Nature Climate Change Contents October 2011 Volume 1 Number 7 pp 321-344

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS October 2011 Volume 1, Issue 7 In this Issue Editorial Commentaries News Features Books and Arts Interview Policy Watch Market Watch Research Highlights News and Views Letters Beyond Boundaries Recommend to your library Web feed Available online only Subscribe Advertisement Can solar power deliver? 14-15 November 2011, London UK Book now for a free international scientific conference 'Can solar power deliver?' on 14-15 November 2011 at the Royal Society in London. The world's leading experts will be asked "Can solar power deliver our global energy solution?" To book a place or find out more information visit royalsociety.org/events/solar-power/   Advertisement Climate Action in the New Global Economic Order 10-11 October Chatham House, London Join senior speakers from governments, business, international organizations and civil society in discussion of key climate issues including: • Is action on climate threatened as countries tackle deficits? • Will shale gas outpace renewables in attracting investment? • What will the Durban climate talks achieve? Speakers include Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC Register now   In this Issue Top In this issue  doi:10.1038/nclimate1245 Full Text | PDF Editorial Top A scary statistic p321 doi:10.1038/nclimate1255 The human population will soon reach seven billion. Scientists must detail demographic change and its interaction with the climate at a scale that enables policymakers to plan effectively. Full Text | PDF Commentaries Top Green status pp323 - 325 John Whitfield doi:10.1038/nclimate1226 Humans rely on the social tool of reputation in many of their relationships; now its power should be deployed at the intergovernment level to help provoke action on climate change. Full Text | PDF A question of intent pp325 - 326 Jack Stilgoe doi:10.1038/nclimate1225 As the emerging field of geoengineering gains momentum, researchers must question the motivations behind their experiments and maintain an open dialogue with the public. Full Text | PDF News Features Top Heating up tensions pp327 - 329 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1236 Studies are increasingly linking times of bad weather to violence, civil conflict and even war. Should we be worried about future fights spurred by climate change? Full Text | PDF We are seven billion pp331 - 335 Kerri Smith doi:10.1038/nclimate1235 This autumn, the world's human population will pass seven billion. Researchers are trying to identify the geographic hotspots where people and climate change are on a collision course. Full Text | PDF Books and Arts Top Nuclear power for the masses pp336 - 337 Maxwell Irvine doi:10.1038/nclimate1228 Full Text | PDF On our bookshelf p336 doi:10.1038/nclimate1244 Full Text | PDF Film: Red, white and green pp337 - 338 Nicola Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate1224 Full Text | PDF Interview Top Reef grief pp339 - 340 doi:10.1038/nclimate1240 As the first of the world's ecosystems faces extermination at our hands, coral reef ecologist Peter Sale — Assistant Director of the Institute of Water, Environment and Health at the United Nations University in Ontario, Canada, and author of Our Dying Planet (published this autumn) — talks to Nature Climate Change. Full Text | PDF Policy Watch Top CCS industry fights its corner pp341 - 342 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1231 With carbon capture and storage technology still in its infancy, there's a danger that enthusiasm for renewables will edge out CCS before it can prove itself, reports Sonja van Renssen. Full Text | PDF Market Watch Top Third time lucky pp342 - 343 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1230 The rules guiding the third round of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme are about to be formally approved. Anna Petherick looks at how well they have set up the system until 2020. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Migration: Seeking cool | Climatology: Long-term temperature | Ecology: Weaker sea butterflies | Impacts: Measuring metropolises | Carbon storage: Irrigation factor | Atmospheric science: Windy future | Biofuel: Fuel or housing? | Adaptation: Coffee futures | Astrophysics: Cloud maker News and Views Top Biogeochemistry: Taking stock of forest carbon pp346 - 347 Peter B. Reich doi:10.1038/nclimate1233 Forests take up and store large quantities of carbon. An analysis of inventory data from across the globe suggests that temperate and boreal forests accounted for the majority of the terrestrial carbon sink over the past two decades. Full Text | PDF Policy: China's regional emissions pp347 - 349 Yongfu Huang and Jingjing He doi:10.1038/nclimate1238 The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is a pressing challenge for China. Now