2015 MSU Extension Climate Science Conference
Keynote Speakers
Bob Inglis was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented
Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993‐1998, unsuccessfully challenged
U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998, and then returned to the practice of commercial
real estate law in Greenville, S.C. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served
until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010. In 2011,
Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate change and
launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University
in July 2012. E&EI is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt, educational outreach organization that
lives to demonstrate the power of accountable free enterprise. E&EI believes that
climate change can be solved by eliminating all subsidies, including the implicit
subsidy of the lack of accountability for emissions. By creating a level playing field
in which all costs are transparently “in” on all fuels, E&EI believes that the free
enterprise system will deliver innovation faster than government regulations could
ever imagine. E&EI supports an online community of energy optimists and climate realists
at republicEn.org. You can say you’re “En” on free enterprise solutions to climate
change at republicEn.org. For his work on climate change, Inglis was given the 2015
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt and in the Showtime series YEARS of Living Dangerously (episodes 3 and 4), and he spoke at TEDxJacksonville. Inglis was a Resident Fellow
at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at
Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and a Resident Fellow
at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014. Inglis grew up in the
Low country of South Carolina, went to Duke University for college, met and married
his college sweetheart, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and
practiced commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C., before and between his years
in Congress. Bob and Mary Anne Inglis have five children (a son, 30, and four daughters,
27, 25, 21 and 19). They live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South
Carolina. Congressional ratings:93 American Conservative Union; 100% Christian Coalition
100%; National Right to Life; “A” with the National Rifle Association; 0 with Americans
for Democratic Action; 23 with the AFL-CIO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Inglis
Dr. Michael E. Mann is a Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint
appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems
Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center
(ESSC). Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change
chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment
Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences
Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including
NOAA's outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American
as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed,
with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded
the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded
the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation
in 2013. He made Bloomberg News' list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In
2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science
Education. He is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the American
Meteorological Society. Dr. Mann is author of more than 180 peer-reviewed and edited
publications, and has published two books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/about/index.php