Science Journalism Under Fire | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Mooney, whose new book argues that Republicans are genetically wired to be anti-science, claims the Post piece is unfairly “negative and judgmental” of the climate science community.

Michael Mann, the Hockey Stick … and the Climate Wars | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Independent videographer Peter Sinclair recently conducted a Skype interview with Mann about the time his Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars book was hitting book stores (see related post).

Poll: Public Buying Climate Change Scare Again |

One of my all-time favorite climate-terror articles that I included in the book was actually published in the Los Angeles Times on December 23, 1962:

Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age.

Michael Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’ Dispatches | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“The forces of climate change denial have, I believe, awakened a ‘sleeping bear,’” It’s clear he’s not limiting that reference to just him: “My fellow scientists will be fighting back, and I look forward to joining them in this battle.”

It should surprise few that Mann’s book is unlikely to change the minds of those pre-programmed to adhere to their unwavering view of the climate crisis as nothing of the kind. For those already in his camp on the science of the issue, he provides fresh ammunition for confronting the charge of some skeptics that “man-made” climate change should be spelled with two m’s. [?] Both, it can be said, will be better off for taking the time to read Michael Mann’s account for themselves … and then go from there.