Michael E. Mann
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Michael E. Mann (born 28 December 1965) is an American climatologist, and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate and as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends dubbed the "hockey stick graph" for the shape of the graph. The graph received both praise and criticism after its publication in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
In August 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, and Director of the university's interdepartmental Earth System Science Center. He previously taught at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Environmental Sciences (1999 - 2005).
He was a Lead Author on the “Observed Climate Variability and Change” chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report (2001). He has been organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences ‘Frontiers of Science’ and has served as a committee member or advisor for other National Academy of Sciences panels. He served as editor for the Journal of Climate and has been a member of numerous international and U.S. scientific advisory panels and steering groups.
Mann has been the recipient of several fellowships and prizes, including selection as one of the 50 leading visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American, the outstanding scientific publication award of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and recognition by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for notable citation of his refereed scientific research. Mann is one of several climate scientists who contribute to the RealClimate blog.
He is best known for his paleoclimate 'hockey stick' reconstructions of the past several millennia from tree ring, ice core, coral and other data. See temperature record of the past 1000 years for more details and dispute. Mann's recent work has been on modelling El Niño, and he has said that "we are already committed to 50 to 100 years of global warming and several centuries of sea level rise" and that reduction in fossil fuel emissions is required to slow the process down to a level that can be coped with.[1]
Selected publications
- With colleague Lee Kump the book Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming.
- Mann, M.E., Defining Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106, 4065-4066, 2009.
- Steig, E.J., Schneider, D.P. Rutherford, S.D., Mann, M.E., Comiso, J.C., Shindell, D.T., Warming of the Antarctic ice sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year, Nature 1457, 459-463, 2009.
- Mann, M.E., Cane, M.A., Zebiak, S.E., Clement, A., "Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific Over the Past 1000 Years", Journal of Climate, 18, 447-456, 2005.
- Andronova, N.G., Schlesinger, M.E., Mann, M.E., "Are Reconstructed Pre-Instrumental Hemispheric Temperatures Consistent With Instrumental Hemispheric Temperatures?", Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L12202, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019658, 2004.
- Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., "Climate Over Past Millennia", Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029/2003RG000143, 2004.
- Mann, M.E., "On Smoothing Potentially Non-Stationary Climate Time Series", Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L07214, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019569, 2004.
- Shindell, D.T., Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Faluvegi, G., "Dynamic winter climate response to large tropical volcanic eruptions since 1600", Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D05104, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004151, 2004.
- Mann, M.E., Jones, P.D., "Global surface temperature over the past two millennia", Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15), 1820, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017814, 2003.
- Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Oppenheimer, M., Osborn, T.J., Overpeck, J.T., Rutherford, S., Trenberth, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L., "On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late 20th Century Warmth", Eos, 84, 256-258, 2003.
- Mann, M.E., Schmidt, G.A., "Ground vs. Surface Air Temperature Trends: Implications for Borehole Surface Temperature Reconstructions", Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (12), 1607, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017170, 2003.
- Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Keimig, F.T., "Optimal Surface Temperature Reconstructions using Terrestrial Borehole Data", ;;Journal of Geophysical Research;;, 108 (D7), 4203, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002532, 2003.
- Rutherford, S., Mann, M.E., Delworth, T.L., Stouffer, R., "Climate Field Reconstruction Under Stationary and Nonstationary Forcing", Journal of Climate, 16, 462-479, 2003.
- Mann, M.E. , "The Value of Multiple Proxies", Science, 297, 1481-1482, 2002.
- Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., "Climate Reconstruction Using 'Pseudoproxies'", Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10), 1501, doi: 10.1029/2001GL014554, 2002.
- Mann, M.E., Hughes, M.K., "Tree-Ring Chronologies and Climate Variability", Science, 296, 848, 2002.
- Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E.,Mann, M.E. "Medieval Climatic Optimum", Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, London, UK, pp. 514-516, 2001.
- Mann, M.E. "Little Ice Age", Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, London, UK, pp. 504-509, 2001.
- Shindell, D.T., Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Rind, D., Waple, A., "Solar forcing of regional climate change during the Maunder Minimum", Science, 7, 2149-2152, 2001.
- Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., "Scope of Medieval Warming", Science, 292, 2011-2012, 2001.
- Folland, C.K., Karl, T.R., Christy, J.R., Clarke, R. A., Gruza, G.V., Jouzel, J., Mann, M.E., Oerlemans, J., Salinger, M.J., Wang, S.-W., "Observed Climate Variability and Change", in 2001 Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Houghton, J.T., et al. (eds), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 99-181, 2001.
See also
References
- ^ Appell, David (2006). "The Ongoing Debate over Climate Change". In Katy Human (ed.). Critical Perspectives on World Climate. The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 163–164. ISBN 1404206884.
External links
- Mann's home page
- Realclimate.org RealClimate is a Climate science weblog to which Mann is a contributor.[1]
- Short Scientific American Profile
- Science popes and conflict of interests, Natuurwetenschap & Techniek article
- Climate legacy of 'hockey stick' - BBC News
- BBC Audio interview Using Real Player.
- Testimony before US Senate Using Real Player, and transcript
- NPR interview
- Mother Jones, 18 April 2005, "The Man Behind the Hockey Stick" - interview
- Environmental Science & Technology, 31 August 2005, "How the Wall Street Journal and Rep. Barton Celebrated a Global Warming Skeptic"