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In its 2001 article on global local climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Environment Change of the US prominently featured the "Hockey Stick", a graph showing global temp data over the past 1,000 years. The Hockey Stick demonstrated that temp had risen with the upsurge in industrialization and use of fossil fuels. The inescapable conclusion was that worldwide human being activity since the industrial age experienced lifted CO2 levels, trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and warming the earth. The Hockey Stick became a central icon in the "climate wars", and well-funded technology deniers immediately attacked the graph and the researchers in charge of it. Yet the controversy has had little to do with the depicted temp rise plus much more with the recognized threat the graph posed to the people who oppose governmental legislation and other restraints to protect our environment and world. Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original newspaper in which the Hockey Stick first appeared, shares the real history of the technology and politics behind this controversy. He presents key characters in the petrol and energy establishments, and the press front teams who do their bidding in sometimes slick, bare-knuckled ways to cast uncertainty on the technology. Mann concludes with a merchant account of the "Climategate" scandal, this year's 2009 hacking of local climate scientists' email messages. Throughout, Mann unveils the role of technology deniers, abetted by an uninformed press, in once more diverting attention away from one of the central clinical and plan issues of your time.
