The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
A noted expert in the field of climate change will discuss the controversies and challenges of the science of climate change in a lecture at WVU at 7 p.m. TUESDAY September 17, in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall.
Michael E. Mann is distinguished professor and director of the Earth System Science Center in the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University. He’s also the author of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” which provides the title for his presentation.
“A central figure in the controversy over human-caused climate change has been ‘the hockey stick,’ a simple, easy-to-understand graph my colleagues and I constructed to depict changes in Earth’s temperature back to 1000 A . D. , ” Mann explained.
The graph was featured in the high-profile “Summary for Policy Makers” of the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and it quickly became an icon in the debate over human-caused, or “anthropogenic,” climate change. “I will tell the story behind the hockey stick, using it as a vehicle for exploring broader issues regarding the role of skepticism in science, the uneasy relationship between science and politics, and the dangers that arise when special economic interests and those who do their bidding attempt to skew the discourse over policy-relevant areas of science,” Mann said.
“We are thrilled to host a talk on such an important issue and by a speaker of such significance in the world of climate science,” said Todd Katzner, research assistant professor of wildlife and fisheries resources at WVU. “I would encourage all in Morgantown with an interest in global climate change to take advantage of the opportunity to see Dr. Mann’s lecture.”
A reception and book signing will follow Mann’s lecture, which is free and open to the public. Mann’s visit is sponsored by the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources in WVU’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.
See also the following two book reviews from respected sources:
1. REVIEW of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines” by Naomi Oreskes, Reviewer, Physics Today, June 2012, page 54.
2. REVIEW of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” in Chemical & Engineering News, December 10, 2012.
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The new report from Greenpeace is titled DEALING IN DOUBT and presents a brief history of climate denial and attacks on climate science over the past two decades, focusing specifically on denier campaigns against the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
http://ecowatch.com/2013/history-of-attacks-on-climate-science/