Michael Mann

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University. He was recognized with other Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change authors for their contribution to the IPCC's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Follow him @MichaelEMann
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Views Thursday, February 04, 2021 It’s a New Day in the Climate Battle, Now We Must Act With Agency Last week, President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis. The new rules place climate at the center of our foreign policy and national security considerations, building upon the recently re-entered Paris Climate Accord, and establishing the White House... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 03, 2019 You Can't Save the Climate By Going Vegan. Corporate Polluters Must be Held Accountable. “People start pollution. People can stop it.” That was the tag line of the famous “ Crying Indian ” ad campaign that first aired on Earth Day in 1971. It was, as it turns out, a charade . Not only was “ Iron Eyes Cody ” actually an Italian-American actor, the campaign itself successfully shifted... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Water’s Rising Because It’s Getting Warmer Would the Journal run the op-ed “ Objects Are Falling, but Not Because of Gravity ”? That’s pretty similar to climate contrarian Fred Singer saying The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change ” (op-ed, May 16). No, ice is not accumulating on Earth—it is melting. No, Antarctica isn’t too... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 29, 2018 Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump With a climate change denier in the White House, climate denialism has reached a new low point in America. Indeed, my co-author Tom Toles and I have devoted a whole new chapter to the matter ("Return to the Madhouse: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump") in the new paperback edition of our... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 10, 2017 Fear Won't Save Us: Putting a Check on Climate Doom Since this New York Magazine article ("The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells) is getting so much play since it was published on Sunday, I figured I should comment on it, especially as I was interviewed by the author (though not quoted or mentioned). "The evidence that climate change is a... Read more |
Views Friday, January 31, 2014 Approving Keystone XL Could Be the Biggest Mistake of Obama's Presidency I have made my position on the Keystone XL pipeline quite clear . Read more |