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Topic: Ross McKitrick

	Talk:Ross McKitrick - SourceWatch
		McKitrick is a co-author of Taken By Storm, a book which has been supposed to have serious scientific errors which invalidate its major claims, usually made by non-scientists.
		McKitrick has suggested that one source of change in the commonly-used global averages of temperature data is the decrease in the number of stations measuring the temperature.
		As McKitrick and Essex rightly point out, there is no physical theory that says how to derive a single number representing "global mean temperature" for a temperature field, which is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, by some mathematical operation such as a simple arithmetic mean.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Ross_McKitrick (1022 words)

	Ross McKitrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ross McKitrick is a Canadian environmental economist and global warming skeptic, best known for his statistical reviews of reconstructions of historic temperatures that purport to show dramatic recent global warming relative to history.
		McKitrick gained his doctorate in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, and in the same year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph [2]).
		McKitrick has (1997-2005) authored or coauthored 16 peer-reviewed articles in economics journals, and four in science journals [10] (as well as two in Energy and Environment, which does not appear in the ISI citation index).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ross_McKitrick (744 words)

	Ross McKitrick - SourceWatch
		Ross McKitrick is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and, since October 2002, has been a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
		McKitrick has made a name for himself in the last few years as a climate change sceptic since he co-authored the book Taken By Storm, which was published in late 2002.
		McKitrick was particularly critical of the decision by the Canadian government to ratify the climate change treaty.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ross_McKitrick (1517 words)

	Deltoid » McKitrick
		McKitrick recently was in the news for publishing a controversial paper that claimed that an “audit” of the commonly accepted reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1000 years was incorrect, so I thought it would be interesting to “audit” McKitrick’s graph.
		McKitrick recently was in the news for publishing a controversial paper that claimed that an audit of the commonly accepted reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1000 years was incorrect, so it only seems fair to audit Essex and McKitrick’s graphs.
		In this column, Richard Muller claims that McKitrick and McIntyre have shown that the hockey stick graph is an “artifact of poor mathematics”.
	timlambert.org /category/science/mckitrick (7645 words)

	John Quiggin: McKitrick mucks it up
		Late last year, the debate over climate change was stirred up when an environmental economist, Ross McKitrick and a mining executive, AndrewSteven McIntyre, published a piece claiming to refute climatological research crucial to the claim that the last few decades have seen unparalleled global warming (the 'hockey-stick' paper of Mann, Bradley and Hughes).
		According to McKitrick and McIntyre, the work of Mann et al was riddled with errors, The paper was loudly publicised by the American Enterprise Institute (home of John Lott) and, as you would expect, Flack Central Station.
		McKitrick and Michaels take this as support for the generally-discredited 'urban heat islands' hypothesis, that measured warming is an artifact produced by weather stations in or near big cities.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001888.html (1337 words)

	FuturePundit: Hockey Stick Climate Temperature Trend Theory Challenged
		McKitrick and McIntyre had a hard time getting access to the data and source used in the analysis by Mann and colleagues that led to their claim that the 20th century was the hottest in the last 1000 years.
		Note how McIntyre and McKitrick were able to find a Fortran program and crucial datasets on an FTP server used by Mann's group that led McIntyre and McKitrick to an understanding of how Mann and his colleagues made serious mistakes in how they did a mathematical analysis called principal component analysis (PCA) on their datasets.
		The same referee also writes:“McIntyre and McKitrick found a non-standard normalization procedure in the Mann et al.analysis.Their paper describes this procedure;it was an apparently innocent one of normalization, but it had a major effect on their results.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002598.html (5924 words)

	Media Reviews
		Then we may be glad that Essex and McKitrick endured the slings and arrows of the established orthodoxy.
		How we have reached a point where the world is on the verge of putting into force a treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, that would stifle economic growth in the developed countries and preclude it in the third world, in the absence of scientific evidence, demands an answer.
		Now he and Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at Guelph, have published a new book that sets out to explain the limitations of climate-change science to a scientifically challenged public.
	www.takenbystorm.info /id2.html (1349 words)

	Ross McKitrick Felony Fraud Science-Hoaxer
		Ross McKitrick and some of his organized crime felony fraud accomplices.
		McKitrick is connected to Seitz and Ames through the George C. Marshall Institute.
		Whether McKitrick is dirty, personally corrupted, or just duped by skilled experienced crime lords cannot be determined by looking at these linkages.
	www.ecosyn.us /adti/McKitrick_Fraud.html (379 words)

