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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]].

In 2007, he noticed an anomaly in the NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis.<ref>[http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1878 Will the Real USHCN Data Set Please Stand Up?]</ref>  This led to NASA correcting several records of temperature stations in North America, causing a change in rankings of the hottest years in the United States (1998 was formerly considered the hottest, the revised numbers put 1934 at the top).<ref>[http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Top10.warmest.doc Top ten warmest years]</ref>.  ''See also'': [[Anthropogenic global warming theory]].

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