacek doi:10.1038/nclimate1560 Reliable statistics are important for both climate science and international negotiations about emission-reduction targets. However, China is often questioned in terms of its data transparency and accuracy. Now researchers have compiled the carbon dioxide emission inventories for China and its 30 provinces for the period 1997–2010, and found a 1.4 gigatonne discrepancy between national and provincial inventories in 2010. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Gregg Marland Vulnerability of US and European electricity supply to climate change pp676 - 681 Michelle T. H. van Vliet, John R. Yearsley, Fulco Ludwig, Stefan Vögele, Dennis P. Lettenmaier and Pavel Kabat doi:10.1038/nclimate1546 Thermoelectric power in Europe and the United States is vulnerable to climate change. Here research relates lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures as a result of climate change to thermoelectric plant capacity. Summer average capacity can decrease by 6.3–19% in Europe and 4.4–16% in the United States, depending on the cooling system type and climate scenario for 2031–2060. Full Text | PDF Timing of carbon emissions from global forest clearance pp682 - 685 J. Mason Earles, Sonia Yeh and Kenneth E. Skog doi:10.1038/nclimate1535 Agricultural expansion and deforestation contribute to approximately 17% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The fate of cleared wood and subsequent carbon storage as wood products, however, has not been consistently estimated. Now research fills this gap and shows that 30 years after forest clearance the percentage of carbon stored in wood products and landfills ranges from about 0% to 62% globally. Full Text | PDF Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals pp686 - 690 Jennifer M. Sunday, Amanda E. Bates and Nicholas K. Dulvy doi:10.1038/nclimate1539 Using a comprehensive data set of thermal tolerance limits, latitudinal range boundaries and latitudinal range shifts of cold-blooded animals, this study explores the likely consequences of climate change for the geographical redistribution of terrestrial and marine species at a global scale. Full Text | PDF Article Top Reconciling disparate twentieth-century Indo-Pacific ocean temperature trends in the instrumental record pp691 - 699 Amy Solomon and Matthew Newman doi:10.1038/nclimate1591 Accurately characterizing natural versus forced sea surface temperature variability in observations is needed to validate and verify climate models used for projections of future climate change. This study successfully resolves previous large discrepancies in estimated tropical Indo-Pacific twentieth-century trends between observationally based sea surface temperature reconstructions. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Mat Collins Beyond Boundaries Top Building consistency p702 doi:10.1038/nclimate1671 Integrated assessment modeller Elmar Kriegler worked with experts in climate change impacts, adaptation and scenario analysis to develop a shared framework for socio-economic scenarios in climate change research. 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