When the Oxburgh report refers to the possibility of “inappropriate statistical tools…producing misleading results” in climate science, it is the hockey stick that it has in mind.

欧斯柏报告中提及”不恰当的统计工具…造成令人误解的结论”这个可能性，就是在说冰球棍。

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The hockey player move it around with his hockey stick.

冰球队员用球杆掌握冰球的运动方向。

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If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.

如果用图表进行展示的话，这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆：以往数千年都没什么变化，而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。

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Despite this it sided with the hockey stick's overall conclusion, which did little to stem the criticism.

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Currently, around 20% of Americans pack such devices, with the growth rate near the steep part of the hockey stick.

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Lampooned as the hockey stick, Mann's graph showed the world remaining almost uniformly cool through most of the past 1, 000 years until 1800.

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