	The Frontier Centre for Public Policy
		Ross McKitrick specializes in the application of economic analysis to environmental policy design and climate change.
		Professor McKitrick holds a BA in economics from Queen's University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia.
		Professor McKitrick has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, as well as professional briefings to the Canadian Parliamentary Finance Committee, and to government staff at the US Congress and Senate.
	www.fcpp.org /events_detail.php?EventID=42 (374 words)

	Print Story - canada.com network
		On the other hand, the two Canadian skeptics are outsiders: Ross McKitrick is a professor of economics and Stephen McIntyre is a mineral exploration consultant -- which Mann likes to call a conflict of interest.
		He and McKitrick then sent the full data set (originally downloaded from Mann's FTP site from the address provided by Rutherford) back to Mann for confirmation that this was actually the data set used.
		But McIntyre and McKitrick were most intrigued by the attribution by Mann and his colleagues of the difference in results to three "key indicators" -- most notably a North American data series -- showing that, with different handling of these three series, they also obtained high early-15th-century results.
	www.junkscience.com /jan05/breaking_the_hockey_stick.html (2247 words)

	search \| DeSmogBlog
		Richard Littlemore is right to be skeptical, while Ross Gelbspan should be more careful, as his spin has overtaken the facts.
		Ross Gelbspan retired several years ago after a 31-year career in journalism as a...
		Assistance on the blog is provided by renowned author Ross Gelbspan and by Richard Littlemore, an award-winning science and magazine...
	www.desmogblog.com /ross-gelbspan (447 words)

	Ross McKitrick
		McKitrick, Ross R. (November 2003) An Economist's Perspective on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
		McKitrick, Ross R. "Power Plants, Air Quality and Health: The Case for Re-examining Ontario's Coal Policy" Prepared for the Power Workers Union, May 2004.
		McKitrick, Ross R. "Air Pollution, Health and Mortality: Separating Fact from Fiction." Presentation to the Association of Major Power Consumers of Ontario, Toronto, April 2004.
	www.uoguelph.ca /~rmckitri/research/papers.html (1176 words)

	Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre
		Now Ross and I categorically agree with Wahl and Ammann that an MBH-style reconstruction without bristlecones is non-meaningful.
		Wahl and Ammann (2006) ascribe the difference between MM2005 and MBH1998 to another apparent error by McIntyre and McKitrick: the omission of the normalisation of proxies prior to the calculation of proxy principal components.
		We show that southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) colonies existed proximate to the Ross Ice Shelf during the Holocene, well south of their core sub-Antarctic breeding and molting grounds.
	www.climateaudit.org (4961 words)

	Ross McKitrick
		Ross McKitrick is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environmental economics.
		Professor McKitrick is widely-cited in Canada and around the world as an expert on climate change and environmental policy issues.
		Professor McKitrick has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, as well as professional briefings to the Canadian Parliamentary Finance and Environment Committees, to government staff at the US Congress and Senate and to the US National Research Council.
	www.uoguelph.ca /~rmckitri/cv.html (438 words)

	Media Advisory - Professor Ross McKitrick to speak on "The Hockey Stick Debate: What Does It Mean for Climate Policy?" ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Global warming came to be seen as an urgent crisis when the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began promoting the "hockey stick" climate curve, a contentious scientific result published in 1999 and which became the basis for much of the resulting policy on climate change.
		McKitrick will discuss the lack of accountability and balance in the IPCC scientific advisory process, especially concerning environmental issues.
		Ross McKitrick is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/623968.html (456 words)

	Deltoid » 2004 » September
		McKitrick has also failed to correct or even acknowledge another serious problem in his paper—he has not corrected his standard errors for clustering.
		Nor has McKitrick explained why he decided to take the cosine of the absolute latitude in the first place.
		It seems pretty clear that McKitrick tried some regressions with (absolute) latitude as the explanatory variable, didn’t like the results he got and switched to the cosine (note that, if you were starting here, you wouldn’t need to take the absolute value, since cosine is a symmetric function).
	cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au /~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/09 (8294 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Row over climate 'hockey stick'
		At one stage in their original calculations, claims the latest study, Mann and colleagues applied a particular statistical convention to a data set consisting of tree rings from North America.
		Consequently, claims Dr McKitrick, of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, the inclusion of this data set could "flip" the entire analysis.
		Dr Schmidt points out that McIntyre and McKitrick use a different convention but do not alter subsequent steps in their analysis to account for this.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4349133.stm (822 words)

