text: This one is an absolute 100%, 24-carat gold-plated, gimme for Monckton. The UN Panel??s graph is the infamous ???Hockey stick??. Those that still try to defend it (apart from it??s creators) either haven??t acquainted themselves with the facts or simply don??t understand them. The hockey stick is a reconstruction based on tree ring data which claims to shows the climate history over the past several centuries. There are a number of things wrong with it, but the main case against it is that:-