Nature Climate Change Contents November 2013 Volume 3 Number 11 pp 939-1001

TABLE OF CONTENTS November 2013 Volume 3, Issue 11 Editorial Correspondence Commentaries Feature Policy Watch Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Article Corrigendum Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Nature Outlook Agriculture and Drought Climate change's potentially devastating impact on our ability to feed a growing population.  Access the Outlook free online for six months.      Editorial Top Adapting to a changing climate p939 doi:10.1038/nclimate2048 Dealing with the impacts of climate change is better than suffering their full extent — even if it's not the best possible outcome — but to what extent are we doing so? Correspondence Top Observational challenges in evaluating climate models pp940 - 941 Mat Collins, Krishna AchutaRao, Karumuri Ashok, Satyendra Bhandari, Ashis K. Mitra, Satya Prakash, Rohit Srivastava and Andrew Turner doi:10.1038/nclimate2012 Prudence on solar climate engineering p941 Ken Caldeira and Katharine L. Ricke doi:10.1038/nclimate2036 Beyond vulnerability assessment pp942 - 943 Rob Swart, Sabine Fuss, Michael Obersteiner, Paolo Ruti, Claas Teichmann and Robert Vautard doi:10.1038/nclimate2029 Commentaries Top Private-sector adaptation to climate risk pp943 - 945 Swenja Surminski doi:10.1038/nclimate2040 A small but growing number of companies are addressing climate risks; however, a range of barriers limit wider private-sector adaptation efforts, particularly in developing countries. Flooding the market pp945 - 947 Diane Horn and Michael McShane doi:10.1038/nclimate2025 A flood insurance market with risk-based prices in the UK will only stimulate climate change adaptation if it is part of a wider strategy that includes land-use planning, building regulations and water management. Loss and damage pp947 - 949 Saleemul Huq, Erin Roberts and Adrian Fenton doi:10.1038/nclimate2026 Loss and damage is a relative newcomer to the climate change agenda. It has the potential to reinvigorate existing mitigation and adaptation efforts, but this will ultimately require leadership from developed countries and enhanced understanding of several key issues, such as limits to adaptation. Feature Top Rain from space p950 Bronwyn Wake doi:10.1038/nclimate2042 Policy Watch Top A business case for green fuels pp951 - 952 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate2038 With the promise of natural and shale gas for the power sector, the oil-chained transport sector remains climate policymakers' biggest headache. Within transport, the emergence of different types of fuel is itself a big issue, as Sonja van Renssen explains. Research Highlights Top Ecological impacts: Ecosystem transformation | Ecological impacts: Forest flattening | Cryoscience: Ice retreat | Mitigation: Climate policy benefits | Governance: Boundary agency News and Views Top Biological oceanography: Some phytoplankton like it hot pp954 - 955 Jack A. Gilbert doi:10.1038/nclimate2030 Phytoplankton drive productivity in the global ocean, but are sensitive to changes in temperature. Research now demonstrates how phytoplankton cells respond to an increase in seawater temperature and uses this knowledge to predict the resultant impacts on global marine biogeochemistry. See also: Letter by A. Toseland et al. Agricultural impacts: Big data insights into pest spread pp955 - 957 Karen A. Garrett doi:10.1038/nclimate2041 Pests and diseases reduce agricultural yields and are an important wildcard in the evaluation of future climate impacts. A unique global record of pests and diseases provides evidence for poleward expansions of their distributions. Ocean–atmosphere interactions: Bottom up in the tropics pp957 - 958 Qiang Fu doi:10.1038/nclimate2039 A study reveals that recent warming in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific 'warm pool' has caused a cooling near the top of the tropical troposphere above, leading to less water vapour entering the stratosphere. Adaptation: The complexity of climate justice pp959 - 960 Benjamin K. Sovacool doi:10.1038/nclimate2037 The effects of climate change on vulnerable communities raise ethical concerns about who should help them cope and how. Research suggests that fair and beneficial solutions are possible, but they always come with risks. Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week West Antarctic Climate Modeller British Antarctic Survey Climate Scientists Union of Concerned Scientists Faculty position(s): Solar Energy The Cyprus Institute Diversity and Biogeography of Atlantic Forest Opiliones Instituto de Biociências - Universidade de São Paulo Vice-President Research University of Victoria More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT 2nd Annual International Conference on Ecology, Ecosystems and Climate Change 14.07.14 London, UK More science events from   Review Top The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation pp961 - 968 Carlos M. Duarte, Iñigo J. Losada, Iris E. Hendriks, Inés Mazarrasa and Núria Marbà doi:10.1038/nclimate1970 Marine vegetated habitats occupy a small fraction of the ocean surface, but contribute about 50% of the carbon that is buried in marine sediments. In this Review the potential benefits of conservation, restoration and use of these habitats for coastal protection and climate change mitigation are assessed. Letters Top Challenges in quantifying Pliocene terrestrial warming revealed by data–model discord pp969 - 974 Ulrich Salzmann, Aisling M. Dolan, Alan M. Haywood, Wing-Le Chan, Jochen Voss, Daniel J. Hill, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Frances J. Bragg, Mark A. Chandler, Camille Contoux, Harry J. Dowsett, Anne Jost, Youichi Kamae, Gerrit Lohmann, Daniel J. Lunt, Steven J. Pickering, Matthew J. Pound, Gilles Ramstein, Nan A. Rosenbloom, Linda Sohl, Christian Stepanek, Hiroaki Ueda and Zhongshi Zhang doi:10.1038/nclimate2008 A global data set of proxy-based temperature estimates and biome reconstructions is used to assess the ability of eight climate models to simulate the warm environments of the Pliocene. Model results show a substantial cold bias in the Northern Hemisphere. Sensitivity tests identify temporal variability, the temperature difference over the proxy time range, as an important factor in model–data discrepancies, indicating that future comparisons should focus on time slices with the same orbital forcing. Global warming amplified by reduced sulphur fluxes as a result of ocean acidification pp975 - 978 Katharina D. Six, Silvia Kloster, Tatiana Ilyina, Stephen D. Archer, Kai Zhang and Ernst Maier-Reimer doi:10.1038/nclimate1981 Using computer simulations, this study quantifies the potential effect of ocean acidification on marine biogenic sulphur emissions and the resulting feedback mechanisms on future climate. It emphasizes that a reduction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is not only necessary to limit the negative effects of ocean acidification on marine life, but also to avoid amplified climate warming due to changes in biogenic sulphur production. The impact of temperature on marine phytoplankton resource allocation and metabolism pp979 - 984 A. Toseland, S. J. Daines, J. R. Clark, A. Kirkham, J. Strauss, C. Uhlig, T. M. Lenton, K. Valentin, G. A. Pearson, V. Moulton and T. Mock doi:10.1038/nclimate1989 The effect of temperature on marine phytoplankton growth strategies, metabolism and composition is studied using a range of techniques. This approach indicates that temperature plays a previously unrecognized, critical role in resource allocation and marine phytoplankton elemental ratios, with implications for biogeochemical cycling. See also: News and Views by Jack A. Gilbert Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world pp985 - 988 Daniel P. Bebber, Mark A. T. Ramotowski and Sarah J. Gurr doi:10.1038/nclimate1990 The extent to which crop pests and pathogens have altered their latitudinal ranges in response to climate change remains largely unknown. Now observations of hundreds of pests and pathogens reveal an average poleward shift of 2.7±0.8 km yr−1 since 1960, supporting the hypothesis of climate-driven pest movement. Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies under climate change pp989 - 994 James E. M. Watson, Takuya Iwamura and Nathalie Butt doi:10.1038/nclimate2007 Risk maps of climate impacts are potentially useful for targeting efforts to minimize ecological losses. However, most such maps only identify exposure to climate hazards. Now research that also identifies the proportion of intact natural vegetation (as a measure of adaptive capacity) provides global estimates of ecoregional vulnerability to climate change. Article Top Sensitivities of extant animal taxa to ocean acidification pp995 - 1001 Astrid C. Wittmann and Hans-O. Pörtner doi:10.1038/nclimate1982 The severity of the ecological threat posed by ocean acidification remains poorly understood. Now analysis of the sensitivities of five animal groups to a wide range of CO2 concentrations finds a variety of responses within and between taxa, indicating that acidification will drive substantial changes in ocean ecosystems this century.   Corrigendum Top The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies p1001 Jun Yang, Peng Gong, Rong Fu, Minghua Zhang, Jingming Chen, Shunlin Liang, Bing Xu, Jiancheng Shi and Robert Dickinson doi:10.1038/nclimate2033 Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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