Our Letter, on Behalf of the Climate System, to COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber
My ultimate red lines for COP28
Open letter from the climate system to Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP28
3 December 2023
Dear Sultan Al Jaber,
Michael Mann's Blog
Comments on New Article by James Hansen
When it Comes to Population, The Atlantic Misrepresents Both History and the Present
By Naomi Oreskes and Michael E. Mann
The Best Climate Science You’ve Never Heard Of
Dont' Look Up. But Do See This Film!
I’ll be honest. “Don’t Look Up” had me at the opening scene. Leonardo DiCaprio as a low-level astrophysicist (Dr. Randall Mindy), Jennifer Lawrence as his talented graduate student (Kate Dibiasky) and a bobblehead of legendary science communicator, the late Carl Sagan (a personal hero of mine) visible on their lab desk.
My Comments on New National Academy Report on Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published a new report on the topic of Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of the global Earth environment in an effort to offset the effects of human carbon pollution-caused climate change.
On The New WMO "Annual to Decadal" Climate Report
The World Meteorological Organization ("WMO") has just put out their latest "Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update".
Correction Delayed is Correction Denied: Botched Coverage of "Geoengineering" Report by the New York Times
The letter below was submitted to the New York Times on 3/26 in response to their 3/25 article on the recent National Academy of Sciences "Solar Geoengineering" report (I commented on the report here last week). The Times has evidently declined to run the letter, so I am publishing it myself here.
My Comments on New National Academy Report on Geoengineering
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published a new report ("Reflecting Sunlight") on the topic of Geoengineering (that is, the deliberate manipulation of the global Earth environment in an effort to offset the effects of human carbon pollution-caused climate change).
The Rise and Fall of the "Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation"
Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the "Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation" (the "AMO" for short) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. These interactions were thought to lead to alternating decades-long intervals of warming and cooling centered in the extratropical North Atlantic that play out on 40-60 year timescales (hence the name).
The Salem News Promotes Deadly Disinformation
The Salem News is small town newspaper based in Salem Ohio. It appears to have far right-of-center editorial policies.
Comments on New "World Weather Attribution" Analysis of Australian Bushfires
As some readers will know, I happen to have been on sabbatical in Australia these last past months. I came there to study the impact of climate change on extreme summer weather events with a specific focus on Australia. Only to arrive in mid December just in time to encounter the most profound example on record.
The STORY about the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading
A new commentary in the journal Nature by Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peters is making the rounds today.
The Letter-to-Editor that the Lethebridge Herald Refused to Run
Note: Brian Hancock's contact information is available here.
Alvin Shier Spreads Untruths to Readers
Oral Opening Statement from Michael Mann Testimony to U.S. House Oversight Committee Hearing on Climate Change & Natural Disasters (June 25, 2019)
The video for the full subcommittee hearing is available here (my opening statement starts at 23:00).
My Interview with Al Franken
So, this happened.
I did an interview with Al Franken for his new podcast a few weeks ago. It airs tomorrow.
On The Importance of Diversity in Climate Communication
In light of recent social media posts and conversations I've had with colleagues, I want to take this opportunity to make a statement about the importance of lifting the voices of women, people of color, and other voices that have been marginalized in the world of science communication, including the discourse over climate change.
Vice: A Commentary on the Politics of Climate Denial
I was recently invited to a screening of the new film Vice,
Climate Change and Extreme Summer Weather Events – The Future is still in Our Hands
Summer 2018 saw an unprecedented spate of extreme weather events, from the floods in Japan, to the record heat waves across North America, Europe and Asia, to wildfires that threatened Greece and even parts of the Arctic. The heat and drought in the western U.S. culminated in the worst California wildfire on record. This is the face of climate change, I commented at the time.
On Tropical Atlantic Warmth and Hurricanes
A new study just out in Science attributes the unusually active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season to tropical Atlantic warming. Furthermore, it attributes that warmth to human-caused climate change (a combination of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and sulphate "aerosols" from industrial pollution).