Michael Mann: The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars

Published On: May 3, 2013

An original video by Peter Sinclair

For the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media focuses on climate scientist Michael Mann and his first-hand view of his hockey stick and ‘climate wars’ experiences.

The original northern hemisphere hockey stick graph of Mann, Bradley & Hughes 1999, smoothed curve shown in blue with its uncertainty range in light blue, overlaid with green dots showing the 30-year global average of the PAGES 2k Consortium 2013 reconstruction. The red curve shows measured global mean temperature, according to HadCRUT4 data from 1850 to 2013.

Hockey stick graph (global temperature)

Tags: 2012, Climate Denial, Climate Science, Climate Wars, Hockey Stick, Joe Barton, John Christy, Michael Mann, Peter Sinclair, Politics, United States, Video, Yale Climate Connections(2023)

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