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Michael Mann, author of some of the best books on climate science (including The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

This is a segment of The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, in which climate scientist Professor Michael Mann provides important perspective on the link between climate change and other disasters such as tornadoes. (See also: The Meaning of the Fort McMurray Fire).

Scientists are now being subjected to unbridled McCarthyism.

Michael E Mann’s profile on The Conversation

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society.

October 5, 2017 William Wehrum is a lawyer and once, apparently, worked for the EPA. Trump is trying to appoint him to be assistant administrator for air and radiation. This is a reasonably important job that concerns many aspects of the environment. Watch: https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/… More reads “Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.” -Banksy Not everyone whos a street artist engages in vandalism, nor are all acts of vandal...

Nature and science tells us that we can do it. >> this is the first big climate conference since the trump administration formally began the process of withdrawing from the 2015 paris climate accord. house speaker nancy pelosi, who is leading a group of congressmembers, separate from the u.s. delegation says the u.s. is still in the fight against climate change. >> we are here to say to all of you, on behalf of the house of representatives in the congress of the united states, were still in it. ...

The weather that were seeing and the winds, mother nature wins. >> that was cal perry reporting. joining for us now, distinguished professor of atmospheric science. he is also the author of "the madhouse effect." michael, always great to see you. i thought what cal said at the end there was really interesting. climate change is forcing an energy company, forcing an electric company, to admit that part of the problem why their lines are breaking, why theyre sparking intense fires, is because of c...

Have helped plunge sao paulo, brazils largest city, into darkness. take a look at this. brazils president, a skeptic of climate change, appeared to blame nongovernmental organizations for the unusually high number of wildfires but didnt produce evidence to back that up. some of those organizations have blamed the pro-development policies for a sharp increase of deforestation of the amazon, which may have played a role in the fires. the amazon rain forest is an area as big as the continental unit...

More than 80 people died in the wildfires that torched california this fall. last years hurricanes killed over 100 people. according to the un, the world has 12 years to address global warming before there is no turning back. scientists in the presidents own administration estimate the economic damage from climate change could cost hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. but there is doubt the president will talk about the most pressing matter of our time in his state of the u...