‘Fossil fuel companies have, for decades longer than I have been alive, been the largest contributors to the climate crisis that affects my generation today — all in pursuit of profits and growth. In The New Climate War, Michael Mann holds them to account, and shows us how we can take the bold steps we must all take together to win the battle to save this planet.’
Greta Thunberg, climate activist
‘This book takes the reader behind the front lines into the decades long information war waged by the fossil fuel industry and those that share their interests. From his perspective as a leader in the battle for scientific reason, Michael Mann provides hope and a roadmap for all of us to address the systemic issues fuelling climate change, and shows how we can come together to wage a new war in the fight for our future.’
Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and environmental activist
‘The New Climate War is an insightful treatise on how the polluting fossil fuel industry and their right-wing allies have deflected the blame for the climate crisis. The book charts a common sense course for collective actions to force government and corporations to make real solutions to the climate crisis — an existential threat to humanity and the planet.’
Robert D. Bullard, professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University
‘A fascinating journey through the minds and motivations of the champions of climate denialism as well as the more recent climate doomists. Along the way, we learn of the unequivocal scientific evidence and the rapid evolution of technological solutions. Most importantly, public opinion finally seems to be at a 'tipping point' to catalyse political will to leave the next generation a sustainable world — and not a moment too soon!’
Rosina Bierbaum, professor at University of Michigan and University of Maryland, and former Acting Director of OSTP
‘Few people bear more scars from the climate wars than Michael Mann — and few have fought longer and harder for a basic, rational approach to dealing with this greatest of crises. Because of his persistence — and that of so many others — we are finally making progress!’
Bill McKibben, author of Falter: has the human game begun to play itself out?
‘The New Climate War is engaging, approachable, and ultimately deeply uplifting. Mann outlines a hopeful vision of the transformation we must undertake in order to create a better, brighter future on this planet. He makes the clear case that our species is capable of great change, laying out exactly why and how we can rise to overcome the grave challenges before us.’
Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such As We
‘With this book, Michael Mann details the challenges we face from enemies (‘inactivists’) both without and within while dropping critically important breadcrumbs for us to follow to lead us out of the forest of despair and set us on the path of victory in a battle we must win. We need an army of Michaels, stat!’
Don Cheadle, actor, activist, and UN global goodwill ambassador
‘Pulling no punches, Michael Mann lays out our predicament and tells the shocking story of persistent climate denial and corporate deception. We are in a war for the planet, but one we are now on the verge of winning. And he deftly cuts through the propaganda and shows us the path forward.’
Jerry Brown, California governor, 1975-1983, 2011-2019
‘For over two decades, Michael Mann has been our Janus at the gates, defending climate science from corporate-funded insinuations of confusion and suspicion. We would not have progressed this far had it not been for his unflinching and brilliant rejoinders to the traffickers of doubt. This chronicle of ongoing climate injustice may make you mad, but hopefully it will make us act. This is the only civilisation we have. Mann is its resolute champion once again.’
Paul Hawken, founder of Project Drawdown
‘Mann offers readers an absorbing and accessible take on an alarming pattern that stands to shape the course of climate action — and our collective future.’
Rebecca M. Peters, Chatham House
‘Spirited.’
Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Independent
‘Brilliant.’
Ben Cooke, The Times
‘The New Climate War is a punchy, provocative, informed … deeply personal take on the crisis, by a respected voice in the climate science and communications field.’
John Gibbons, The Irish Times
‘Provocative … The New Climate War makes a compelling case both for revising the global Green New Deal and for counteracting disinformation from climate sceptics.’
John Meagher, Irish Independent
‘Michael Mann is a pre-eminent climate scientist whose academic pedigree is beyond question.’
Art Flynn, Irish Examiner
‘A strategic, wide-ranging overview of humanity’s present predicament and an exploration of possible pathways out of it.’
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
‘The main focus of Mann’s book is a call to arms in the new war against “inactivists” who are using new tactics of “deception, distraction and delay” to prevent the phase-out of fossil fuels. Mann is a robust character ... Mann does not pull his punches, but his aim is usually strong and true. This book will no doubt prove controversial for some climate campaigners, as well as the deniers, but I hope it will be read by everybody who is engaged in making the case for action.’
Bob Ward, The Observer
‘Mann starts from the premise that we can save the planet from the worst impacts of climate change if we move to net-zero carbon emissions. As a scientist, he dismisses most scenarios of an uninhabitable Earth because they’re based on a misunderstanding of methane feedback loops, and, as a citizen, he has no time for “climate doom porn” because it leads to political paralysis. But if Mann is “objectively hopeful”, he’s not naïve. The challenges are real and the vested interests of business as usual are powerful ... Michael Mann may or may not be a Climate Jedi, but he is a climate smart guy and The New Climate War is a must read.’
