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Michael E. Mann

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Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize

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Michael Evan Mann is an American climatologist and geophysicist. He is the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. Mann has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change and to isolate climate signals from noisy data. .. more

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"Scientists strive to be apolitical, but they can’t keep politics out of their labs" | Great review of my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, in the @latimes.com (and @yahoonews.com), courtesy of Michael Hiltzik: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Hiltzik: Scientists strive to be apolitical, but they can't keep politics out of their labs

Since Galileo's time, politicians and ideologues have always tried to interfere with science. It's worse than ever today.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6h

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Then you will like #ScienceUnderSiege (with its Tolkienesque framing)

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Update: www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
#RogerPielkeJr #ScienceUnderSiege

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Right wing think tank (AEI) employee Roger Pielke Jr. has formed a cozy relationship with the Murdoch media as he spreads climate disinformation in Australia.

It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Temperature Check

The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill wa...

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News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Temperature Check

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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 11h

Pielke is so lame. www.huffpost.com/entry/climat...

Climate Academic Probed by Congress Falsely Charges Colleagues With Conflict of Interest

Professor Roger J. Pielke, Jr. recently compared many widely-published energy and climate experts with Dr. Wei-Hock Soon, the subject of recent media attention for failing to follow conflict of intere...

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mcp2028.bsky.social @mcp2028.bsky.social · 12h

Peter Hotez @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & Michael Mann
@michaelemann.bsky.social on the PBS News Hour
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12h

"I love the poorly educated."

-- Donald Trump

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Donald Trump: I Love The Poorly Educated

Claiming victory in the Nevada caucuses by a near-landslide, Trump identified the communities that have given him their support.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Not All Wars Are What They Seem: The False Promise of "The War on Science" | Great #Substack piece by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social contrasts this deceptively similarly-sounding diatribe with my own new book #ScienceUnderSiege w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/not-all-wa...

Not All Wars Are What They Seem: The False Promise of "The War on Science"

Reviewing the misguided premise connecting a volume of essays edited by Lawrence Krauss that views the singular threat to science as stemming from forces on the left.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16h

Fantastic profile and discussion of our new book #ScienceUnderSiege by the great @willbunch.bsky.social!

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

Trump's dictatorship is time for making moral choices

I talked to the top climate scientist, Penn's Michael Mann, about his great new book - and why he sacrificed a key university post in order to keep speaking the truth against anti-science lies

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back | Will Bunch

Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.

www.inquirer.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16h

thank you!

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16h

"Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back" | Nice piece about my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, by the great @willbunch.bsky.social for the Philadelphia @inquirer.com: www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back | Will Bunch

Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.

www.inquirer.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

This book, co-written with the vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez bookshop.org/p/books/scie...

Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World

How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back | Will Bunch

Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.

www.inquirer.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h

As I've often said, there is no path forward in the U.S. on climate, or any of the defining challenges we face, that doesn't go through a functioning democracy.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18h

"From Prediction to Reality: How Climate Science Warned Us, and What Comes Next" | Lecture & #ScienceUnderSiege book-signing at @ucmerced.bsky.social, Mon Nov 17!
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