>As for the "hockey stick" graph, it was effectively critiqued by Steven McIntyre, a Canadian businessman with a mathematical interest in climatology. That's l

>As for the "hockey stick" graph, it was effectively critiqued by Steven McIntyre, a Canadian businessman with a mathematical interest in climatology. That's like saying "evolution was effectively critiqued by the Discovery Institute". Many people called McIntyre's criticisms flawed, Wikipedia has a looooong article about the whole charade, too long to summarize here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy