Michael Mann

Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science

Michael Mann

Most Recent Publications

Interhemispheric antiphasing of neotropical precipitation during the past millennium

Byron A. Steinman, Nathan D. Stansell, Michael E. Mann, Colin A. Cooke, Mark B. Abbott, Mathias Vuille, Broxton W. Bird, Matthew S. Lachniet, Alejandro Fernandez, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov, Jim Reagan, 2022, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on p. 373-385

On the Estimation of Internal Climate Variability During the Preindustrial Past Millennium

Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, Daniel J. Brouillette, Alejandro Fernandez, Sonya K. Miller, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Beyond the hockey stick: Climate lessons from the Common Era

Michael E. Mann, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Anthropogenic Warming and Population Growth May Double US Heat Stress by the Late 21st Century

Sourav Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar Mishra, Michael E. Mann, Colin Raymond, 2021, Earth's Future

Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales

Gerald A. Meehl, Jadwiga H. Richter, Haiyan Teng, Antonietta Capotondi, Kim Cobb, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Markus G. Donat, Matthew H. England, John C. Fyfe, Weiqing Han, Hyemi Kim, Ben P. Kirtman, Yochanan Kushnir, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael E. Mann, William J. Merryfield, Veronica Nieves, Kathy Pegion, Nan Rosenbloom, Sara C. Sanchez, Adam A. Scaife, Doug Smith, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Lantao Sun, Diane Thompson, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Shang Ping Xie, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment on p. 340-357

Multidecadal climate oscillations during the past millennium driven by volcanic forcing

Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, Daniel J. Brouillette, Sonya K. Miller, 2021, Science on p. 1014-1019

The president needs to hit the ground running on climate

Michael Mann, 2021, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on p. 21-23

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

Goutam Konapala, Ashok K. Mishra, Yoshihide Wada, Michael E. Mann, 2020, Nature Communications

Absence of internal multidecadal and interdecadal oscillations in climate model simulations

Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, Sonya K. Miller, 2020, Nature Communications

Most-Cited Papers

Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

Stefan Rahmstorf, Jason E. Box, Georg Feulner, Michael E. Mann, Alexander Robinson, Scott Rutherford, Erik J. Schaffernicht, 2015, Nature Climate Change on p. 475-480

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

Goutam Konapala, Ashok K. Mishra, Yoshihide Wada, Michael E. Mann, 2020, Nature Communications

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

Eric Post, Richard B. Alley, Torben R. Christensen, Marc Macias-Fauria, Bruce C. Forbes, Michael N. Gooseff, Amy Iler, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Kristin L. Laidre, Michael E. Mann, Johan Olofsson, Julienne C. Stroeve, Fran Ulmer, Ross A. Virginia, Muyin Wang, 2019, Science advances

Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

John C. Fyfe, Gerald A. Meehl, Matthew H. England, Michael E. Mann, Benjamin D. Santer, Gregory M. Flato, Ed Hawkins, Nathan P. Gillett, Shang Ping Xie, Yu Kosaka, Neil C. Swart, 2016, Nature Climate Change on p. 224-228

Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

Guancheng Li, Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu, Kevin E. Trenberth, Michael E. Mann, John P. Abraham, 2020, Nature Climate Change on p. 1116-1123

Climate change and California drought in the 21st century

Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 3858-3859

Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events

Michael E. Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Kai Kornhuber, Byron A. Steinman, Sonya K. Miller, Dim Coumou, 2017, Scientific Reports

Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures

Byron A. Steinman, Michael E. Mann, Sonya K. Miller, 2015, Science on p. 988-991

Tracking variable sedimentation rates and astronomical forcing in Phanerozoic paleoclimate proxy series with evolutionary correlation coefficients and hypothesis testing

Mingsong Li, Lee R. Kump, Linda A. Hinnov, Michael E. Mann, 2018, Earth and Planetary Science Letters on p. 165-179

Impact of climate change on New York City’s coastal flood hazard: Increasing flood heights from the preindustrial to 2300 CE

Andra J. Garner, Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Robert E. Kopp, Ning Lin, Richard B. Alley, Benjamin P. Horton, Robert M. DeConto, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, David Pollard, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 11861-11866

News Articles Featuring Michael Mann

Aug 25, 2022

Moab just had a 100-year flood. What does that mean and how often does it happen?

