For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States 9780231505666

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Table of contents :
Contents
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Foreword
PROLOGUE. What Is the Hockey Stick?
Chapter 1. Born in a War
Chapter 2. Climate Science Comes of Age
Chapter 3. Signals in the Noise
Chapter 4. The Making of the Hockey Stick
Chapter 5. The Origins of Denial
Chapter 6. A Candle in the Dark
Chapter 7. In the Line of Fire
Chapter 8. Hockey Stick Goes to Washington
Chapter 9. When You Get Your Picture on the Cover of
Chapter 10. Say It Ain’t So, (Smokey) Joe!
Chapter 11. A Tale of Two Reports
Chapter 12. Heads of the Hydra
Chapter 13. The Battle of the Bulge
Chapter 14. Climategate: The Real Story
Chapter 15. Fighting Back
Epilogue
POSTSCRIPT
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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