num_pages: 216
description: Climate change is no laughing matter - but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone from students to policy-makers to voters needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change entertains as it educates delivering a unique and enjoyable presentation of mind-blowing facts and critical concepts. Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman and award-winning illustrator Grady Klein have created the funniest overview of climate science predictions and policy that youll ever read. Youll giggle but youll also learn-about everything from Milankovitch cycles to carbon taxes. If those subjects sound daunting consider that Bauman and Klein have already written two enormously successful cartoon guides to economics making this notoriously dismal science accessible to countless readers. Bauman has a PhD in economics and has taught at both the high school and college level but he now makes a living performing at comedy clubs universities and conferences sharing the stage with personalities as diverse as Robin Williams and Paul Krugman. The authors know how to get a laugh-and they know their facts. This cartoon introduction is based on the latest report from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and integrates Baumans expertise on economics and policy. If economics can be funny then climate science can be a riot. Sociologists have argued that we dont address global warming because its too big and frightening to get our heads around. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change takes the intimidation and gloom out of one of the most complex and hotly debated challenges of our time. References available at http://standupeconomist.com/cartoon-c...
language: English
title: The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
publisher: Island Press