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{{Short description|Canadian economist}}
'''Ross McKitrick''' is a ] ] specializing in ] and ]. McKitrick gained his ] in economics in 1996 from the ], and in the same year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the ], ]. He has been an Associate Professor since 2001 and since 2002 Senior Fellow of the ], a Canadian free-market public policy ].<ref name=cv></ref>
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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 co-wrote the 2002 book '']'' with Christopher Essex. It was a runner-up to the ] 2002 as the Best Canadian Book on Public Policy.<ref></ref> He has since published further research on ]. Some of these papers were cowritten with ], including "Hockey Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance."<ref>'']'' Vol 32(3), Feb 12 2005, </ref> He continues to publish research in economics, usually in the area of environmental policy.


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.
==Publications==
McKitrick has (1997-2005) authored or coauthored 16 ] articles in economics journals, and four in science journals (as well as two in '']''). Outside academia, in addition to co-authoring ''Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming'' he has also written a number of opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines, many of which have also written about McKitrick.<ref> </ref> In his latest work, he is lead author of "Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions:Implications for Global Warming Scenarios." along with Mark Strazicich.<ref></ref>


==Biography==
== Global warming related activities ==
McKitrick gained his ] in economics in 1996<ref>{{cite book
⚫ | last1 = McKitrick
| first1 = Ross
| 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==
Being active in the field of environmental economics and policy analysis, in addition to his role as a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute and co-authorship of ''Taken By Storm'', has involved McKitrick in the ]. Below are some of the more contentious issues that have received attention, on a national scale in the ] or involving government agencies and panels.
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 ==
===Criticism of Mann et al 1998===
⚫ {{Reflist}}


== Sources ==
{{main|Hockey stick controversy}}


* {{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 }}
From a statistical perspecitve, McKitrick and McIntyre (MM) in the 2003 paper "Corrections to the Mann ''et al.'' (1998) "Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series"<ref> ] </ref> examined the ], Ray Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes (MBH) 1998 paper, "Global-Scale Temperature Patterns and Climate Forcing Over the Past Six Centuries."<ref>'']'' Vol. 392, pp. 779–787</ref> As a result Mann ''et al.'' published a ]. McIntyre and McKitrick say the corrigendum failed to address some of their methodological concerns, and the two claim that ''Nature'' responded to their concerns about the corrigendum in an unsatisfactory way.


⚫ == External links ==
A panel convened by the ] (NAS) endorsed, with a few reservations, the MBH paper. One of the panel's reservations was that "...a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work 'have been underestimated,' and it particularly challenged the authors' conclusion that the decade of the 1990s was probably the warmest in a millennium." However, they also said that "'an array of evidence' supported the main thrust of the paper", leading to even more confusion on the situation.
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A subsequent investigation, undertaken at the request of Republican Senator ] and headed by prominent statistics professor and NAS member ] of ] supported the statistical criticisms by McKitrick and McIntyre, saying "It is not clear that Dr. Mann and his associates even realized that their methodology was faulty at the time of writing the paper. We found MBH98 and MBH99 to be somewhat obscure and incomplete and the criticisms of MM03/05a/05b to be valid and compelling."


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The subject of the meaning and impact of the issue is still being debated in multiple blogs on the Internet.

===Criticism of a McKitrick paper===
Tim Lambert, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales, has criticized McKitrick's own ] in a 2004 with ]. Among other things, Lambert found a ] in which the input to a ] function was in degrees instead of ]s. The authors have acknowledged the error and published a corrected version. They that the effects were "very small", that the correction "improved the overall fit", and that their overall conclusion was unaffected. McKitrick has stated that Lambert was only able to spot the bug because the data and code used in the paper were put on a website upon publication, as is usual in ] but rare in the natural sciences.

=== Does a ] exist? ===
In 2007 McKitrick was co-author on a paper in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics arguing that ''"Physical, mathematical and observational grounds are employed to show that there is no physically meaningful global temperature for the Earth in the context of the issue of global warming"''.

=== T3 Tax proposal ===
In June 2007, McKitrick suggested "a climate policy that could, in principle, get equal support from all sides": a "T3" tax on carbon emissions tied to a three-year moving average of tropospheric temperature change, starting at a low rate. If global warming occurs, the tax would climb quickly and "could reach $200 per tonne of CO2 by 2100, forcing major carbon-emission reductions and a global shift to non-carbon energy sources."

⚫ ==References==
⚫ {{Reflist}}

⚫ ==External links==
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* Ross McKitrick, , ''Fraser Forum'', February 2002
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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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