research demonstrates that China's local energy-related emission patterns are important for setting effective greenhouse-gas abatement policies. Full Text | PDF Health: Wealth versus warming pp349 - 350 Krijn P. Paaijmans and Matthew B. Thomas doi:10.1038/nclimate1234 The response of malaria distribution to climate change has been debated. Statistical models suggest that by 2050, increasing national wealth will limit the expansion of malaria risk caused by rising temperatures. Full Text | PDF Adaptation: Conservation for any budget pp350 - 351 Joshua J. Lawler doi:10.1038/nclimate1239 Deciding where and how to allocate scarce funding to conserve plants and animals in a changing and uncertain climate is a thorny issue. Numerical modelling identifies the most effective mix of conservation measures based on the level of expenditure available. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Brendan A. Wintle et al. Projection and prediction: Mapping the road ahead pp352 - 353 Brian C. O'Neill and Vanessa Schweizer doi:10.1038/nclimate1241 Research into climate change mitigation and adaptation has been hindered by a disconnect between climate science and socio-economic studies. The development of a new set of climate forcing pathways could prove to be the first step towards integrated analyses of policies and impacts. Full Text | PDF Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Tenure-Track Positions, Department of Genetics Stanford University Stanford, US Early Independent Scientists in the NIH Intramural Research Program National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, US 4 year Science Foundation Ireland-funded PhD Studentship (Ref: SMR11-03) Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, IE Staff Scientist – Marine Carbon Dioxide Research National Environment Research Council Southampton, GB Post Doctoral Research Assistant in Tropical Carbon Dynamics University of Oxford Oxford, GB More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT 2011 27th NPS: Stoichiometric Flexibility in Terrestrial Ecosystems Under Global Change 25.-28.09.11 US More science events from   Letters Top Ecological–economic optimization of biodiversity conservation under climate change pp355 - 359 Brendan A. Wintle, Sarah A. Bekessy, David A. Keith, Brian W. van Wilgen, Mar Cabeza, Boris Schröder, Silvia B. Carvalho, Alessandra Falcucci, Luigi Maiorano, Tracey J. Regan, Carlo Rondinini, Luigi Boitani and Hugh P. Possingham doi:10.1038/nclimate1227 Little information exists to guide conservation planning under climate change uncertainty. Now a study combines ecological predictions with an economic decision framework to investigate strategies to minimize extinction risk in one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems—the South African fynbos. The research finds that the best conservation options vary nonlinearly with available budget. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Joshua J. Lawler Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during surface-temperature hiatus periods pp360 - 364 Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, John T. Fasullo, Aixue Hu and Kevin E. Trenberth doi:10.1038/nclimate1229 In some decades, such as 2000–2009, the observed globally averaged surface-temperature time series has shown a flat or slightly negative trend. A modelling study provides evidence that heat uptake by the deep ocean may cause these hiatus periods and may be linked to La Niña-like conditions. Full Text | PDF Reduced survival of Antarctic benthos linked to climate-induced iceberg scouring pp365 - 368 David K. A. Barnes and Terri Souster doi:10.1038/nclimate1232 The West Antarctic Peninsula has experienced rapid warming in recent decades. One of the effects has been a loss of the ‘fast-ice’ skin, or frozen layer, that forms on the sea surface each winter and reduces seabed scouring. A study now links increased seabed scouring over the past 25 years to higher benthic mortality, with implications for the region’s biodiversity. Full Text | PDF Beyond Boundaries Top Community capital p344 doi:10.1038/nclimate1237 Veterinary scientist Alexander Travis collaborated with economists and conservation biologists to assess how a new model promoting sustainable agriculture helps Zambian communities address climate change, protect biodiversity and increase income. Full Text | PDF Advertisement Submit your research to Nature Climate Change The editorial team welcome manuscripts describing cutting-edge research in all areas of climate change including adaptation, anthropology, atmospheric science, biochemistry, communication, cryospheric science, ecology, economics, ethics, geography, hydrology, impacts and vulnerability, mitigation, modelling, oceanography, palaeoclimate, policy and governance, philosophy, psychology, sociology and sustainability and development. 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