December 2007
Content for this issue will be added, weekly, over the next month and can be downloaded in full as a digital issue at the end of the month.
Editorial
Seeing the wood for the trees - pp91
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 29 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.69
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Research Highlights
Extreme measures - pp92
Alex Thompson
Published online: 15 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.63
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Carbon capture vital - pp92
Alex Thompson
Published online: 15 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.64
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Nature's cure - pp92
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.67
Unequal impacts - pp92 - 93
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.68
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The big melt - pp93
Alicia Newton
Published online: 25 October 2007; doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.31
Floods in a flash - pp93
Alex Thompson
Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.50
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News Feature
The escalator effect - pp94 - 96
Emma Marris
Rising temperatures are changing mountain ecosystems as the heat forces some species upwards — until there is nowhere left to go. Emma Marris reports on the 'escalator effect', which is threatening species worldwide.
Published online: 23 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.70
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Commentary
Tipping the scales - pp97 - 98
Timothy M. Lenton & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
International climate policy needs to induce a socioeconomic tipping to a low or no-carbon economy if we are to avoid climate change tipping points.
Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.65
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Books and Arts
Fighting fire with fire - pp99
Published online: 22 November 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.66
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News and Views
Carbon cycle: Marine manipulations - pp100 - 101
Kevin R. Arrigo
The effect of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on carbon uptake in and export from the upper ocean is one of the big questions in environmental science. But it can be tackled experimentally.
Published online: 21 November 2007; doi:10.1038/450491a
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