Key quote from story below:
"The chairman of the Academy of Science panel, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Gerald North, confirmed... [that]
"'The conclusions that we came to were essentially the same as the hockey stick' theory that Mann proposed....
North said even if Jones, Mann and others had done no research at all, the world would still be warming and scientists would still be able to show it."
"The chairman of the Academy of Science panel, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Gerald North, confirmed... [that]
"'The conclusions that we came to were essentially the same as the hockey stick' theory that Mann proposed....
North said even if Jones, Mann and others had done no research at all, the world would still be warming and scientists would still be able to show it."