Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change
  • Published: 25 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780806540276
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $40.00

Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change

How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers

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From the founder of the award-winning website, Skeptical Science, which has more than 300,000 visitors a month and over 190,000 Facebook fans, and has gotten attention from President Obama, John Oliver, Rachel Maddow, Jimmy Kimmel and many others (and attacked by climate contrarians like Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum), a fully-illustrated, accessible, visually engaging, and science-based look at the psychology of typical arguments used by climate change deniers alongside strategic evidence-based tactics on how to constructively respond to their claims.

It’s Not Just the Facts

When it comes to climate change, this truly is a golden age—of fake news, post-truths, pluralistic ignorance, conspiracy theories, a willfully ignorant administration, and the Cranky Uncle. You know him. We all have one. That exasperating Thanksgiving blusterer digs in his heels even as the foundation of his denial thaws faster than the Arctic ice caps.
 
Written and illustrated by Dr. John Cook, cognitive psychologist and founder of the award-winning website Skeptical Science, Cranky Uncle combines humor and science to make clear, calm, and winnable arguments in the public controversy of climate change. Can we change our Cranky Uncle’s mind? Probably, regrettably, not. But Dr. Cook makes it easier for us to understand him. And armed with this knowledge, prevent climate misinformation from spreading further.
  • Published: 25 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780806540276
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $40.00
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Praise for Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change

"People are always asking me 'what's the best source for debunking the claims of climate change deniers?' Now I have an easy answer: buy a copy of John Cook's new book, Cranky Uncles vs Climate Change."--Prof. Michael E. Mann, Author of The Madhouse Effect and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
"This rare book answers many of your pressing questions, such as what to tell your crazy Uncle Joe when he insists at Thanksgiving dinner that climate change is a liberal hoax. Thank goodness for this book!"--Prof. Naomi Oreskes, Author of Merchants of Doubt, The Collapse of Western Civilization
"This funny and factual walk through climate science and its impacts--and common arguments against them--will leave you informed, recharged, and excited to see the sequel: Cranky Uncles vs Climate Solutions. I can't wait!"--Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Author of A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions