I called the hockey stick fraudulent because it is in every sense, both in its construction and in the uses to which it’s been put….
So said Mark Steyn, a well-known Canadian author and a radio and television host and presenter, at a keynote speech at the Heartland Institute’s 10th International Conference on Climate Change in 2015. The hockey stick he was referring is a temperature graph for the northern hemisphere for the past 1,000 years, published in the ‘Summary for Policymakers’ of the IPCC’s third assessment report in 2001. The graph is called a hockey stick graph because the shape somewhat resembles an ice hockey stick with a long, flat ‘shaft’ and a big ‘blade’ shooting up at the end.
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