April 7, 2016
On Monday, April 4 at 7 p.m., Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University Michael E. Mann, an expert on climate change gave a lecture titled, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines” based on his book with the same title. Mann began his lecture by describing that he approaches climate change from the perspective of a “science geek,” and that “the last thing on my agenda was finding myself at the center of a contentious debate.” According to Mann, the scientific case for climate change is relatively straightforward and has long been established as fact. For almost two centuries, scientists have known about the greenhouse effect; Joseph Forier introduced the term in 1837. Furthermore, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of thousands of conservative scientists from many nations, announced, “the warming of the planet is unequivocal.” Mann described the fact that 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded, then 2015 broke this record to become the hottest year on record
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