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1 week ago | 
netgalley.com | Michael Mann |Peter Hotez
This is a great book. It was highly informative and, at the same time, chilling, as we are seeing in real-time the effects of science under siege. The book is well-paced and written in a conversational tone. Hotez and Mann pull no punches; their message is direct and blunt. And they make suggestions for action, many of which they are already doing and leading by example. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of science in America and elsewhere.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
skepticalinquirer.org | Michael Mann |Peter Hotez
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face todayâa threat unlike any weâve witnessed since the days of the U.S. and Soviet Cold War in the last half of the twentieth century.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
michaelmann.net | Michael Mann
By Michael E. Mann on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 12:28Now that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season seems to be coming to a close, it is worth reflecting on what transpired and what we might learn from it. By most measures, it was an active, destructive and--unfortunately--deadly storm season, with 11 tropical cyclones reaching hurricane strength, 5 of them making landfall on the U.S., two of them--Helene and Milton--as major hurricanes.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
ucaqld.com.au | Michael Mann
In July 2024, during the 17th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, members recognised the failure of the Voice referendum has been felt very strongly in most Congress communities. First Nations people are looking for another way forward including support from the churches and the Uniting Church has responded by committing to being guided by the Articles of UNDRIP.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Michael Mann |Jessica McKenzie
Summer 2024 saw another round of devastating heat waves, droughts, wildfires, storms, and record-setting global temperatures. The window for averting a catastrophic 1.5 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the planet is rapidly closing. Can we meet this moment? I suppose it depends on whom you ask. For this is a tale of two worldviews.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
positive.news | Michael Mann
Professor Michael Mann is the climatologist whose famous hockey stick chart finally put climate denialism in the bin. He’s written a new book, Our Fragile Moment, about surviving the climate crisis. Here he explains why he remains hopeful about our futureProfessor Michael Mann is the climatologist whose famous hockey stick chart finally put climate denialism in the bin. He’s written a new book, Our Fragile Moment, about surviving the climate crisis.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
thebrilliant.com | Michael Mann
“We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising.”
So reads an epigraph in my new book Our Fragile Moment, which is about the lessons we can learn from the past about the climate crisis we face today. The quote itself is from the great Carl Sagan, from his 1979 book, Broca’s Brain.
Sagan was a seer—not in the mystical sense (pseudoscience and magical reasoning were among Sagan’s greatest peeves), but in the historical sense.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
thebulletin.org | Michael Mann
Do the dinosaurs, victims of a famous 66-million-year-old mass extinction event, have a message for us? That rhetorical question was posed by the rock band The Police in their 1983 song “Walking in Your Footsteps,” which came out during my junior year in high school.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
tandfonline.com | Michael Mann
Editor’s note—The following is an extract from climate scientist Michael Mann’s new book, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, published in September 2023 by Public Affairs/Hachette Book Group. Used with permission. Hey, mighty brontosaurus. Don’t you have a lesson for us? You thought your rule would always last. There were no lessons in your past. You were built three stories high. They say you would not hurt a fly.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
time.com | Michael Mann
IdeasOctober 25, 2023 8:00 AM EDTMichael 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. On April 22 (Earth Day) of 1998, the warmest year that had yet been observed, my co-authors and I published the now famous “hockey stick” curve.
