Editorial
Concerning the Current Consensus on Climate Change: Finding room for a vast array of informed opinions on anthropogenic CO2 emissions and global climate change: is the goal really achievable?

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China.

Subject Index Summary
FACE Experiments (Desert Species): What have we learned by way of Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) technology about the likely responses of desert plants to the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content?

Journal Reviews
Storms of New York: How have they varied over the past century and a half?

Holocene Climatic Oscillations of the USA's Mid-Atlantic Region: What were they like? ... and what likely caused them?

Coral Bleaching in the South China Sea: Has it historically been more common than we have supposed?

Recovery of Palau's Coral Reefs After the ENSO-Induced Bleaching Event of 1998: How fast or slow has it been?

Do Terrestrial Plants Emit Methane Under Normal Aerobic Conditions?: A recent study suggested they do. New evidence suggests otherwise.