But some busybody got a whiff of an exotic cheroot and the place was closed down.

This book attempts to deal integratively with all elements of the cryosphere in the context of a changing global environment. Not only is that global environment changing with respect to climate, but the accelerating pressures on the environment from anthropogenic activity are complicating our understanding of cryospheric change.

The general feeling is that, while there is no such thing as a stupid question, this one comes very close. Poodles never did live in the wild […] .

With the study in this chapter, we continue the hunt for the Heffalump to answer the 'who is the entrepreneur' question …. The Heffalump is a character from Winnie-the-Pooh that has been hunted by many individuals using various ingenious trapping devices, but no one has succeeded in capturing it so far. All who claim to have caught sight of it report that it is enormous, but they disagree on its particularities ….