Michael Mann urges us to speak up!

Scientist Michael Mann argues that “If you see something, say something”.

Michael Mann.

Writing an opinion piece for the Sunday Review in the New York Times, Mann argues that although scientists may well be scientists, they are also citizens.

Reflecting on the Department of Homeland urgings to citizen s to report anything dangerous they witness: “If you see some, say something”.

Mann wrote that “We scientists are citizens, too, and, in climate change, we see clear and present danger.

“The public is beginning to see the danger, too – Midwestern farmers struggling with drought, more damaging wildfires out West, and withering record summer heat across the country – while wondering about possible linkages between rapid Artic warming and strange weather patterns, like the recent  outbreak of Artic air across much of the United States”, he writes.