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Michael E. Mann on climate change: “It’s not too late for us to act.”
“Let me boil it down to just two words: urgency and agency. Yes, there is the urgency for massive climate action now. But the agency is that it’s not too late for us to act.”
Michael E Mann is one of the world’s most influential climate scientists. The distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State is known for the hockey stick graphs and as a defender of climate science while being targeted by climate change deniers. He’s also the writer of the excellent book The New Climate War. He joined me in The Planet podcast and the excerpt of the interview is in this article. To listen to the full 46-minutes interview, including questions from listeners at Callin, you can listen to the podcast here.
The New Climate War
For decades, you have been fighting a well-funded disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel companies. Your book is about the New Climate War. Did you and other scientists win the first one?
The old Climate War was an effort of polluters, the fossil fuel companies, and conservative groups representing their interests to discredit the basic science and the scientific evidence of human-caused climate…
