Authors of chapters 4-7 have synthesized diverse epigenetic processes.
This paper attempts to identify its core academic contributions from the perspective of the authors of chapters in authoritative 'handbooks' and the references they cite.
We are aware of several authors of chapters for that document who have already made plans to submit their chapters for publication in other specialty journals (Ekong et al. 2006).
In Clinical Evidence, one of the lowest ranked, the authors of chapters are involved and often a new peer review process is required (R Minhas, editor of Clinical Evidence, personal communication).
Prof Robert Nicholls, University of Southampton and Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 6: Coastal Systems and Low-Lying Areas, said: The report reaffirms the importance of coastal zones as a hotspot for climate impacts.
Prof Matthew Collins, Joint Met Office Chair in Climate Change at the University of Exeter and Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 12 in today's report, said: "Further emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further global warming.
Dr Rachel Warren, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and school of Environmental Sciences at UEA, and co-ordinating lead author of Chapter 19: Emergent Risks and Key Vulnerabilities, lays the impacts as temperatures rise: Global temperatures have already risen by 0.8C.
The author of Chapter 4 presents here some of the first material on this population published since the 1970s.
"I think one of the big battles is the definition of historical responsibilities and the estimation of it," said Martin Khor, who was a co-ordinating lead author of chapter three of this report but resigned, he says, because of the overwhelming amount of work involved.
