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{{Short description|Canadian economist}}
'''Ross McKitrick''' is an ] (PhD 1996 from the ] and the same year appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the ] ). He has recently (since approximately 2002) worked on ]; in this connection he is a ]. His best-known work is , coauthored with ]. This presented an "audit" of work by ] and others; it appeared in the minor journal "Energy and Environment" in 2003. Mann et al. have replied. The matter was later referred to Nature, following which Mann et al. published a corrigendum, including a re-statement of their data and methods, which appeared on July 1, 2004. The corrigendum did not affect the results, however. McKitrick et al. wrote up a longer version of their results, which has yet to be published.
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'''Ross McKitrick''' (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in ] and ]. He is a professor of economics at the ], and a senior fellow of the ].
McKitrick's own ] has been strongly criticised, in particular by ], who has written on his web page about what he considers serious flaws in some of McKitrick's publications. One such flaw is a which Lambert claimed invalidates the conclusions of one of McKitrick's papers. The author's (nb this is the authors response; it is not yet clear whether the journal will accept it) acknowledges the error - describing the mistake as "a small error" without additional detail - but asserts the effects were minor and demonstrates how the error did not alter the paper's conclusions .


McKitrick also wrote , coauthored with Christopher Essex and published by Key Porter Books. It was runner-up for the Donner Prize as the Best Canadian Book on Public Policy and finalist for the Canadian Science Writers' Association Book Prize. McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying the ],<ref>{{cite web |title=Ross McKitrick |url=https://www.desmog.com/ross-mckitrick/ |website=DeSmog}}</ref> including co-authoring the book '']'', published in 2002. He is the author of ''Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy'', published by the University of Toronto Press.


==Biography==
=== More criticisms of MBH ===
McKitrick gained his ] in economics in 1996<ref>{{cite book
] and Ross McKitrick claim to have found further errors in the MBH approach . A paper claiming to show this was rejected by ]. ] has promoted their claims but it is by no means clear that their claims are correct . The essence of the claim is that the statistical techniques used by MBH has a built-in tendency to produce an upward trend over the last century as an artifact of the dataprocessing. MBH deny this.
| last1 = McKitrick
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| title = The econometric critique of applied General Equilibrium modeling a comparative assessment with application to carbon taxes in Canada
| series = Thesis
| date = 1996
| location = PhD University of British Columbia 1996
| isbn = 9780612147973
| edition = Thesis (PhD)
| url = http://webcat2.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2096999
}}</ref> from the ], and in the same year was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, ]. In 2001 he received an associate professorship and has been a full professor since December 2008. He has also been a senior fellow of the ] since 2002. He is a member of the academic advisory board of the ].

==Writing==
McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying climate science.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Madeleine |title=Who said what? Answering Ross McKitrick’s “Response to Misinformation from Deutsche Bank,” Part I |url=https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/10/28/who-said-what-answering-ross-mckitrick’s-“response-to-misinformation-from-deutsche-bank”/ |website=State of the Planet |publisher=Columbia Climate School}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mandel |first1=Kyla |date=13 January 2015 |title=Leading UK Sceptic Group Promotes Koch-Funded Canadian Climate Denier |url=https://thenarwhal.ca/leading-uk-sceptic-group-promotes-koch-funded-canadian-climate-denier/ |access-date=2 February 2024 |work=The Narwhal |publisher=}}</ref> With Christopher Essex he co-authored the 2002 '']: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming'', a book that propagates ]{{Sfn|Dunlap|Jacques|2013|pp=713, 726}} and was a runner-up for the ].<ref>{{cite news
| title = Vancouver economist wins Donner Prize
| work = The Globe and Mail
| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/vancouver-economist-wins-donner-prize/article25283999
}}</ref> McKitrick was involved in disputing ] temperature reconstructions.<ref>
{{cite news |
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4349133.stm |
title=Row over climate 'hockey stick' |
publisher=BBC |
date=16 March 2005
}}
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== References ==
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== Sources ==

* {{Cite journal |last=Dunlap |first=Riley E. |last2=Jacques |first2=Peter J. |date=June 2013 |title=Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection |journal=American Behavioral Scientist |volume=57 |issue=6 |pages=699–731 |doi=10.1177/0002764213477096 |issn=0002-7642|pmc=3787818 }}


== External links == == External links ==
* http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/ross.html - his home page *
* {{Google Scholar id|d86JuaMAAAAJ}}
* http://www.takenbystorm.info/ - home page for his book, "Taken by storm"

* http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html - "Corrections to the Mann et al (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series"
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* http://www.climate2003.com/ - home page of his coauthor Stephen McIntyre
* http://www.heise.de/tr/aktuell/meldung/52478 - something possibly relevant, in German


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Canadian economist

Ross McKitrick
Born1965
NationalityCanadian
EducationBA (Hons) (1988) economics, MA (1990) economics, PhD (1996) economics
Alma materQueen's University
University of British Columbia
OccupationEconomist
EmployerUniversity of Guelph
Organization(s)Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C.
Member of the academic advisory board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation
Notable workTaken by Storm
Websitehttps://www.rossmckitrick.com/

Ross McKitrick (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.

McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying the scientific consensus on climate change, including co-authoring the book Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, published in 2002. He is the author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press.

Biography

McKitrick gained his doctorate in economics 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, Ontario. In 2001 he received an associate professorship and has been a full professor since December 2008. He has also been a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute since 2002. He is a member of the academic advisory board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Writing

McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying climate science. With Christopher Essex he co-authored the 2002 Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, a book that propagates climate change denial and was a runner-up for the Donner Prize. McKitrick was involved in disputing hockey stick graph temperature reconstructions.

References

  1. "Ross McKitrick". DeSmog.
  2. McKitrick, Ross (1996). The econometric critique of applied General Equilibrium modeling a comparative assessment with application to carbon taxes in Canada. Thesis (Thesis (PhD) ed.). PhD University of British Columbia 1996. ISBN 9780612147973.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Rubenstein, Madeleine. "Who said what? Answering Ross McKitrick's "Response to Misinformation from Deutsche Bank," Part I". State of the Planet. Columbia Climate School.
  4. Mandel, Kyla (13 January 2015). "Leading UK Sceptic Group Promotes Koch-Funded Canadian Climate Denier". The Narwhal. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  5. Dunlap & Jacques 2013, pp. 713, 726.
  6. "Vancouver economist wins Donner Prize". The Globe and Mail.
  7. "Row over climate 'hockey stick'". BBC. 16 March 2005.

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