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Florida soaked with epic rainstorms: Yep, it’s climate change
Salon.com

Florida soaked with epic rainstorms: Yep, it’s climate change

Michael E. Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that continued fossil fuel burning could lead to six feet of sea level rise and the displacement of nearly a billion people by the end of the century.

The western U.S. is sweltering under a ‘heat dome.’ What does that mean?
Smithsonian Magazine

The western U.S. is sweltering under a ‘heat dome.’ What does that mean?

A study by Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences finds that climate change favors the jet stream behavior that produces stagnant high-pressure systems and the extreme heat and drought associated with them.

Getting off a ‘highway to climate hell’
MSNBC

Getting off a ‘highway to climate hell’

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the UN’s climate-change warnings amidst record-breaking global heat.

Fungi on the front lines against environmental injustice
Mycellium growing in soil.

Image: iStock/Kichigin

Fungi on the front lines against environmental injustice

The collective efforts of the Symbiotic Architecture for Environmental Justice research community are making former industrial sites reborn as vibrant community gardens, and safe, green spaces for children to play a reality.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists
Michael Mann at a podium and Kathleen Hall Jameson beside him teaching a course at Penn.

The class included writing a letter to the editor, op-ed, and fact-check. “We threw a lot at them, we’re asking a lot of them, but I feel like they’re rising to the occasion,” Mann said.

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Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists

Michael Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are co-teaching the Climate Change and Communication course this spring, tied to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference, held this year at Penn.
Forecast group predicts busiest hurricane season on record with 33 storms
The Washington Post

Forecast group predicts busiest hurricane season on record with 33 storms

A research team led by Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences is predicting the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will produce the most named storms on record, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters and an expected shift from El Niño to La Niña.

2024 tropical cyclone prediction
View of Hurricane Ida from space with satellite visible above orbit.

An image of Hurricane Ida taken aboard the International Space Station shortly before the Category 4 storm made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021. It marked the ninth named hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic season. As such storms increase in both frequency and intensity, Penn researchers argue that the resilience methods used in the past won’t work in the future.

 (Image: European Space Agency)

2024 tropical cyclone prediction

Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected.