Stephen McIntyre was born on c 1947 and is a Canadian mining exploration company director, a former minerals prospector and semi-retired mining consultant whose work has included statistical analysis.
25 Facts About Steve McIntyre
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Steve McIntyre is the founder and editor of Climate Audit, a blog which analyses and discusses climate data.
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Steve McIntyre is a critic of the temperature record of the past 1000 years and the data quality of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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Steve McIntyre has made statistical critiques, with economist Ross McKitrick, of the hockey stick graph which shows that the increase in late 20th century global temperatures is unprecedented in the past 1,000 years.
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Steve McIntyre went on to study mathematics at the University of Toronto and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969.
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Steve McIntyre then obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship to read philosophy, politics and economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1971.
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Steve McIntyre started work for Noranda and worked for 30 years in the mineral business, the last part of these in the hard-rock mineral exploration as an officer or director of several public mineral exploration companies.
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Steve McIntyre was the president and founder of Northwest Exploration Company Limited and a director of its parent company, Northwest Explorations Inc When Northwest Explorations Inc was taken over in 1998 by CGX Resources Inc to form the oil and gas exploration company CGX Energy Inc.
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Steve McIntyre was a strategic advisor for CGX in 2000 through 2003.
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Steve McIntyre says that during his career his skills in statistical analysis enabled him to analyse mineral prospecting data and out-bet his rivals.
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Steve McIntyre occasionally worked as a government policy analyst, including a period at the federal Anti-Inflation Board.
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Steve McIntyre retired from full-time work, but still sometimes engaged in mining consultancy.
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Steve McIntyre is an active squash player and once won a gold medal in the World Masters Games in squash doubles.
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In September 2011, Steve McIntyre was appointed to the board of directors of Augen Gold Corp.
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In October 2011, Steve McIntyre was appointed to the board of directors of Southeast Asia Mining Corp.
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In 2002, Steve McIntyre became interested in climate science after a leaflet from the Canadian government warning of the dangers of global warming was delivered to his residence.
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Steve McIntyre began studying Mann's research, which had produced the graph, and met Ross McKitrick.
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Steve McIntyre's blog has as a recurrent topic the struggle to obtain underlying data from peer reviewed papers.
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Steve McIntyre has stated that he started Climate Audit so that he could defend himself against attacks being made at the climatology blog RealClimate.
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On 2 February Steve McIntyre set up his Climate Audit blog, having found difficulties with posting comments on the climate2003.
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Stephen Steve McIntyre has been highlighted by the press, including The Wall Street Journal.
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In 2007, Steve McIntyre started auditing the various corrections made to temperature records, in particular those relating to the urban heat island effect.
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Steve McIntyre discovered a discontinuity in some US records in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset starting in January 2000.
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Steve McIntyre emailed GISS advising them of the problem and within a couple of days GISS issued a new, corrected set of data and thanked McIntyre for "bringing to our attention that such an adjustment is necessary to prevent creating an artificial jump in year 2000".
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Steve McIntyre is mentioned over 100 times in the hacked Climatic Research Unit emails.