Editorial
The Real Ocean Acidification Story: A looming catastrophe it is not.

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from Northern Fennoscandia.

Subject Index Summary
Long-Term Studies (Woody Plants - Pine Trees: Loblolly Pine): How long-lived loblolly pine trees will likely respond to rising atmospheric CO2 has been assessed by how they have responded to increases in the air's CO2 concentration in open-top chamber and free-air CO2-enrichment experiments.

Journal Reviews
Assessing the Skill of Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Climate Models: How good are they in the short term? ... which is, in essence, the only context in which we can truly test their utility.

Thirty Years of Antarctic Snow and Ice Melt: What do the data suggest about the nature of late 20th-century and early 21st century warming?

Thermal Plasticity in Swedish Pool Frogs: What does it imply about the frogs ability to cope with global warming?

Effects of Post-1980 Warming on Cropping Systems in China: Have they been positive or negative? ... or neutral?

Tropical Forests and Earth's Changing Atmosphere: Are the trees of the planet's warmest latitudes being stressed to the breaking point by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperatures?