Our goal is not to be exhaustive, but to provide key definitions,
main areas of controversy, and pointers for further reading.
Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick
Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the
main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state
of knowledge on global climate change.»