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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This guy would have an argument with him
When I tried to say this several years ago I got hammered by the left. https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/dr-peter-langdon-ward/greenhouse-warming-theorists-dont-understand-basic-physics Interestingly enough in spite of the economic shutdown co2 continues to rise as per every year at this time
How do guys with PHDS see this in such different ways? Think about, Should the one that is wrong have his degree rescinded, If you are getting a PhD in physics you can t be a lightweight, So you get guys like this or a Will Happer or Willie Soon, etc, how are they so educated but disagree so much with a Michael Mann. Of course, vice versa too, because despite what you may think of Dr Mann, to get that PhD he has to be pretty darn smart. But the very fact that you can get arguments like this ( or an opening with the continued rise of co2 while 30 million are unemployed and the global economic shut own, which should at least raise questions especially if you are pushing the shutdown as a way to stop co2 rise) has to mean this is certainly open for debate The problem is IT SHOULD BE A SCIENTIFIC DEBATE THAT DOES NOT CLAIM THE FATE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON THE ANSWER! and There is the hook. Its political and all this fighting that is going on is a smokescreen for an agenda, Read the article tho, he makes some points that I was taught back in the 70s, The again I got C’s in physics But its just nice that a PHD actually was saying it. Peace out
re: “If you are getting a PhD in physics you can t be a lightweight”
Michael E. Mann, according to Wiki:
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Education
A.B. applied mathematics and physics (1989),
MS physics (1991),
MPhil physics (1991),
MPhil geology (1993),
PhD geology & geophysics (1998)
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Hmmm … PhD geology & geophysics (1998)
More:
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Doctoral and postgraduate studies
Mann then attended Yale University, intending to obtain a PhD in physics, and received both an MS and an MPhil in physics in 1991. His interest was in theoretical condensed matter physics but he found himself being pushed towards detailed semiconductor work.
He looked at course options with a wider topic area, and was enthused by PhD adviser Barry Saltzman about climate modelling and research. To try this out he spent the summer of 1991 assisting a postdoctoral researcher in simulating the period of peak Cretaceous warmth when carbon dioxide levels were high, but fossils indicated most warming at the poles, with little warming in the tropics.
Mann then joined the Yale Department of Geology and Geophysics, obtaining an MPhil in geology and geophysics in 1993. His research focused on natural variability and climate oscillations. He worked with the seismologist Jeffrey Park, and their joint research adapted a statistical method developed for identifying seismological oscillations to find various periodicities in the instrumental temperature record, the longest being about 60 to 80 years. The paper Mann and Park published in December 1994 came to conclusions similar to those from a study developed in parallel using different methodology and published in January of that year, which found what was later called the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation.
In 1994, Mann participated as a graduate student in the inaugural workshop of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Geophysical Statistics Project aimed at encouraging active collaboration between statisticians, climatologists and atmospheric scientists. Leading statisticians participated, including Grace Wahba and Arthur P. Dempster.
While still finishing his PhD research, Mann met UMass climate science professor Raymond S. Bradley and began research in collaboration with him and Park. Their research used paleoclimate proxy data from Bradley’s previous work and methods Mann had developed with Park, to find oscillations in the longer proxy records. “Global Interdecadal and Century-Scale Climate Oscillations During the Past Five Centuries” was published by Nature in November 1995.
Another study by Mann and Park raised a minor technical issue with a climate model about human influence on climate change: this was published in 1996. In the context of controversy over the IPCC Second Assessment Report the paper was praised by those opposed to action on climate change, and the conservative organization Accuracy in Media claimed that it had not been publicised due to media bias. Mann defended his PhD thesis on A study of ocean-atmosphere interaction and low-frequency variability of the climate system in the spring of 1996, and was awarded the Phillip M. Orville Prize for outstanding dissertation in the earth sciences in the following year.
He was granted his PhD in geology and geophysics in 1998.
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Given his educational background (and lack in formal training in certain areas), perhaps he is a little ‘thin’ on the ‘radiative (EM) theory’ as it applies to the earth, the atmosphere and cli sci?
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No you do not have to be smart ot get a PhD. I have worked with plenty over the last 35 years. Certainly the PhD is no automatic guarantee of ability or knowledge. It is for the most part applied librarianship and an over intensive study of navel fluff. A PhD is a period of original research on a specific topic so it does not need to be discipline bound. Usually a PhD is not listed by subject but specifically by the title of the actual research performed. There is a poignant interview available on Youtube with the brilliant (sadly deceased) non PhD holding Freeman Dyson discussing the PhD system as a whole about which he was pointedly scathing.
FWIW, according to my sources, Mann’s nomination was blackballed, which led to a debate about his suitability in front of the whole Society and a subsequent vote. Two members (described by one source as elderly Trump supporting climate deniers) took the side against, but didn’t manage to sway the membership. He was still elected. A very sad day for the NAS. Apparently the first time in a very long time that there was a blackball debate for the membership, so at least there’s that. But I’ll bet some key deaths in his section played a role. NAS has always been political and election is very dependent on factors unrelated to excellence in science, but I”m sorry to see MM elected. So underserved and such a slap in the face of scientific principles.
There goes the neighborhood…
His willingness to attack others without evidence is part of what makes him a disgrace to the profession.
I saw an article today where a top official of a hospital attacked another covid testing operation with zero proof that it was failing or flawed. No direct comparisons, no sample swaps, just a self-interested assertion. Attacking others as amateurs, triggering investigations of them, demanding that they be stopped, again with zero scientific or medical evidence to back it up. The victims of this attack are the ones who get investigated, the ones who get questioned, the ones who are immediately under suspicion, while the aggressor gets none.
Science and politics don’t belong together, but some disgraceful people are all too willing to blur lines for their own gain.
It reminded me a lot of Mickey Mann.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/30/this-is-potential-public/
Another formerly credible organization goes down the crapper, just like the Psychiatrists Association…
Biden – President
Hillary – VP
Mann-Secretary for the Environment, Industry and Employment.
Maybe it might be better being a Chinese satrap? Or is that same diff?
This such a disgrace to the real scientists out there who actually work ethically. I’m appalled and disgusted at the current state and reputation of “science” as it is now in large part in the pay of politicians and there is nowhere to go but spinning down the drain.
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.
Original Research? Is that the new term for scientific fraud? There is certainly a new faux scientific term …to MANNipulate data!
Dear God!
I wish I was a member of NAS so I could resign in protest!
A simply disgusting and odious man, Mann undeserving of anything but contempt from “straight” scientists!
Where are the 100 world class scientists who contributed to Steyn’s book ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’?