Michael E. Mann - The New Climate War

Fossil fuel companies have been, for decades longer than I have been alive, the largest contributors to the climate crisis that affects my generation todayall in pursuit of profits and growth. In The New Climate War, Michael Mann holds them to account, and shows us how we can take the bold steps we must all take together to win the battle to save this planet.

G RETA T HUNBERG , climate activist

This book takes the reader behind the front lines into the decades long information war waged by the fossil fuel industry and those that share their interests. From his perspective as a leader in the battle for scientific reason, Michael Mann provides hope and a roadmap for all of us to address the systemic issues fueling climate change, and shows how we can come together to wage a new war in the fight for our future.

L EONARDO D I C APRIO , actor and environmentalist

Few people bear more scars from the climate wars than Michael Mannand few have fought longer and harder for a basic, rational approach to dealing with this greatest of crises. Because of his persistenceand that of so many otherswe are finally making progress!

B ILL M C K IBBEN , author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Michael Mann skillfully explains the complicated dynamics of global warming and vividly portrays the sophisticated and coordinated campaign by polluters to block the policies and solutions needed to solve the climate crisis. And most importantly, he proposes a path forward that is both realistic and optimistic, and should inspire readers to take action.

former US vice president A L G ORE

With this book, Michael Mann details the challenges we face from enemies (inactivists) both without and within while dropping critically important breadcrumbs for us to follow to lead us out of the forest of despair and set us on the path of victory in a battle we must win. We need an army of Michaels, stat!

D ON C HEADLE , actor, activist, and UN global goodwill ambassador

Pulling no punches, Michael Mann lays out our predicament and tells the shocking story of persistent climate denial and corporate deception. We are in a war for the planet, but one we are now on the verge of winning. And he deftly cuts through the propaganda and shows us the path forward.

J ERRY B ROWN , California governor, 19751983, 20112019

Mann shows that corporations and lobbyists have been successful in convincing us that climate change will be fine, if we just recycle our bottles and turn out the lights. Instead, he says, global warming is a problem way too hot for any one person to handle. Hes optimistic though, because he sees what we really can and will do. Read his book, and lets get to work.

B ILL N YE , science educator and CEO, the Planetary Society

For over two decades, Michael Mann has been our Janus at the gates, defending climate science from corporate-funded insinuations of confusion and suspicion. We would not have progressed this far had it not been for his unflinching and brilliant rejoinders to the traffickers of doubt. This chronicle of ongoing climate injustice may make you mad, but hopefully it will make us act. This is the only civilization we have. Mann is its resolute champion once again.

P AUL H AWKEN , founder, Project Drawdown

The New Climate War is an insightful treatise on how the polluting fossil fuel industry and their right-wing allies have deflected the blame for the climate crisis. The book charts a common-sense course for collective actions to force government and corporations to make real solutions to the climate crisisan existential threat to humanity and the planet.

R OBERT D. B ULLARD , professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University

The New Climate War is engaging, approachable, and ultimately deeply uplifting. Mann outlines a hopeful vision of the transformation we must undertake in order to create a better, brighter future on this planet. He makes the clear case that our species is capable of great change, laying out exactly why and how we can rise to overcome the grave challenges before us.

S ASHA S AGAN , author of For Small Creatures Such As We

A fascinating journey through the minds and motivations of the champions of climate denialism as well as the more recent climate doomists. Along the way, we learn of the unequivocal scientific evidence and the rapid evolution of technological solutions. Most importantly, public opinion finally seems to be at a tipping point to catalyze political will to leave the next generation a sustainable worldand not a moment too soon!

R OSINA B IERBAUM , professor, University of Michigan and University of Maryland, and former Acting Director of OSTP

Blunt, lucid. Consistently displaying his comprehensive command of climate science and the attendant politics. An expert effectively debunks the false narrative of denialism and advocates communal resistance to fossil fuels.

Publishers Weekly

Michael Mann dedicates this book to his wife, Lorraine Santy, and daughter, Megan Dorothy Mann, and to the memory of his brother Jonathan Clifford Mann and mother, Paula Finesod Mann