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To: Brumar89 who wrote (12800)	5/21/2007 9:57:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

False claims of the existence of errors in the Mann et al (1998) reconstruction can also be traced to spurious allegations made by two individuals, McIntyre and McKitrick (McIntyre works in the mining industry, while McKitrick is an economist). The false claims were first made in an article (McIntyre and McKitrick, 2003) published in a non-scientific (social science) journal "Energy and Environment" and later, in a separate "Communications Arising" comment that was rejected by Nature based on negative appraisals by reviewers and editor Message 22480145 ========== Stephen MCINTYRE Contributing Writer The George C. Marshall Institute George Marshall Institute Expert According to the GMI website "Stephen MCINTYRE has worked in mineral exploration for 30 years, much of that time as an officer or director of several public mineral exploration companies. He has also been a policy analyst at both the governments of Ontario and of Canada."http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1007 Ross McKitrick Senior Fellow Fraser Institute (Canada) Writer techcentralstation.com Contributing Writer The George C. Marshall Institute McKitrick is an economist. realclimate.org The Fraser Institute received $60,000 from ExxonMobil in 2003. The Tech Central Station Science Foundation received $95,000 from ExxonMobil for "Climate Change Support" in 2003. The George C. Marshall Institute received $185,000 from ExxonMobil for "Climate Change Public Information and Policy Research" in 2002-2003. environmentaldefense.org. Message 22480471 ========== The claims of MCINTYRE and McKitrick have now been further discredited in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, in a paper to appear in the American Meteorological Society journal, "Journal of Climate" by Rutherford and colleagues (2004) [and by yet another paper by an independent set of authors that is currently "under review" and thus cannot yet be cited--more on this soon!]. Rutherford et al (2004) demonstrate nearly identical results to those of MBH98, using the same proxy dataset as Mann et al (1998) but addressing the issues of infilled/missing data raised by MCINTYRE and McKitrick, and using an alternative climate field reconstruction (CFR) methodology that does not represent any proxy data networks by PCA at all. I find it interesting that Michael Mann, in his letter to the House Committee, describes Steve MCINTYRE as a "mining industry executive" and MCINTYRE's own biography (www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/stevebio.doc) describes him as working "in the mineral business". Both descriptions are pretty euphemistic. Around the time of the writing of MCINTYRE and McKitrick (2003; the Energy & Environment paper) and of the above biography (dated in October 2003), MCINTYRE was actually a "Strategic Adviser" to CGX Energy Inc. who describe their "principal business activity" as "petroleum and natural gas exploration" (cgxenergy.ca/investors/CGX_AR03_part2.pdf). CGX Energy Inc. occupy the same Canadian address given for MCINTYRE in MCINTYRE and McKitrick (2003), an address which is also occupied by Northwest Exploration Company, another business which apparently engages in oil and gas exploration (or at least a company with the same name does). MCINTYRE was also President of Northwest Exploration Company. Message 22493020 Message 22619318