Thursday night, Steve and Ross will be presented with the Julian Simon Memorial Award at CEI’s annual dinner. The dinner will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Let me offer my sincere congratulations to Steve and Ross for their hard work and well deserved award.
There is a by invitation only congressional briefing from noon to 1:30PM that same day. People with interest may be able to attend by contacting Myron Ebell at the email address given below.
Two important figures at the heart of the ClimateGate e-mails, Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, will provide key information on the remarkable revelations in thousands of e-mails and files that were leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in November last year.
They will show examples from the e-mails and related sources that reveal a core group of scientists manipulating the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process in order to keep policymakers in the dark about major uncertainties and problems in climate science. They will also show how the inquiries set up in the aftermath of ClimateGate have been rigged and misdirected so as to whitewash the scandal and protect the climate establishment from genuine external scrutiny.
Much of ClimateGate involves research initially called into doubt by the analysis of Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. The scientists involved in the scandal saw McIntyre and McKitrick as major threats to global warming orthodoxy and to their own credibility. Consequently, they are mentioned more than 150 times in the ClimateGate e-mails.
McIntyre and McKitrick are most famous for demolishing the infamous “hockey stick”—the graph promoted by the IPCC as proof that global temperatures had been stable for nine hundred years until increasing rapidly in the twentieth century. Their debunking of the hockey stick was confirmed in 2006 by a panel of professionals statisticians convened by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Their exploits have been recounted in a new book by A. W. Montford, The Hockey Stick Illusion, which reads like a detective thriller.
Before laws regulating energy use are enacted that could well cost trillions of dollars, it is crucial to understand the extent to which the alleged scientific consensus supporting global warming alarmism has been discredited by ClimateGate and related scandals. Join us for a discussion featuring two of the people at the center of the storm.
Stephen McIntyre is the editor and founder of Climate Audit, one of the web’s most popular and compelling climate science blogs as well as one of the best sources for expert analysis of the continuing ClimateGate and related scandals. Before becoming interested in the scientific debate over global warming, Mr. McIntyre worked for thirty years in a variety of roles in the minerals exploration business in Canada, including as President of Northwest Exploration Co. Ltd. He holds a B. A. in mathematics from the University of Toronto and earned another degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University. Since the hockey stick scandal, Mr. McIntyre has continued to use his statistical expertise to analyze temperature data and has uncovered a number of other significant mistakes in official claims, which have proved highly embarrassing to U. S. government agencies and several leading climate scientists.
Ross McKitrick is Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Professor McKitrick has published a wide range of internationally-recognized studies on the economic analysis of pollution policy, economic growth and air pollution trends, the health effects of air pollution, statistical methods in climatology, the measurement of global warming, and other topics. His 2003 co-authored book, Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, won the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy. His newest book, Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, will be published later this year. Professor McKitrick’s willingness to question conventional thinking on environmental issues and global warming dogma has had an impact around the world. He has made over 100 invited academic presentations in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, and has testified before the U. S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament.
Myron Ebell
Director, Energy and Global Warming Policy
Competitive Enterprise Institute
1899 L Street, N. W., Twelfth Floor
Washington, D. C., 20036, USA
E-mail: mebell@cei.org
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The epic story of their work will become immortalised in the annals of science.
John A says:
June 14, 2010 at 3:22 pm
So Steve McIntyre is the “founder” of Climate Audit? What about… Oh never mind. He deserves it all anyway.
LOL! Not to worry John. Many of us from the early days remember your contributions! Hell I’ll just say it… Odds are if it wasn’t for your efforts most of us would’nt know about Steve McIntyre and his work.
On behalf of a great many of us let me thank you for your prodding & needling of Steve and your tireless work on the CA blog. I know I’m not CEI but at least I’m not BP!…
Best,
Don.w
Prophets are generally unrecognized in their own country.
M&M are to be honoured/awarded in the USA.
A salute and thank-you to Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.
Canada salutes Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.
Bravo.
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[Canadians] “McIntyre and McKitrick to receive award”
“Two important figures at the heart of the ClimateGate e-mails, Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, will provide key information on the remarkable revelations in thousands of e-mails and files that were leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in November last year.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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“Tories put climate change on G8 agenda after pressure from world leaders
Nobel Peace Prize laureates and environmentalists had joined chorus calling to put climate change on the table”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-put-climate-change-on-g8-agenda-after-pressure-from-world-leaders/article1603818/
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/06/14/rob-ford-slightly-ahead-nanos/#comment-83682
As a Canadian, I’m delighted to bask in the glory of two countrymen who will be seen to have changed history – for the better!
Just more evidence that Canadians are finer, nobler people. And too polite to say so (well, too polite to say so very often).
@Seth Cuttlefish
“CEI is hardly scientific on the subject of global warming. They were the ones that run the adds saying the CO2 was harmless: “it’s essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in… They call it pollution. We call it life.”
I dont see why hey should distance themselves from something that is infact true.
Great! It is high time!
Seth Cuttlefish says:
June 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm
CEI is hardly scientific on the subject of global warming. They were the ones that run the adds saying the CO2 was harmless: “it’s essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in… They call it pollution. We call it life.”
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M&M: Congratulations. The dinner will be a nice recognition of your courage, but the testimony in the hearing before hand is the more important.
Seth: As asked above, what is incorrect about the statement you quoted?
Exactly how many billions of people do you want destituted by withholding food, power, shelter, water, clothing, sewage treatment, and transportation by restricting energy just so YOU can “feel good” (uselessly) about the environment?
M&M — Bravo, job well done …
Two Quixotes on pursue of their Dulcinea, the truth. Congratulations!
Nobel men never negotiate their principles.
Woot! I’m taking this as independent confirmation that not all us Canadians are certifiably insane. Walk tall gentlemen, walk tall. Congratulations 🙂
Leadership by example is an attribute that should give you both immense pride.
