📢 New paper in Nature Climate Change!

Congrats to our colleague Marit van Tiel on co-authoring “Cascading downstream impacts of water cycle changes in mountain regions”, now featured on the cover! 🌍🎉

How mountain water changes ripple far downstream 👇
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This is figure 1, which shows a risk map of Antarctic ice catchment basins.

The results of a study in Nature Climate Change imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet does not act as one single tipping element, but rather as several tipping systems interacting across drainage basins. go.nature.com/4rFXQ9q 🧪

🆕 Excited to share our new Comment in Nature Climate Change.

A multidisciplinary effort analysing Spain’s pioneering experience with climate shelters, linking climate science, public health, urban planning, and governance. A constructive perspective on what works and what is still needed.

Climate change on television reaches the engaged but misses distant audiences - Nature Climate Change Although widely used, television is underexplored in climate communication. Here analysis of German television programmes and audience perceptions shows that climate change coverage is concentrated in...

🌱 New Paper in @Nature Climate Change: "Climate change on television reaches the engaged but misses distant audiences" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Early-career researchers reflect on influential papers - Nature Climate Change As Nature Climate Change celebrates its 15 year anniversary, we look back at some of the journal’s published works. In this Viewpoint, seven early-career researchers discuss how these papers influence...

As Nature Climate Change marks 15 years, researchers reflect on papers that shaped their work

For Dan Tong, Niall Mac Dowell et al. (2017) on carbon capture and utilisation was a turning point, shifting focus from tech readiness to whether solutions can scale, deploy fast & work in the right places

The journal Nature Climate Change is celebrating its 15th birthday by looking back at highlights from this time. I'm honored that our 2015 paper "Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation" is the first in the series 🌊:
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Theo Spira, former doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg. - Copyright Malin Arnesson

Rapid melting of Antarctic sea ice largely driven by ocean warming
Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed by research from the University of Gothenburg....
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Drought amplifies warming-induced soil carbon loss in a decade-long experiment - Nature Climate Change The response of soil carbon to warming is critical feedback that has been difficult to constrain. This study uses a long-term experiment to show that precipitation modulates microbial and therefore ca...

Guo Zhou just published this excellent article in @natclimate.nature.com on how drought shapes warming effects on soil carbon losses

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Antarctic minerals in a warming world Nature Climate Change - Climate change will expose new ice-free areas of Antarctica. Now a study explores how climate change might spur the first ‘gold rush’ on the unexploited continent.

News and Views @natclimate.nature.com from @anthonypress.bsky.social: "The use of climate modelling by Lucas et al. to predict the future presence and extent of Antarctic ice-free areas is novel, and indeed very useful." But what does it mean for mineral exploitation?

▶️ rdcu.be/e7Qll

Very happy to see our recent APSR article on "symbolic policies" selected by Nature Climate Change as part of their research highlights of the last months 🙏

➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natclimate.nature.com
@apsrjournal.bsky.social

Breaking the language barrier in adaptation Nature Climate Change - Youth-led translation efforts provide solutions to make climate knowledge accessible worldwide.

The second piece in our new format - Solutions in Practice - is now online. @lisapalmer.bsky.social highlights www.climatecardinals.org work translating early warning and risk communications for greater climate information accessibility rdcu.be/e7Mt3

New publication figure! In @natclimate.nature.com . It was fantastic to be part of the #COOLSCHOOLS project. Congrats to the authors! @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

Spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020 - Nature Climate Change Emissions from croplands are an important source of GHG emissions that can be shaped by management. This study presents maps of emissions globally for different crops, showing that drained peatlands, rice paddies and fertilizer were the main drivers, and highlights differences in emission intensity.

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published in @natclimate.nature.com. You can read 'Spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020' here: spklr.io/63320DUe4q

🧊 When melting ice becomes a tourist attraction

New comment (incl. @matthias-huss.bsky.social ) on the paradox of #glacier tourism: last-chance visits, short-term fixes, and glaciers as symbols of #climateaction.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Photo: Rhône glacier (Sept 2023)

Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.

🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!

Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.

We found: it’s not one — it’s many.

📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Tread below 🧵👇

Perspective: @danielviviroli.bsky.social et al discuss how climate change in mountain regions is cascading downstream and the related hydrological challenges for social-ecological systems and adaptation rdcu.be/e3fK2

CO₂ removal requires careful site selection to avoid harm to #biodiversity, a new study shows. At the same time, researchers find that the cooling effects of #CDR can benefit biodiversity: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal - Nature Climate Change Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) plays an important role in decarbonization pathways to meet climate goals, but some methods are land-intensive. Multimodel analysis reveals conflicts between biodiversity ...

In a new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we explore how carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – approaches that take CO2 out of the atmosphere – may affect #biodiversity. 🦎🐌 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Glacier loss may peak at 2,000–4,000 disappearing each year by mid‑century, says a study in @natclimate.nature.com. Limiting warming to 1.5 °C could more than double the number of glaciers that remain by 2100: spklr.io/633208LZri

#ClimateChangeScience #glaciology

Recommended read: A commentary co-authored by climate scientist Prof @clequere.bsky.social in Nature argued that several climate trends have locked in “irreversible progress in climate action”.

Mechanisms that sustain irreversibility in climate action: Figure 1

Why key progress in #ClimateAction is irreversible⚡

🛑Backstops inc.
-more than 5,000 laws/policies across 200 countries
-infrastructure that supports low-carbon development

🔁 Positive feedbacks inc.
-international/interorganisational collaboration
-'ambition loops'

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AI-driven weather forecasts for climate adaptation in India - Nature Climate Change Advanced monsoon onset prediction with multi-week lead time via an artificial intelligence (AI) weather model helps smallholder farmers adapt to a changing climate.

NEW:

For the new @natclimate.nature.com series Solutions in Practice, profiled a novel AI-powered long-range monsoon onset forecast with a 4-week lead time sent to 38 million Indian farmers, allowing them to plan for growing season based on the timing of the rain!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon - Nature Climate Change Oceans provide essential ecosystem services to human society, yet the climate impacts on blue capital have long been ignored. Incorporating the latest works on ocean science and economics, researchers...

The Social Cost of Carbon for the Oceans is out today in Nature Climate Change.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Until now, ocean damages have been largely missing from SCC estimates used in climate policy.

The image shows the January cover of journal, with the journal name over an image of an electric vehicle charger. The line "Positive progress on climate action" describes the cover.

Nature Climate Change January issue is online, content includes:

😀 new format "Solutions in Practice"
▶️ irreversibility in climate action
🏞️ changing pace of Arctic rivers
🥵 increasing human heat mortality
📈 revised reporting of US corporate emissions

& much more www.nature.com/nclimate/vol...

🌍 Our new @natclimate.nature.com study, led by @xuyanbin.bsky.social shows climate variations like El Niño don’t just affect weather — they can shape long-term human health and economic outcomes. Proud to contribute on the climate science side.
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#ENSO #PublicHealth

Irreversibility in climate action - Nature Climate Change Although climate action is undermined by political interests and institutional inertia, multiple safeguards are in place to prevent backsliding on progress so far, and positive feedbacks reinforce progress despite opposing forces. Key elements of climate action are irreversible and can be further strengthened by commitments, investments and positive narratives.

In a new @natclimate.nature.com comment piece, Nigel Topping (Chair of @thecccuk.bsky.social) joins Corinne Le Quéré and other senior climate voices to discuss the irreversibility of climate change progress: spklr.io/633248nUC8

@nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
🧪 #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

Communicating the need for climate action Nature Climate Change - It is essential to understand the best way to frame a persuasive message aimed at increasing concern about climate change and support for pro-environmental action. Now a...

The associated N&V "Communicating the need for climate action" by @jorislammers.bsky.social & Formanski provides further context rdcu.be/eXZ8m

Registered Report: A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages finds that of the top 10 messaging strategies, many have significant, but small, effects on climate change attitudes. Voelkel et al. rdcu.be/eXZ3h

A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages - Nature Climate Change How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...

So little was known 18 years ago when I started researching climate comms. I'm blown away by how much we now know. This study, led by the incomparable Jan Voelkel with his all-star band, and released today in @natclimate.nature.com confirms that many distinct message strategies can work...