Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk

Climate activist Michael Mann
Though he has claimed to be a climate scientist for decades, Michael Mann at the University of Pennsylvania has been proven time and again to merely be a leftwing global-warming activist, faking data to make it appear the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing global warming, falsely claiming he was a Nobel laureate winner, and acting to destroy the careers of anyone who challenged the veracity of his research.
Sadly, when these facts were discovered almost two decades ago, about the time the climategate emails were released, the climate science community ignored the facts (a very bad thing for scientists to do) and acted to defend Mann. Thus he was able to continue to publish while keeping his job as a professor in academia, first at Pennsylvania State University and then at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann’s ability to survive fraud and abuse of power however has finally come to an end, and it did so because he decided to go on line after Charlie Kirk was assassinated to joke about that murder and to slander Kirk by reposting comments that called Kirk “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
Though Mann subsequently denied that was what he was doing, deleting some of his worst tweets while claiming to condemn such violence, it appears no one believes him. As a result, he announced yesterday that he resigning his position at Pennsylvania University in order to become a full time political activist. From his resignation statement:
I have reluctantly come to the position that the science policy advocacy work I am doing, especially surrounding my new book “Science Under Siege” with vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, at times feels in conflict with the nonpartisan role demanded of me as an administrator at a university with an established institutional neutrality policy.
Particularly at this moment in time, I don’t feel that I can forsake the public scholarship and advocacy that I am doing and have thus decided to step down from the VPC role.
At last Mann is being honest, at least in terms of his political biases. He has never been non-partisan, and as a result his leftist leanings poisoned all the research he participated in. Now at least we all know where he stands. He no longer is hiding behind a curtain of being “an objective scientist”.
Mann more than anyone illustrated the decline in American science during the 21st century. For decades he put advocacy and politics above real research, faking data and viciously libeling those who questioned his work in order to prove human-caused global warming. When the climate science community chose to favor his political advocacy and blacklisting over good science, it showed that Mann’s dishonesty had seeped into all levels of science.
That he is no longer a practicing scientist is a good thing. His resignation from academia might also be the first sign — albeit a weak one — that academia is finally beginning to clean up its act.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Climate activist Michael Mann
Though he has claimed to be a climate scientist for decades, Michael Mann at the University of Pennsylvania has been proven time and again to merely be a leftwing global-warming activist, faking data to make it appear the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing global warming, falsely claiming he was a Nobel laureate winner, and acting to destroy the careers of anyone who challenged the veracity of his research.
Sadly, when these facts were discovered almost two decades ago, about the time the climategate emails were released, the climate science community ignored the facts (a very bad thing for scientists to do) and acted to defend Mann. Thus he was able to continue to publish while keeping his job as a professor in academia, first at Pennsylvania State University and then at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann’s ability to survive fraud and abuse of power however has finally come to an end, and it did so because he decided to go on line after Charlie Kirk was assassinated to joke about that murder and to slander Kirk by reposting comments that called Kirk “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
Though Mann subsequently denied that was what he was doing, deleting some of his worst tweets while claiming to condemn such violence, it appears no one believes him. As a result, he announced yesterday that he resigning his position at Pennsylvania University in order to become a full time political activist. From his resignation statement:
I have reluctantly come to the position that the science policy advocacy work I am doing, especially surrounding my new book “Science Under Siege” with vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, at times feels in conflict with the nonpartisan role demanded of me as an administrator at a university with an established institutional neutrality policy.
Particularly at this moment in time, I don’t feel that I can forsake the public scholarship and advocacy that I am doing and have thus decided to step down from the VPC role.
At last Mann is being honest, at least in terms of his political biases. He has never been non-partisan, and as a result his leftist leanings poisoned all the research he participated in. Now at least we all know where he stands. He no longer is hiding behind a curtain of being “an objective scientist”.
Mann more than anyone illustrated the decline in American science during the 21st century. For decades he put advocacy and politics above real research, faking data and viciously libeling those who questioned his work in order to prove human-caused global warming. When the climate science community chose to favor his political advocacy and blacklisting over good science, it showed that Mann’s dishonesty had seeped into all levels of science.
That he is no longer a practicing scientist is a good thing. His resignation from academia might also be the first sign — albeit a weak one — that academia is finally beginning to clean up its act.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Couldn’t happen to a worse individual… mainly because I can’t think of anyone worse than Michael Mann. The lawfare he subjected Mark Steyn to and the guilty verdict imposed on him by the “sclerotic toilet of DC justice” should consign Mann, his Soros-funded white-shoe lawyers, and that clearly-biased DC jury to the lowest circle of Hell.
Do not be surprised if the Hockey Stick Charlatan receives a new “book deal” to make up for his termination.
Clark,
“Couldn’t happen to a worse individual . . .”
I won’t argue with you, but just remember that he’s got a lotta competition.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/alleged-discrimination-against-israeli-student-by-anti-zionist-cornell-prof-eric-cheyfitz-warrants-federal-investigation/
And I quote: Zohran Mamdani:
“Violence is an artificial construct”.
Tell that to Charlie Kirk.
I look forward to an Objective BTB review of the new Michale Mann book:
https://michaelmann.net/books/science-under-siege/
I believe it’s called UPenn rather than PennU, which sounds like an insult: “PennU!” “Oh yeah, PennU too!” :)