Congratulations Mc and Mc on your award. From a simple question about the provenance of the hockey stick, you have unearthed the tricks which were used to generate the stick. You have also forced climate scientists to open up their data to the public and you have inspired countless others to question methods used in climate science. Thank you!
Jimbo says:
June 14, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Seth Cuttlefish says:
June 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm
CEI is hardly scientific on the subject of global warming. They were the ones that run the adds saying the CO2 was harmless: “it’s essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in… They call it pollution. We call it life.”
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“What is untrue about any of the above which you have quoted?”
“….an organisation that is so removed from science that they pretend that they have never heard of the greenhouse effect.”
“Have they, show me where? In years to come you will be highly troubled by the sham you let yourself into. You’ve been taken for a ride sir.”
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RESPONSE:
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS A BAD THING. Good food is harmless. So why don’t you eat twice as much?
As far as breathing it in and out by Humans, Animals and Plants, how many of the preceding are going to do any breathing in the expanded, Sahara style, desert areas of the Earth?
POLLUTION BY A NATURAL SUBSTANCE? That is relative to the impact it makes. If it causes trouble then it is rational to call it pollution.
An example. In the late 19th century horse manure was no problem at the farm. Quite the contrary, it was desirable since it made good fertilizer.
But pedestrians crossing city roads had a different opinion. Stagecoach after stagecoach would pass by with their horses-did anyone ever think of diapers?-heeding natures call. It was also a major health danger due to the large numbers of disease carrying flies it created. People were actually paid to clean up that pollution.
By the way, horse manure was actually called pollution back then.
As far as being troubled by the “sham” we have supposedly been led to, I have a prediction to make. As soon as the Arctic ice cap melts, Oil Company shills will invent a new set of lies and fantasies and expand the emphasis on some old ones. All of a sudden Natural Warming will be all the craze as opposed to “No Global Warming” and/or “Global Cooling”.
At the fringes of lunacy-Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc. ad nauseum-there will be a different psychosis. The environmentalists and Warmies did it! They made Global Warming happen! After all didn’t someone once write a book saying so?
As for you sir, where what will you be saying when the Arctic Ice Cap turns to ice cubes?
Seth Cuttlefish says:
June 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm
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Obvious troll is obvious.
Anyhow, well done to the two good men McIntyre and McKitrick you deserve this and much more.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/ArmstrongGreenSoon08-Anatomy-d/EssexMcKitrickAndresen07-globalT_JNET2007.pdf
This paper still valid?
Sourced from Wikipedia;
“CEI is an outspoken anthropogenic climate change denialist and an opponent of government action that would require limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It favours free-market environmentalism, claiming that market institutions are more effective in protecting the environment than is government.
In March 1992, CEI’s founder Fred Smith said of anthropogenic climate change: “Most of the indications right now are it looks pretty good. Warmer winters, warmer nights, no effects during the day because of clouding, sounds to me like we’re moving to a more benign planet, more rain, richer and easier productivity to agriculture.”
CEI is a think tank funded by donations from individuals, foundations and corporations. CEI does not accept government funding. Past and present funder’s include the Scaife Foundations, Exxon Mobil, the Ford Motor Company Fund, Pfizer, and the Earhart Foundation. CEI’s most recent television ad campaign, entitled A Bright Future For Some, focused on energy policy and global warming, criticizing policies advocated by former Vice President Al Gore. The CEI ad aired nation-wide in March and April, 2008.” (URL’s edited)
Talk about giving oneself a pat on the back! Julian Simon, proponent of unlimited mining of resources, unlimited population growth; whatever problems arise, the market will fix it. Like the GFC? Who fixed it, if indeed it is? We the minions with our taxes for the too big to fail. Big failures feeding on little failures. Keep in mind that Mother Nature doesn’t do bail outs and isn’t too big to fail.
villabolo says:
June 14, 2010 at 5:29 pm
“By the way, horse manure was actually called pollution back then.”
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
A good time to recall again John Daly. He was on one of the first hacked mails and also a Canadian. RIP
We live in a sick society. These gentlemen deserve far far more credit.
However, “whistleblowers” tend to be shunned in our society. It is better to lie and cheat (=Nobel Prize) then to be seen as an outsider who refuses to play along with the latest fashionable claptrap. So sad.
Meanwhile the fraudsters like Pachauri and Gore will simply move on to the next “big thing” – idolized & sponsered by the “disaster story” seeking media and speaking eloquently to packed auditoriums with total conviction about their next new ponzi scheme.
Disgusting to think that neither McIntyre nor McKitrick have made a single cent out of all the good work they have done for society – meanwhile the Goldman Sachs sponsored fraudsters have their pockets lined with dirty money.
How can one have any faith in a society that rewards gangsters and shuns honest citizens? No wonder we have such a mess in the West.
those two boys, mr m & m, along with mr watts, deserve the congressional medal of honor for calling out the snake oil, liar, self interest ,elitist hypocrits associated with the agw dogma…congrats mr m & m…may u live long and prosper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RBateman says 3:24
Yes Robert ,at least the equivalent, and a hat tip to Mosher and Fuller for their work putting all of the “expose” in a book that I have on my desk now.
Co2 has a very good point. It is mind boggling stupid to accept an award from the CEI. It is mind boggling stupid to associate with a right wing clown like Monckton.
Goldman Sachs chose Obama, so did the most of the rest of corporate America. That’s how they operate. They put the money on their guy, or their cause, like global warming. Obama’s only chance of re-election is if Goldman Sachs put up the money for Palin to win the Republican nomination.
Well done. I hope it comes with Cold Cash! A big thank you.
It’s about time that the efforts of men “such as these” got recognised.