Daily News | High-profile Penn State climate scientist to join Penn
“Michael Mann has done groundbreaking work on the attribution of extreme weather to climate change and many other aspects of climate science that are of central importance to climate policy,” said Steven J. Fluharty, Penn’s dean of arts and sciences. “He is also a gifted and fearless communicator, providing patient, clear, and informed explanations even in the most hostile media environments.”“It sort of felt like I had done what I could there, and it was time for a new challenge,” he said.
He said he was attracted to Penn’s strong academic record across all disciplines and that he welcomed the chance to become a part of Annenberg and focus on the communication part of his job.“That’s become a very big part of what I do these days,” he said, “not just doing science, but trying to communicate science to the public and policymakers, and I’m passionate about that.”
And he said he was impressed with the passion of Penn students and faculty around the issue of climate change. When he visited the campus last fall during climate week, there were about 50 related events taking place, he said. Penn students for years have ardently campaigned to get Penn’s board of trustees to divest from fossil fuels,
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