Data keep flooding in

Abstract

The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the work of thousands of researchers, compiled and summarized by hundreds of climatologists. Nominally, the cut-off for inclusion in the assessment was the end of 2005, allowing a year for the panel to make sense of the vast tracts of data. But notable research arising after that date will not have escaped attention. Here is a round-up of some of the most prominent studies.