Michael Mann is well-known to CleanTechnica readers. You can listen to a podcast we did with him in March of 2020. Mann is primarily famous — and rightly so — for helping create the iconic “hockey stick” graph 25 years ago that illustrates the dramatic upward trend in average global temperatures we can expect if we continue pouring gigatons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. That graph became the raison d’être for Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
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For his efforts, Mann, who is the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, has been viciously attacked as a charlatan and opportunist by apologists for the fossil fuel industry. Despite being placed under surveillance and having his…
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