Michael E. Mann

Well...
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My explanation of how climate change is amplifying these wildfires ended up entirely on the @npr.org cutting room floor.

Instead they included an extremely misleading of the supposed role of fire suppression and human alteration (expertly debunked here: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... )

It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

OK, who was it? Come clean.

The wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota are a direct consequence of the high temperatures and low rainfall resulting from a major July heat dome event.

A year ago we showed that these events had tripled in frequency due to human-caused warming: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

Summer 2023 called. It wants its apocalyptic haze back... www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai...

Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal | Michael E. Mann

The current wildfires are a preview of far worse things to come, write climate experts, Susan Joy Hassol and Professor Michael E. Mann

Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!

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It is also worth pointing out that human-caused climate change is now the dominant contributor to the increase of wildfire risk in the western U.S.: cpo.noaa.gov/study-shows-...

Study Shows That Climate Change is the Main Driver of Increasing Fire Weather in the Western United States - Climate Program Office

A new study, part of NOAA's Drought Task Force IV research, shows the leading cause of the rapid increase of wildfires over the western U.S. is the rapid increase of surface air vapor pressure deficit...

The most corrupt President in U.S. history calling in a favor from the most corrupt President of the most corrupt sports organization in the world. Surprising the whole planet wasn't sucked into this singularity of corruption.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

The NYT reports that Trump personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review Team USA’s Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension after his red card Days later, FIFA reversed the suspension It’s the first time since 1962 that FIFA has overturned a World Cup red-card suspension

A reminder that the observed warming of the planet is consistent with what models have predicted given ongoing carbon emissions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

"Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists" by Eric Roston for @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

Wow--that's a scary looking bacterium! The stuff on the right looks bad too.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social

A Meta data center in Wyoming has infected the local water system with a rare bacterium known as cupriavidus gilardii.

"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"

-- the late, great Sherry Rowland

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

A reminder that the observed warming of the planet is consistent with what models have predicted given ongoing carbon emissions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

That deserves an excerpt from my recent commentary for China Daily: www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/08/...

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects” So dumb

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My comments on the new @nationalacademies.org report on climate change & extreme weather attribution.
The TLDR statement: If anything, the academy understates the strength of the science linking increasingly extreme weather events to climate change:
michaelmann.net/comments-on-...

Comments on National Academy of Sciences Report on Climate Change & Extreme Weather Event Attribution | Michael E. Mann

The National Academy of Sciences has put out a new report assessing the state of understanding of the science of extreme weather attribution, an area of […]

Trump is questionably even sentient at this point.

Make no mistake. This action is being taken by the polluters and plutocrats who put him in power:
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Trump calls for review related to scientific manual used by judges

U.S. President Donald Trump called for a review related to the Federal Judicial Center's ​scientific reference manual in cases involving climate change, writing ‌in a Truth Social post on Sunday that ...

p.s. the idea that the increasingly widespread and damaging wildfires can be explained away by "fire suppression" practices etc. is an old denialist frame advanced by Trump and GOP: www.newsweek.com/lies-climate...

After Australia, Reading the Lies About West Coast Fires Feels Like Deja Vu

Public awareness of the dangers of climate change threatens business as usual. So the bad faith actors are on the move yet again.

#Spain (pro-E.U. and multilateralism) defeats #Argentina (right-wing Trump-aligned President)
#WorldCup

"Gianni, I need you to find 4 points"
-- Donald

Cool. Here's one ExxonMobil published in 1982:

Oh, the "foundation" met with Epstein

The Guardian @theguardian.com

Bill Gates foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein about 30 times, external review finds

Bill Gates foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein about 30 times, external review finds

Staff ‘raised on multiple occasions’ risks of tech mogul’s philanthropic body associating with disgraced financier A new external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation has found that there were “roughly 30 meetings” between Jeffrey Epstein and foundation leaders and staff – including Bill Gates – between 2011 and 2014, even as foundation staff “raised on multiple occasions the risks of associating with Epstein because of his prior conviction”. The Gates foundation commissioned the review in March, following the justice department’s release earlier this year of millions of documents related to Epstein. The files included numerous references to Gates, several photographs of him, and records showing that he met with Epstein on multiple occasions, which prompted renewed scrutiny of Gates’s past ties to the disgraced financier. Continue reading...

"Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal" | My op-ed (w/ Susan Joy Hassol) in the @the-independent.com:
www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai...
(from two years ago)

Welcome to the apocalyptic haze of the new abnormal | Michael E. Mann

The current wildfires are a preview of far worse things to come, write climate experts, Susan Joy Hassol and Professor Michael E. Mann

Every time fossil fuel shill Chris Wright lies to the public about renewable energy, I will repost this op-ed:
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/08/...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Chris Wright accuses Democrats of "betting the farm on the sun and the wind" and says, "that was a disastrous bet that drove high electricity prices and stopped any growth of American electricity production"

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Shameful

I spoke with Caitriona Perry of BBC World News about the dual European and North American heat domes and their tie-in with human-caused climate change
youtu.be/UTcGmmZ-1I4

Michael Mann, BBC World News w/ Caitriona Perry About Record Heat & Climate Change (7/1/26)

YouTube video by Michael Mann

And with this, The Onion goes bankrupt.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting

He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.

Thanks to the rapidly developing major El Niño event, global surface air and sea surface temperatures are approaching new record values. Typically it is the year following the event that yields new global temperature record, but it's possible we could see this year.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

Latest "plume" of El Niño forecasts, via @climate.columbia.edu. Consensus dynamical forecast is now an HISTORICALLY STRONG max Nino3.4 ~3.0C (statistical forecasts are pointing toward still very strong ~2.5C). There is still a wide range of estimates, with some models reaching astonishing ~4.7C.