Nature Climate Change Contents November 2011 Volume 1 Number 8 pp 371-424

TABLE OF CONTENTS November 2011 Volume 1, Issue 8 In this Issue Editorial Commentaries News Feature Correction Books and Arts Interview Policy Watch Market Watch Research Highlights News and Views Perspectives Letters Beyond Boundaries Recommend to your library Web feed Available online only Subscribe 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. For details on how to submit visit the Guide to Authors   In this Issue Top In this issue doi:10.1038/nclimate1287 Full Text | PDF Editorial Top Crossing the threshold p371 doi:10.1038/nclimate1288 Avoiding dangerous climate change is an increasingly formidable challenge. Diplomats meeting next month in Durban must propose a persuasive alternative if they are to end the Kyoto Protocol. Full Text | PDF Commentaries Top Making an action film pp372 - 374 Geoffrey Beattie doi:10.1038/nclimate1257 Do films such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth really make any difference to how we think and feel about climate change? Full Text | PDF A walk on the wild side pp374 - 375 Luigi Guarino and David B. Lobell doi:10.1038/nclimate1272 Feeding a growing population in a hotter world will require exploiting a far broader range of crop diversity than now — and that means valuing wild genes. Full Text | PDF News Feature Top Show me the money pp376 - 380 Lisa Palmer doi:10.1038/nclimate1262 Funding for climate change research is looking healthy despite austerity measures and conservatives clamouring for cuts. Nature Climate Change looks at the data. Full Text | PDF Correction Top We are seven billion p380 doi:10.1038/nclimate1263 Full Text | PDF Books and Arts Top Fears for America's parched southwest pp383 - 384 Christine Woodside doi:10.1038/nclimate1269 Full Text | PDF On our bookshelf p384 doi:10.1038/nclimate1286 Full Text | PDF Webcast: Rather too much reality p385 Jeff Tollefson doi:10.1038/nclimate1260 Full Text | PDF Exhibition: Engineering water p386 Gaia Vince doi:10.1038/nclimate1276 Full Text | PDF Interview Top Future forest pp387 - 388 doi:10.1038/nclimate1256 As Brazil debates relaxing its strong forestry laws, Nature Climate Change discusses the implications with Amazon ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, professor of environmental science at George Mason University and Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center in Washington DC. Full Text | PDF Policy Watch Top A biofuel conundrum pp389 - 390 Sonja van Renssen doi:10.1038/nclimate1265 As scientists raise alarming questions about the true carbon cost of some biofuels, policymakers must decide how best to promote low-emission versions, reports Sonja van Renssen. Full Text | PDF Market Watch Top Vital statistics pp390 - 391 Anna Petherick doi:10.1038/nclimate1271 A new report warns of the environmental impact of Asia's rise. But the relationship between pollution and economic growth is not simple, argues Anna Petherick. Full Text | PDF Research Highlights Top Tropical forests: Hot and thirsty | Sociology: Jobs versus environment | Mitigation: Gas or coal? | Inorganic chemistry: Approaching photosynthesis | Statistics: Blame it on the weather | Deforestation: Deforestation changes rainfall | Microbiology: Fungi for fuel | Economics: Cost of deforestation | Mitigation: Car pool News and Views Top Mitigation: Plausible mitigation targets pp395 - 396 Neil Edwards doi:10.1038/nclimate1267 Whether the widely accepted 2 °C limit for climate change is practically achievable depends partly on climate sensitivity, but predominantly on complex socio-economic dynamics. Full Text | PDF See also: Letter by Joeri Rogelj et al. Ecology: Moving farther and faster pp396 - 397 Joshua J. Tewksbury, Kimberly S. Sheldon and Ailene K. Ettinger doi:10.1038/nclimate1266 The distributions of terrestrial organisms are shifting in response to climate change. Research shows that these changes are happening at a much faster rate than previously estimated. Full Text | PDF Biodiversity and ecosystems: Change at the community level pp398 - 399 Martin Edwards doi:10.1038/nclimate1270 Some commercial fish species of the northeast Atlantic Ocean have relocated in response to warming. The impact of warming on marine assemblages in the region may already be much greater than appreciated, however, with over 70% of common demersal fish species responding through changes in abundance, rather than range. Full Text | PDF Mitigation: Monitoring informs management pp399 - 400 Tristram O. West doi:10.1038/nclimate1268 Improved regional monitoring and reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions depends on accurate estimates of emissions from different land-use regimes. An analysis suggests that measuring emissions per crop yield may be an optimum metric for refining land-management decisions. Full Text | PPDF Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week The Nuffield Department of Medicine Four-year PhD Prize Studentships University of Oxford Oxford, GB Post doc in Cell Engineering Karolinska Institute Stockholm, SE Assistant Research Scientist University of Maryland - Center for Environmental Science -CBL Solomons, US Professor of Geological Carbon Storage University of Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, AU Engineering Doctorate in Sustainability for Engineering and Energy Systems University of Surrey Derby, GB More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT The global nitrogen cycle 05.-06.12.11 London, UK More science events from   Perspectives Top Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change pp401 - 406 Jennifer A. Sheridan and David Bickford doi:10.1038/nclimate1259 It is well recognized that species are shifting their distributions and the timing of key life events in response to climate change. What is less appreciated is that many species are also experiencing reductions in body size, with implications for food availability and the balance of ecosystems. This Perspective looks at the evidence for shrinking body size across endothermic and ectothermic organisms and proposes future research directions. Full Text | PDF Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2 °C above pre-industrial levels pp407 - 412 Manoj Joshi, Ed Hawkins, Rowan Sutton, Jason Lowe and David Frame doi:10.1038/nclimate1261 Climate change projections are usually presented as ‘snapshots’ of change at a particular time in the future. Now a new approach to presenting projections, which should prove useful to policymakers, shows when temperature thresholds might be crossed, shifting the emphasis from ‘what might happen’ to ‘when it might happen’. Full Text | PDF Letters Top Emission pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit pp413 - 418 Joeri Rogelj, William Hare, Jason Lowe, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Ben Matthews, Tatsuya Hanaoka, Kejun Jiang and Malte Meinshausen doi:10.1038/nclimate1258 The ‘pathway’ the world needs to follow to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C remains uncertain. Analysis that takes technical and economic constraints on reducing emissions into account indicates that emissions need to peak in the next decade and then fall rapidly to have a good chance of achieving this goal. Full Text | PDF See also: News and Views by Neil Edwards Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production pp419 - 423 Tara W. Hudiburg, Beverly E. Law, Christian Wirth and Sebastiaan Luyssaert doi:10.1038/nclimate1264 Substituting fossil fuels with bioenergy from forests, as well as thinning forests to reduce wildfire emissions, has been proposed as a means of cutting carbon dioxide emissions. A study based on inventory data for US West Coast forests now challenges this proposal, and finds that it could lead to 2–14% higher emissions than current management practices over the next 20 years. Full Text | PDF Beyond Boundaries Top Stunted by climate p424 doi:10.1038/nclimate1273 With expertise in geography and human health, Marta Jankowska and David López-Carr worked with a team of specialists in climate science, statistics, demography and policy to study climate change impacts on child malnutrition in Mali. 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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