Madhouse Effect

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 of this subject, including its political context, since the 1980s.

For centuries, powerful forces of greed have tried to hide the truth, but that doesn't change reality—the earth is round and climate change is very real. The Madhouse Effect brilliantly dissects the climate denial industry, empowering all of us to see the facts and take action before it's too late.

• 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 Forward9. Return to the Madhouse: Climate Change Denial in the Age of TrumpNotesIndex