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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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By the way, don't fall for this nonsense. Trump's actions have nothing to do with the Nobel Prize whatsoever. That's a deflection strategy. The real reason is that Putin wants to destroy NATO, which Trump's actions will accomplish.
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Yes, and to show this isn't a fluke:
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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The short answer appears to be "yes"
January 19, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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For those who aren't aware, Google's AI summary chatbot Gemini is programmed to refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Compare the two cases:
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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I'm just going to continue to re-post my Nov '24 commentary for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social "Welcome to the American Petrostate"
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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I will be in conversation with journalist @guerricponcet.bsky.social at the @lepoint.fr Paris-Saclay Summit ("Choose Science"), Feb 18 in Gif-sur-Yvette France
evenements.lepoint.fr/paris-saclay...
January 18, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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"Angry oceans set records on West Coast" by @dinahvp.bsky.social for @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
January 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Join me on January 29th from 6-8pm CET (12-2pm EST) for @climaterealityproject.org's "The Climate Reality Check: Exposing Misinformation, Disinformation and Greenwashing" webinar online via zoom.

Follow this link for registration: climatereality.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Here's the data:
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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No, @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...), experts do NOT agree emissions reductions aren't adequate to prevent 2C warming.

You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)
January 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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"Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025" | Our (Yuying Pan et al) new article in Advances in Atmospheric Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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I hate to say "I told you so".
But I told you so (8 years ago):
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my twitter exchange 8 years ago with Elon Musk (see link)
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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I have some recent experience relevant to the situation that Tony Dokoupil has put himself in (article courtesy of @willbunch.bsky.social / @inquirer.com: www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...).
It's not too late to do the right thing...
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Career opportunity: Senior research coordinator for the @mannresearch.bsky.social climate research group at @upenn.edu:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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The importance of BOTH "carrot" AND "stick" (and the role of both demand-side and supply-side incentives) is discussed at length in The #NewClimateWar (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

Here's a short excerpt:
Of course, a truly comprehensive strategy for leveling the playing field involves more than simply forcing corporate polluters to pay for the damage they’re causing. That’s the stick. But we need the carrot, too. That means incentives for energy providers to replace fossil fuels with cleaner, safer, carbon-free energy (and, conversely, eliminating the perverse existing subsidies that are provided to fossil fuel energy producers). The inactivists, naturally, as detailed in the next chapter, have opposed these measures, too.
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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"An E.P.A. spokesman, Mike Bastasch, said the agency was aware of the article’s retraction"

That's former "Daily Caller" [i.e. Koch] climate denier Mike Bastasch:
EPA poaches Daily Caller editor-in-chief By Ellie Borst | 04/25/2025 01:36 PM EDT Michael Bastasch, who has criticized climate warnings as an “alarmist frenzy,” will join the agency as a senior communications adviser. https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-poaches-daily-caller-editor-in-chief/
January 4, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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life imitating art...
Wag the Dog › Film synopsis Two weeks prior to reelection, the United States president lands in the middle of a sex scandal. In need of outside help to quell the situation, presidential adviser Winifred Ames (Anne Heche) enlists the expertise of spin doctor Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro), who decides a distraction is the best course of action. Brean approaches Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to help him fabricate a war in Albania -- and once underway, the duo has the media entirely focused on the war.
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Not gonna tell you that I told you so. But I told you so...
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Tried and true tactic of fossil fuel disinformation machine. An excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege:
!en there are the dangers of wind! Robert Bryce, mentioned earlier, has promoted the myth that wind turbines pose a signi#cant threat to birds on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal (as well as in other ultra- right- wing outlets like the National Review).32 And please shed a crocodile tear for the poor whales, who— in the alternative universe of Fox News— are under grave threat from wind turbines. Fox News has played a major role in promoting this myth. But as the Guardian points out, it has been ampli#ed and spread by the usual suspects and “can be traced back to anti- wind activism in the US linked to the energy industry and rightwing thinktanks with connections to fossil fuel industries.”33 More birds are killed every year by house cats. Yet Rupert Murdoch, curiously enough, has failed to use his massive platform to condemn the feline #ends. Climate change is an actual threat to whales worldwide.34 Where do Murdoch, Fox News, and News Corp. stand on that? Oh, never mind.
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Reflecting wistfully on my very first national news interview on the then just-published "hockey stick" curve, which ran on CBS Evening News (anchored by the great Dan Rather ) on Earth Day (April 22) 1998.
Deeply saddened by the death of CBS News.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Currently, 2nd most viewed Guardian opinion piece!
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The New York Times knows this is disinformative fossil fuel industry propaganda but published it anyway. This (via @amywestervelt.bsky.social) might have something to do with it:
drilled.media/news/drilled...
screen cap of linked article
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I have this weird feeling that there's something missing here...
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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count him back in...
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM