Michael E. Mann

Michael E. Mann is presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at The University of Pennsylvania. He is author of the new book Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.

Recent Articles

Temperature Doesn't Tell The Whole Climate Story

Revisiting the infamous "hockey stick" chart of rising global temperatures amid the worst climate-changed year to date.

By Michael E. Mann

Why The Van Gogh Climate Protest Wasn't Smart

A new survey shows more people were put off the climate movement than swayed to it when activists ostensibly defaced a Van Gogh painting.

By Michael E. Mann

Now Is Not the Time To Give in to Climate Fatalism

We are at an agonizing moment in world history. The combined stresses of the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and economic troubles stemming from spiking oil and gas prices, inflation, and growing global inequality...

By Susan Joy Hassol and Michael E. Mann

'Widespread and Severe'

The new U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is unequivocal: The impacts of climate change are already here, writes climatologist Michael E. Mann

By Michael E. Mann

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Is a Return to the Old Way of Politics. That’s A Problem for the Climate

The bipartisan infrastructure package being negotiated in the Senate promises to fund some important climate programs, with sizable expenditures for cleaning up abandoned oil wells, replacing lead pipes and repairing roads and bridges. The $50...

By Michael E. Mann

Lifestyle Changes Aren’t Enough to Save the Planet. Here’s What Could

Everyone faces choices every day that carry a climate cost. Do we turn the lights on in the morning, or is the light of daybreak sufficient for finding matching socks? Do we feast on bacon...

By Michael E. Mann

The Single Shining Hope to Stop Climate Change

'Only by making sure carbon emissions drop steadily from 2020 forward can we ensure that the world avoids the worst'

By Michael E. Mann
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