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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | BA (Hons) (1988) economics, MA (1990) economics, PhD (1996) economics |
| Alma mater | Queen's University University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Employer | University of Guelph |
| Organization(s) | Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C. Member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, Kingston, Ontario, and the Global Warming Policy Foundation |
| Website | McKitrick's home page |
Ross McKitrick is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is an associate professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. He is a member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
He has authored works promoting climate change denial including co-authoring the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming in 2003. McKitrick also endorsed An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming. He continues to publish research in economics, usually in the area of environmental policy, authoring Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy in 2010.
Background
McKitrick gained his doctorate in economics in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, and in the same year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario. In 2001 he received an Associate Professorship and has been a full Professor since December 2008. He has also been a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute since 2002.He currently lives in Guelph, Ontario with his wife and two children.
Writing
In 2002 with Christopher Essex, McKitrick co-wrote Taken By Storm, which was a runner-up for the Donner Prize.
In 2007 McKitrick was co-author on a paper in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics arguing that "Physical, mathematical and observational grounds are employed to show that there is no physically meaningful global temperature for the Earth in the context of the issue of global warming".
McKitrick was the organizer and chair of the International Workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology in June 2013.
See also
Bibliography
- Mann, Michael (1 October 2013). The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231152558.
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References
- ^ Ross McKitrick's Interests, accessed February 18, 2014.
- ^ "Desmogblog - Ross McKitrick". Retrieved October 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Cornwall Alliance Advisory Board, accessed April 3, 2013.
- Martin Lack (2013). The Denial of Science: Analysing Climate Change Scepticism in the UK. AuthorHouse. p. 8.
- Mann 2013, p. 199: "Ross McKitrick...and Patrick Michaels...teamed up to publish another article that TechCentralStation claimed to be the death knell of human-caused climate change...McKitrick and Michaels purported to demonstrate that surface warming was an artifact of contaminated temperature records."
- "Corrections to the McKitrick (2003) Global Average Temperature Series". Retrieved October 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Essex, C. and R. McKitrick (2002). Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming. Toronto: Key Porter Books. ISBN 1-55263-212-1.
- Essex, Anderson & McKitrick, "Does a Global Temperature Exist?", 2007, Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Volume 32 No. 1
- Econometric Applications in Climatology
External links
- McKitrick's home page
- McKitrick's publications and papers
- Annotated index to publications and papers
- Hockey Stick Studies
- Steve McIntyre, The Wegman and North Reports for Newbies
- Ross McKitrick, What is the "Hockey Stick" Debate About?
- Ross McKitrick, Asking the Right Questions About Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, Fraser Forum, February 2002
- "Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee", John Tierney analyzes McKitrick's carbon-tax proposal at The New York Times, December 14, 2009
- The Intrinsic Value of Nature and the Proper Stewardship of the Climate by Ross McKitrick