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  • How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
  • By: Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles
  • Narrated by: Alan Taylor
  • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)
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By: Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles
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Summary

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.

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. 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 sound science.

©2016 Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles (P)2017 Wetware Media

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Fluent overview of the mess we are in

The authors know what they are talking about, and write in a clear and accessible way. They have long and direct experience of campaigning and informing on climate change.
Although the book is only 4 years old, it feels a bit out of date due to subsequent further backsliding on the climate front. The US elections of 2016 - still to come at the time of writing - are referred to as "make or break". We got the Break candidate...
This is not the most compelling climate change book available in 2019. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells is a more up-to-date text, although correspondingly more urgent as we have slipped further down the oily slope towards crisis and chaos. For an understanding of why we find it so hard to face the climate crisis, an excellent read is George Marshall's
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. These two texts also end on a faint note of hope.

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Essential reading well narrated.

A subject and information that should be digested by everyone, from young to old and across the globe.

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