Editorial
Rapid Genetic Change in Terrestrial Plants: Could it enable earth's vegetation to successfully adapt to predicted changes in climate?

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from the Qilian Mountains, Tibetan Plateau, China.

Subject Index Summary
Trees (Types - Pine: Loblolly, Photosynthesis): How are the photosynthetic rates of loblolly pine trees affected by increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration?

Journal Reviews
Antarctic Ice-Sheet and Sea-Ice Albedo and Temperature: 1981-2000: How did these important climatic parameters respond to the supposedly unprecedented warming of the globe over the last two decades of the 20th century?

Sea Surface Temperatures off the Coast of North Iceland: How have they varied over the past 2000 years?

The Northeast Tibetan Plateau's Medieval Warm Period: What caused it? And how did its strength compare with that of the Current Warm Period?

Climate and Population Change in China: What has been the relationship between the two parameters over the past millennium?

Wheat Production in a Warming World: Will rising temperatures decimate this essential enterprise?