asians and great minds of dr michael mann dr mann is a nobel prize winning physicist climatologist and professor he's also the author of over one hundred fifty peer reviewed papers as well as two books including his latest the hockey stick and the climate wars dispatches from the front lines so let's get back to it you're here in town right now because of this this this lawsuit this case uva versus cuccinelli what is it. well i'm talking about my book but i've also been talking quite a bit about this recent decision that you allude to so we can commission nelly the attorney general of virginia. sort of taking a page out of the playbook that has been used against climate scientists now for well over a decade in an effort to try to discredit me and other scientists and climate science itself tried to sue the university of virginia. to turn over all of its all the e-mails and private correspondence is from my time as a faculty member there with thirty nine other scientists around the world and it was pretty clear that what he was hoping to do was to do what climate change deniers have bee

for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by dr dr michael mann dr mann is a physicist climatologist and professor is currently a member of the faculty at penn state university is the director of penn state's earth science so it's system science center so our command received his undergraduate degree in physics and applied mathematics from u.c. berkeley and both a master's in physics and a ph d. in geology and geophysics from yale university has received a number of honors in awards including selection by scientific american as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in two thousand and seven dr mann was a joint recipient of the nobel peace prize he's the author of over one hundred fifty peer reviewed publications as well as two books including his latest the hockey stick and the climate wars. dispatches from the frontlines like the man welcome thanks tom it's a pleasure to be here with you thanks for joining us and for writing this brilliant book. before we get into all the science about all of this i'm just curious about you what got you into cl