Environmental Researcher Kathi Futornick Gives Us Hope for Our Climate Change Efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury on Thursday Aug. 8, 2023 awarded $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the “hockey stick” for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.
The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers Mann took to court for comments that he said affected his career and reputation in the U.S. and internationally.
“It feels great,” Mann said Thursday after the six-person jury delivered its verdict. ”It’s a good day for us, it’s a good day for science.” https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/02/10/climate-science-michael-mann-intv-cnc-vpx.cnn
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Kathi Futornick has nearly 40 years in the environmental field. She specializes in environmental risk and produces webinars on the science and the politics of climate change, emergency response, and sustainability.
She has been published in numerous trade journals, spoken at professional conferences, and taught community college classes on renewable energy/climate change and energy management. She was invited by the National Institute of Standards & Technology to develop standards as they pertain to sustainable products and services. She is a 1971 graduate of MIT and is self-motivated to continue research on issues which impact all of us.
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