The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
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Abstract
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the hockey stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data 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. This book shares the story of the science and politics behind this controversy. It reveals key figures in the oil and energy industries and the media front groups who do their bidding in sometimes slick, sometimes bare-knuckled ways. The book concludes with the real story of the 2009 “Climategate” scandal, in which climate scientists' emails were hacked.
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Front Matter
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Born in a War
Michael E. Mann
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Climate Science Comes of Age
Michael E. Mann
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Signals in the Noise
Michael E. Mann
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The Making of the Hockey Stick
Michael E. Mann
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The Origins of Denial
Michael E. Mann
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A Candle in the Dark
Michael E. Mann
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In the Line of Fire
Michael E. Mann
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Hockey Stick Goes to Washington
Michael E. Mann
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When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of …
Michael E. Mann
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Say It Ain’t So, (Smokey) Joe!
Michael E. Mann
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A Tale of Two Reports
Michael E. Mann
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Heads of the Hydra
Michael E. Mann
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The Battle of the Bulge
Michael E. Mann
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Climategate: The Real Story
Michael E. Mann
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Fighting Back
Michael E. Mann
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Epilogue
Michael E. Mann
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Postscript
Michael E. Mann
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