Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures going back half a millennium before ...

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). LiveScience caught up with ...

PHILADELPHIA—Michael Mann is feeling pretty good about science. The climate scientist, author of the “hockey-stick graph” paper that infamously depicted a shocking rise in postindustrial ...

Mann's new book, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars," is part of a series of attempts by activists and others to answer the question of why global warming has become a political flash point.

Mann is presidential distinguished professor ... my co-authors and I published the now famous “hockey stick” curve. It was featured on the pages of the New York Times and other leading ...

Mann's graph looks like a hockey stick lying on its side, with the blade sticking straight up. The so-called "hockey stick graph" was successful in helping the public understand the urgency of ...

The case stems from attacks on work Mann and his colleagues published in the late 1990s that became known as the "hockey stick" graph. The graph shows that global temperatures over the past 1,000 ...

You may have already heard of the 1999 hockey stick created by Michael Mann, Malcolm Hughes, and Raymond Bradley. It's a frequent skeptic talking point, and was involved in a whole scandal called ...

Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic ...