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Deniers:Individuals:Ross McKitrick
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario
Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C.George Marshall Institute Expert
According to the GMI website, McKitrick "specializes in the application of economic analysis to environmental policy design and climate change."Co-author of the Interfaith Stewardship Council's "A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming" a July 2006 point-by-point refutation of “Climate Change: A Call to Action,” issued in February 2006 by the Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI)Author of chapter 2 in Pat Michaels book "Shattered Consensus" (2006)Author of 2002 book "Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming" http://www.takenbystorm.info/
Holds a BA in economics from Queen's University, and an MA and Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia.
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[edit] November 7th, 2003
The present state of the climate reflects primarily natural causes, and if infrared-absorption plays a role it seems very minor. Continued use of fossil fuels following any reasonable trajectory, by adding CO2 to the air, may at most cause small and barely noticeable changes to the future climate. These changes will be impossible to detect in any location, but on balance they will probably be beneficial. The optimal emissions of CO2 corresponds with the unconstrained level. The Kyoto Protocol is a costly initiative that yields no environmental benefit. There is no reason for Canada to comply with Kyoto, so Canadians should be left alone to do their laundry in whatever water they find works best.
Source:[www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/econ-persp.pdf McKitrick 2003]
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[edit] May 30th, 2000
Climate alarmists put the policy cart in front of the horse. Even if global warming is happening, or about to happen, and we decide its net effects are mostly bad, there are many feasible policy options to deal with it. In sharp contrast, the scale of policy intervention required to stabilize carbon concentrations would have far worse effects on human welfare than any known impact of climate change.
Source:CNSNews.com (2000)
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[edit] July 25th, 2006
Co-author of the Interfaith Stewardship Council letter in July 2006, which included the claim: "The role of the IPCC in climate studies is similar to that of the Jesus Seminar in New Testament scholarship in the 1990s and Darwinism for the past century." The ISC seeks to counter the efforts of the Evangelical Climate Initiative, a group calling for action on climate change.
Source:Interfaith Stewardship Council (2006)
[edit] December 12th, 2007
McKitrick signed an open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations alleging that that the "UN climate conference is taking the World in entirely the wrong direction." It claimed that the process resulting in the IPCC report was flawed, and that if Global Warming really was human-caused that energy would be better spent trying to mitigate the damage it would do, as opposed to trying to stop it. The letter was signed by 100 so-called "Prominent Scientists."
Source:Open Letter taken from Science and Public Policy website, 12.18.07
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Regular critic of Michael Mann et al "Hockey Stick" graph. Source: McKitrick and MacIntyre http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html
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Fraser Institute Press Conference 2007 Independent Summary for Policymakers
Source:Fraser Institute Website
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George C. Marshall Institute
Expert
Source:George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Fraser Institute
Senior Fellow
Source:Fraser Institute website 4/04
Interfaith Stewardship Alliance
Co-Author
Source:Interfaith Stewardship Alliance "Call to Faith"
Heartland Institute
HeartlandGlobalWarming.org expert
Source:Heartland Institute - HeartlandGlobalWarming.org