Holocene climate variability and global warming / Richard W. Battarbee -- Holocene climate research -- progress, paradigms, and problems / H. John B. Birks -- The role of people in the Holocene / Frank Oldfield -- Modelling the climate of the Holocene / Michel Crucifix -- The early to mid-Holocene thermal optimum in the North Atlantic / Eystein Jansen, Carin Andersson, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Birgitte F. Nyland, and Richard J. Telford -- Holocene climate change and the evidence for solar and other forcings / Juerg Beer and Bas van Geel -- Climate of the past millennium: combining proxy data and model simulations / Hugues Goosse, Michael E. Mann and Hans Renssen -- Latitudinal linkages in late-Holocene moisture-balance variation / Dirk Verschuren and Dan Charman -- Holocene rapid land-cover changes -- evidence and theory / Martin Claussen -- Holocene perspectives on future climate change / Ray Bradley.