Nature Climate Change 2, 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1524
Nature Climate Change 2, 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1524
Nature Climate Change 2, 297 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1526
As the evidence for a tight link between greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change accrues, scientists — and editors — should moderate their use of international air travel.
Nature Climate Change 2, 299 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1509
Yongyang Cai Kenneth L. Judd Thomas S. Lontzek
Nature Climate Change 2, 300 22042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1492
Mark Maslin Martyn Poessinouw
The newly observed economic phenomenon carbon-market intelligence was worth over £35 billion in 2010–2011 and is forecast to experience annual double-digit growth over the next five years.
Nature Climate Change 2, 303 22042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1494
Mason Inman
Teaching the science of climate change has become a political issue in many schools across the United States. Nature Climate Change look at an education battle against denialists.
Nature Climate Change 2, 306 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1513
Nic Fleming
Nature Climate Change 2, 307 15042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1510
Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the UK Tyndall Centre and an expert on greenhouse-gas emissions trajectories explains to Nature Climate Change why he believes that carbon offsetting can be worse than useless.
Nature Climate Change 2, 308 22042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1493
Sonja van Renssen
Tackling greenhouse-gas emissions from aircraft was never going to be easy, but Europe is laying the groundwork. Sonja van Renssen investigates whether the plans have wings.
Nature Climate Change 2, 309 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1503
China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is developing seven experimental carbon-trading schemes. Anna Petherick looks for clues as to how that's going.
Nature Climate Change 2, 312 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1515
Monica Contestabile
Nature Climate Change 2, 312 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1516
Monica Contestabile
Nature Climate Change 2, 312 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1517
Monica Contestabile
Nature Climate Change 2, 312 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1518
Bronwyn Wake
Nature Climate Change 2, 312 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1519
Bronwyn Wake
Nature Climate Change 2, 313 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1520
Bronwyn Wake
Nature Climate Change 2, 313 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1521
Alastair Brown
Nature Climate Change 2, 313 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1522
Alastair Brown
Nature Climate Change 2, 313 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1523
Alastair Brown
Nature Climate Change 2, 314 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1498
Richard J. Arnott
Urban economic models should raise the quality of debate about planning at the metropolitan level. Now research shows how this can be done.
Nature Climate Change 2, 315 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1502
Vladimir A. Semenov
The twenty-first century was marked by a number of extreme weather events over northern continents. Amplified warming in the Arctic region and associated changes in atmospheric dynamics may provide a clue for understanding the origin of these recent extremes.
Nature Climate Change 2, 317 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1504
Tim Naish Dan Zwartz
Firmly establishing Earth's surface temperatures during a sustained episode of global warming in the Pliocene will help 'ground truth' projections of future climate based on computer simulations using global climate models.
Nature Climate Change 2, 318 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1508
Leopold Füreder
Glacial meltwater contributions to rivers are declining in many parts of the world, but the effect of these changes on river communities remains poorly understood. Now a quantitative analysis points to the potential scale of this biodiversity problem.
Nature Climate Change 2, 320 04032012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1416
Felix Creutzig Alexander Popp Richard Plevin Gunnar Luderer Jan Minx Ottmar Edenhofer
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation assessed the role of bioenergy as a solution to meeting green-energy demand. The report encompassed information from integrated assessment modelling and life-cycle analysis, but failed to reconcile these contrasting insights. This Perspective discusses the merits of each approach and advocates an integrated research agenda.
Nature Climate Change 2, 328 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1429
Martino Tran David Banister Justin D. K. Bishop Malcolm D. McCulloch
Substantial work has shown the potential energy and climate benefits of full battery electric vehicles (BEVs) — an important policy option to mitigate climate change — but there are still uncertainties about their market diffusion. Research shows the importance of assessing BEV diffusion from an integrated perspective, focusing on the interaction between technology and behaviour.
Nature Climate Change 2, 334 04032012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1434
Vincent Viguié Stéphane Hallegatte
Urban climate policies interact with socio–economic policy goals. These interactions can lead to trade-offs or synergies, but have been rarely analysed. Now research provides a quantification of these trade-offs and synergies, and suggests that stand-alone adaptation and mitigation policies are unlikely to be politically acceptable, emphasizing the need to mainstream climate policy within urban planning.
Nature Climate Change 2, 338 04032012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1424
H. Damon Matthews Kirsten Zickfeld
A modelling study shows how global temperatures would change if all greenhouse-gas and aerosol emissions were eliminated. The researchers estimate the committed future climate warming associated with past anthropogenic emissions, and provide a critical baseline against which to measure the effect of future emissions.
Nature Climate Change 2, 342 19022012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1413
Grant Ferguson Tom Gleeson
There are concerns that sea-level rise resulting from climate change could lead to saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers. However, a study shows that groundwater extraction is the main driver of saltwater intrusion in the United States, highlighting the importance of sustainable water management.
Nature Climate Change 2, 346 26022012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1419
E. Beaulieu Y. Goddéris Y. Donnadieu D. Labat C. Roelandt
This modelling study shows that chemical weathering of continental surfaces—which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—is highly sensitive to a carbon dioxide doubling for the Mackenzie River Basin, the most important Arctic watershed. The findings highlight the potential role of chemical weathering processes in mitigating global warming.
Nature Climate Change 2, 350 05022012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1375
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg Ana S. L. Rodrigues Mykola Gusti Andrew Balmford Steffen Fritz Michael Obersteiner R. Kerry Turner Thomas M. Brooks
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) has been widely discussed as a way of mitigating climate change while concurrently benefitting biodiversity. This study combines a global land-use model and spatial data on species distributions to quantify the potential impacts of REDD in avoiding global species extinctions.
Nature Climate Change 2, 356 26022012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1418
Julia Kleinteich Susanna A. Wood Frithjof C. Küpper Antonio Camacho Antonio Quesada Tancred Frickey Daniel R. Dietrich
This study documents the effects of warming on cyanobacterial mats from the Arctic and Antarctica. It describes toxin production in such mats and provides experimental evidence that increased temperatures could shift mat cyanobacterial species diversity from cold-loving species towards predominance of cold-tolerant and toxin-producing species.
Nature Climate Change 2, 361 11032012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1435
Dean Jacobsen Alexander M. Milner Lee E. Brown Olivier Dangles
In many regions climate change is reducing the glacial meltwater contribution to river flow, but the effect of these changes on specialized glacier-fed river communities is poorly quantified. Now research demonstrates quantitatively not only the vulnerability of local biodiversity hotspots but also that the number of species lost is likely to be much higher than the few specialist species found only in glacier-fed rivers.
Nature Climate Change 2, 365 18032012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1455
Harry J. Dowsett Marci M. Robinson Alan M. Haywood Daniel J. Hill Aisling M. Dolan Danielle K. Stoll Wing-Le Chan Ayako Abe-Ouchi Mark A. Chandler Nan A. Rosenbloom Bette L. Otto-Bliesner Fran J. Bragg Daniel J. Lunt Kevin M. Foley Christina R. Riesselman
Sea-surface-temperature proxy data for a period of natural climate warming during the Pliocene are used in this study to show how palaeoclimatic data can help ‘ground truth’ numerical models, increasing the confidence in these same models for projecting future climate.
Nature Climate Change 2, 374 26042012 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1501
Development expert Barbara Harriss-White leads a team of specialists from agriculture to economics, environmental science and policy to investigate neglected aspects of the climate change response in India.