Penn State professors Michael Mann, Donald Brown, Janet Swim and Rick Schuhmann, and graduate student Peter Buckland spoke Monday evening at “Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change,” a talk that focused on climate change denial. Mann is director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center and part of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Susannah Barsom, with the university’s Center for Sustainability, moderated the event, which included a question and answer session.
See images of the event here or our sister publication, Voices of Central Pennsylvania.The five speakers walked the audience through the dilemmas climate change, climate change disinformation and various kinds of climate change denial create. In particular, they addressed why and how universities should do better to confront these issues.