** Contents available at http: //ijc.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.185/prod.81 **The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses seeks to create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of evidence of climate change, its causes, its ecosystemic impacts and its human impacts. The journal also explores technological, policy, strategic and social responses to climate change.The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses is peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.