August 2009
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Editorial
People power - p86
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 04 August 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.75
Research Highlights
Shrinking sheep - p87
Anna Barnett
Published online: 09 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.65
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Bridging the gap - p87
Anna Armstrong
Published online: 16 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.67
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Gauging elevation - p87
Anna Armstrong
Published online: 16 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.68
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Thin times for Arctic - pp87 - 88
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 16 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.69
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Expanding ain't easy - p88
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 23 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.71
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Small story - p88
Alicia Newton
Published online: 30 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.72
Features
The wisdom of crowds - pp89 - 91
Climate change is inherently a social problem — so why have sociologists been so slow to study it? Kerri Smith reports.
Published online: 30 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.73
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Ice memory - pp91 - 92
Ice has become an unequalled resource for studying the Earth's climatic history. Anna Barnett rounds up several new features on our site that pay tribute to the field of paleoclimatology, from the initial discovery of climatic clues in ice through to current efforts to recover a core that stretches back over a million years.
Published online: 04 August 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.76
Books and Arts
Struggle for survival - pp93 - 94
Eric Roston
It's the water-dependent modern world that needs saving, not Botswana's besieged Kalahari Bushmen.
Published online: 30 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.74
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Beyond discord - p94
Maxwell T. Boykoff
Contention can be an opportunity to connect, rather than an obstacle to engaging with climate change.
Published online: 16 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.70
News and Views
Beyond the CO2 connection - pp95 - 96
Rainer Zahn
At times in the past, mobile ocean fronts in the subtropics have exercised an influence on the magnitude of climate change by decoupling temperature from levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Published online: 15 July 2009; doi:10.1038/460335a
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Article originally published in Nature 460
Q&A
Interview: Lonnie Thompson - p97
Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has spent more time above 20,000 feet than any other human being. In collecting a vast library of ice samples from mountain peaks, he has developed a unique view of past and present-day climate change. Anna Barnett caught up with him at the American Geophysical Union's Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change, held 15–19 June at Thompson's own Ohio State University.
Published online: 09 July 2009; doi:10.1038/climate.2009.66
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