Michael E. Mann is the Presidential Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has received many honors and awards, including NOAA's outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. Additionally, he contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
More recently, he received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019, he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In 2020, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, and The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
"Really smart, clever and eye-opening look at the five most extreme
shifts in Earth's climate over 4.5 billion years, and the lessons
those episodes have for our dramatic climate shift
today."--Scientific American, Best of 2023
"Mann's book is a critically important lesson in both science and
history, and offers hope for the future. But only if we take heed
of our intelligence and our cumulative knowledge rather than
ignoring it."
--Astronomy Magazine
"Our Fragile Moment celebrates the beauty and resilience of our
planet's history by probing it in depth. To complement Mann's
glass-half-full perspective on our battle against climate change,
the book celebrates the sheer joy of scientific knowledge our
species is able to enjoy."--Salon
"Our Fragile Moment offers illuminating insights into our current
crisis."
--Science News
"[A] sober warning... enlightens even as it unsettles."--Publishers
Weekly
"A gripping tale of Earth's climate history, this book is a
must-read for every global citizen. It dispels common climate myths
with surgical clarity and provides an essential roadmap to
understanding our past and choosing our future."--Katharine Hayhoe,
climate scientist, distinguished professor at Texas Tech
University, UN Champion of the Earth, author of Saving Us
"A renowned climatologist and science journalist casts a hard eye
on the probability that climate change is irreversible... An
evenhanded take on a crucial topic. While our goose may not be
cooked, it's still time to reduce the heat."--Kirkus
"Deeply-researched, sprawling in scope and with insights and
surprises on every page. This is the sort of historical
understanding that leads to wisdom."--Seth Godin, Founding Editor
of The Carbon Almanac
"Mann has a tremendous depth of knowledge about the history of our
planet's climate, which is why his words of warning and optimism
are so important. This book provides important lessons from
humanity's past to empower readers to help protect our
future."--Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
"Mann has masterfully woven the climate story from our past to the
future. Drawing upon a wealth of data, research and expertise, he
slays the persistent zombie theories that climate scientists ignore
historical context."--Dr. Marshall Shepherd, international expert
in weather and climate, and Distinguished Professor of Geography
and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia
"Mann shows that over the last few hundreds of millions of years,
Earth has been snow-ball cold, tropic hot, rainforest wet, and
desert dry. Its atmosphere has been oxygen poor, oxygen rich, or
choked with deadly gas. But Earth has never been through anything
quite like humankind. Our current comfortable climate is
disappearing-- because of us. It's cause for thundering alarm, but
is not cause for despair or doomist gloom. It's time for action.
Don't believe me? Read this book."--Bill Nye, Science Educator,
CEO, The Planetary Society
"Reading Our Fragile Moment is like taking a spectacular hike
through billions of years of Earth's climate history with one of
the great scientists of our time. Oh look -- there's the meteor
that wiped out the dinosaurs! There's the great ocean conveyor!
There's the Rossby waves! When you reach the summit of Mann's
wonderful book, you will understand just how rare and beautiful our
moment is -- and why we need to fight harder to protect it."--Jeff
Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First
"This detailed and yet marvelously readable look at our climatic
past offers us the information we need to understand our climatic
future--and more importantly, to act to shape that future in the
here and now."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"Written with clarity, brevity and wit, Mann presents a riveting
and instructive narrative of Earth's climate changes to help us
navigate this new epoch of human-altered climate. This honest,
informed look at planetary history serves as both a defense against
doomism and a call to action to forge a livable world that is still
well within our grasp."--David Grinspoon, Astrobiologist and author
of Earth in Human Hands
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