January 2008
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Editorial
Coughing up the cash - pp1
Olive Heffernan
Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.80
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Research Highlights
Cod on ice - pp2
Anna Barnett
Published online: 06 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.72
Summertime snowmelt - pp2
Alex Thompson
Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.78
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Late leaf fall - pp2
Alex Thompson
Published online: 29 November 2007; doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.61
Sizing up the sink - pp2 - 3
Anna Barnett
Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.76
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Aphid outbreaks - pp3
Alicia Newton
Published online: 12 December 2007; doi:10.1038/climate.2007.75
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News Feature
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
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Commentary
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
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Focus Feature
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
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Books and Arts
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
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News and Views
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
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Article originally published in Nature 450
