Category: Nature

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02046-7 Regional marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a form of geoengineering. Here the authors show that a regional MCB aiming to reduce warming in the Western United States under today’s conditions would be less efficient under warmer conditions and would exaggerate warming in other…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02049-4 Publisher Correction: Warming food webs at high latitudes   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02050-x Author Correction: Climate warming restructures food webs and carbon flow in high-latitude ecosystems   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02040-z To accept carbon pricing, citizens desire viable alternatives to fossil fuel-based options. As inflation and higher interest rates have exacerbated access barriers for capital-intensive green substitutes, the political success of carbon pricing will be measured by how well policy design enables consumers to switch.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02024-z Addressing the consequences of climate change requires political attention and leadership. However, this study shows that apart from Green parties, political parties do not increase their attention to environmental issues following extreme weather events.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02029-8 Maternal exposure to ambient heat during pregnancy has been shown to increase the risk for several adverse birth outcomes. Now research reveals that variations of ambient temperature during pregnancy and childhood could have a long-term impact on a child’s brain development.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02027-w Using magnetic resonance imaging assessment of 2,681 children from the Netherlands, the authors investigate effects of cold and heat exposure during pregnancy, infancy and childhood. They found that these exposures can have lasting impacts on white matter microstructure at preadolescence.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02038-7 Hydrochlorofluorocarbons are important ozone-depleting substances. Here the authors show that the radiative forcing and equivalent effective chlorine from hydrochlorofluorocarbons has decreased in recent years, 5 years earlier than expected.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02044-9 Nuclear watchdog tracks warming   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02042-x The effects on children   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02047-6 Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02043-w Increasing double storms   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02041-y Slimmed success for heated sperm   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02048-5 Carbon dioxide removal is an important part of climate mitigation pathways. However, its planning and implementation should be carefully reviewed given the potential limitations and risks.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02030-1 In a global-scale study, we investigated the contribution of individual and multiple global change stressors to soil carbon variables, which revealed that an increasing number of global change stressors will reduce the amount of carbon in soils, challenging their capacity to mitigate climate change.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02025-y Moving towards net-zero emissions requires carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, which bring environmental and socioeconomic risks. This study reveals that demand and technological interventions in hard-to-abate sectors help to achieve net-zero targets with less reliance on CDR.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02019-w Soil carbon storage is vulnerable to various climatic and anthropogenic global change stressors (for example drought, warming, land-use intensification). Here the authors show that multiple stress factors act simultaneously to reduce soil carbon storage and persistence across global biomes.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02022-1 The authors quantify how climate change-related disturbances—drought, fires and insect outbreaks—impact the sensitivity of primary productivity to subsequent water stress. They show significant increases in sensitivity following drought and fire, leading to decreased terrestrial carbon uptake.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02018-x A comprehensive analysis of observations and model simulations finds that future global mean warming is likely to be larger than previously thought, and that limiting global warming to well below 2°C will be more difficult than previously anticipated.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 05 June 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02017-y Internal variability can strongly influence global temperature trends. Here the authors show that if the internal variability in the eastern tropical Pacific is removed from recent trends, the constrained projected warming with future CO2 emissions is higher than currently expected.