You may recall that Michael Mann, one of the leaders of the global warming movement, produced something called the "Hockey Stick" graph many years ago (1999?). It purported to show that, going back 1,000 years, temperatures were remarkably stable until the 20th century, at which point they rose drastically.
Hence, it looked like a hockey stick and was widely considered at the time to be proof positive of man-made global warming. It was featured prominently in the first U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report.
One problem: it was BS and was so thoroughly debunked that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change abandoned it in later reports. Mann, by the way, was one of the central players in the "Climategate" scandal a few years ago.
Now comes a guy named Marcott who has attempted to resurrect the Hockey Stick, and the major media has dutifully and unquestioningly reported his study as, yet again, proof of man-made warming.
One problem: Marcott has since admitted that his data is essentially meaningless. The media, oddly enough, has shown little interest in reporting this inconvenient fact.
As the author of the item below points out, this is tantamount to scientific fraud.
The End of an Illusion
