Editorial
Biofuels as Religious Fodder: Could filling your car's fuel tank with biofuel lead to the starvation of generations yet unborn? ... and to the demise of much of earth's wild nature in the process?

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mountains, Russia.

Subject Index Summary
Coral Reefs (History - Caribbean Sea): What can we learn from the history of Caribbean coral reefs about the effects or non-effects of global warming upon their diversity and robustness?

Journal Reviews
A Global Temperature History of the Past Two Millennia: What does it reveal about the relative warmth of the 20th-century?

Flirting with Solar Causes of Climate Change: How can solar irradiance changes that are so small create terrestrial climate changes that are so large?

The Urban CO2 Dome and Heat Island of Baltimore (USA): Do the two conjoined phenomena represent a microcosm of what the entire world can expect in the future?

Growth Rates of Siberian Spruce and Scots Pines in Northwest Russia: How did their growth rates change between the two 50-year periods 1900-1949 and 1950-2000?

Earth's Peatlands in a CO2-Enriched World of the Future: How will they differ from those of today?