When The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change was first published in 2014, it offered something entirely new: a fun, illustrated guide to a planetary crisis. If that sounds like an oxymoron, you’ve never seen the carbon cycle demonstrated through yoga poses or a polar bear explaining evolution to her cubs.

That creativity comes from the minds of Yoram Bauman, the world’s first and only “stand-up economist,” and award-winning illustrator Grady Klein. After seeing their book used in classrooms and the halls of Congress alike, the pair has teamed up again to fully update the guide with the latest scientific data from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

A lot has happened to the climate over the last decade, and the authors tackle the daunting statistics with their trademark humor. They realize it’s better to laugh than cry when confronting mind-blowing facts about our changing world. Readers will become familiar with critical concepts, but they’ll also smile as they learn about climate science, projections, and policy.

Sociologists have argued that we don’t address climate change because it’s 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 important challenges of our time.

"The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change engages with the scientific, social, political and economic dimensions of climate change with the aim of both entertaining and informing its readers, adopting an accessible and engaging language accompanied by visuals….The choice to use playful vignettes, stories and characters makes the book unique compared to other essay-style/non-fiction books dealing with climate change that have been published in recent years….[It] skillfully brings the reader from reality to hyperbole, showing the complexity of tackling climate change and its paradoxes with clarity." - Journal of Human Rights and the Environment