{"id":10215,"date":"2011-10-04T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/04\/michael-mann-the-hockey-stick\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:47:53","slug":"michael-mann-the-hockey-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/michael-mann-the-hockey-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mann &#8230; the Hockey Stick guy &#8230; speaks to the deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; Martin Hertzberg did a grave disservice to your readers by making false and defamatory statements about me and my climate scientist colleagues &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone packing more lies and distortions into a single commentary. Mr. Hertzberg uses libelous language in characterizing the so-called &#8220;hockey stick&#8221; &#8212; work of my own published more than a decade ago showing that recent warming is unusual over at least the past 1,000 years &#8212; as &#8220;fraudulent,&#8221; and claiming that it &#8220;it was fabricated from carefully selected tree-ring measurements with a phony computer program.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>These are just lies, regurgitation of dishonest smears that have been manufactured by fossil fuel industry-funded climate change deniers, and those who do their bidding by lying to the public about the science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot more where that came from.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/article\/20111001\/EDITS\/110939988\/1021\">Read it here.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/classm\/2011\/10\/take_that_climate-deniers.php\">I also recommend the commentary on Class M (and a hat tip) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Martin Hertzberg did a grave disservice to your readers by making false and defamatory statements about me and my climate scientist colleagues &#8230; It&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone packing more lies and distortions into a single commentary. Mr. Hertzberg uses libelous language in characterizing the so-called &#8220;hockey stick&#8221; &#8212; work of my own published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/michael-mann-the-hockey-stick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Mann &#8230; the Hockey Stick guy &#8230; speaks to the deniers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2EL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}