Donald Wright, The Globe & Mail
‘A wonderfully confrontational book.’
David Robbins, Sunday Independent
‘Comprehensive.’
The Financial Times
‘Thought-provoking.’
Pilita Clark, Financial Times
'Mann is the genuine article ... his prose rattles along, entertaining and horrifying us in equal measure as he exposes scientists, politicians, the conservative media and other supposed experts who have slowed climate action by caring more about the interests of big industry.'
Philippa Nuttall Jones, New Statesman
‘Mann’s call to get serious about climate change couldn’t be more timely.’
Richard Schiffman, New Scientist
‘Mann's characteristic take-no-prisoners storytelling details fossil fuel persuasion tactics ... and points to reasons to yet be hopeful … In better understanding how prospects for climate action still are threatened, readers will learn fascinating climate history and science, and will be uplifted by Mann’s take on how close society may be to a tipping point on solving the climate crisis … a must-read for every climate-savvy and climate-dependent.’
Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections
‘In his new book, Mann outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change … The societal tipping point necessary to win the new climate war won’t happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward.’
Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connections
‘Mann’s book, aimed at everyone from young students to longtime activists, alerts the public to the tactics and stakes of this new climate war, and arms readers with the weapons to fight it … Mann begins by tracing the history of corporate denialist and deflection campaigns back to the early twentieth century. He then turns to more recent histories of industry-funded environmental campaigns, explaining how he found himself on the frontlines of the new climate war … The book is as much a landscape of the current climate fight as it is a history.’
Oliver Lazarus, National Center for Science Education
‘The push in Mann’s book has been on development of renewable sources of energy. He calls for regulation of emissions. He lashes out at climate advocates who play from the enemy’s side. Here he calls out climate purists, science communicators and idealistic technocrats who sideline the real issue and beat around the bush.’
Sharon Griffin, California Herald
‘Mann believes this “new war” can be won, and he charts a clear path forward.’
Sue Gilmore, Bay City News
‘Two words at the heart of Mann’s book are urgency and agency. We must fight the inactivists, the doubt-sowers and the doom-sayers, to ensure that we retain the power of agency that comes with both individual and collective action, so that our politicians implement systemic changes which meet the urgency required to tackle the climate crisis.’
Max Spokes, The Oxford Blue
‘In this extensively researched book, Mann outlines a plan to hold corporations and governments more accountable for slowing climate change.’
Ellen Wanamaker, Ames Tribune
‘The New Climate War is an enlightening exposé of something that many of us probably already took as given: vested financial interests are psychotic in their efforts to control the dialogue.’
David Ferrell, The Canberra Times
If there’s ever a Hall of Fame for climate scientists, Michael Mann will be among the first to be inducted.
Rolling Stone
‘An important and highly recommended read.’
Dan Rather, SiriusXM
‘One of the world’s leading climate scientists embarks on a journey into the minds of climate change deniers to try to understand their motivations and strategies … Blunt, lucid … Consistently displaying his comprehensive command of climate science and the attendant politics … An expert effectively debunks the false narrative of denialism and advocates communal resistance to fossil fuels.’
Kirkus Reviews
‘The New Climate War is an informed, opinionated guide to an ever-changing conflict.’
Shelf Awareness
‘[P]unchy and illuminating … uses both peer-reviewed climate science research and combative wit to expose the strategies of people and industries bent on deflecting responsibility and limiting the systemic change necessary to move the world away from dependence on planet-destroying fossil fuel ... Mann clearly has skin in this game. Both his professional and personal reputations have been viciously attacked in response to his work. Here he fights back, settles some scores and argues for the necessity and possibility of aggressive, systemic changes. It’s a bracing read — both eye-opening and even fun.’
Alden Mudge, BookPage
‘This book is a must read not just for people currently working to address climate change but also for those who are new to the climate fight, the latter of whom will learn much about past challenges, struggles, and attacks that have been aimed at climate champions.’
Science Magazine
‘An engrossing mix of footnoted history, acerbic political commentary and personal anecdotes.’
Science News
‘The New Climate War isn’t as much about the proof of our changing climate as it is about the disinformation campaigns and the bad actors behind them … But it’s not all infuriating and rage-inducing. The New Climate War provides a lot of hope for the future. Mann tells it plainly, that there’s still time to make things better. Ignore the doomsayers and scaremongers — the fossil fuel industry wants inaction and, by resigning ourselves to thinking it’s too late to change, there’s no path forward … Mann is a phenomenal writer and The New Climate War is no exception. If you read nothing else for the rest of the year, make it this book. It’s eye-opening, both rage-inducing and immersive, but wonderfully all-encompassing and full of hope.’
