By James Taylor, Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett
Second edition of Climate at a Glance, published by The Heartland Institute, provides public with Facts on 40 Climate Topics
First edition in 2022 was a #1 Amazon Best-seller in the categories of ‘Science for Kids, ‘Climatology,’ and ‘Environmental Science’
SCHAUMBURG, IL (October 7, 2025) – The Heartland Institute has published a second edition of its Amazon best-selling book Climate at a Glance. The new book, Climate at a Glance (Second Edition): Facts on 40 Prominent Climate Topics, is available now on Amazon.
The 118-page book covers 40 climate topics often discussed in science classes, as well as among the general public and media, and provides the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis. The book is organized into four sections: (1) Extreme Weather, (2) Economics and Policy, (3) Climate Change Impacts, and (4) Underlying Science. This makes it ideal as a tool for teachers to bring the latest climate data into their lesson plans.
The data in Climate at a Glance (Second Edition): Facts on 40 Prominent Climate Topics – with footnotes in each chapter citing the sources – was compiled by authors Anthony Watts, senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute who has worked as an on-air meteorologist since 1978; and James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute who has been studying and communicating about climate and energy policy for Heartland for 25 years. The book was edited by H. Sterling Burnett, director of The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy.
The new second edition covers 14 new topics not discussed in the first edition. They are: Global tropical cyclones; temperature-related deaths; deaths from extreme weather; the Great Barrier Reef; bees and climate change; Antarctic ice melt; Arctic sea ice; global greening; global wildfires; ocean temperatures; atmospheric rivers; climate models vs. measured temperature data; carbon dioxide saturation in the atmosphere; and the sun’s impact on climate change.
“Climate at a Glance presents the compelling truth on the most frequently discussed climate change topics in two-page summaries that are easy to read and understand. You can feel confident in your knowledge of climate change topics with Climate at a Glance and you will never lose a climate change debate with a climate activist.”
James Taylor
President
The Heartland Institute
“For too long, climate discourse has been dominated by slogans and fear, while real science and sound policy have taken a back seat, but the data tell a far more complicated story. This book is not about denying that the climate changes—it always has and always will—but about questioning whether today’s costly, disruptive policies are grounded in evidence or in politics. By examining the data, the models, and the history of our ever-changing climate, this book cuts through the noise to show that climate change is not a one-way catastrophe but part of Earth’s natural variability. Instead of rushing into policies that wreck economies and livelihoods, we need honest science, open debate, and the courage to question a narrative that too often puts politics before facts.”
Anthony Watts
Senior Fellow for Environment and Climate
The Heartland Institute
“Climate Change is a fact. That it is resulting in disasters or measurable harms or poses and existential threat to humanity, is straight up false, as the chapters in Climate at a Glance 2nd Edition clearly show. The data and research cited in CAAG 2nd edition clearly demonstrate that climate models fail to reflect reality, neither temperatures nor sea levels are rising at unusual rates, and extreme weather events, and natural disasters that sometimes result from them, like wildfires and floods, aren’t becoming more frequent, severe, or deadly. Exposed to those facts, people who’ve developed anxiety, depression, or other mental illnesses tied to their exposure to the constant but false media drum beat that climate change is killing them, should be able to happily get back on with their lives without fear that their driving or travel habits or food choices are destroying the Earth.”
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.Director
Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy
The Heartland Institute
Among the facts in this book that counter common and false alarmist narratives about the climate:
Deaths from Extreme Weather, p. 20: Real-world data show no significant increase in extreme weather over the past 100 years, and existing data show weather-related deaths down dramatically.
Global Tropical Cyclones, p. 22: There has been no increase in the number or intensity of tropical cyclones since at least 1972 as the planet has modestly warmed, and some data suggest tropical cyclone frequency has actually declined over the past century. Even the UN’s IPCC found no increase in the frequency or severity of tropical cyclones.
Arctic sea ice, p. 69: Many scientists, politicians, and media sources wrongly predicted Arctic sea ice would disappear in the summer. Satellite data show the summer minimum sea ice has not decreased at all since 2007, and instead has remained stable after a temporary low in 2012.
Ocean temperatures, p. 74: Ocean temperatures are driven by the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which can cause a flip from cold to warm in the space of a single year. The 1997 and 2015 Super El Nino events caused an upward shift in global ocean temperature that lingers today.
Carbon Dioxide saturation in the atmosphere, p. 93: Atmospheric CO2 has already reached 99 percent of its potential saturation level for absorbing warmth. More CO2 in the atmosphere will have virtually no impact on future temperatures, as near-saturation for absorbing warmth has already occurred.
The Heartland Institute is known globally as the leading think tank pushing back on climate alarmism, has hosted 15 International Conferences on Climate Change, and has presented The Climate Realism Show on YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, and X for many years.
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James Taylor is president of The Heartland Institute
Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
I am sure it is very good but I think you have got to put it online for free so that people can easily access issues if they get into arguments.
(You had the earlier version online didn’t you?)
