When giving public talks, I am often asked, "What do I do about my Uncle Joe, who doesn't believe in climate change?" Now I finally have an answer: Buy him a copy of The Madhouse Effect and tell him you won't talk to him until he has read it. Even if he doesn't read it, he'll look at the pictures, and that might just be enough. -- Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University

Michael Mann is one of the planet's great climate scientists, and Tom Toles may be the great climate communicator--together they are a Category 5 storm of information and indignation, wreaking humorous havoc on those who would deny the greatest challenge humans have ever faced. -- Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org If you are not concerned about climate change yet, please read this book. If you are unaware of the hardcore deniers among us, read this book. If you are a climate change denier, doubter, techno-fixer, or lukewarmer, read this book. Mike Mann and Tom Toles have written some words and drawn some pictures for you, so maybe you'll get it this time. -- Bill Nye, The Science Guy When giving public talks, I am often asked, "What do I do about my Uncle Joe, who doesn't believe in climate change?" Now I finally have an answer: Buy him a copy of The Madhouse Effect and tell him you won't talk to him until he has read it. Even if he doesn't read it, he'll look at the pictures, and that might just be enough. -- Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University Brilliant, insightful and fresh! Two gifted experts - one a scientist, the other an editorial cartoonist - invite you to be entertained and outraged, inspired and motivated to escape the madhouse that characterizes climate dialogue and politics today. New and hilarious insights into climate change. I loved it! -- Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University

Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University. He is the author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia, 2012) and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Tom Toles is the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist of the Washington Post. He has a particular interest in climate-change science and has worked consistently to advance understanding on this subject, including its political context, since the 1980s.

Preface: Why We Wrote This BookAcknowledgments1. Science: How It Works2. Climate Change: The Basics3. Why Should I Give a Damn?4. The Stages of Denial5. The War on Climate Science6. Hypocrisy-Thy Name Is Climate Change Denial7. Geoengineering, or "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"8. A Path ForwardNotesIndex