With the global temperatures continuing to rise, the scientists who bring data to light find themselves under increasing public scrutiny and sometimes have to endure personal attacks. In his book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University chronicles the climate change fight by using his personal story, starting with his first forays into the waters as a PhD candidate at Yale University when he and his colleagues developed the hockey stick, a graph that depicts the recent rise in global temperatures.
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