Hockey Stick? More like Horse Hockey!

Or as Don Rickles would say, You Hockey Puck!

The National Academy of Sciences reported that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."

A panel of top climate scientists said that the Earth is running a fever and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."

Climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes had concluded the Northern Hemisphere was the warmest it has been in 2,000 years. Their research was known as the "hockey-stick" graphic because it compared the sharp curve of the hockey blade to the recent uptick in temperatures and the stick's long shaft to centuries of previous climate stability.

A version of the "hockey-stick" appears in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".

How did these learned individuals research the past 400 to 2,000 years?

The academy scientists relied on "proxy" evidence from tree rings, corals, glaciers and ice cores, cave deposits, ocean and lake sediments, boreholes and other sources. They also examined indirect records such as paintings of glaciers in the Alps.

Me? I'd have just watched a FLINSTONE'S marathon! Yabba, Dabba, Doo - fus!