The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Dispatches from the Front Lines

| 4.29 | 767 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Bill McKibben, Bill Nye, Leonardo DiCaprio, and 3 others. See all reviews

Ranked #20 in Global Warming, Ranked #48 in Climate Change — see more rankings.

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... more
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Bill McKibben Very few people have sounded more important alarms about our climate future, and very few people have paid a higher price for doing so. Michael Mann is a hero, and this book is a remarkable account of the science and politics of the defining issue of our time. (Source)

Bill Nye Changed the way most of us understood the natural history of Earth. Ours is only the second species known to be capable of changing the climate of an entire planet. (Source)

Leonardo DiCaprio Check out Michael Mann's book "The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars" about his battle against climate denialism. (Source)

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