Talk:Stephen McIntyre/draft

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I'm trying to "help Wikipedia by expand[ing]" this article. Here's what I've come up with so far. (Question: Should we mention Hans von Storch here?)

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Chris Chittleborough 07:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I cut this to a new page, its the usual way, and cleanly separates the new draft from ongoing conversation about the old page. William M. Connolley 22:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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Stephen McIntyre is a prominent critic of the "hockey stick" reconstruction of global temperatures over the last 1000 years.

Background

After winning a Canada-wide high school mathematics contest in 1965, McIntyre studied Pure Mathematics at the University of Toronto, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1969. He then studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University, having been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship. For family reasons, he declined a graduate scholarship to study mathematical economics at MIT. Instead, he started work in the mineral exploration and mining industry. His career included several years as a government policy analyst at both provincial (Ontario) and national level. Later he worked as an officer or director of several small public companies doing hard-rock mineral exploration [1].

McIntyre is married with 3 children and 2 grandchildren. He is a keen squash player. His political views are "certainly not conservative".

The "Hockey Stick"

When McIntyre noticed advocates of the Kyoto Protocol using the Hockey Stick graph from the 1998 Nature paper by Mann, Bradley and Hughes (MBH98), he perceived some similarities to a mining stock prospectus‹The template Talkfact is being considered for merging.› . He decided to try to audit the MBH98 data and analysis, basically as an intellectual exercise‹The template Talkfact is being considered for merging.› . He assumed that for such a fundamental paper an audit trail would be available in the form of detailed data listings and method description. He asked Michael Mann for data details on April 8 2003[2]. The data listed in MBH98 did not match archived datasets, which lead to a Corrigendum in Nature on July 1 2004. ...(still need more detail here)...

In February 2006, the |U.S. National Academy of Science announced a hearing into the "hockey stick" and invited McIntyre and McKitrick to testify at that hearing [3].

McIntyre is the primary author of ClimateAudit, a blog devoted to auditing climate research, particularly multi-proxy temperature reconstructions. ^{[The following text needs extensive revision:]}See also RealClimate, a blog run by climate scientists, some of whose work McIntyre has criticised. (In fact, McIntyre started Climate Audit so that he could defend himself against attacks being made at RealClimate[4].)

(see talk history for changes, feel free to modify with motivation) Hans Erren 22:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Publications

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External links

• ClimateAudit, McIntyre's climate blog
• McIntyre's short biography (.doc)
• http://www.climate2003.com McIntyre's old website
• http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=98 Three presentations by McIntyre and McKitrick
• http://www.realclimate.org/ The RealClimate blog