Now, Mann is telling his side of the story in a new book, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines" (Columbia University Press, 2012).

The hockey stick would eventually be confirmed by more than 10 other studies. Mann, like other scientists, was just not equipped to deal with the media barrage.

Along the way, Mann, author of the recently-released The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, has faced Congressional hearings, university investigations and court ...

Once again. Mann's seminal work was a 1998 climate study that showed a sharp, hockey-stick-shaped increase in the world's temperatures based on an analysis of age rings in trees.

Michael Mann, the climatologist behind the influential—and infamous—‘hockey-stick graph,’ prevailed in a defamation case and says science is on a roll.

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches f rom the Front Lines Michael E. Mann. Columbia Univ., $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-231-15254-9.