The Climate Change Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Truenorth00

Thankfully, most people don't buy into their — anymore. Even in the US. And especially among the next generation of voters about to get majorities all over the developed world. And after this pandemic, science denying kooks will have even less credibility.

It’s always funny seeing climate science mediocrities criticizing Steve McIntyre. The guy was a Canadian teen math prodigy, a Commonwealth scholar, graduate from Oxford. He knows mathematics, statistics and data handling better than the climate scientists (if geologist were good at math they’d be engineers) and routinely shreds their data reconstructions, no wonder they don’t like him and resort to the usual ad hominem attacks when they can’t refute his findings.

McIntyre, a native of Ontario, attended the University of Toronto Schools, a college-preparatory school in Toronto, finishing first in the national high school mathematics competition of 1965.[2] He went on to study mathematics at the University of Toronto and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969. McIntyre then obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship to read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1971.[1][2] Although he was offered a graduate scholarship, McIntyre decided not to pursue studies in mathematical economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

McIntyre's blog has as a recurrent topic the struggle to obtain underlying data from peer reviewed papers. McIntyre has stated that he started Climate Audit so that he could defend himself against attacks being made at the climatology blog RealClimate.[21]

Climate Audit was co-winner of a 2007 Weblog Award for "Best Science Blog", receiving 20,000 votes in the online poll.

In 2007, McIntyre started auditing the various corrections made to temperature records, in particular those relating to the urban heat island effect. He discovered a discontinuity in some U.S. records in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) dataset starting in January 2000. He emailed GISS advising them of the problem and within a couple of days GISS issued a new, corrected set of data and thanked McIntyre for "bringing to our attention that such an adjustment is necessary to prevent creating an artificial jump in year 2000".