Megan Herbert

MEGAN HERBERT is a writer and illustrator whose career writing television and film scripts, designing products, cartooning, live-drawing, and creating children’s books has spanned twenty years. In 2017 she illustrated the world’s first carbon-neutral climate change kids’ book, The Tantrum That Saved The World, which won a 2018 Moonbeam Award for books about Environmental Issues and the 2019 American Meteorological Society’s Louis J. Battan Award for best children’s book, K-12. In 2019, she was chosen to be an Artist for the Earth by The Earth Day Network, for whom she creates cartoons on the topic of climate change. She has lived in Toronto, London, Reykjavik, and Amsterdam, but is now happily back among the gum trees in Australia. MICHAEL E. MANN is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, 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 has received numerous awards and contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize. You can view his full bio at https://michaelmann.net.