Editorial
The Broad View of Holocene Climate from the Swedish Scandes: What does it reveal about the uniqueness (or not!) of the warmth of the Current Warm Period?

Subject Index Summary
Biospheric Productivity (Asia: China, Deserts): It would appear that in response to the supposedly most dramatic global warming of the past two millennia - which is claimed to have been driven by the even more unprecedented concomitant increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration - vegetation in China's deserts appears to have fared remarkably well.

Journal Reviews
On the Origin of Extreme Climatic Events: Do they require extreme forcings?

Modeling the Tibetan Plateau Summer Monsoon: How well has it been done via CMIP5 simulations?

Atmospheric Blocking in the Northern Hemisphere: How well is it represented by state-of-the-art CMIP5 climate models?

Corals and Fleshy Algae: Living Together in a Future World???: How might it be done?

Tropical Tree Seedlings in a Warming World: What are their chances of surviving?

Effects of Elevated CO2 and O3 on Prairie Voles' Feeding & Growth: What are they? ... and how bad are they?