BBC: A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998 “hockey stick” graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly correct. Michael Mann’s team analysed data for the last 2,000 years, and concluded that Northern Hemisphere temperatures now are “anomalously warm”. Different analytical methods give the same result, they report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The 1998 hockey stick was a totem of debates over man-made global …