June 2008
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
Ailing adaptation - pp63
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 03 June 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.54
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Research Highlights
Out with the old - pp64
Anna Armstrong
Published online: 15 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.46
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Volcanic impacts - pp64
Anna Barnett
Published online: 22 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.48
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You emit what you eat - pp64
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 22 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.49
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Radical redesign - pp64 - 65
Alicia Newton
Published online: 22 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.47
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Oxygen-poor oceans - pp65
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 08 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.45
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Overheating Antarctica - pp65
Alicia Newton
Published online: 29 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.51
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News
They say they want a revolution - pp66 - 67
Olive Heffernan
Climate scientists call for major new modelling facility.
Published online: 14 May 2008; doi:10.1038/453268a
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Commentary
Squaring up to reality - pp68 - 70
Martin Parry, Jean Palutikof, Clair Hanson & Jason Lowe
Both emissions reduction and adaptation will need to be much stronger than currently planned if dangerous global impacts of climate change are to be avoided. June's UN talks in Bonn and July's G8 summit present opportunities for world leaders to face this challenge.
Published online: 29 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.50
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Feature
The population problem - pp72 - 74
By 2050, there will be an estimated 9 billion humans on the planet. Kerri Smith asks whether curbing the world's burgeoning population could help in tackling climate change.
Published online: 15 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.44
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Books and Arts
Trading technologies - pp75 - 76
Roger A. Pielke, Jr
Vast technological opportunities exist for providing the world with clean energy in the future, but the real debate is over the policies needed to decarbonize the growing global economy.
Published online: 29 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.53
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Snapshot: Siberian symbols - pp76
Anna Barnett
Published online: 29 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.52
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News and Views
Attributing cause and effect - pp77 - 78
Francis Zwiers & Gabriele Hegerl
The climate is changing, and so are aspects of the world's physical and biological systems. It is no easy matter to link cause and effect — the latest attack on the problem brings the power of meta-analysis to bear.
Published online: 14 May 2008; doi:10.1038/453296a
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Policy Watch
Accounting for climate ills - pp79
With warming expected to worsen public health problems, policymakers are being urged to fight disease and climate change simultaneously. Brian Hoyle reports.
Published online: 08 May 2008; doi:10.1038/climate.2008.43
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