--- product_id: 18141644 title: "\"A Disgrace to the Profession\"" price: "$51.90" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ec/products/18141644-a-disgrace-to-the-profession store_origin: EC region: Ecuador --- # "A Disgrace to the Profession" **Price:** $51.90 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** "A Disgrace to the Profession" - **How much does it cost?** $51.90 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ec](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/18141644-a-disgrace-to-the-profession) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures is the single most influential icon in the global-warming debate, promoted by the UN's transnational climate bureaucracy, featured in Al Gore's Oscar-winning movie, used by governments around the world to sell the Kyoto Accord to their citizens, and shown to impressionable schoolchildren from kindergarten to graduation. And yet what it purports to "prove" is disputed and denied by many of the world's most eminent scientists. In this riveting book, Mark Steyn has compiled the thoughts of the world's scientists, in their own words, on hockey-stick creator Michael E Mann, his stick and their damage to science. From Canada to Finland, Scotland to China, Belgium to New Zealand, from venerable Nobel Laureates to energetic young researchers on all sides of the debate analyze the hockey stock and the wider climate wars it helped launch. Review: Steyn's Organizational Powers on Display - Mark Steyn's humor is built on his ability to connect widely differing subjects based on similarities that aren't obvious to ordinary mortals. He does this effortlessly and almost instantaneously when interviewed, and his books are generally a series of essays, or columns, that explore these subjects in greater detail. This book, a refutation of the climate mafia's kidnapping of science and the scientific process, demonstrates that Steyn has a remarkable ability to digest, organize and explain complex problems. The book also demonstrates the value of the Bill of Right's First Amendment, which so far has protected our right to express ourselves. The insanity of Mann's hockey stick has been with us since the late 1990's and it is easy to become disillusioned with science when one sees formerly respectable colleagues jumping onto the AGW bandwagon. A tiny bit of historical knowledge should have been sufficient to discredit the conclusions drawn by Mann. For example, as glaciers have melted in Greenland and in the Alps, we find evidence of prior structures (pathways, wells, graveyards) pointing to similar climatic conditions eight hundred to a thousand years ago. Likewise, in Norway wells have recently been found where the water at the bottom is still frozen. But this knowledge was thrown aside as once prestigious publications published article after article supporting the nonsense, and professional societies debased themselves by publicly endorsing the notion that the world was on the cusp of a catastrophe. When McIntyre and McKitrick published their devastating analysis of the errors inherent in Mann's methods, the whole thing was dismissed because they weren't part of the gang that had hijacked "climate science", despite the clarity and persuasiveness of their writing. The release of the ClimateGate emails should have writ the end of the charade, but it didn't. Now Steyn has applied his particular talents to the issue, and he has created a wonderful mosaic based on the remarks and writings of scientists from around the world to provide an entertaining, critical, and comprehensive overview of Mann's work. Some of the tiles in this mosaic are very small, just a few words, but their color provides just the right sort of highlight to put some other remarks in perspective. He has also distilled some of the silliness in Mann's methods into some easily understood criticisms, such as the paradox that the bristle cone tree "rings" (really splotches of living tissue attached to a largely inert trunk) from the White Mountains east of Lone Pine, Ca, do not predict North American climatic conditions, but they are used by Mann to predict Northern Hemisphere conditions. Or the fact that world climatic conditions for a fifty year period are represented by two cedar trees from the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec. The power of the book comes from Steyn's ability to include remarks from well over a hundred "credentialed" scientists in a logical and fast moving way. It also provides an insight into the kind of preparation that underlies Steyn's humor. It must have required a lot of work. I purchased my first copy from Steyn's website, and I did that to help support his legal expenses which are related to a frivolous law suit that Michael Mann brought against Steyn in an attempt to silence his criticism. I purchased a Kindle version to give me a quicker way of finding material in the book. Review: A devastating, but necessary, expose on the fraudulent hockey stick - Mark Steyn has written a wonderful new book on Dr. Michael Mann’s hockey stick and the controversy surrounding it. It is difficult to overstate the significance or impact of Mann’s Hockey Stick (Mann, Bradley, Hughes (23 April 1998), "Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries" (PDF), Nature 392 (6678): 779–787, Figure 5, the paper is often abbreviated as “MBH”). The Hockey Stick appeared in Figure 1 of the Summary for Policymakers of the third IPCC Assessment Report (called “TAR” published in 2001) and it was prominently displayed in Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” As the book clearly shows, both the graph and the movie have been thoroughly discredited by hundreds of scientists who have attempted and failed to reproduce Michael Mann’s hockey stick using his data and other proxy data. Further, MBH attempts to overturn hundreds of papers that describe a world-wide Medieval Warm Period from around 900 AD to 1300 AD. The chapter devoted to Dr. Deming discusses this. Professor Jonathon Jones of Oxford University: "The hockey stick is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence...the evidence is extraordinarily weak...its defenders were desperate to hide this fact...I'd always had an interest