Climate Change Research Progress

Preface; Short communication; Advances in methods for estimating soil organic carbon stock change at regional scales in developing and emerging countries; Research and review studies; Tracer elements and uranium-series isotopes in the bottom sediments of Lake Baikal as geochemical climate proxies for high-resolution reconstructions of regional change; The economic literature on climate policy research -- the state of the art and some directions for further research; Multiproxy analysis of climate variability for the last millenium in the tropical Andes; Inorganic geochemistry in paleoclimate -- tools and trends in the analysis of peat and lake sediments; Impacts of climate changes on marine ecosystems and fisheries productivity in marginal seas of the northwest pacific; Decadal-to-centennial scale climate-carbon cycle interactions; Climate change and population health; Global warning, crop selection and adaptation options in Kenyan agriculture; The potential for increasing the contribution of renewable energies towards replacing fossil fuels is too small to justify the expenditure of government research funds; The ability of climate models to generate tropical cyclones -- implications for prediction.