{"id":357,"date":"2015-10-21T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/?p=357"},"modified":"2015-10-21T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:22:20","slug":"michael-mann-the-hockey-stick-and-the-climate-wars-co-curricular-bcr-event-october-27th-730pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/2015\/10\/21\/michael-mann-the-hockey-stick-and-the-climate-wars-co-curricular-bcr-event-october-27th-730pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mann ~ The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ~ Co-Curricular &amp; BCR Event, October 27th, 7:30PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michael Mann<\/h2>\n<h3><em>The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, October 27, 2015 &#8211; 7:30 p.m., Reilly Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph&#8211;a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand graph that, in a glance, posed a threat to major corporate energy interests and those who do their political bidding. The stakes were simply too high to ignore the Hockey Stick&#8211;and so began a relentless attack on a body of science and on the investigators whose work formed its scientific basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/files\/2015\/10\/Michael-Mann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/files\/2015\/10\/Michael-Mann-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Mann\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/files\/2015\/10\/Michael-Mann-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/files\/2015\/10\/Michael-Mann.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mann The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 27, 2015 &#8211; 7:30 p.m., Reilly Room<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph&#8211;a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212304,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocurricular-events","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}