If it’s available online for free I can send the link to all the climate nut jobs in Wokeachusetts. I realize that the authors need to get paid for their time- but if the Heartland Institute paid them, for the sake of getting the facts out, then maybe it could be available online for free?
The nut jobs don’t have the patience and attention span to read such a long document on line. Their brains are now those smart phone gadgets.
Go to https://climateataglance.com/ for the web version.
See the QR code and URL on the preview, inside cover for the PDF free version.
thanks Anthony,
Now I can send a link to it to the major climate nut jobs here in Wokeachusetts. Of course they’ll ignore me, but read it anyway.
for anyone just now reading this article, the link is:
https://climateataglance.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CaaGbook2025v2.pdf
The new second edition covers 14 new topics . . . .
Sea Level & Methane missing (covered in the 1st edition?)
That’s a pity because sea level is one of the things that everybody thinks they have good knowledge of.
(I happen today to be by the sea on the Jurassic coast in Devon, England.
Every time there is a small or large cliff slump the local activists all say “there you are – carbon dioxide emissions caused that”.)
Yet they keep on using FF every day, what flaming hypocrites. Keep reminding them of that.
“…using FF every day…” to keep from freezing to death to death in the winter.
Powerful stuff- that CO2, to be able to destroy cliffs! /s
As it turns out sea level was mentioned once in passing.
Certainly not an in depth critique. The manipulation of
satellite data is absolutely outrageous and needs to stop.
The activists must be really chuffed about Doggerland…
Not sure where you get that idea….both are in the index.
Can it be bought somewhere else apart from Amazon? I am reluctant to use Amazon.
I just checked the reviews on the 1st edition. The 1-star reviews are interesting. I think you can read them without being a member of Prime. The gulf between what the 1-star folks think and what skeptics think is amazingly wide. Both can’t be right.
Agree; I’d make a purchase in a N.Y. nanosecond if it did not go through Amazon. Won’t do business with those S.O.B’s.
Have you local bookstore order you a copy from the Heartland.
Ordered now.
I had to laugh:
Climate at a Glance by Watts: $15
Climate Change: Social Inequality and Doom by Epstien (might be good but I don’t now – its just the thing Amazon you-might-also-like’ed): $50
I think there is an error showing the same graph twice
No.
The Arctic sea ice graphic is the wrong one.
And the RIGHT one is?
This statement perfectly describes why how the global warming narrative could survive and thrive for decades, despite a pathetic and nonsensical “scientific” foundation. Regardless how bad consensus science is, the “critical side” outpaces it in terms of incompetence.
Sorry, but how much “warmth the atmosphere absorbs” has nothing to do with it. Rather it is about the effective emission altitude, which has a lot of head-space.
Countering bad arguments with even worse arguments, is actually the only way to lose an otherwise certain victory..
The saturation level for the absorption of out-going long wave length IR light occurs when the concentration of CO2 is at the threshold value of 300 ppmv.
Shown in Fig. 7 (See below) is the IR absorption spectrum of a sample of Philadelphia inner city air from 400 to 4000 wavenumbers (wns). In 1999, the concentration of CO2 was ca. 300 ppmv (0.50 g CO2/cu. m.). The gas cell was a 7 cm Al cylinder with KBr windows. The active greenhouse effect is in the range of 400 to 700 wns. The large absorption peak of CO2 at 2350 wns is not involved in the in the greenhouse effect.
The absorbance of the CO2 peak at 667 wns has an absorbance of 0.025. If the gas cell was 700 cm (ca. 27 ft) the absorbance would be 2.5 and 99+% of the IR light would be absorbed. This means that saturation of absorption height for CO2 is 7 meter. Note, however, how small and narrow the CO2 peak is. It is absorbing little IR light energy. This absorbed energy contributes little to the warming of surface air,
H2O is the main greenhouse gas and has many absorption peaks.
The main mechanism for warming of the land surface air is by absorption of sunlight of which is ca. 50% IR light, and the upward convection of the warm or hot air. The warmth of sunlight is due to the near IR light.
PS: Fig. 7 was taken from the essay: “Climate Change Reexamined” by Joel M. Kauffman. The essay is 26 pages and can be down loaded for free.
NB: If you click on Fig 7., it will expand and become clear. To return to the comment text, click on the “X” in the circle.
It would be a good idea for school systems in a number of countries to make certain that this publication is not only available to teachers but also compulsory to be used when climate topics are discussed. This would help offset the one-sided views peddled by both leftist curriculums and under-informed teachers who subscribe to only the alarmist side of the issue.
Very nice guys, this is the kind of stuff we need.
I’ve ordered it .
“story tip” Guys, if you are interested, I have a free third edition of my `Climate Science- A Sceptical Review’ if you want to put it on the website as a 9mb PDF, to get more info out there and discussion going on these topics.
Heartland? Really?
The Kubicki article cited under the CO2 saturation graph and discussion has been retracted, as not meeting the journal’s standards. Anyone know why?