Penn State
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center at Penn State, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
NAS is a private, nonprofit institution established in 1863 by a congressional charter signed by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
This year, the academy elected 120 members and 26 international members to its membership. Mann’s election brings Penn State’s representation to 16 members, and total membership in the academy to 2,403 active members and 501 international members.
Mann conducts research and publishes on his areas of interest in climate science, including climate change, sea level rise, human impact on climate change, climate modeling, and the carbon budget. He is an acknowledged leader in the climate change community. His work in the area of climate change science, especially the reconstruction of global temperatures over the past 1,000 years, has advanced the field.
Current areas of research include model/data comparisons aimed at understanding the long-term behavior of the climate system and its relationship with human climate forcing. Other areas of active research include climate simulation using theoretical models, development of statistical methods for climate signal detection, and investigations of the geophysical and ecological system responses to climate variability and the impacts of climate change on tropical storms and extreme weather events.
Mann has been recognized for his scientific work with the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2019. He received the Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications.
He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.
Mann has received many awards for science communication. In 2018, he received the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union and the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2017, he received the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One. Mann was elected an AAAS fellow in 2015.
Mann communicates about the effects of climate change through a variety of media, including his books, which include “Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change,” “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,” and “The Madhouse Effect,” for which he teamed up with Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles to explore public perception of climate change.
Mann also collaborated with author and illustrator Megan Herbert on a children’s book titled “The Tantrum that Saved the World.”
He completed his doctorate at Yale University in 1998.
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The proud and soft speaking driver of a super-heavy cargo lifter told me something about energy when Germany had decided to close all nuclear powerplants that I remember as:
-“They tried to outsmart us with embargo and now all it takes is their own fairy-tales to ruin their economy better than any war could ever do.”
To an extend he is more than right. Who needs old fashioned and costly wars while doomsday fairy tales are sufficient to destroy prosperity and any hope for recovery?
Green brainwashing has more destructive potential than any known warfare.
retch
What an insult to science!!!
It confirms something Bill Clinton said when filling in for wife Hillary at one of her 2016 rallies for which she was too sick to attend. Bill Clinton told the audience, “IN THIS POST TRUTH ERA, FACTS NO LONGER MATTER.”
Today, in this corrupt world, that about sums it up!!!
Just an aside, but, not really finding the quote you attribute to Bill Clinton …
I am finding a number of search hits for “IN THIS POST TRUTH ERA” though:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=eN-qXp6NIcm8tQWalb74CA&q=%E2%80%9CIN+THIS+POST+TRUTH+ERA%22++FACTS+NO+LONGER+MATTER&oq=%E2%80%9CIN+THIS+POST+TRUTH+ERA%22++FACTS+NO+LONGER+MATTER&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIFCCEQoAEyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAVCgnAFY78kBYNnTAWgAcAB4AIABgAGIAaMFkgEDNS4ymAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwieqZSDrZDpAhVJXq0KHZqKD48Q4dUDCAw&uact=5
National Academy of Pseudoscience. Expect to see their journals at a grocery store checkout near you soon, right up there with National Inquirer.
Charles Babbage:
“The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage.html
So… NAS memberships have become participation trophies?
JMichna
Participation trophies only for those who support the appropriate political agenda.
From the Mission of the National Academy of Sciences:
“Approximately 500 current and deceased members of the NAS have won Nobel Prizes.
Now they can proudly update it to 501.
NO !
MM never won one.
They are in no shape to mind.
For several decades now, “science” in the academic world has been about making shit up in a way that conforms to the peer group. Predicting the future is also popular.
Mann has risen to the top.
Hmm… Anybody see a connection?
https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM
Thanks, Cat. That made me laugh many times.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
“…and investigations of the geophysical and ecological system responses to climate variability …”
I ran across his name in a biological journal, last author in a series, but lost the reference, not important. Resume padding is enormous, journals have rules against it, but would like to see the numbers of how this has changed over the years. Allows incompetent administrators to sit in their office safe spaces. If he is an ecological expert I am one on electrical engineering. Roomed with one in college.
I may have that wrong, could have been a biological paper in a marine journal, anyway was not in climate science. Anyway, resumes need to be checked closely. Everybody is an ecological expert nowadays.
Ah. Time for our daily “2 Minutes Of Hate.”
But with today’s special guest star, can we make it 10 minutes?
;o)
How are those pet toads of yours going ?
Which one is called Mickey Mann ?
The toads are too good looking to sully with that name, fred.
Well, I’ve got one ugly female toad, but I wanted her to have little toadlets, so I named her Repunzel. Besides, that full head of blond hair she has looks nothing like M. Mann’s hair. Well… the lack thereof.
Well, much of his work is highly original; not scientific but original.
At the time it was awarded, OJ deserved the Heisman. Same with Reggie Bush but they took his back and vacated his teams wins.
I guess I’m saying, we still have hope.
Fixing a statement made in above article . . . corrected version: “Membership in the NAS once was one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.”
The Human-Caused Climate Change Hoax has corrupted all of science. Mann should be acknowledged for his contributions to that.
Formerly respectable science organiztions drinking the CAGW Koolaide. They are not enhancing Mann’s reputation by honoring him, they are diminishing their own reputations, in the eyes of the knowledgeable.
This is digusting, but not surprising
https://youtu.be/Up9JaW6LORE
Gives a solid note of confidence to “peer review”.
Awww geez!
(followed by)
The pandemic within science and science ethics is still spreading.
Now that he is in the NAS, his next move is to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
NAS PResident Marcia McNutt no doubt pushed Mann’s endorsement through. McNutt is about as dishonest as they come on the Climate Scam, so she’s just packing the house with her ilk. Sad future ahead for NAS. Of course, McNutt herself is still hoping to be the WH OSTP/Science advisor a Dim President, to push the climate scam along to the Green New Deal lunacy.
Mann communicates? Two mutually exclusive words, surely.
Political organizations will act politically. The NAS is about as political as they get. It has nothing to do with science or truth, just agenda.
I expect they will award Mann the Nobel Peace Prize at some point – another political organization.
They can continue this nonsense for a few more decades, but eventually they run out of room to hide the truth. It will interesting to see if they can successfully distract people from ever realizing they had always been wrong.
I simply don’t have a non-profane comment, suitable for the public.
Didn’t realise he was American. Shows how much notice I wish to take of him.