Climate tipping moved to 2020 (Michael Mann, Eric Worrall)

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Michael Mann Adjusts the Climate “Turning Point� Out to 2020 Eric Worrall, April 9, 2017

Portrait of the Unknown Professor. From Hide the Decline II.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Michael Mann, inventor of the climate Hockey Stick, has just shamelessly shifted the dreaded climate tipping point to 2020.

The Single Shining Hope to Stop Climate Change

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Michael E. Mann Apr 09, 2017 Mann is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University and co-author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.

Science is under attack at the very moment when we need it most. President Donald Trump’s March 28 executive order went much further than simply throwing a lifeline to fossil fuels, as industry-funded congressional climate change–deniers have done in the past. It intentionally blinded the federal government to the impacts of climate change by abolishing an interagency group that measured the cost of carbon to public health and the environment. Now, the government won’t have a coordinated way to account for damages from climate change when assessing the costs and benefits of a particular policy.

With that in mind, Trump should read the landmark “2020” report now published by Mission 2020, a group of experts convened by the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The report establishes a timeline for how we can ensure a safe and stable climate. We don’t have much time — 2020 is a clear turning point. …

Read more: http://time.com/4731632/climate-change-2020-trump/ Until recently Mann claimed 2016/17 was a climate tipping point.

Welcome to the Madhouse: Scientist says Trump could destroy the world FEBRUARY 10, 2017 5:01PM A WORLD-leading scientist has warned Donald Trump may signal the end of the world — and Australia could be first to face the catastrophic consequences.

Michael Mann claims Mr Trump’s relationship to “post-truth” politics and “alternative facts” is much more than just embarrassing for the US and has the potential to destroy civilisation.

Sitting in an office at the University of Sydney Business School ahead of his sold-out talk this week, the Penn State professor says one only has to look at the city’s record January temperatures for proof of how dangerous the President’s attitude is.

“He’s building a wall between himself and the evidence of climate change,” Professor Mann told news.com.au. “He waffles, it’s hard to pin down, he says one thing to one audience then another thing to another audience. …

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Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climatechange/welcome-to-the-madhouse-scientist-says-trump-could-destroy-theworld/news-story/0e31691ab55a520800cef7dbd289fdad All these years scientists and the climate community have been trying to identify key climate cycles – sunspots, Milankovitch cycles, ocean cycles, we all missed the obvious.

Climate is clearly driven by US Presidential Election cycles.

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