Editorial
The 2012 Consensus Statement on Climate Change and Coral Reefs: There is much that is good about the statement ... but there is some that is not.

Subject Index Summary
Droughts (North America - Mexico): Climate alarmists warn of all sorts of weather disasters, including droughts, as the Earth recovers from the debilitating chill of the Little Ice Age and begins to experience the more benign temperatures of the Current Warm Period. Does history vindicate them? This question is explored via brief reviews of several papers investigating the occurrence of droughts in Mexico.

Journal Reviews
Extreme Temperature Events Throughout South America: Did they increase or decrease as the earth warmed over the course of the 20th century?

Eight and a Half Centuries of Snowpack Variations in the Andes of Chile and Argentina: What do they reveal about the nature of snowpack conditions there over the past several decades of supposedly unprecedented global warming?

Ocean Acidification and the Marine Nitrogen Cycle: Will future real-world results be as bad as has been predicted by some?

Biofuels: Forging Ahead Without a Full Understanding of the End Result: There are still too many unknowns about various impacts of the endeavor.

Calculating the Effects of Climate Change and Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on California (USA) Crop Production: Scientists reject experimental observations to go with theoretical model predictions. Very strange? ... or only to be expected?

Tropical and Subtropical Birds Expanding Northwards in Texas: What is the cause of the phenomenon? ... and is the result threatening indigenous species, into whose ranges the southern birds are encroaching?

Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Northern Star Coral [Astrangia poculata] (calcification rates of azooxanthellate). To access the entire database, click here.