claim: For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards.
evidences.evidence_id: Field hockey:298
evidences.article: Field hockey
evidences.evidence: Each player carries a "stick" that normally measures between 80–95 cm (31–38"); shorter or longer sticks are available.
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evidences.evidence_id: Temperature record of the past 1000 years:18
evidences.article: Temperature record of the past 1000 years
evidences.evidence: Since the direct temperature record is more accurate than the proxies (indeed, it is needed to calibrate them) it is used when available: i.e., from 1850 onwards.
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evidences.evidence_id: Temperature record of the past 1000 years:2
evidences.article: Temperature record of the past 1000 years
evidences.evidence: The curve shown in graphs of these reconstructions is widely known as the hockey stick graph because of the sharp increase in temperatures during the last century.
evidences.votes: REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Temperature record of the past 1000 years:35
evidences.article: Temperature record of the past 1000 years
evidences.evidence: The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1,000 years or longer, to support its conclusion that "Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years".
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Temperature record of the past 1000 years:55
evidences.article: Temperature record of the past 1000 years
evidences.evidence: The term hockey stick was coined by the climatologist Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern this showed, envisaging a graph that is relatively flat to 1900 as forming an Ice hockey stick's "shaft", followed by a sharp increase corresponding to the "blade".
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