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The '''"hockey stick graph"''' is a fraudulent{{fact}} reconstruction of the [[Earth]]'s [[atmosphere]] temperature created by [[Michael Mann]] from various proxies such as tree rings, superimposed on the record of thermometer readings from ground-based weather stations. It was used to justify the [[anthropogenic global warming theory]] (AGW), but the fraud was exposed by two Canadian statistics experts.  

The '''"hockey stick graph"''' is a fraudulent<ref>"The hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics,"[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925431.400] Physicist Richard Mueller, ''Technology Review'', 2004.</ref> reconstruction of the [[Earth]]'s [[atmosphere]] temperature created by [[Michael Mann]] from various proxies such as tree rings, superimposed on the record of thermometer readings from ground-based weather stations. It was used to justify the [[anthropogenic global warming theory]] (AGW), but the fraud was exposed by two Canadian statistics experts.  

Mann's graph, which was shaped like a hockey stick, 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.

Mann's graph, which was shaped like a hockey stick, 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.

The UN climate panel ([[IPCC]]) decided to stop using the traditionally accepted proxy estimates, which had shown a distinct (and naturally caused) [[Medieval Warm Period]] followed by a [[Little Ice Age]]. Without giving any reason for this change, they elevated recent PhD grantee [[Michael Mann]] (based at the highly liberal [[University of Massachusetts - Amherst]]) to a lead author of one of their assessments.  

The UN climate panel ([[IPCC]]) decided to stop using the traditionally accepted proxy estimates, which had shown a distinct (and naturally caused) [[Medieval Warm Period]] followed by a [[Little Ice Age]]. Without giving any reason for this change, they elevated recent PhD grantee [[Michael Mann]] (based at the highly liberal [[University of Massachusetts - Amherst]]) to a lead author of one of their assessments.  

 

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