​​Michael E. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and 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 author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries and five books, including “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet” (PublicAffairs, 2021).