WATCH: Our Adventure Fact-Checking the Infamous Hockey-Stick Graph

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We thought recreating the famous hockey-stick climate graph for Kate Sheppard’s piece on the Climategate scandal would be easy. Boy were we wrong. Here’s a video by MoJo fact checker Jaeah Lee and staffer Jen Phillips about the strange case of one very elusive graph: