it appropriately.  At Te Papa, we believe it is our role to stimulate debate such as this. Te Papa is currently planning a refreshment of it's long-term exhibitions and the use of the Mann Hockey Stick Graph will be addressed as part of that process. We appreciate you raising this issue with us as it will provide valuable insight on the future content for this exhibition." I would carp a little about whether Te Papa has really stimulated "debate" by putting the Hockey Stick on display, minus any reference to scientific criticisms of it. However, as I wrote the first time, Te Papa is an excellent role model for science museums and organisations, since it displays a scientific open-mindedness on climate controversies, and doesn't abuse questioners and critics as deniers and nut-jobs. Te Papa stands in contrast, say, to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, which not only put childish and unscientific climate material on display, but declined to respond to my press questions about it. [2] The dogmatic President of the Australian Academy of Science, Suzanne Cory, might also learn something from Te Papa's approach. [3] Te Papa, the eyes of the climate science world are now upon you! May you examine and adjudicate on the Hockey Stick with scientific rigor, not forgetting to read Andrew Montford's magisterial analysis, The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science. Keep in mind that Mann, a self-proclaimed "Nobel  Prize recipient" , has launched a defamation lawsuit over