Coughing up the cash - pp1

Olive Heffernan

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.80

Full Text - Coughing up the cash | PDF (104 KB) - Coughing up the cash

Cod on ice - pp2

Anna Barnett

Published online: 06 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.72

Full Text - Cod on ice | PDF (475 KB) - Cod on ice

Summertime snowmelt - pp2

Alex Thompson

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.78

Full Text - Summertime snowmelt | PDF (475 KB) - Summertime snowmelt

Late leaf fall - pp2

Alex Thompson

Published online: 29 November 2007; doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.61

Full Text - Late leaf fall | PDF (475 KB) - Late leaf fall

Sizing up the sink - pp2 - 3

Anna Barnett

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.76

Full Text - Sizing up the sink | PDF (475 KB) - Sizing up the sink

Aphid outbreaks - pp3

Alicia Newton

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.75

Full Text - Aphid outbreaks | PDF (475 KB) - Aphid outbreaks

What's next for the IPCC? - pp4 - 6

Amanda Leigh Haag

Now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has spoken more clearly than ever — and policymakers are listening — it may be time to take a new direction. Amanda Leigh Haag reports on suggested ways forward.

Published online: 06 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.73

Full Text - What's next for the IPCC? | PDF (225 KB) - What's next for the IPCC?

Comparing apples with oranges - pp7 - 8

Richard Betts

The drivers and impacts of climate change extend beyond greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperature, especially when deforestation enters the picture. In deciding how best to mitigate, we may need to favour direct calculations of cost over current means of measuring climate change.

Published online: 06 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.74

Full Text - Comparing apples with oranges | PDF (189 KB) - Comparing apples with oranges

The backlash against biofuels - pp9 - 11

Kurt Kleiner

While the US and EU plan major investments in bioethanol and biodiesel, critics argue that biofuels carry too high a cost. Kurt Kleiner reports.

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.71

Full Text - The backlash against biofuels | PDF (369 KB) - The backlash against biofuels

The significance of small things - pp12

The world may be largely indifferent to the presence of humanity, yet we have magnified our influence to global scales - above all, through the recent increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases.

Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.77

Full Text - The significance of small things | PDF (61 KB) - The significance of small things

Slush find - pp13 - 14

Alan J. Kaufman

A coupled model of palaeoclimate and carbon cycling turns up the heat on the idea that Earth once became a giant snowball. It supports instead a milder 'slushball Earth' history — but piquant questions remain.

Published online: 05 December 2007; doi:10.1038/450807a

Full TextSlush find | PDFSlush find

Article originally published in Nature 450