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'''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.

'''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.

He also forced NASA to admit that 1998 was not the hottest year on record. The "hottest year on record" claim had been used for nearly a decade by global warming partisans to drum up support for the theory that most of the last century's 1 degree temperature increase was caused by human activity; see [[Anthropogenic global warming theory]].

He also forced NASA to admit that 1998 was not the hottest year on record in the United States, as had been previously thought.<ref>[http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1878 Will the Real USHCN Data Set Please Stand Up?]</ref>  This somewhat blunted one of the main claims of global warming activists; see [[Anthropogenic global warming theory]]. However, 1998 is still considered the hottest year on a worldwide basis.<ref>[http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/anomalies.html#sr05 Global Surface Temperature Anamolies]</ref>

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