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29%OFFMichael Mann - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines - 9780231152556 - V9780231152556
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines

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Description for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines Paperback. Originally published in 2012; this edition contains "a postscript from the author updating the story and a new foreword from Bill Nye the Science Guy"--Cover. Num Pages: 448 pages, 20 figures. BIC Classification: RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 604.
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 high to ignore the Hockey Stick-and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152556
SKU
V9780231152556
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99-21

About Michael Mann
Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University. Despite being in the public eye, he continues an active research program in climate science and has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. ... Read more

Reviews for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
In this meticulous and engaging brief on climate change research and the political backlash to legitimate scientific work, Penn State professor Mann narrates the fight against misinformation from the inside. Publishers Weekly An important and disturbing account of the fossil-fuel industry's well-funded public-relations campaign to sow doubt about the validity of the science of climate change...This blistering indictment of corporate-funded ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines


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