Why isn’t average good enough when it comes to global temperature? Why aren’t all temperatures created equal? How can you tell the difference between sound reasoning with good evidence and deceptive extremes with faulty evidence in the climate debate? How did President Barack Obama’s environmental policies harm the pika (a small mountain-dwelling mammal similar to a rabbit)? Why are droughts in the American southwest irrelevant to the climate-change controversy? What do Alfred Hitchcock, gray whales, and cycles of doom have to do with each other? Can you name the top 10 reasons—or any reasons—why increasing carbon dioxide hasn’t harmed Adelaide penguins—or emperor penguins, or polar bears, walruses, or frogs, or any other living thing? What do the Inuit (people indigenous to northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska) know about polar bears that global warming scare mongers don’t know—and how do they know it? What are the many ways—other than climate change—to shrink a glacier? Those and scores of other questions, all relevant to the debate over climate change, get solid, sometimes surprising, always enlightening answers in Jim Steele’s Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism.
