Norsk versjon ved Anders Dunker, se neste side / Photo: Joshua Yospin

Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Pennsylvania and director of the Pennsylvania University Center for Science Sustainability and the Media. In the early 2000s he contributed to the work of the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in 2008 together with Lee Kump he published the book Dire Predictions, a visual and popularized presentation of the reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After becoming at the center of a heated debate about climate science’s predictions, he wrote The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars (2012)  and  in collaboration with cartoonist Tom Toles he published the illustrated book  The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (2016  ) which was followed by The New Climate War (2021).

Mann is a central voice in the climate debate both in the United States and internationally. At the center of Mann’s scientific work is paleoclimatology, which reconstructs climate in earlier periods of Earth history, contributing to the models that describe current climate and future changes. Mann’s new book Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis (2023) elaborates on this theme and discusses different interpretations of climate historical turning points.

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