Figure 2:
Original hockey stick graph (blue - MBH1998) compared to Wahl & Ammann reconstruction (red).
Not exact matches
Like other temperature reconstructions done since 2001 (see
graph), it shows greater variability than the
original hockey stick.
The
original hockey -
stick analysis plotted reconstructed Northern Hemisphere mean temperature variations since 1400 and found that since 1900, temperatures have increased to give the
graph its distinctive shape (Nature 1998, 392, 779 - 787).
One of the three
original CAI directors is climate alarmist Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt, and a new advisor is climate professor and «
hockey -
stick graph» inventor Michael Mann.