Science Under Siege - How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World

About the author

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State. He has received many honours and awards, including his selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. Additionally, he contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2018 he received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union. In 2020 he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Dire Predictions: understanding climate change and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: dispatches from the front lines. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Peter Hotez is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine, and in 2022 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Covid-19 vaccine.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hotez, Michael Mann
• Publisher: Scribe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9781917189262
• ISBN: 978-1-917189-26-2
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Medicine: general issues, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine, History of Science, Conservation of the environment, Public health & preventive medicine, Social impact of environmental issues, Meteorology and climatology, Impact of science and technology on society, Earth Sciences, Public health and preventive medicine, Environmental policy and protocols, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics