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Author of Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Launching UC Santa Barbara’s campus decarbonization study project as part of the Task Force for a Fossil-free UC
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Michael E. Mann
- Fri, Feb 23 | 7:30 p.m. | Campbell Hall
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- Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania Michael E. Mann finds evidence for hope and ideas about how to proceed in the fossil record of planetary climate conditions
- Mann uses Earth’s deep climate history to reframe the problems that we face today
- Mann is well-known for his commentary in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate documentary Before the Flood, and Mann inspired DiCaprio’s lauded performance as astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy in the movie Don’t Look Up
- Contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
- Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020
- Named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023
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- Registration & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or call (805) 893-3535
Mann “shows us how we can take the bold steps we must all take together to win the battle to save this planet.” – Greta Thunberg
SANTA BARBARA — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann on Friday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. at UCSB Campbell Hall. With more than two decades on the front lines of climate science and policy, Michael E. Mann has become one of our best known and most valuable science communicators. Through six books, including his latest, Our Fragile Moment, Mann explains what the research means, how we should live and what we should demand of our leaders. Using Earth’s deep climate history to reframe the problems that we face today, Mann combines urgency with agency, encouraging people to appreciate the gravity of the unfolding climate crisis while emboldening them to act before it truly does become too late.
This event will launch UC Santa Barbara’s campus decarbonization study project as part of the Task Force for a Fossil-free UC. UCSB has the lowest carbon intensity of any UC campus, and is making plans to reduce its remaining CO2 emissions by 90%, relative to a 2019 baseline, in the coming years.
According to Academic Senate Chair Susannah Scott, “UC Santa Barbara already has the lowest carbon intensity operations among all 10 UC campuses. In conjunction with our world-renowned climate and sustainability research and educational programs, our campus decarbonization project will demonstrate our leadership in achieving net zero operations. We aim to follow the scientific evidence, modeled by distinguished paleoclimatologist Michael E. Mann and described compellingly in his new book, in planning responsibly for a more stable future.”
Presented in association with UC Santa Barbara’s Decarbonization Study Project Committee, co-chaired by UCSB Academic Senate Chair Susannah Scott and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Design, Facilities & Safety Services Renée Bahl.
ABOUT MICHAEL E. MANN
Dr. Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM).
Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research interests include the study of Earth’s climate system and the science, impacts and policy implications of human-caused climate change.
Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA’s outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation in 2013. He made Bloomberg News’ list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In 2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. He received the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One in 2017, the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and in 2020 he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.
Dr. Mann is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and six books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, The Tantrum that Saved the World, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet and Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Michael E. Mann is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures in association with UC Santa Barbara’s Decarbonization Study Project Committee, co-chaired by Academic Senate Chair Susannah Scott and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Design, Facilities & Safety Services Renée Bahl.
To register or for more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or visit online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2023-2024 season.