Editorial
Does the United States Need a National Climate Science Authority?: We think not, worrying about the power it would possess ... and the science it could suppress.

Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week
This issue's Medieval Warm Period Record of the Week comes from Narsaq Sound, Southern Greenland.

Subject Index Summary
Extinction (Butterflies): How will earth's butterflies respond to the twin evils of the climate-alarmist crowd, i.e., atmospheric CO2 enrichment and global warming?

Journal Reviews
Three Decades of Near-Surface and Lower-Troposphere Temperature Measurements: What do the differences between them, as well as their differential responses over land and sea, suggest about the reliability of each?

Simulating 21st-Century Precipitation: How well do current climate models perform this important task?

The "Twin Evils" of the Radical Environmentalist Movement: What is their effect on a highly-farmed watershed?

CO2 Effects on Tropical Marine Fish Embryos and Larvae: What are they? ... and how bad are they?

CO2 Effects on Micronutrients in Plants: Does atmospheric CO2 enrichment increase or decrease foliar micronutrient concentrations?