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Bret Swanson, the head of Entropy Economics has said of this novel, "If you really want to understand the climate debate, you simply must read this book" <ref name="Bret Swanson">{{cite web|url=http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2010/03/climate-detective-gets-his-mann/|title=Climate Detective Gets His Mann|last=Swanson|first=Bret|date=March 12th, 2010|publisher=www.bretswanson.com|language=English|accessdate=24 April 2010}}</ref>
Bret Swanson, the head of Entropy Economics has said of this novel, "If you really want to understand the climate debate, you simply must read this book" <ref name="Bret Swanson">{{cite web|url=http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2010/03/climate-detective-gets-his-mann/|title=Climate Detective Gets His Mann|last=Swanson|first=Bret|date=March 12th, 2010|publisher=www.bretswanson.com|language=English|accessdate=24 April 2010}}</ref>

[[Seth Roberts]], a Professor of Psychology at [[Tsinghua University]] in Beijing has said of this book, Yes, science with a human touch. The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford (sent to me by the publisher) is a great book because it tells a great story. That story has a hero (Stephen McIntryre) and a villain (Michael Mann) and illustrates a basic truth about the world, '''A consensus of the “best people” can be wrong'''. <ref name="Seth Roberts">{{cite web|url=http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2010/04/22/the-hockey-stick-illusion/|title=The Hockey Stick Illusion|last=Roberts|first=Seth|date=April 22 2010|publisher=Seth Roberts(blog)|language=English|accessdate=22 April 2010}}</ref>


==Background On The Author==
==Background On The Author==

Revision as of 07:30, 25 April 2010

The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science
AuthorA.W. Montford
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectClimate change
GenreNon-Fiction, Polemic
PublisherStacey International
Publication date
2010
Pages482
ISBN978 1 906768 35 5

The Hockey Stick Illusion (subtitle Climategate and the Corruption of Science) is a book written by Andrew Montford and published by Stacey International in 2010. The book has Montford, who is skeptical of man made climate change,[1][2] provide his analysis of the history of the "hockey stick graph" from its first publication in 1998 to its prominent use by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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" from a skeptical perspective. 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 Montford 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 obtain the data and methodology from Mann's and other paleoclimatologists' published works.

Many subsequent scientific papers have produced reconstructions broadly similar to the original MBH hockey-stick graph using various statistical techniques and combinations of proxy records. [3]

Reception

The book has been praised for the quality of its writing and likened to a detective story.[4][5] 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".[6] Christopher Booker also recommends the book as a "full account" of the IPCC's use of the hockey stick graph in its Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.[7] 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.[8]

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."[9]

Montford has been interviewed about the Hockey Stick Illusion by Dennis Prager an American syndicated radio talk show host, [10]

Bret Swanson, the head of Entropy Economics has said of this novel, "If you really want to understand the climate debate, you simply must read this book" [11]

Seth Roberts, a Professor of Psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing has said of this book, Yes, science with a human touch. The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford (sent to me by the publisher) is a great book because it tells a great story. That story has a hero (Stephen McIntryre) and a villain (Michael Mann) and illustrates a basic truth about the world, A consensus of the “best people” can be wrong. [12]

Background On The Author

In 2005, Andrew Montford, a Chartered Accountant[13] who also works in science publishing, [14][15] and is author of the blog, Bishop Hill [1], after following a link from a blog posted by Tim Worstall to Climate Audit changed the blog's focus to Climate Change from a skeptical viewpoint. Montford`s layperson's explanations of the Hockey Stick debate have received favorable comment from readers such as Anthony Watts[16], Roger A. Pielke, Jr. [17] and in The Spectator, specifically his summaries of posts from Climate Audit which he called "Caspar And The Jesus Paper" and "The Yamal Implosion" [18][19] [20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b David Leigh, Charles Arthur and Rob Evans (2010-02-04). "Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks". Guardian. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  2. ^ Webster, Ben (23 March 2010). "Lord Oxburgh, the climate science peer, 'has a conflict of interest'". Times Newspapers Ltd. Times Online. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
  3. ^ Fred Pearce (9 February 2010). "Part four: Climate change debate overheated after sceptics grasped 'hockey stick' | Environment". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  4. ^ Matt Ridley (2010-02-03). "The global warming guerrillas". The Spectator (spectator.co.uk). Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  5. ^ "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)
  6. ^ Matt Ridley (2010-03-10). "The case against the hockey stick". Prospect (prospectmagazine.co.uk). Retrieved 2010-04-03.
  7. ^ 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)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Bruce Robbins (2010-04-02). "Climate of Change". The Courier.
  10. ^ Estrin, Allen (April 22, 2010). "Dennis talks to AW Montford". Dennis Prager. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  11. ^ Swanson, Bret (March 12th, 2010). "Climate Detective Gets His Mann". www.bretswanson.com. Retrieved 24 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Roberts, Seth (April 22 2010). "The Hockey Stick Illusion". Seth Roberts(blog). Retrieved 22 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ ICAS. "The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)". ICAS. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  14. ^ About Us, People. "Anglosphere Editing Limited". Scotland: Anglosphere Editing Limited. Retrieved 19 April 2010. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "Heated discussions (postscript)". Times Higher Education. 2010-03-25.
  16. ^ Watts, Anthony (30 09 2009). "A must read: The Yamal Hockey Stick Implosion in laymans terms". Watts Up With That. Retrieved 19 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Pielke, Jr., Roger A. (30 SEPTEMBER 2009). "Has Steve McIntyre Found Something Really Important?". Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Retrieved 19 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ^ "Casper and the Jesus paper". Retrieved 1 April 2010. {{cite web}}: External link in |publiser= (help); Unknown parameter |publiser= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ Ridley, Matt (3 February 2010). "The Global Warming Guerrillas". The Spectator. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  20. ^ Montford, Andrew (Sep 29, 2009). "The Yamal implosion". Bishop Hill. Retrieved 19 April 2010.

Further reading

External links

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