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| An article by Bruce Robbins in '']'' states that the book shows that the science involved in climate change has been corrupted by political and environmental agendas. Robbins concludes, "The evidence against man-made global warming is growing and the ''Hockey Stick Illusion'' stands as the definitive account of a pivotal point in climate change science."<ref name="Robbins_2010-04-02_Courier" /> | An article by Bruce Robbins in '']'' states that the book shows that the science involved in climate change has been corrupted by political and environmental agendas. Robbins concludes, "The evidence against man-made global warming is growing and the ''Hockey Stick Illusion'' stands as the definitive account of a pivotal point in climate change science."<ref name="Robbins_2010-04-02_Courier" /> | ||
| Dr Judith Curry posted on the blog ] "I have seen no mention on Real Climate of Andrew Montford’s (Bishop Hill) book “The Hockey Stick Illusion.” If Montford’s arguments and evidence are baseless, then you should refute them. They deserve an answer, whether or not his arguments are valid. And stating that you have refuted these issues before isn’t adequate; the critical arguments have not hitherto been assembled into a complete narrative. <ref name="Judith Curry">{{cite web|url=http://www.realclimate.org/?comments_popup=3846#comment-171284|title=Second CRU inquiry reports|last=Curry|first=Judith|date=14 April 2010|publisher=Real Climate|language=English|accessdate=19 April 2010}}</ref> | |||
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| Author | A.W. Montford |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Climate change |
| Genre | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Stacey International |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 482 |
| ISBN | 978 1 906768 35 5 |
The Hockey Stick Illusion (subtitle Climategate and the Corruption of Science) is a book written by Andrew Montford, who is skeptical of man made climate change. Stacey International published the book in 2010.
The book states that it covers the history of the "hockey stick graph", the first version of which was published by Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes in 1998, from then to its prominent use by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Criticisms of the graph and the methods used by its creators by Ross McKitrick and Stephen McIntyre, as well as the ensuing hockey stick controversy, are also included in the book.
Background
In 2005 Andrew Montford, who has a background in accountancy and a business knocking scientific papers and books into shape for publishers and is author of the Bishop Hill Blog, followed a link to the blog Climate Audit. He said new visitors were pleading for an introduction to the controversy and that there was nothing to help people get up to speed on the science. Over the course of a few days, Montford summarized a series of Climate Audit posts into a long article on his blog which he called "Caspar and the Jesus Paper." He said this article made his site go from a couple of hundred hits a day to 30,000 hits over three days. From these beginnings, the author took the first steps in writing his book
Synopsis
In its seventeen chapters, The Hockey Stick Illusion relates the story of Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes's "hockey stick graph". Starting with a brief summary of the consensus view prior to 1998, and the first incarnation of the hockey stick graph, the book traces the history of what it claims is the slow unraveling of that same graph.
The last few chapters of the book deal with the what the book refers to as the "Climategate controversy." Here, the author compares several e-mails to the evidence he presents in The Hockey Stick Illusion. Montford focuses on those e-mails which dealt with the peer review process and how these pertained to McIntyre's efforts to get the data and methodology from Mann's and other paleoclimatologists' published works.
Reception
The book has been praised for the quality of its writing and likened to a detective story. Matt Ridley described the book as "one of the best science books in years" and complimented the way it dissected what he called "a great scientific mistake". Christopher Booker also recommends the book as a "full account" of the IPCC's troubles. Writing in Discovery News, Discovery Institute co-founder George Gilder compared the portrayal of Stephen McIntyre's pursuit of the data underlying the "hockey stick" graph with the lead detective character in the Columbo televison series.
An article by Bruce Robbins in The Courier states that the book shows that the science involved in climate change has been corrupted by political and environmental agendas. Robbins concludes, "The evidence against man-made global warming is growing and the Hockey Stick Illusion stands as the definitive account of a pivotal point in climate change science."
Dr Judith Curry posted on the blog Real Climate "I have seen no mention on Real Climate of Andrew Montford’s (Bishop Hill) book “The Hockey Stick Illusion.” If Montford’s arguments and evidence are baseless, then you should refute them. They deserve an answer, whether or not his arguments are valid. And stating that you have refuted these issues before isn’t adequate; the critical arguments have not hitherto been assembled into a complete narrative.
See also
References
- ^ David Leigh, Charles Arthur and Rob Evans (2010-02-04). "Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks". Guardian. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- ^ Bruce Robbins (2010-04-02). "Climate of Change". The Courier.
- "Heated discussions (postscript)". Times Higher Education. 2010-03-25.
- Andrew Montford (2010). The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Preface). Stacey International. p. 13.
- ^ Matt Ridley (2010-02-03). "The global warming guerrillas". The Spectator (spectator.co.uk). Retrieved 2010-04-09.
- "Spencer: It's time for Joe Sestak to name names". www.delcotimes.com. Retrieved Thursday, April 01, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Matt Ridley (2010-03-10). "The case against the hockey stick". Prospect (prospectmagazine.co.uk). Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- Christopher Booker (7:49PM GMT 27 Feb 2010). "A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved Saturday, Apr 03 2010.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - George Gilder (2010-02-25). "George Gilder Hails "The Hockey Stick Illusion" on the Science Scandal of Global Warming". discoverynews.org. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
In this story, the Columbo figure is Steve McIntyre, a Canadian mining consultant, and A.W. Montford's book tells the gripping and suspenseful details of McIntyre's pursuit of the self-denominated "hockey team" led by Michael Mann, who wrote the key chapters on his own work for the IPCC, and Phil Jones, who maintains the temperature record used by the IPCC to document the "Hockey Stick" claiming allegedly unprecedented and anomalous anthropogenic global warming in the Twentieth Century while denying that any comparable or greater warming occurred in the Medieval period.
- Curry, Judith (14 April 2010). "Second CRU inquiry reports". Real Climate. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
Further reading
- Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526.
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- "Casper and the Jesus paper". www.bishophill.squarespace.com. 2008-08-11. Retrieved 2010-04-01.