Does the hockey stick graph prove global warming?
Militant, as opposed to reasonable environmentalists have made much of a graph of world temperatures over the centuries which assumes the shape of a hockey stick. The militants would have us believe that the computer-generated data-plot proves global warming. Not all environmental scientists agree.S Global Warming, reasonably considered Although authoritatively disputed, there are indications of global warming. Not nearly as clear is the contention that human activity is causing the apparent warming. Only two or three decades ago, Time and Newsweek were leading the scare campaign about a coming ice age. At the time, no respectable source had the arrogance to suggest either that human activity had caused the predicted ice age or that humans could do anything to reverse it. Geneticist and science historian C. D. Darlington, describing the geological era termed Pleistocene, has written of: ” . . . a succession of ice ages, five major spells broken by four warmer ages and themselves varyin
