Michael E. Mann
climate scientist and author, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change.
He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union in 2012. He made Bloomberg News' list of the fifty most influential people in 2013. He has received the Friend of the Planet Award from the NCSE, the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the AAAS, and the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society. Mann received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2019 and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
He is a Fellow of the AGU, AMS, GSA, AAAS, author of more than 200 publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and five books, including Dire Predictions, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, The Madhouse Effect, The Tantrum that Saved the World, and The New Climate War.
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