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Climategate shows strong evidence of fraud, and may show smoking-gun proof of a cover-up by CRU scientists to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails], ''[[Fox News]]'', November 21, 2009.</ref> In one e-mail dated November 1999, CRU chief P.D. Jones wrote to [[Michael Mann]], Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes:

Climategate shows strong evidence of fraud, and may show smoking-gun proof of a cover-up by CRU scientists to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails], ''[[Fox News]]'', November 21, 2009.</ref> In one e-mail dated November 1999, CRU chief P.D. Jones wrote to [[Michael Mann]], Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes:

{{cquote|I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to '''hide the decline'''.<ref>Derek Erwin. [http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/crus-scandal-what-is-climategate.html CRU's Scandal: What is Climategate?], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', November 28, 2009.</ref>}}

{{cquote|I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to '''hide the decline'''.<ref>Derek Erwin. [http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/crus-scandal-what-is-climategate.html CRU's Scandal: What is Climategate?], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', November 28, 2009.</ref>}}

Michael Mann's graph which 'hid the decline' which was [[Hockey stick graph|shaped like a hockey stick]], and it portrayed temperatures as steadily declining since medieval times and then sharply rising in the last century and a half. Notably, his reconstruction fueled claims that 1998 and following years had the highest temperatures in 1,000 years. Once it became publicly known that man-made global warming is a hoax, as a direct result of the e-mail discussing a "trick" for adding data to each temperature series for the last 20 years, Climategate motivated the making of a video called, "Hide The Decline."<ref>[http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/climategate-video-hide-decline.html Video of the Year: 'Hide The Decline' - Climategate], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', November 27, 2009.</ref>  

Michael Mann's graph that 'hid the decline' was [[Hockey stick graph|shaped like a hockey stick]], and it portrayed temperatures as steadily declining since medieval times and then sharply rising in the last century and a half. Notably, his reconstruction fueled claims that 1998 and following years had the highest temperatures in 1,000 years. Once it became publicly known that man-made global warming is a hoax, as a direct result of the e-mail discussing a "trick" for adding data to each temperature series for the last 20 years, Climategate motivated the making of a video called, "Hide The Decline."<ref>[http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/climategate-video-hide-decline.html Video of the Year: 'Hide The Decline' - Climategate], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', November 27, 2009.</ref>  

====Critique of the Hockey Stick Reconstruction====

====Critique of the Hockey Stick Reconstruction====