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New Book: The Hockey Stick Illusion; Global Warming and the Corruption of Science
Part scientific history and part detective story, The Hockey Stick Illusion tells the extraordinary tale of the iconic global warming graph (created by the US climatologist Michael Mann), the global panic about climate change that it has helped to feed, and the tireless efforts of a lone amateur researcher, Steve McIntyre, that have comprehensively discredited it. From the earliest attempts to reproduce the Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of McIntyre’s work and the launch of a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is a remarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateur sleuthing. It explains the complex science of this most controversial of scientific findings in layperson’s language and lays bare the remarkable extent to which climatologists have been willing to break their own rules in order to defend climate science’s most famous finding. Already acclaimed by experts in the field, The Hockey Stick Illusion is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to assess the credibility of global warming science. As political leaders meet to decide the world’s climate future in Copenhagen in December, The Hockey Stick Illusion could be the revelation that finally gives them pause for thought. Praise for earlier Hockey Stick writings by A.W. Montford: ..the astonishing history of the fake hockey stick that was used to convince so many dupes the world hadn’t ever been this hot in human history. Learn how scientists put up the walls rather than help expose a critically important mistake. Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, Melbourne The author has done an enormous public service in chronicling the long and sordid history of the infamous Mann hockey-stick graph and the persistent and heroic efforts of Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre to reveal its errors. Edward John Craig, Managing Editor, National Review Online
About the Author
The author studied chemistry at St Andrews University. He is a respected blogger at Bishop Hill (http://bishophill.squarespace.com) where his layperson’s explanations of the Hockey Stick debate have won wide acclaim. He lives in rural Scotland with his wife and three children.
Available to pre-order from Amazon.