  Many of you reading these words will have been attracted by the discussion
paper [McShane and Wyner (2011)], in which case, this may be the first, but
hopefully not the last, time you will have read anything in a statistics
journal. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the review process in
our journal and to make some comments about the role of statistics and
uncertainty assessment in paleoclimatology and the broader debate about climate
change.
