Editorial
Two-and-a-Half Millennia of European Climate Variability and Societal Responses: A new analysis of the subject yields some interesting observations; but how these observations are interpreted is the most crucial thing of all.

Journal Reviews
Extreme Precipitation Events in China's Zhujiang River Basin: Are they changing in the way the IPCC suggests they should?

The Climatic Impacts of Precipitating Ice and Snow: What are they? How significant are they? And to what extent are they represented in state-of-the-art climate models?

Improving the Quantification of Oceanic DMS and DMSP: How goes the task? ... and why do we care?

Effects of Elevated CO2 on Crop Water Relations: Real-world crops in Europe have been shown to use water more efficiently in high-CO2 air, thus making the liquid treasure last longer and possibly countermanding the current need to irrigate in many areas.

B. nana Plants Are Expanding Their Presence in the Arctic Tundra!: What hath global warming wrought???

Elevated CO2 Mitigates Negative Drought Effects on Barley Plants: So what are some of the details?

Medieval Warm Period Project
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Northern Taiwan.

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