Upcoming Conference
Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7): The Heartland Institute’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change will take place in Chicago, Illinois from Monday, May 21 to Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL. This year’s theme is “Real Science, Real Choices.” The conference expects to feature approximately 60 scientists and policy experts speaking at plenary sessions and on three tracks of concurrent panel sessions exploring what real climate science is telling us about the causes and consequences of climate change, and the real consequences of choices being made based on the current perceptions of the state of climate science. To learn more, or to register to attend the event, click on the link above. Promotional video segments about the conference can be viewed here and here.

Editorial
Biological Microcosms of the Future: Vegetation growing in warmer and CO2-enriched city air reveal the potential future of earth's plant life.

Subject Index Summary
Storms (Europe: United Kingdom): Among the highly publicized changes in weather phenomena that are predicted to attend the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content are increases in the frequency and severity of all types of storms. As a result, and in an effort to determine if these predictions have any validity, many researchers have examined historical and proxy records in an attempt to determine the validity of this hypothesis. The present review examines what has been learned about storm trends in and around the United Kingdom.

Journal Reviews
More Floods for Central Europe in a Warming World?: So say some regional climate models. But can one believe them?

The Net Mass Balance of the Community of Karakoram Glaciers: Is it positive, negative or neutral?

Trees and Shrubs at Their Poleward Limits in a Warming World: How have they been responding to rising temperatures?

How Does a Short-Winged Bush-Cricket React to Rapid Warming?: It sprouts long wings, in order to better fly to cooler climes to escape the escalating heat.

Two Centuries of Reef Growth in the Southern South China Sea: What do the data suggest about the impacts of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and seawater temperatures on Porites corals?

Sub-Tropical Reef-Fish in a Warming World: How is their local diversity affected?

Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Antarctic Diatom [Chaetoceros brevis]. To access the entire database, click here.

Plant Growth Database
Our latest results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature are: Marine Coccolithophore (Fiorini et al., 2011) and Redroot Amaranth (Valerio et al., 2011).

Medieval Warm Period Project
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 1072 individual scientists from 616 research institutions in 45 different countries ... and counting! Our latest Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Esthwaite Water, Windermere Catchment, England. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project's database, click here.

World Temperatures Database
Back by popular demand and upgraded to allow patrons more choices to plot and view the data, we reintroduce the World Temperatures section of our website. Here, users may plot temperatures for the entire globe or regions of the globe. A newly added feature allows patrons the ability to plot up to six independent datasets on the same graph. Try it today. World Temperatures Database.

Climate Change Reconsidered
The 2011 Interim Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change: We provide a link to this report as a courtesy and encourage all to download and read it. The 2011 Interim Report presents an overview of the research on climate change that has appeared since publication of Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. Research published before 2009 was included if it did not appear in the 2009 report or provides context for the new research. Nearly all of the research summarized here appeared in peer-reviewed science journals.