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CRANKY UNCLE vs. CLIMATE CHANGE: How to Understand and Respond to Climate Deniers helps young adults and fledgling climate leaders explain to science deniers – like the proverbial cranky uncle –precisely how we got to this point, how to spot the telltale characteristics of science denial using easy-to-grasp visuals that are instructive and funny, and how to counter them.

Written by Dr. John Cook, founder of the website Skeptical Science – which provides resources, data, and science used to prove the irrefutable evidence of climate change – he has ingeniously blended together his skills as a cartoonist, his Ph.D in the cognitive psychology of misinformation, and reams of data to create a unique book that will help you spot myths and fallacies to counter science and solutions deniers. 


CRANKY UNCLE vs. CLIMATE CHANGE includes: 

  • How climate change became so controversial –the unholy alliance between ideology and industry, the playbook of selling doubt, the characteristics and stages of science denial;
  • Denying reality – Thousands of warming indicators; shifting the goalposts on sea level rise; climate conspiracy on the temperature record, and the clear evidence of melting glaciers;
  • Denying responsibility – Myths downplaying the greenhouse effect, warnings from the past, how we’ve upset the natural balance; and how human fingerprints rule out the usual suspects;
  • Denying consequences – How climate change has an impact on nearly every aspect ofsociety; the increasing damage from heatwaves and hurricanes; ocean acidification; how species can’t keep up with climate change; and how our food supply chain relies on balance;
  • Denying science – The consensus on climate change; distinguishing between weather andclimate; traits of conspiracy theorists; stolen e-mails that shine a light on conspiratorial thinking, climate models’ reliable track records;
  • Responding to science denial – Can you change your cranky uncle’s mind? Breaking the silence of climate silence, and why it’s dangerous to ignore misinformation; what you say and do matters; spotting myths and fallacies in science denial thinking.