What the pandemic teaches us about the climate crisis
‘Covid awakened us to the alarm around pandemics. But hey, we have other alarms that are going off’
“There are so many lessons to be learned from the past year that are directly relevant to the climate crisis,” says Michael E Mann, climatologist. “Some are obvious, like the importance of listening to scientists.”
The denial of science is “deadly”, he adds. “We can measure that in millions of lives now, at this point in the pandemic. That’s the toll of not listening to science.”
Mann, 55, is one of the scientists behind the galvanising so-called “hockey stick” graph. Published in 1999, it showed the average global temperature
