Michael Mann Climate Change Essay

In regards to climate change, it is often believed that the “hockey stick” graph is the only indication of detriment humans have caused to the world. So if someone can disprove the data from the graph, it is believed that all of climate change can be invalidated. However, Michael Mann refutes this belief wholeheartedly; the graph is based on data he and his colleagues comprised. To him this mistake in the public’s opinion was created on purpose to easily disregard the idea of climate change being true by those who are financially involved in industries that rely on destroying the planet to succeed. Mann emphasizes that even if you want to completely revoke the “hockey stick” graph, there are “a number of independent lines of evidence” that cannot be disregarded such as the “Detection and Attribution Studies”(76). Since he believes that this is attack on him and his data, he
To continue this reasoning he has proved that this claim is vacuous, and therefore “astronomer Willie Soon” who made this claim should also be completely disregarded. Rather than take a different approach to his opponents that are similarly using methods of criticizing the viewholder, he allows his pride to reduce his logical argument to the same level of meaningless and no progression of the problem manifests. Mann wants to highlight how his critics reasoning is not rational, but does not introduce names until he progressed through his argument to gain credibility and authority to persuade the reader, but if you can infer his argument it is easily realized he is mostly demeaning these opponents views instead of explain why they are a