Policy Documents

Questions Surrounding the Hockey Stick Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments - IV

Dr. Michael E. Mann –
July 27, 2006

In order to understand the work that my colleagues and I have perfomed, it is important to locate it within the larger body of climate studies.  Prior to our work in the late 1990's, few scientists had attempted to undertake a deatiled spatial reconstruction of the cliamnte during prior centuries, and associated errors were basically unquantified. (... read more)