The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Written by Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles

Narrated by Alan Taylor

Author of The Madhouse Effect is the award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann, who has been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of his career. He has 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 he has learned have been invaluable—inspiring this brilliant, colorful 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. This climate science crusader enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books—and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of sound science.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wetware Media
• Release date: May 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781509438358

Michael E. Mann

Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State. He has received many honours and awards, including his selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. Additionally, he contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2018 he received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union. In 2020 he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Dire Predictions: understanding climate change and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: dispatches from the front lines. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

[Noski Justin · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Five stars for giving examples of Logic Fallacies BOTH sides use, One star for covering actual Global Warming data. In effect this is a book about how to argue your take on Global warming without any actual data.
What is funny is the best examples of how to argue are often the logic fallacies the writer uses!
Now before anyone retorts with the oft used "if you don't like the book, you must not believe in global warming" logic fallacy (argument from fallacy tactic: which is the basis of this book and probably why so many people like it), let me set you straight. I DO believe in global warming. Unfortunately this book does not have the numbers or studies you would expect would be present that alleviate the 'crazy', instead it adds to the craziness by using the same techniques as the opposition (especially the straw man fallacy).

Save your time and just watch network TV (left or right), its the same prattle.

[Amanda Jade Mossman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Easy to understand and put in a way everyday people can grasp the concepts

[GARY WIMBERLY · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Very. Very good. On. Presenting why. We need to. Go. GreenBut. Does. Not. Address. The unintended. Effects. Of. A war. On. Fossil. Fuels