The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

A member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change examines the fossil-fuel industry's public relations campaign to discredit the science of climate change and deny the reality of global warming.

Auteur

Michael E. Mann. With a foreword by Bill Nye.

Texte du rabat

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. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind this controversy. He 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. Mann concludes with the real story of the 2009 Climategate scandal, in which climate scientists emails were hacked. This is essential reading for all who care about our planet s health and our own well-being.

Résumé
Originally published in 2012; this edition contains "a postscript from the author updating the story and a new foreword from Bill Nye the Science Guy"--Cover.

Contenu

Abbreviations and Acronyms
Prologue: What Is the Hockey Stick?

1. Born in a War
2. Climate Science Comes of Age
3. Signals in the Noise
4. The Making of the Hockey Stick
5. The Origins of Denial
6. A Candle in the Dark
7. In the Line of Fire
8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington
9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of...
10. Say it Ain't So (Smokey) Joe!
11. A Tale of Two Reports
12. Heads of the Hydra
13. The Battle of the Bulge
14. Climategate: The Real Story
15. Fighting Back
    Epilogue
    Glossary
    Notes
    Selected Bibliography
    Acknowledgments
    Index