Editorial
Elevated CO2: What Can It Do for Semi-Arid Shortgrass Steppe Vegetation?: Plenty.

Subject Index Summaries
Droughts (North America: United States): Climate alarmists claim that global warming will result in ever-worsening drought conditions.  A good test of this claim is to see what the global warming of the past century or two has wrought in this regard.  Hence, we present a brief review of this subject as it pertains to the United States of America.

Seeds (Grasslands): How do elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 impact the production and properties of the seeds of the plants that comprise natural grasslands and managed pastures? … and what are the ramifications of these phenomena?

Journal Reviews
Is There an Ice Age on the Horizon?: Perhaps; but some important new evidence suggests it may be a long time getting here.

Eight Centuries of Indian Ocean Monsoon Rainfall Data: What do they tell us about the ability of general circulation models of the atmosphere to simulate monsoonal circulations and their response to global warming?

Millennial-Scale Variations in West African Precipitation: Evidence continues to accumulate for the existence of a millennial-scale oscillation of climate that alternately brings each part of the world either warmer or cooler and/or wetter or drier conditions as time marches on.

The Photosynthetic Response of Soybeans to Elevated CO2: A new study reveals a strong response of soybean leaf photosynthesis to atmospheric CO2 enrichment, while theoretical calculations suggest that the CO2-induced increase in photosynthetic prowess is still only half as strong as it has the potential to become.

Response of Spring Wheat to Elevated CO2 and Ozone: Sometimes, atmospheric CO2 enrichment actually more than completely ameliorates the damage caused to plants by ozone pollution.