The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann (Author). The continued assault on climate science within the United States has never been extra aggressive, extra blatant, or extra widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph -- a transparent and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the rise of industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Right here was a straightforward-to-understand graph that, in a look, posed a threat to main corporate power interests and people who do their political bidding. The stakes were just too high to disregard the Hockey Stick -- and so began a relentless attack on a body of science and on the investigators whose work fashioned its scientific basis.
The Hockey Stick achieved prominence in a 2001 UN report on local weather change and quickly turned a central icon within the "local weather wars." The real challenge has never been the graph's knowledge however somewhat its implied threat to those that oppose governmental regulation and different restraints to guard the atmosphere and planet. Mann, lead author of the original paper by which the Hockey Stick first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind this controversy.
He reveals key figures within the oil and power industries and the media front groups who do their bidding in generally slick, generally naked-knuckled ways. Mann concludes with the actual story of the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, by which local weather scientists' emails have been hacked. This is important studying for all who care about our planet's well being and our personal properly-being.
Repeat something an adequate variety of times and, finally, folks will believe it, no matter whether it is true or not. It is one of the most effective methods of propaganda and it has been used greater than once against science, as an example within the demonization of the "Limits to Growth" study. Through the previous few years, it has been applied repeatedly, even obsessively, towards the "hockey stick," the reconstruction of previous temperatures on which Michael Mann and coworkers had been working from the 1990s.
It is uncommon within the history of science that a single piece of experimental proof has been the object of so many makes an attempt of demolition. Yet, all the serious critiques of the original data have basically confirmed the initial results. Being unsuccessful in demolishing the science, the attacks have moved towards the scientist, Michael Mann himself, who has been subjected to an unbelievable denigration campaign, defamed, insulted, and even physically threatened. Lately, the marketing campaign towards Mann has targeted his new book, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars", with a large number of unfavorable opinions and derogatory remarks which appeared within the critiques of the ebook on the Amazon site. Most of these appear to be the work of internet identities created expressly for this purpose.
What's superb in this story is how persons are fighting again! Should you have a look at the feedback on the Amazon website, you see how the derogatory comments have been overwhelmed by favorable comments written by actual individuals who signed with their names. Local weather science remains to be below heavy attack however, clearly, there is a core of concerned individuals who care about the future.
Michael Mann's "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" is a book about our future. You could read it to understand what sort of threats we face and the way we can work for a better future.
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael E. Mann (Author)
384 pages
Columbia University Press (March 6, 2012)
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