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Summary of The New Climate War 

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Michael E. Mann is renowned for his stellar work on climate change. He teaches Atmospheric Science at Penn State. The American Association for the Advancement of Science gave him the award for Public Engagement with Science in 2018. In “The New Climate War,” Michael Mann disproves the stories that undermine efforts to reduce climate change. He proposes actionable steps we can take to preserve and protect our planet. Burning fossil fuels continue to hurt the planet in unprecedented ways. In 1998, Mann and his colleagues published a curve that was dubbed “the hockey stick” to show the rise in planetary temperatures in the last 100 years. Politically motivated attacks from people with vested interests forced Mann to defend his work. This defense was how he got involved in the climate wars. He’s been fighting these battles for over 2 decades now. “Our civilization can be saved, but only if we learn to recognize the current tactics of the enemy—that is, the forces of inaction—and how to combat them.” ~ Michael Mann

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  • Summary of The New Climate War
  • About the author
  • What is The New Climate War about?
  • Who should read The New Climate War
  • Topics in The New Climate War
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Each of us need to join the battle to save our planet from a climate crisis

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People with fossil fuel interests have been actively working for decades to discredit and disregard warnings about the warming of our planet. They use all resources at their disposal to prevent policies aimed at curbing pollution and planetary warming from sailing through.

To tackle this problem, we need to do 3 things:
• Acknowledge that we are in a war
• Understand how the enemy’s mind works
• Develop a battle plan to overcome these hurdles and save our planet

In this summary, we will expose the denial and delay tactics that vested interests employ to stymie climate action. Hopefully, you will join the fight for the life of our planet by the end of this summary.

Learning from the gun lobby’s motto — guns don’t kill people, people kill people — and the tobacco industry’s strategies for absolving themselves of responsibility, the fossil fuel industry has repeatedly avoided and prevented action toward preserving the planet. The Koch brothers, the Mercers, the Scaifes, and companies like ExxonMobil have spent billions of dollars to misinform the public about climate change. They discredit the science that links fossil fuel burning to climate change. Their strategy has worked so far.
Wildfires, coastal inundation, heat waves and droughts, floods, are some of the dangerous products of climate change.
The remainder of this summary exposes the strategies of the enemy and proffers a counter-strategy that we must apply to squelch these antics.
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Deception, distraction, and delay are the weapons fossil-fuel enthusiasts use to fight the climate war

Oil-funded governments, fossil fuel companies, and right-wing plutocrats who depend on fossil fuels cannot continue to deny the science since what the science forecasted is already happening. These behemoths have developed a new tactic—shifting from denial to deception, distraction, and delay.
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Sowing a seed of doubt in people is how powerful vested interests implemented their misinformation campaign

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Fossil-fuel interests exploited the lack of early consensus on the human impact on climate to deny the impact altogether

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When denial no longer works, the enemy resorts to lying and other underhanded means to force inaction on climate change

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Deflection campaign is a strategy that shifts attention from what industries should do to what individuals should do to change a bad situation

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The dividers are a subclass of inactivists who employ the wedge strategy to sow discord within the climate community

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Supply-side and demand-side measures can incentivize a transition from fossil-fuel dependence to carbon-fee sources of energy

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Beyond carbon pricing, we need to provide explicit incentives for renewable energy and eliminate those for fossil fuels

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