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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael Mann
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Description for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Figures: 20,. BIC Classification: RBP; RNA; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696. Dispatches from the Front Lines. 384 pages, 20 figures. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: RBP; RNA; RNPG. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 31. Weight: 674.
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding. The stakes were simply too high to ignore the Hockey Stick-and ... Read more
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding. The stakes were simply too high to ignore the Hockey Stick-and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152549
SKU
V9780231152549
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About Michael Mann
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University. Despite being in the public eye, he continues an active research program in climate science and has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. ... Read more
Reviews for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
In this meticulous and engaging brief on climate change research and the political backlash to legitimate scientific work, Penn State professor Mann narrates the fight against misinformation from the inside. Publishers Weekly An important and disturbing account of the fossil-fuel industry's well-funded public-relations campaign to sow doubt about the validity of the science of climate change...This blistering indictment of corporate-funded ... Read more