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Penn State professors Michael Mann, Donald Brown, Janet Swim and Rick Schuhmann, and graduate student Peter Buckland spoke Monday evening at “Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change,” a talk that focused on climate change denial.

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Mann finished by advocating for meaningful action. He noted that the cost of inaction is and will be much worse than action now. Our energy choices need to change very fast to avoid tipping the climate systems into potentially catastrophic scenarios. These include heavy investments in renewable energy. During the Q & A, Mann, Schuhmann, and Buckland all reiterated the military's forward thinking on this because of the numerous dangerous impacts on human societies climate change will cause (for example, see the Pentagon's Quadrennial Review). Reinforcing something Swim said, he called on all of us to think about our future and our posterity. "I have friends who are Democrats and I have friends who are Republicans. They all love their children and grandchildren."

Before the Q & A, Don Brown presented Mann with a picture of Galileo as a sign of appreciation and support. Like Galileo (though maybe not as extremely), Mann has been put through the ringer by powers that be who hoped to censor him because his findings threaten their way of doing business and even fundamentally who they believe they are. But he has stood up and his colleagues wanted to thank him.

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