in pathological science, and it looked like I might have stumbled across a really good modern example...The Hockey Stick is obviously wrong. Everybody knows it is obviously wrong." As 1973 Nobel Prize winner Professor Ivar Giaever said “Global Warming has become a new religion – because you can’t discuss it and that is not right.” Steyn’s book documents the problems with the hockey stick, its use by the IPCC without proper peer review or validation, and the attempt to cover up its problems. It does this artfully using the words of the scientists, both “alarmists” and “deniers” and those in between. The list of quoted scientists is huge and includes Mann’s co-authors and others who supported him even after the paper and his hockey stick were shown to be wrong and perhaps, fraudulent. So, the book shows that the hockey stick is dead to all scientists on all sides of the climate debate. What is the impact of this appalling chapter in the history of science? I think that Professor Judith Curry says it best: “With regards to climate science, IMO the key issue regarding academic freedom is this: no scientist should have to fall on their sword to follow the science where they see it leading or to challenge the consensus. I’ve fallen on my dagger (not the full sword), in that my challenge to the consensus has precluded any further professional recognition and a career as a university administrator. That said, I have tenure, and am senior enough to be able retire if things genuinely were to get awful for me. I am very very worried about younger scientists, and I hear from a number of them that have these concerns.” This is an outstanding and important book and I highly recommend it. I've written a more complete review, this is just an excerpt, for the rest of it, go to: https://andymaypetrophysicist.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/new-book-a-disgrace-to-the-profession-by-mark-steyn/ ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #373,905 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #211 in Environmental Policy #729 in Scientist Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,162 Reviews | ## Images !["A Disgrace to the Profession" - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81L+hEWVc4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Steyn's Organizational Powers on Display *by R***T on October 22, 2015* Mark Steyn's humor is built on his ability to connect widely differing subjects based on similarities that aren't obvious to ordinary mortals. He does this effortlessly and almost instantaneously when interviewed, and his books are generally a series of essays, or columns, that explore these subjects in greater detail. This book, a refutation of the climate mafia's kidnapping of science and the scientific process, demonstrates that Steyn has a remarkable ability to digest, organize and explain complex problems. The book also demonstrates the value of the Bill of Right's First Amendment, which so far has protected our right to express ourselves. The insanity of Mann's hockey stick has been with us since the late 1990's and it is easy to become disillusioned with science when one sees formerly respectable colleagues jumping onto the AGW bandwagon. A tiny bit of historical knowledge should have been sufficient to discredit the conclusions drawn by Mann. For example, as glaciers have melted in Greenland and in the Alps, we find evidence of prior structures (pathways, wells, graveyards) pointing to similar climatic conditions eight hundred to a thousand years ago. Likewise, in Norway wells have recently been found where the water at the bottom is still frozen. But this knowledge was thrown aside as once prestigious publications published article after article supporting the nonsense, and professional societies debased themselves by publicly endorsing the notion that the world was on the cusp of a catastrophe. When McIntyre and McKitrick published their devastating analysis of the errors inherent in Mann's methods, the whole thing was dismissed because they weren't part of the gang that had hijacked "climate science", despite the clarity and persuasiveness of their writing. The release of the ClimateGate emails should have writ the end of the charade, but it didn't. Now Steyn has applied his particular talents to the issue, and he has created a wonderful mosaic based on the remarks and writings of scientists from around the world to provide an entertaining, critical, and comprehensive overview of Mann's work. Some of the tiles in this mosaic are very small, just a few words, but their color provides just the right sort of highlight to put some other remarks in perspective. He has also distilled some of the silliness in Mann's methods into some easily understood criticisms, such as the paradox that the bristle cone tree "rings" (really splotches of living tissue attached to a largely inert trunk) from the White Mountains east of Lone Pine, Ca, do not predict North American climatic conditions, but they are used by Mann to predict Northern Hemisphere conditions. Or the fact that world climatic conditions for a fifty year period are represented by two cedar trees from the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec. The power of the book comes from Steyn's ability to include remarks from well over a hundred "credentialed" scientists in a logical and fast moving way. It also provides an insight into the kind of preparation that underlies Steyn's humor. It must have required a lot of work. I purchased my first copy from Steyn's website, and I did that to help support his legal expenses which are related to a frivolous law suit that Michael Mann brought against Steyn in an attempt to silence his criticism. I purchased a Kindle version to give me a quicker way of finding material in the book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A devastating, but necessary, expose on the fraudulent hockey stick *by J***Y on September 1, 2015* Mark Steyn has written a wonderful new book on Dr. Michael Mann’s hockey stick and the controversy surrounding it. It is difficult to overstate the significance or impact of Mann’s Hockey Stick (Mann, Bradley, Hughes (23 April 1998), "Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries" (PDF), Nature 