For 25 years, as director of San Francisco State University\'s Sierra Nevada Field Campus, Jim Steele has opened the eyes and ears of countless students to the magic of California\'s Sierra Nevada.
In easily grasped terms Steele explains how natural cycles can cause abrupt Climate change and extreme weather eve.
Landscapes and Cycles demystifies both Climate science and conservation science in a manner easily understood by everyone.
Most distressing Landscapes and Cycles reveals how global warming advocates have opposed appropriate conservation efforts simply because the concerned scientists did not blame Climate change.
Steele highlights how faulty science and bad models have misguided critical conservation efforts and misrepresented conservation success.
On the other hand it presents withering criticism against the politicization of Climate change and those who have hijacked key environmental issues to the detriment of good environmental stewardship.
It celebrates the work of conservationists and scientists whose tireless efforts have enabled the full recovery of a great many species.
Landscapes and Cycles juxtaposes environmental optimism and with concern.
Controlling our carbon footprints will never address the most pressing issues of habitat loss and watershed degradation.
Those species that are struggling have invariably been affected by issues other than Climate change and require very different remedies.
Despite media horror stories, many species have benefitted from recent Climate change.
Although it is wise to think globally, all wildlife reacts locally and all regions of the earth have been behaving very differently from what a globally averaged statistic might suggest.
It compares the effects of landscape changes, natural cycles and Climate change on polar bears, whales, walruses, penguins, frogs, pika, butterflies and marine ecosystems.
His first book, Landscapes and Cycles, An Environmentalist\'s Journey to Climate Skepticism will likewise open your minds.
For 25 years, as director of San Francisco State University\'s Sierra Nevada Field Campus, Jim Steele has opened the eyes and ears of countless students to the magic of California\'s Sierra Nevada
