The Climate Wars By Michael Mann Analysis

serves as Michael Mann’s line of personal defense and vindication. His novel is as much of an appeal of his own decency as it is a validation of climate change and its supporters. Mann effectively dismantles counter-arguments and reveals climate change deniers’ unstable footing on unjustified grounds. Most of his antagonists supplement political backwash and unsound science in order to fabricate a viable alternative stance. Michael Mann utilizes a powerful arsenal of defense; he follows the illogicality of his skeptics by casting doubt on the ethicality of their supports as well as illuminating their selective “cherry-picked” science. However, too often Mann portrays himself as a victim thrown into a den of political hyenas. While nothing in the text suggests to the contrary, his overall self-depiction of innocence and misfortune gives the impression of. querulousness and embitterment that weakens his argument. Frequently, Mann seemed more intent in proving his own purity than calling attention to climate change, or the nonsensical debates surrounding it. …show more content…
For example, chapter four is riddled with gems such as: “the variations in surface temperature over the globe can be fully described mathematically in terms of just two spatiotemporal patterns” (Mann, 44). While statements like this may mean something significant to an experienced reader, it limited my ability to understand his purpose. The length in which he describes political arenas and graph variations is arduous at best. I felt lost during numerous points in the book because I was overwhelmed with a plethora of statistical data or political techniques. Often times I would read a page and be completely oblivious about how to apply the information given into a precise point. Put simply, Mann’s language weakened his argument by distracting from his over-arching points and