June 2008

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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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