Michael 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 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by "Scientific American" as one of the 50 leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. Additionally, he contributed, with other Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 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," "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy," "The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet," and "Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis." He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
