Michael E. Mann is a
professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science
Center at Penn State University. He co-authored, with Washington Post
cartoonist Tom Toles, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is
Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.”
Donald Trump’s pick of Scott Pruitt for Environmental Protection Agency administrator is just one of many ominous signs. |
My Penn State colleagues looked with horror at the police
tape across my office door.
I had been opening mail at my desk that afternoon in August
2010 when a dusting of white powder fell from the folds of a letter. I dropped
the letter, held my breath and slipped out the door as swiftly as I could,
shutting it behind me. First I went to the bathroom to scrub my hands. Then I
called the police.
It turned out to be cornstarch, not anthrax. And it was just
one in a long series of threats I’ve received since the late 1990s, when my
research illustrated the unprecedented nature of global warming, producing an
upward-trending temperature curve whose shape has been likened to a hockey
stick.
Read the opinion piece by Michael E. Mann in The Washington Post - “I’m a scientist who has gotten death threats. I fear what may happen under Trump.”
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