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The madhouse effect : how climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy / Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Description: xv, 186 pages : illlustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780231177863 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231177860 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Madhouse effectDDC classification:
  • 363.738/74 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903 .M3625 2016
Contents:
Preface : why we wrote this book -- Science : how it works -- Climate change : the basics -- Why should I give a damn? -- The stages of denial -- The war on climate science -- Hypocrisy, thy name is climate change denial -- Geoengineering, or "What could possibly go wrong?" -- A path forward.
Summary: "The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two climate science crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books--and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of science,"--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : why we wrote this book -- Science : how it works -- Climate change : the basics -- Why should I give a damn? -- The stages of denial -- The war on climate science -- Hypocrisy, thy name is climate change denial -- Geoengineering, or "What could possibly go wrong?" -- A path forward.

"The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two climate science crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books--and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of science,"--Amazon.com.

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