The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Posted on 24 February 2018 by Michael E. Mann

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been aggressive, blatant, or widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels Here was an easy to understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding The stakes were simply too high to ignore the Hockey Stick and so began a relentless attack on a body of science and on the investigators whose work formed its scientific basis.The Hockey Stick achieved prominence in a 2001 UN report on climate change and quickly became a central icon in the climate wars The real issue has never been the graph s data but rather its implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind this controversy He reveals key figures in the oil and energy industries and the media frontgroups who do their bidding in sometimes slick, sometimes bare knuckled ways Mann concludes with the real story of the 2009 Climategate scandal, in which climate scientists emails were hacked This is essential reading for all who care about our planet s health and our own well being. New Read [ The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ] Author [ Michael E. Mann ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I first became familiar with the name Michael Mann in the year 2003 I was working on what would become my book The Republican War on Science, and had learned of two related events The controversy over the Soon and Baliunas paper in Climate Research, purporting to refute Mann and his colleagues famous 1998 hockey stick study and a congressional hearing convened by Senator James Inhofe, at which Mann testified Inhofe tried to wheel out the Soon and Baliunas work as if they d dealt some sort I first became familiar with the name Michael Mann in the year 2003 I was working on what would become my book The Republican War on Science, and had learned of two related events The controversy over the Soon and Baliunas paper in Climate Research, purporting to refute Mann and his colleagues famous 1998 hockey stick study and a congressional hearing convened by Senator James Inhofe, at which Mann testified Inhofe tried to wheel out the Soon and Baliunas work as if they d dealt some sort of killer blow against climate science In fact, just before the hearing, several editors of Climate Research had resigned over the paper.I went on to stand u...As an engineer and someone who was brought up conservative I ve never had so much disrespect for the Republicans as I have after reading this book Their dishonesty and tactics are reprehensible I m angry at having been duped for so long.If you are a skeptic or in doubt and actually have an expectation to get some direct replies of the Hockey stick dispute from McIntyre you will be greatly disappointed The funniest or saddest reply Mann comes up with is where the deniers claim he got rid of Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age Mann s reply is it s there Where Because I cannot see it Emperor new clothes, perhaps The term Hockey Stick is a statistical derogatory term for Junk Science or even Fraud , so Mann s If you are a skeptic or in doubt and actually have an expectation to get some direct replies of the Hockey stick dispute from McIntyre you will be greatly disappointed The funniest or saddest reply Mann comes up with is where the deniers claim he got rid of Medieval Warming and Little Ice A...Michael Mann and his hockey stick Trust me, it s all true.Straight from the horse s mouth or at least from the mouth of the climate scientist most famous for his role as co architect of the famous Hockey Stick graph showing the dramatic increase of atmospheric temperatures over recent decades here s an account of the war against climate science waged by vested interests primarily the fossil fuels industries , the politicians, media bloviators and even a few cupiditous scientists who act as their often very well paid shills, and their useful idio Straight from the horse s mouth or at least from the mouth of the climate scientist most famous for his role as co architect of the famous Hockey Stick graph showing the dramatic increase of atmospheric temperatures over recent decades here s an account of the war against climate science waged by vested interests primarily the fossil fuels industries , the politicians, media bloviators and even a few cupidit...This is an important book to read Not so much for Mann s explaining his position on climate change but for the horrific politicization of science one of the most distressing elements of the scorched earth partisan politics is that science has now been politicized Political actors who don t like what scientists conclude now simply hire their own acolytes to prepare predictably harsh critiques of scientists And, to make matters dicier, there are rogue scientists who fabricate data or sell the This is an important book to read Not so much for Mann s explaining his position on climate change but for the horrific politicizati...The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael E Mann The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars is the interesting and revealing story of the fossil fuel industries assault on the science of global warming and its quest to undermine the policies devised to address it This book tells the real story about the controversies behind the iconic symbol of the hockey stick and the scientists involved in the climate change debate Dr Michael E Mann is a member of the Penn State Univer...Michael Mann is at the forefront of the climate debate, both as a researcher into the science of global warming and as a target of those who have politicized the issue Mann is a professor at Penn State University and directs the Penn State Earth System Science Center The results of his research demonstrate not only that the earth is warming in a way that is unprecedented in the planet s history, but that this warming is due to human activities a view that is shared by the vast majority of the Michael Mann is at the forefront of the climate debate, both as a researcher into the science of global warming and as a target of those who have politicized the issue Mann is a professor at Penn State University and directs the Penn State Earth System Science Center The results of his research demonstrate not only that the earth is warming in a way that is unprecedented in the planet s history, but that this warming is due to human activities a view that is shared by the vast majority of the world s climate scientists Mann s main contribution was the famous hockey stick graph see below showing the increasing global temperatures since the start of the industrial revolution The gray shading represents the error associated...This is an excellent book covering the climate wars Michael Mann, contrary to the whining of some reviewers who appear to be part of the climate denial crowd, writes with modesty and restraint about his career in climate research and the many attacks against his work He closes this newest edition of the book with an extensive afterword which brings some of the issues up to date He also expresses continuing optimism th...I first heard of Michael E Mann s The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars in a review in the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith The review said, essentially, that if you only read one book about climate change, it should be this one As it happens, I was indeed looking for the one book to read about climate change, so I ordered Mann s book right away I ve just finished reading the book, and I feel that my perspective on science and the world has changed a lot for the betterI first heard of Michael E Mann s The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars in a review in the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith The review said, essentially, that if you only read one book about climate change, it should be this one As it happens, I was indeed looking for the one book to read about climate change, so I ordered Mann s book right away I ve just finished reading the book, and I feel that my perspective on science and the world has changed a lot for the better.I would first recommend Mann s book as a fantastic inside look at how science really works I was raised in a fundamentalist influenced environment and I still live and work within that kind of a context that taught me to be skeptical of what science tells us, especially when science proposes conclusions that are challenging to the way the world works for middle to upper class Americans or to doctrinal or theological understanding of the Christian faith It s a perspective that also assumes ...

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24 February 2018

Michael E. Mann