
That ‘Obama Scientist’ Climate Skeptic You’ve Been Hearing About ...
His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor
Michael E. Mann is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. He has written or co-written 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. Credit: Nick Higgins
His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor
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Editor's note: The following is a response by climatologist Michael E. Mann to a Q&A article that appeared in the June 2011 issue of Scientific American , which became available to readers in May...
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