Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Science Deniers [Paperback]

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.“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 Uncle 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 lc5