Email 1045, May 1999, Michael Mann already more of an activist than a scientist?: "...I do presentations on capitol hill for USGCRP...Mostly, though, I've been trying to help Mike McCracken and company behind the scenes"

Email 1045

cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, rbradley@geo.umass.edu, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk date: Thu, 6 May 1999 13:48:25 -0400 (EDT) from: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu subject: Re: Straight to the Point to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk
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Yes, I will be in the Lion's den, so to speak. Not sure how much must stands behind his roar though...We do have to deal w/ the skeptics here somewhat directly. At least, to the extent that I do presentations on capitol hill for USGCRP (I do one w/ Jim Hansen and Malcolm on the 17th of this month), I'm a bit in the fray. Mostly, though, I've been trying to help Mike McCracken and company behind the scenes. We all know what happens when a U.S. scientists becomes a thorn in the side of big business...

Michael MacCracken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From 1993-2002, Dr. MacCracken was on assignment from LLNL to the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) in Washington D.C., as senior global change scientist. With the Office, he served as its first executive director from 1993-1997 and as executive director of the National Assessment Coordination Office from 1997-2001, coordinating preparation of the first comprehensive national assessment of climate change impacts on the US [16,17]. During this assignment, Dr. MacCracken also served as a co-author/contributing author for various chapters in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as coordinating preparation of the official U.S. Government reviews of the Second and Third IPCC Assessment Reports.