For a brief moment, Chuck Williams considered not designating the natural disaster that soused Moab on Saturday a 100-year flood. Maybe the city engineer could get away with calling it a 90-year flood. Or, better yet, a 50-year flood. Something less sensational.

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Aug 15, 2022

Irreversible declines in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia by 2060

Most comprehensive study to date on water storage in Tibetan Plateau projects dramatic losses of freshwater storage in parts of Asia by mid-century under modest climate policy scenario

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Aug 08, 2022

'A long time coming': Al Gore, other climate activists celebrate Senate passage of IRA

The Senate’s approval of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Sunday marks the first time the body has ever passed any significant measures to address climate change.

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Aug 08, 2022

After 'historic' US climate bill, scientists urge global action

Scientists on Monday welcomed the passing of US President Joe Biden's "historic" climate bill while calling for other major emitters -- namely the European Union -- to follow suit and implement ambitious plans to slash emissions.

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Aug 02, 2022

Biden’s climate agenda faces yet another obstacle: Kyrsten Sinema

The most ambitious attempt yet to pass climate legislation in the US may have surprisingly won the crucial backing of a senator who owns a coal company. Now it faces a further, deeply ironic, obstacle – a lawmaker who was once a member of the Green party.

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Aug 02, 2022

Experts at odds over nuclear power's role in fighting climate change

One key provision in the Senate's draft Inflation Reduction Act — the first-of-its-kind climate bill in the U.S. that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change — is an improved tax credit for American nuclear power plants and funding for next-generation nuclear fuels.

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Jul 25, 2022

People in the U.S. are suffering under intense heat warnings and heat advisories

NPR's A Martinez talks to Michael Mann, professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, about record-high temperatures across the U.S., which climate scientists say is attributable to climate change.

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Jul 24, 2022

Global climate crisis hits home in the U.S. amid record heat and pervasive wildfires

A fast-spreading wildfire burning out of control in California on the doorstep of Yosemite National Park has forced thousands to flee their homes. Hot and dry conditions, linked to climate change, are making it a tough fire to fight. Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University and author of “The New Climate War,” joins Geoff Bennett to discuss climate change's role.

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Jul 19, 2022

"Climate change kills": Experts agree with Spanish prime minister's comments on wildfires in Europe

As the weather in the United Kingdom exceeds 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in history (that's more than 104 degree Fahrenheit to Americans), heat-related deaths have topped 1,100 in Spain and Portugal as wildfires blaze through the Iberian peninsula

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Jul 19, 2022

Why this European heat wave is so scary

For two weeks, computer models teased the possibility of Britain reaching 40 Celsius (104 degrees) this week, a level unsurpassed since at least 1850 — and probably in more than 6,000 years. Meteorologists gazed at these model forecasts in disbelief, skeptical that such predictions would come true.

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Jul 18, 2022

Energy & Environment — Newsom positions himself as climate leader

“Under previous governor Jerry Brown [D], California was a beacon of climate leadership at a time when we lacked it at the national level under the previous administration,” Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, told The Hill in an email. “Here Newsom is working with the administration to advance the cause of climate action, and the California tailpipe emissions standards are a good example of that. California is setting an example that other states will hopefully follow.”

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Nov 24, 2020

Hotter Seas Imperil Both Human and Marine Life

Climate warming brings hotter seas. The waters mix less. And conditions for some creatures could grow increasingly stifling.

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Aug 07, 2020

5 lessons from the pandemic to tackle the climate crisis

Our enemies seem so tiny. One is a virus unleashed from the wilderness, likely by people with mouths to feed and spread by others with planes to catch. The second enemy is a molecule of heat-trapping gas -- methane and CO2 -- unleashed by people with mouths to feed and planes to catch.

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Jul 29, 2020

It's time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting

In a world with so many problems, it’s easy to feel helpless. And particularly right now in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, quite alone. But even as we practice social distancing, we have an opportunity to work together to solve the greatest problem that humanity faces. No, I’m not talking about coronavirus. I’m talking about climate change.

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