together to make sure their view of climateology is scene as the correct or dominate view. sean: their view is best represented by michael mann s famous hockey stick graph. reconstructs temperatures over the past 1,000 years. i shows the earth warming at alarming rate in the 20th century it became an icon. central to virtually every government s argument that something had to be done about global warming now. sean: the science behind the graph is questionable. starting withman s data his use of pine trees to reconstruct temperatures. several argue due to their natural deformties these trees do not make good specimens. everyone who has looked including the national academy of science panel said they shouldn t be used. sean: similar criticism leveled at his methodology.
partisan hardly covers it. first of all incompetent. i don t think he read the papers. sean: when climategate broke e-mails went viral scientists were cleared of wrongdoing critics called these investigations a sham. all of these inquiries have been a disappointment. in a sense, the documentation is there. and the record is there. we are still waiting for a real inquiry to be formed that will get to the bottom of sean: while culprits claim innocence they are still trying to rewrite history. maann said this about the hockey stick graph. i thought it was misplaced to make it a central icon. sean: while investigations turned up nothing impact of climategate is clear. reputation of the cru has been trapped the united nations has become more of a laughing stock because they seem to buy everything out of the cru.
i don t think he read the papers. sean: when climategate broke e-mails went viral scientists were cleared of wrongdoing critics called these investigations a sham. all of these inquiries have been a disappointment. in a sense, the documentation is there. and the record is there. we are still waiting for a real inquiry to be formed that will get to the bottom of sean: while culprits claim innocence they are still trying to rewrite history. maann said this about the hockey stick graph. i thought it was misplaced to make it a central icon. sean: while investigations turned up nothing impact of climategate is clear. reputation of the cru has been trapped the united nations has become more of a laughing stock because they seem to buy everything out of the cru. sean: market is market
of climate scientists. they are a group who work together to make sure their view of climateology is scene as the correct or dominate view. sean: their view is best represented by michael mann s famous hockey stick graph. reconstructs temperatures over the past 1,000 years. i shows the earth warming at alarming rate in the 20th century it became an icon. central to virtually every government s argument that something had to be done about global warming now. sean: the science behind the graph is questionable. starting withman s data his use of pine trees to reconstruct temperatures. several argue due to their natural deformties these trees do not make good specimens. everyone who has looked including the national academy of science panel said they shouldn t be used.
in an e-mail he writes about using nature trick to hide the decline. above all the hockey stick graph proved luke five for mann. last year he received more than 2.4 million dollars in stimulus money. that s not all. at least 19, 20 million dollars has come in, in recent years. the money has come from european unions, from nato, from the united nations. it has come from the united states of america. sean: along with money came scrutiny led by an economist and mat tisch . we saw the hockey graph all over the place people kept refering to it as the last word on the subject. i was intriguing role it was playing including policy discussions. reporter: o sean: their request for information mann writes this is the sort of dirty