Talk:Stephen McIntyre/draft

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Draft of expanded article

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?)
I'm putting this early draft on the talk page in the hope that we can do a collaborative rewrite ... Does anyone have any comments?
Chris Chittleborough 07:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

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

Background[edit]

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"[edit]

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[citation needed]. He decided to try to audit the MBH98 data and analysis, basically as an intellectual exercise[citation needed]. 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)[reply]

Publications[edit]

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External links[edit]

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