Surely a must for those who like scientific detective stories. Andrew Montford presents the full story of the scientific distortions and fraud behind the fabrication of the notorious "Hockey Stick"graph, probably the single most influential factor in fomenting the worldwide climate change panic, and the tireless efforts by Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, and others that has comprehensively discredited it. From the earliest unsuccessful attempts to reproduce the result, to the final publication of the work refuting it and and the launch of a congressional inquiry, the whole sordid story emerges of the extent to which those funded and trusted by the public will resort to falsification, obstruction, suppression of dissenting views, and other forms of scientific misconduct in order to back support a preconceived position when an ideology takes precedence over science. A complex science and some intricate sleuthing delivered in clear and readable layman's language.