Climate Reality Meeting #6: Special Guest - Dr Michael Mann

We will have a special guest via Skype. Dr Michael Mann will be calling in and will answer our questions about his climate science work and the "Climate War" that he has been intimately involved in. It should be a great discussion.

Note: This will be a joint meeting with several groups. We should have a good sized crowd.

Wikipedia Entry for Dr. Mann:

"Michael E. Mann (born December 28, 1965) is an American physicist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicist) and climatologist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology), currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University). He was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC)) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences) Frontiers of Science in 2003.

He has received a number of honors and awards including selection by Scientific American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American) as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He was a member of the IPCC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC) that shared the Nobel Peace Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize) with Al Gore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore) in 2007. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Geophysical_Union) and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Geosciences_Union). He is well known as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends over the last thousand years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years), called the "hockey stick graph" because of its shape. The graph was highlighted in the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC)) report.

Dr Mann is author of more than 140 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, published in early 2012. He is also a co-founder and avid contributor to the climate-change website "RealClimate.org".