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'''Steve McIntyre''' is a statistician with decades of experience in the mineral exploration business. He is best know for his scientific paper pointing out errors in the "[[hockey stick graph]]" used by the [[IPCC]] to justify the [[Anthropogenic global warming]] theory.

'''Steve McIntyre''' is a statistician with decades of experience in the mineral exploration business. He is best known for his scientific paper pointing out errors in the "[[hockey stick graph]]" used by the [[IPCC]] to justify the [[Anthropogenic global warming]] theory.

==Quotations==

==Quotations==

Back when [[paleoclimate]] research had little implication outside academic seminar rooms, the lack of any adequate control procedures probably didn't matter much. However, now that huge [[public policy]] decisions are based, at least in part, on such studies, sophisticated procedural controls need to be developed and imposed. [[Climate scientist]]s cannot expect to be the beneficiaries of public money and to influence public policy without also accepting the [[responsibility]] of providing much more adequate [[disclosure]] and [[due diligence]]. [http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66]

Back when [[paleoclimate]] research had little implication outside academic seminar rooms, the lack of any adequate control procedures probably didn't matter much. However, now that huge [[public policy]] decisions are based, at least in part, on such studies, sophisticated procedural controls need to be developed and imposed. [[Climate scientist]]s cannot expect to be the beneficiaries of public money and to influence public policy without also accepting the [[responsibility]] of providing much more adequate [[disclosure]] and [[due diligence]]. [http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66]