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Volume 11 Issue 4, April 2021
Celebrating our tenth anniversary
To celebrate a decade of Nature Climate Change, experts highlight the exciting developments in their fields over the past 10 years, and past and present editors talk about some of the remarkable papers published in the journal.
See Editorial, Viewpoint and Feature.
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Editorial
Editorial | 01 April 2021
Marking a decade
This month marks 10 years since the first issue of Nature Climate Change. In this issue, we reflect on developments in research areas over those years and celebrate some memorable papers published in our pages.
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Comment
Comment | 25 March 2021
The question of life, the universe and event attribution
Weather and climate service providers around the world are looking to issue assessments of the human role in recent extreme weather events. For this attribution to be of value, it is important that vulnerability is acknowledged and questions are framed appropriately.
- Dáithí A. Stone
- Suzanne M. Rosier
- David J. Frame
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Exploring big ideas for complex global problems
Current global problems are complex and researchers say solutions require a multidisciplinary approach
Viewpoint
Viewpoint | 01 April 2021
Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science
To mark the tenth anniversary of Nature Climate Change, we asked a selection of researchers across the broad range of climate change disciplines to share their thoughts on notable developments of the past decade, as well as their hopes and expectations for the coming years of discovery.
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Feature
Feature | 01 April 2021
10 years of Nature Climate Change
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Nature Climate Change, past and present editors reminisce about some of the papers that stood out.
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Research Highlights
Research Highlight | 01 April 2021
Calling out and listening in
- Tegan Armarego-Marriott
News & Views
News & Views | 29 March 2021
Recalculate the social cost of carbon
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
- Gernot Wagner
News & Views | 01 April 2021
Climate change upsets agriculture
Raising agricultural productivity has been essential for global food security and conserving land. Now, research quantifies how climate change has slowed agricultural productivity growth around the world.
- Keith Fuglie
News & Views | 08 March 2021
Rising seas and subsiding cities
Coastal adaptation aims to reduce impacts of relative sea-level rise from climate-induced sea-level rise and land elevation changes. Now, a global projection of relative sea-level rise to 2050 suggests the critical role of managing land subsidence for coastal cities on sinking deltas.
- Nobuo Mimura
News & Views | 25 March 2021
Cold-water species need warm water too
Climate change vulnerability assessments of cold-water species have focused on protecting cold summer habitats in high-elevation streams. Now, a study shows that seasonally warm rivers can provide the majority of growth potential for cold-water fishes, unveiling a notable blind spot in freshwater climate research and planning.
- Clint C. Muhlfeld
Perspectives
Perspective | 01 April 2021
Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement
Contributions to mitigate climate change should be equitable under the Paris Agreement, yet researchers take sharply diverging approaches to assessing national effort. This Perspective evaluates the literature and presents guidelines for policy-relevant—and ethically explicit—research on equity.
- Kate Dooley
- Christian Holz
- Peter Singer
Articles
Article | 01 April 2021
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
Agricultural productivity has increased historically, but the impact of climate change on productivity growth is not clear. In the last 60 years, anthropogenic climate change has reduced agricultural total factor production globally by 21%, with stronger impacts in warmer regions.
- Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
- Toby R. Ault
- David B. Lobell
Article | 25 January 2021
Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy
Climate policy calls for energy demand reduction on top of decarbonizing energy generation. Analysis of historical energy–income data shows that achieving these climate targets alongside economic development poses unresolved policy and modelling challenges, especially for developing countries.
- Gregor Semieniuk
- Lance Taylor
- Duncan K. Foley
Article | 08 February 2021
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth
Increases in daily temperature variability could reduce economic growth. Analysis of 40 years of subnational economic data and daily temperature observations from across the world shows that higher temperature variability reduces annual income, with greatest vulnerability in low-latitude regions.
- Maximilian Kotz
- Leonie Wenz
- Anders Levermann
Article | 01 March 2021
A mechanism for regional variations in snowpack melt under rising temperature
Warming causes mountain snowpack to melt earlier during local spring. An idealized model suggests that melt date sensitivity to warming depends largely on mean temperature and its seasonal cycle; the largest sensitivities are seen in coastal regions, the Arctic, western United States, Central Europe and South America.
- Amato Evan
- Ian Eisenman
Article | 11 March 2021
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming
Model projections of future drylands distribution using a proxy based on atmospheric aridity show expansion under climate change, but may not be an accurate representation. An alternative index based on ecohydrological variables such as water limitation shows no global expansion of drylands.
- Alexis Berg
- Kaighin A. McColl
Article | 08 March 2021
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure
Land subsidence and uplift influence the rate of sea-level rise. Most coastal populations live in subsiding areas and experience average rates of relative sea-level rise three to four times faster than due to climate change alone, indicating the need for policy to address subsidence.
- Robert J. Nicholls
- Daniel Lincke
- Jiayi Fang
Article | 22 February 2021
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability
The authors examine the effect of long-term experimental warming on the complexity and stability of molecular ecological networks in grassland soil microbial communities. They find warming increases network complexity, which is strongly correlated with network stability.
- Mengting Maggie Yuan
- Xue Guo
- Jizhong Zhou
Article | 15 March 2021
Fungal decomposition of river organic matter accelerated by decreasing glacier cover
The impact of glacier retreat on fungal-driven decomposition in rivers is investigated using a standardized test across six countries. Less glacier cover is linked to increased decomposition, which is in turn associated with a greater abundance of fungi and a fungal cellulose-degrading gene, cbhI.
- Sarah C. Fell
- Jonathan L. Carrivick
- Lee E. Brown
Article | 25 March 2021
The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes
Modelling riverine fish growth across warm and cool sections of a river network, the authors demonstrate that habitats that are suboptimally warm in summer may actually provide the majority of growth potential. This highlights a risk in conservation strategies that devalue ephemerally warm habitats.
- Jonathan B. Armstrong
- Aimee H. Fullerton
- Gordon H. Reeves
Amendments & Corrections
Author Correction | 21 January 2021
Author Correction: Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink
- J. Loisel
- A. V. Gallego-Sala
- J. Wu
Author Correction | 18 February 2021
Author Correction: Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply
- David E. H. J. Gernaat
- Harmen Sytze de Boer
- Detlef P. van Vuuren
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