Michael Mann & the Science of Climate Change
Michael E. Mann is an American climatologist, author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications, most notably a number of articles on paleoclimate and as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph” for the shape of the graph. In 2009 he was promoted to professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and since 2005 has been Director of the university’s interdepartmental Earth System Science Center. He was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report (2001). He has been organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science and has served as a committee member or advisor for other National Academy of Sciences panels. He served as editor for the Journal of Climate and has been a member of numerous international and U.S. scientific advisory panels and steering groups.
Mann has been the recipient of several fellowships and prizes, including selection as one of the 50 leading visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American, the outstanding scientific publication award of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and recognition by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for notable citation of his refereed scientific research. Mann is one of several climate scientists who contribute to the RealClimate blog.
He is best known for his paleoclimate ‘hockey stick’ reconstructions of climatic fluctuations over the past several millennia, based on evidence from tree rings, ice cores, corals and other physical proxies. Such reconstructions have been the subject of some controversy; see temperature record of the past 1000 years for an overview. Mann’s recent work has been on modelling El Niño, and he has said that “we are already committed to 50 to 100 years of global warming and several centuries of sea level rise” and that reduction in fossil fuel emissions is required to slow the process down to a level that can be coped with.
In November 2009, Mann’s correspondence with fellow climate researchers was among that released in the Climatic Research Unit hacking incident. In an interview broadcast by the BBC, Mann commented that the “emails are genuine and have been misrepresented, cherry-picked, mined for single words and phrases that can be completely twisted to imply the opposite of what was actually being said…” He wrote in The Washington Post that the hacked e-mails “do not undermine the scientific case that human-caused climate change is real.”
To read more about Dr. Michael Mann’s research, you can start here:
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Mann
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es053378b
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3569604.stm
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_senate_hearings&docid=f:92381.wais
Where does the scientific data confirming Climate Change and Global Warming come from?
http://tinyurl.com/UrbanHeat
http://tinyurl.com/NasaSurfTemp
http://tinyurl.com/SurfaceStations
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
http://tinyurl.com/InstrumentTempWiki
http://tinyurl.com/Paleoclimate-Summary
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm
http://tinyurl.com/GlobalWarming-EvidenceSummary
http://web.mac.com/dannysatterfield/climatechange/Resources.html
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=249
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=248
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=271
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?NewsID=270
To read more articles, watch more videos, check interactive graphics and visualizations, you can go here:
http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld/
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming-world.html
You can watch an excellent series debunking Climate Change denialists here:
http://tinyurl.com/Science-ClimateChange
Climate Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair produced here (go subscribe):
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610
To listen to the entire interview, you can find it here:
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
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simpdon “all known …
simpdon “all known possible natural causes have been studied”
There’s not enough computing power on the planet to input all known possible natural causes
@FlyMario2 …
@FlyMario2 Unfortunately the worse conclusion that could be reached is that the rapid change we are seeing is only partially man made. It would mean that we must reduce man released CO2 by much more to have the same reduction in warming. For example, if only half of the warming is man made we have to eliminate twice as much CO2 release to have the same reduction than we would if man made CO2 was the only cause. So, of course, all known possible natural causes have been studied.
Very informative. …
Very informative. Everyone with a internet connection has the ability to throw out mis-information. Its very unfortunate.
That being said, I am one of those skeptics who honestly believe the whole story isn’t being told on both sides. The the truth is usually somewhere in between. There is too much money to be had by both sides.
I would love just once to see a full study of natural events that could be playing a part.
It does seem like we are peeing in our own drinking water.
Global Climate …
Global Climate change due to human influence is real. it is not the only factor in climate change, Sun spots have shown to greatly effect earth’s climate.Climate change has gone on threw out history, so we can assume that there really is no equilibrium for the earth’s climate.
The main point here is that we know we can survive as a society in today’s climate. The problem is we do not know if we can survive the change and that means humanity will actively need to control earth’s climate.
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“A part …
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“A part of the Sun’s magnetic field reaches out from the surface into interplanetary space, and it was recently discovered that the average strength of this interplanetary field has doubled in the past 100 years. There has hitherto been no clear explanation for this doubling”
man-made solar magnetic change, and the Earth is totally unaffected by cosmic events
I blame the oil industry
Everybody knows man-made feedback loops are the only thing that can cause earth’s climate to change