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[wtmusic]

[div style="float: right;"]How else to explain 13 negative reviews of climate scientist Michael Mann's new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, which showed up on Amazon the day the book was released?

Here's how:

"It is a shame that the science deniers are much better organized than the rational people. As of 8 AM this morning, Dr. Michael E. Mann’s latest book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines had 15 reviews, all of which were 5 stars. My review (posted below) had 58 out of 59 votes for being helpful.

Something has changed. As of the moment of writing this piece, there are now 42 reviews:

“5-star”: 24
“4-star”: 4
“3-star”: 0
“2-star”: 0
“1-star”: 13

Sigh.

Has the books suddenly gotten worse?

No, “Watt’s Up With That,” one of the most prominent climate science confusion sites, put up a post calling on readers to attack Mann’s book and to attack positive reviews."

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/12/422774/michael-mann-author-book-hockey-stick-climate-wars/