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  • Paperback: 482 pages
  • Publisher: Stacey International (15 Jan 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906768358
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906768355
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
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A rattling good detective story and a detailed and brilliant piece of science writing. --Matt Ridley, The Spectator

....one of the best science books in years....deserves to win prizes --Prospect Magazine

In addition, we can now read in shocking detail the truth of the outrageous efforts made to ensure that the same 2007 report was able to keep on board IPCC's most shameless stunt of all - the notorious 'hockey stick' graph......For a full account see Andrew Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion. --Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph

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Part scientific history and part detective story, The Hockey Stick Illusion tells the extraordinary tale of the iconic global warming graph (created by the US climatologist Michael Mann), the global panic about climate change that it has helped to feed, and the tireless efforts of a lone amateur researcher, Steve McIntyre, that have comprehensively discredited it. From the earliest attempts to reproduce the Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of McIntyre's work and the launch of a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is a remarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateur sleuthing. It explains the complex science of this most controversial of scientific findings in layperson's language and lays bare the remarkable extent to which climatologists have been willing to break their own rules in order to defend climate science's most famous finding. Already acclaimed by experts in the field, The Hockey Stick Illusion is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to assess the credibility of global warming science.
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51 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Timely and important, 25 Jan 2010
This review is from: The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds) (Paperback)
The flood of blogs and blog-postings on climate threatens to overwhelm the concerned citizen wanting to deepen his or her understanding of climate topics and policies. This book is just what is required to keep one's head above the surface in at least one corner (?) of this tumultuous deluge. By adding a very helpful and well-written commentary to previously published exchanges of emails between critical commentators and climate conspirators (an emotive description, my choice, but readily justified by the CRU emails and software code exposed towards the end of last year), as well as blogposts and articles published in the regular media. Some more extended sections help explain technicalities, not least statistical concepts such as R2 and PC analysis. An important feature of the book is the naming of names, indeed there is a 'dramatis personae' at the start of the main participants, but others such as the chap who became the conspirators friend by censoring Wikipedia articles on climate (not mentioned in the book) are given passing mention. The roles of the two blogs 'RealClimate' and 'Climate Audit' are well covered. The formed was lavishly funded by a leftwing PR agency, the latter was created by self-funded commentators and analysts taking an independent and refreshingly critical view of the statistical and other assertions of what I would be inclined to call 'professional climate alarmists'. All in all, a heartening piece of work. Heartening to see ordinary, albeit talented, people questioning the sermons, admonitions, analyses, and alarums of a remarkably influential coterie of climate scientists and political agitators who managed through the IPCC to have an impact utterly disproportionate to the merits of their case or of their morals.
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42 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hockey Stick Illusion, 31 Jan 2010
By Mrs. Hazel Bratby "Book reader" (Devon, England) - See all my reviews
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An excellent account of how science should not be conducted. This book should be essential reading for all politicians; Chapter 15 in particular.

Although it has some technical details of statistics that some may find hard to follow, the narrative should be understandable to all.

An enthralling read; excellent value for money; highly recommended.

Phillip Bratby PhD, BSc, ARCS
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42 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough and well researched, 28 Jan 2010
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This book relates the story of the notorious (or still to some, iconic) hockey stick graph which served for so long to popularise the idea of man-made global warming. Starting with a brief summary of the consensus view prior to 1998, and the first incarnation of the hockey stick graph, this book traces the history of the slow unraveling of that same graph. Following an overview of the mathematics behind the reconstruction, and the initial challenges made by 'non scientists' (as the believers would call them), the history of the detailed attempts to check the validity of the hockey stick reconstruction are reviewed. Having followed this as it evolved, it is fascinating to read the key thread of the story which has slowly gathered pace over the past 5 years or so. For anyone who doubts the context of the CRU emails, the first 400 pages provide that context - the final chapter fitting some of the emails into that context. Anyone who claims the emails are being quoted out of context should make sure they have first read the context from both sides (not just the particularly confrontational view proposed by the alarmist or environmentalists who's primary aim seems to have been influencing the policy makers rather than trying to do accurate science). Sadly, there is no answer in this book. it does not prove that there has been no warming for the past 10 years, or that CO2 has no impact on climate. All it does show is that the scientific consensus is built on an optimistic hope that we understand what we are to blame for. In all likelyhood, we are unable to state with any certainty that the globally averaged climate is significantly warmer now than it was 1000 years ago. 20-30 years, yes, but then the measurements just arn't good enough, despite what anyone would like to believe.
This is a complex subject, covered in a good level of detail. I found the style of writing easy to follow, although it does necessarily use a significant number of specialist terms. Although this might be confusing to a reader with a non-scientific background I would expect the story would still be readable even if it is less persuasive. Failing that, these are often general scientific or mathematical terms and their meaning and application can be researched online.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beware of scientists and peer reviews
This is a brilliant expose of the shenanigans surrounding the infamous hockey stick graph. Numerous scientists have connived to try and eliminate the medieval warming period,... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Explains complex issues clearly
For readers like me with only a modest understanding of statistics this book works well: the author manages to explain complex and abstruse ideas simply. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The Nature creates no failure"

The way A.W.Monford presents and analyse the climate material produced by the "warmists", is very instructive.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent stuff
The "Hockey stick illusion" is a brilliant book. When Micheal Mann is in court for fraud (as he should be)this book will make an excellent guide to the prosecuting counsel. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars please read this book
This book is absolutely excellent; written in a clear measured way, understating rather than exaggerating; and despite being about statistics and graphs, a real page-turner. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly the corruption of science
It is not often that I buy a book which I cannot put down, but The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford is just such a book. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Big Money science
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5.0 out of 5 stars New History
In many ways this book is historical rather than current. For example Phil Jones from the University of East Anglia (notorious since the hacked emails) had admitted that he does... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not really up to it
I looked forward to reading this book and was very disappointed. Montford clearly does not understand the statistics and from some of his comments, it is clear that he got these... Read more
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