Kendra Reed, AIPT
‘Michael Mann is cautiously optimistic about the future. A number of developments give new hope: the signs of climate change are so obvious that they can no longer be denied … We are close to a tipping point — in society itself. When change comes, it can happen fast …The best cure for climate depression is to join the fight for a liveable planet.’
Brigitte Van Gerven, Citizens' Climate Lobby Belgium
‘[The New Climate War] dreams of a common future of humanity by upholding coexistence between nature and man [and] seeks ways of symbiosis and cooperation.’
K Sahdevan, CounterCurrents
‘This incisive volume will assist the creation of a much-needed collective effort, helping to frame a unified approach to waging combat on those who are destroying the environment for the sake of short term profit.’
Ed Meek, The Arts Fuse
‘He wants to keep the focus on systemic rather than individual change, and explains why that's so important. He criticises the denialists, and greed of the corporate bodies who fund them. In doing those things, his book is an asset for us all.’
David Renton, Ecologist
‘A fascinating untangling of the intricate web of misinformation, misdirection and deflection perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry since climate change became an incontrovertible reality. In a book that simultaneously functions as a historical account of intentional climate change misinformation campaigns as well as a cautiously optimistic look towards the future, Dr Michael Mann argues that the fundamental challenges we still face today are not tied to a technological or intellectual inability to achieve systemic change, but in the lack of political will required to do so.’
Tristan Bove, Earth.org
‘The New Climate War is a detailed, passionate, and insightful overview of the latest schemes by fossil fuel interests and their minions to halt or delay a transition to a clean energy economy.’
The Progressive
‘Lucid, accessible and an important read for anyone who cares about the present and future of climate action.’
The Centre Daily Times
‘Mann’s book is an important addition to the pushback against inaction and doom that has delayed action against climate change for too long and led too many to surrender without even a fight.’
Sierra Club magazine
‘Fantastic.’
David Ritter, Pro Bono Australia
‘Extremely insightful.’
Tim Rook, H and V News
‘Mann is an excellent communicator, and his book is also a very good place to find out what the current climate science actually does and does not say.’
Bibek Bhattacharya, Mint
‘Mann’s book is enlightening. Despite the seriousness of the subject, his book entertains, raises awareness, and inspires optimism. That is how we fight for the climate.’
Claudia Detsch, IPS Journal
‘[The New Climate War] explains very clearly, with researched facts, that the focus on individual behaviours to slow climate chaos is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in guilt tripping the individual and deflecting responsibility from the fossil fuel companies, where it belongs.’
Ruah Swennerfelt, Friends Journal
‘[The New Climate War] is a book relevant to people everywhere, and especially those in our region concerned about environmental change.’
Richard Frost
‘An engaging, well-documented book about climate politics and the industrial and political forces that have resisted the science of climate change and continue to manipulate and distort public perceptions about its causes and effects.’
Susan Glick, Seacoast Online
‘An important and timely book — well worth reading.’
Stephen Shenfield, WSPUS Newsletter
‘This book can jolt you out of despair and ‘doomism’ over climate change.’
Jean Boivin, Blackrock Investment Institute
Praise for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: dispatches from the front lines:
‘Very few people have sounded more important alarms about our climate future, and very few people have paid a higher price for doing so. Michael Mann is a hero, and this book is a remarkable account of the science and politics of the defining issue of our time.’
Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet
Praise for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: dispatches from the front lines:
‘As one of the nation's leading climate researchers, no one has felt the brunt of the attacks from politicians and the fossil fuel industry more than Michael E. Mann. This is his personal account from the centre of the maelstrom, documenting the lies and distortions about his work and his heroic efforts to stand up for scientific truth.’
Henry Waxman, Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, and former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Praise for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: dispatches from the front lines:
‘A brilliant and courageous climatologist, Michael E. Mann knows what it's like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence and how critical it is to respond. In this gripping, personal, frontlines account of climate politics, he eloquently conveys the importance of both doing great science and communicating its societal implications to a wider public.’
Paul R. Ehrlich, coauthor of The Dominant Animal: human evolution and the environment
Praise for The Tantrum That Saved The World:
‘[A] piece of kid lit … capable of both educating and inspiring the next generation … The book breaks down complicated issues into small fragments, to make kids aware of what they can do without overwhelming them.’
Aimee Lutkin, Green Matters
