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'''Climategate mathematicians''' outside the tight-knit climate modelling community did an [[independent review]] of the data and methods used by [[Michael Mann]]: If you didn't understand this article's thesis, neither did we.

'''Climategate mathematicians''' outside the tight-knit climate modelling community did an [[independent review]] of the data and methods used by [[Michael Mann]]:

* the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician [[Steve McIntyre]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html]

* the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician [[Steve McIntyre]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html]

* Dr. Ross McKitrick is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph and is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. His work with Stephen McIntyre — another Canadian — provides much of the basis for skepticism of the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change. [http://www.bloggingcanadians.ca/ConservativeBlogs/hockey-sticks-and-email-leaks-dr-ross-mckitrick-responds-to-the-%E2%80%9Cclimategate%E2%80%9D-story/]

* Dr. Ross McKitrick is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph and is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. His work with Stephen McIntyre — another Canadian — provides much of the basis for skepticism of the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change. [http://www.bloggingcanadians.ca/ConservativeBlogs/hockey-sticks-and-email-leaks-dr-ross-mckitrick-responds-to-the-%E2%80%9Cclimategate%E2%80%9D-story/]