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Keeping politicians and the public informed about advances in climate science would benefit from the active participation of social scientists in the process.
Dealing with the impacts of climate change is better than suffering their full extent — even if it's not the best possible outcome — but to what extent are we doing so?
The success of Nature Climate Change in attracting an increasing number of high-quality submissions necessarily means that editorial criteria for publication are becoming steadily more demanding.
The burgeoning of public databases is benefiting climate change research, and the archiving of data in accessible, permanent repositories will soon become the norm.