{"id":343568,"date":"2010-02-20T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5196"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:46:29","slug":"the-heretics-mcintyre-and-mckitrick-frontpagemagazine-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343568","title":{"rendered":"The Heretics: McIntyre and McKitrick, FrontPageMagazine.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: Ross McKitrick<\/a>, Steve McIntyre<\/a><\/p>\n

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When the infamous hockey-stick graph that purported to prove that human activities are causing runaway global warming was finally broken, there is some irony in the fact that a couple of Canadians did the breaking. Retired mining engineer Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph, have been a thorn in the side of global warming alarmists for years. McIntyre, McKitrick and, more often, the acronym \u201cM&M\u201d to refer to the pair, are the subject of many discussions in the e-mails released from the University of East Anglia\u2019s Climate Research Unit (CRU) last November.<\/p>\n

Reading the e-mails, it quickly becomes clear that leading alarmist scientists, like Michael Mann at Penn State and Phil Jones at the CRU, seemed positively obsessed \u2013 almost to the point of appearing deranged at times \u2013 with discrediting McIntyre and McKitrick. For example, when the pair published their first hockey stick busting paper in 2003, Mann sent an angry e-mail to his colleagues, telling them how to deal with MM: \u201cThe important thing is to deny that this has any intellectual credibility whatsoever and, if contacted by any media, to dismiss this for the stunt that it is.\u201d
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