392 (6678): 779–787, Figure 5, the paper is often abbreviated as “MBH”). The Hockey Stick appeared in Figure 1 of the Summary for Policymakers of the third IPCC Assessment Report (called “TAR” published in 2001) and it was prominently displayed in Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” As the book clearly shows, both the graph and the movie have been thoroughly discredited by hundreds of scientists who have attempted and failed to reproduce Michael Mann’s hockey stick using his data and other proxy data. Further, MBH attempts to overturn hundreds of papers that describe a world-wide Medieval Warm Period from around 900 AD to 1300 AD. The chapter devoted to Dr. Deming discusses this. Professor Jonathon Jones of Oxford University: "The hockey stick is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence...the evidence is extraordinarily weak...its defenders were desperate to hide this fact...I'd always had an interest in pathological science, and it looked like I might have stumbled across a really good modern example...The Hockey Stick is obviously wrong. Everybody knows it is obviously wrong." As 1973 Nobel Prize winner Professor Ivar Giaever said “Global Warming has become a new religion – because you can’t discuss it and that is not right.” Steyn’s book documents the problems with the hockey stick, its use by the IPCC without proper peer review or validation, and the attempt to cover up its problems. It does this artfully using the words of the scientists, both “alarmists” and “deniers” and those in between. The list of quoted scientists is huge and includes Mann’s co-authors and others who supported him even after the paper and his hockey stick were shown to be wrong and perhaps, fraudulent. So, the book shows that the hockey stick is dead to all scientists on all sides of the climate debate. What is the impact of this appalling chapter in the history of science? I think that Professor Judith Curry says it best: “With regards to climate science, IMO the key issue regarding academic freedom is this: no scientist should have to fall on their sword to follow the science where they see it leading or to challenge the consensus. I’ve fallen on my dagger (not the full sword), in that my challenge to the consensus has precluded any further professional recognition and a career as a university administrator. That said, I have tenure, and am senior enough to be able retire if things genuinely were to get awful for me. I am very very worried about younger scientists, and I hear from a number of them that have these concerns.” This is an outstanding and important book and I highly recommend it. I've written a more complete review, this is just an excerpt, for the rest of it, go to: https://andymaypetrophysicist.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/new-book-a-disgrace-to-the-profession-by-mark-steyn/ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another Canadian plays hockey with Michael Mann as the puck *by L***E on September 11, 2015* Mark Steyn is being sued by Michael Mann for saying bad things about him, and is in turn countersuing Michael Mann for saying bad things about him. The spectacle is profoundly silly, but also carries a certain threat to free speech, impelling the New York Times, the ACLU, and other defenders of free speech to submit amica curiae to the court in support of Steyn. By contrast, Mann has no amica curiae. What happened to all the scientists, scientific associations, popular journals (e.g. National Geographic), newspapers (the Guardian, not to mention the New York Times) that are on record as believing in human-caused global warming? This book provides the answer. More than 100 scientists, most of whom do indeed believe in global warming, are quoted, often at length, in opposing Mann's Hockey Stick, once the very symbol of impending disaster, shown prominently in Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie, making the front cover of the IPCC third report (and repeated in about 6 different illustrations throughout the report) and just generally the iconic symbol of global warming. Mann himself proudly includes the creation of the graph in his CV, and equally proudly proclaimed himself to be a Nobel Prize winner (at least until rebuked by the Nobel Prize Foundation.) But the Hockey Stick has fallen on hard times, appears exactly nowhere in subsequent IPCC reports, and even Mann himself has since publlshed papers that appear to include the Little Ice Age, although still refusing to admit the global reality of the Medieval Warming Period, when the Vikings found Greenland to be indeed green for a few hundred years before descending into its present year-round snow and ice. For the full story of the Hockey Stick, the indispensable book is the Hockey Stick Illusion by A.W. Montford. That is a pretty exciting (to us climate junkies) detective story showing how a Canadian mining engineer, used to investigating claims of wonderful finds of oil, turned his attention to Mann's claim of wonderful data hidden in tree rings. A terrific read. This book is more limited, just a collection of quotes about the failure of the Hockey Stick from many different angles. However, it is impressive in the breadth and depth of the criticisms and the wide scientific experience of the authors, ranging from cloud physics to oceanographers to paleontologists to geologists. Although I follow the climate debate pretty closely, I was stunned to find such a large number of well-known scientists who had criticized the Hockey Stick (and/or its creator) in such explicit ways. But now I think I understand why nobody was willing to support Mann in his suit by submitting a friend of the court brief. The book is easy to read, well edited so that the remarks of the scientists are kept on topic. Very useful as a reference book for one side in the climate debate. Also good for those on the fence and for those who just love watching a good fight. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ec/products/18141644-a-disgrace-to-the-profession](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/18141644-a-disgrace-to-the-profession) --- *Product available on Desertcart Ecuador* *Store origin: EC* *Last updated: 2026-07-10*