Contextualizing Environmental Policy

  • Sara R. Rinfret
  • Michelle C. Pautz
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Abstract

Dr. Michael Mann is a distinguished professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University; he has also published numerous works based on theoretical models and observational data to better understand the planet’s climate system and interacts with researchers around the world as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).1 With this background, one might be perplexed to find him embroiled in a lawsuit with the National Review Online over comparisons between him and his work to former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, a convicted child molester. To understand the source of the lawsuit, let us first explore the research Dr. Mann and his colleagues conducted—the notorious “hockey stick.”

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Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Policy Hockey Stick Corporate Average Fuel Economy Corporate Average Fuel Economy 
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  • Michelle C. Pautz

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