Michael Mann: "The Hockey Stick really only characterizes temperature changes prior to the industrial period"

Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

As for the Hockey Stick, it is alive and well!

...Q: Critics say temperatures haven’t been rising as fast as the UNIPCC predicted. Doesn’t that discredit the hockey stick model?

M.E.M: The Hockey Stick really only characterizes temperature changes prior to the industrial period. The warming of the past century is actually documented by thermometer records around the globe