Sentences with phrase «discussed hockey stick controversy»

The «sceptical» blogosphere had in fact been excercised for much longer by temperature records - the much - discussed hockey stick controversy, allegations that data and methods were being kept secret, the use of temperature proxies such as tree - rings, and so on.

Not exact matches

In May 2005, at the height of the controversy, and on the very day that McIntyre was making a rare public appearance in Washington to discuss his findings, two Mann associates, Caspar Amman and Eugene Wahl, issued a press release in which they claimed that they had submitted two manuscripts for publication, which together showed that they had replicated the hockey stick exactly, confirmed its statistical underpinnings and demonstrated that McIntyre's criticisms were baseless.