
Climate Scientist Who Wanted To ‘Ruin’ National Review Ordered To Make Out A Check To Outlet
University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann will have to pay National Review more than $500,000 for legal expenses nearly 13 years after their legal battle began. Mann first sued National Review in 2012…
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About Michael E. Mann
Michael Evan Mann is an American climatologist and geophysicist. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, having stepped down from his administrative role as the director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media in 2025. Mann has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change and to isolate climate signals from noisy data.
Everything about Michael E. Mann →- Occupation
- university teacher, climatologist, geophysicist, non-fiction writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 28, 1965
- Website
- https://michaelmann.net/