	TAKEN BY STORM (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yet a large international policy framework has been built precisely on the assumption that we know what is happening and how to control it.
		Essex and McKitrick explain the science of climate change and show that the widespread belief in global warming is really a house of cards.
		"Essex and McKitrick cut through all the obfuscation and double speak which surrounds one of the most complex scientific and economic issues of our times.
	www.takenbystorm.info.cob-web.org:8888 (495 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		About one year ago, January 2005, an article of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick was published in the Geophysical Research Letters with harsh criticism on the symbol of our changing climate: the Hockey Stick graph.
		Even so, last week McIntyre and McKitrick released their response (pdf) to Ammann and Wahl, and reading through it, even for the lay-man it is clear that they were merciless in breaking down Ammann and Wahl brick for brick.
		Actually, McIntyre and McKitrick turn the table on them: when the Hockey Stick data is tested after the criteria of Ammann and Mahl, the Hockey Stick data fails - and is shown unfit to use once more.
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/2/2/7340/85099 (8969 words)

	The Braden Files : Global warming bombshell
		Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick.
		McIntyre and McKitrick obtained part of the program that Mann used, and they found serious problems.
		In fact, McIntyre and McKitrick are careful to point out that it is hard to draw conclusions from these data, even with their corrections.
	braden.weblogger.com /2004/10/22 (682 words)

	Does the hockey stick “matter”
		It is now known that the MBH98 reconstruction in the controversial 15th century portion failed the majority of cross-validation tests, including the standard R2 test [McIntyre and McKitrick, 2005a]; the source code provided to the Barton Committee shows that the adverse cross-validation R2 statistics were calculated, but not reported.
		It is also now known that the MBH98 reconstruction does not live up to its warranty that it is robust to the presence/absence of all dendroclimatic indicators, as the reconstruction depends on the inclusion of bristlecones, a series known to be potentially contaminated as a temperature proxy.
		That it matters is demonstrated by the enormous traffic on blog sites, the volume of comments to science journals, the opening of a Congressional investigation, etc. Obviously a lot of people find that it matters.
	ff.org /centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20051117/20051128_08.html (3152 words)

	Out of Control
		First, McIntyre and McKitrick undertook research that should have been done a long time ago, before the "hockey stick" became elevated to dogma status.
		Whether it was due to hubris or simply protecting the hockey stick's well-established territory on a major global policy issue, Mann apparently chose to place other considerations ahead of what should have been the eternal aim of sound science, regardless of where the chips may fall.
		To be fair, it is not their mandate to conduct research or to verify the research of others.
	www.reason.org /outofcontrol/archives/2005/01/the_death_knell.html (1435 words)

	Amazon.com: Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming: Books: Christopher Essex,Ross ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		McKitrick have written a very impressive critique of the faulty science and pseudoscience behind the global warming theory.
		Mckitrick might criticized a bit for their presentation.
		Essex and McKitrick, even as outsiders to the field, provide the most entertaining expos of climate modeling nonsense I have seen.
	www.amazon.com /Taken-Storm-Troubled-Science-Politics/dp/1552632121 (3300 words)

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		But now a shock: independent Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick.
		McIntyre and McKitrick sent their detailed analysis to Nature magazine for publication, and it was extensively refereed.
		McIntyre and McKitrick's only failure was in not convincing Nature that the paper was important enough to publish.
	mitosyfraudes.8k.com /Polit/TWTW-30-oct-04.html (4776 words)

	Should professional societies issue position statements at all? \| Uncommon Descent
		They effectively demote members who disagree with some or all of the statement to second-class status within their profession, regardless of the quality of their own individual work or their reasons for disagreement.
		The comments posted under this opinion piece seem to indicate that Ross McKitrick has a barrow to push on the climate change issue.
		In Wiki references to ID proponents it is not infrequent to see references to some ID proponents skepticism of the viral cause of aids and climate change to show that we support anything that is opposed to current scientific opinion.
	www.uncommondescent.com /archives/1811 (2334 words)

	CLIMATE: Global warming bombshell - hockey-stick plot used modified data - 20 November 2004
		But now a shock: Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey-stick.
		In frustration, McIntyre and McKitrick put the entire record of their submission and the referee reports on a Web page for all to see (see below).
		The Canadian scientists who conducted this study, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, first submitted a critique of Michael Mann's study to Nature, the monthly scientific magazine, in January this year.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2004nov20_c.html (1453 words)

	TCS Newsflash: Important Global Warming Study Audited -- Numerous Errors Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		D.C., WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -/E-Wire/-- Canadian business executive Stephen McIntyre and economist Ross McKitrick have presented more evidence that the 20th century wasn't the warmest on record.
		In their article for the journal "Energy and the Environment," McIntyre and McKitrick cited numerous errors in data used in Mann, et al.
		The report by McIntyre and McKitrick was the first published audit that has been conducted of the data used in Mann, et al.
	www.ewire.com /display.cfm/Wire_ID/1856 (328 words)

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