Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Dispatches from the Front Lines

Name: Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Dispatches from the Front Lines
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ISBN: 9780231152556

ISBN-10: 0231152558

ISBN-13: 9780231152556

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Mann

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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, 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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Abbreviations and Acronyms


Foreword by Bill Nye the Science Guy ï¿½


Prologue: What Is the Hockey Stick?



Born in a War



Climate Science Comes of Age



Signals in the Noise



The Making of the Hockey Stick



The Origins of Denial



A Candle in the Dark



In the Line of Fire



Hockey Stick Goes to Washington



When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of…



Say It Ain't So, (Smokey) Joe!



A Tale of Two Reports



Heads of the Hydra



The Battle of the Bulge



Climategate: The Real Story



Fighting Back


Epilogue


Postscript


Glossary


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index