Global Warming's Hokey Hockey Stick

Richard Muller argues that poor math undermines evidence linking global warming to human activity.

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October 16, 2004, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

In the scientific and political debate over global warming, the latest wrong piece may be the hockey stick, the famous plot [that] purports to show that we are now experiencing the warmest climate in a millennium...Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick...How does this bombshell affect what we think about global warming?"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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