cc: "Michael E. Mann" , , Gabi Hegerl , Jonathan Overpeck , Keith Briffa , Malcolm Hughes , Mike MacCracken , Phil Jones , Ray Bradley , Ben Santer , "Lonnie G. Thompson" , Ellen Mosley-Thompson , , tom crowley , Kevin Trenberth , Tim Osborn , Tom Wigley date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:00:59 -0800 (PST) from: Stephen H Schneider subject: Re: Fw: New Study Questions Kyoto Global Warming Data to: apetsonk@environmentaldefense.org Hello all. Ah ha--the latest idiot--McKitrick--reenters the scene. He and another incompetent had a book signing party at the US Capitol--Mike MacCracken went and he can tell you about it--last summer. McKitrick also had an article--oped, highly refereed of course--in the Canadian National Post on June 4 this year. Here is the URL that worked back then: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=045D5241-FD00-4773-B816-76222A771778 It was a scream. He argued there is no such thing as global temperature change, just local--all natural variablity mostly. To prove this he had a graph of temperature trends in Erie Pennsylvania for the past 50 years (this is from memory) which showed a cooling. THat alone proves nothing, but when reading the caption I noticed the trend was for temperature in October and November!! So one station for two months consitituted his "refutation" of global warming--another even dumber than Lomborg economist way out of depth and polemicizing. I showed it to a class of Stanford freshman, and one of them said: "I wonder how many records for various combinations of months they had to run through to find one with a cooling trend?" THe freshman was smarter than this bozo. It is improtant to get that op-ed to simply tell all reporters how unbelievably incompetent he is, and should not even be given the time of day over climate issues, for which his one "contribution" is laughably incompetent. By the way, the Henderson/Castles stuff he mentions is also mostly absurd, but that is a longer discussion you all don't need to get into--check it out in the UCS response to earlier Inhofe polemics with answers I gave them on Henderson/Castles if you want to know more about their bad economics on top of their bad climate science. "Enjoy", CHeers, Steve PS More on Henderson/Castles can be downloaded from my still password protected website--still being edited: stanford.edu/~shs/ ID: Please Password: comment On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 apetsonk@environmentaldefense.org wrote: > > Michael, this was on the Heartland Institute's website - it is an article > by one of the coauthors of the new study, ross mckitrick. Perhaps you have > run across this before? > > Annie Petsonk > International Counsel > Environmental Defense > Tel: 202-387-3500 ext. 3323 > > > > (See attached file: mckitrick.pdf) ------ Stephen H. Schneider, Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 U.S.A. Tel: (650)725-9978 Fax: (650)725-4387 shs@stanford.edu Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\RPC-UCS response-final.doc"