Steve McIntyre

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'''Steve McIntyre''' is a former [[statistic]]ian and minerals prospector and currently a prominent [[global warming denier]]. He is the proprietor of the '''Climate Audit''' blog (or, more accurately, "'''Climate Fraudit'''"<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/08/climate_fraudit.php Climate Fraudit], ScienceBlogs</ref>), somehow the co-winner of the 2007 Best Science Blog award (yeah, you just read that right) and prime source for [[crank]]s in the field. McIntyre is guilty of the same shenanigans as most deniers: distortion of facts, egregious use of [[quote mine|quote mining]], [[Pseudostatistics|statistical trickery]], [[conspiracy theories|conspiracy theorizing]], excessive whining, gross [[hypocrisy]], and general stupidity. He is also a [[Canadian]] who hates hockey sticks.

He managed to get a shoddy paper attempting to "debunk" the "hockey stick" published that has itself been repeatedly debunked since its publication.<ref>[http://www.skepticalscience.com/broken-hockey-stick.htm Is the hockey stick broken?], Skeptical Science</ref> He is generally known for obtaining the denier [[Holy Grail]]: finding an ''actual'' flaw in the [[scientific]] data. Rummaging through [[NASA]] code, McIntyre discovered a [[Y2K]] bug. NASA was notified and revised the code. In the revision, 1998 was demoted from the then hottest year on record in the US with 1934 overtaking it by an astonishing (drumroll please…) 0.01 degrees Celsius. The change was [[statistical significance|statistically insignificant]], but it was (naturally) trumpeted by the denialist blogosphere and some mainstream denier outlets like the [[Daily Mail|Daily Fail]] as the nail in the coffin of the hockey stick graph and anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory as a whole. This led Tim Lambert of Deltoid to coin the term "The McIntyre factor":

{{cquote|The McIntyre factor is the amount that you have to multiply the size of an adjustment in the GISS US temperatures by to get the number of words in the resulting Steve McIntyre post. Empirical evidence puts the McIntyre factor at 125,000.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/09/the_mcintyre_factor.php The McIntyre Factor], ScienceBlogs</ref>}}

So what else has he done? Nothing really. The great victory for the denialist movement was a statistically insignificant change in one country for one year. (That speaks for itself.) Besides his constant [[bullshit]], he seems to be embroiled in a perpetual [[Lenski Affair]]-esque situation with a number of climate scientists, bombarding them with vexatious freedom of information requests so he can whine about getting stonewalled when he gets blown off. His favorite targets are the hockey stick and other assorted "[[Michael Mann|Mann]] and Briffa lies." He's avoided [[wingnut]] political conspiracies about [[Watermelon|socialism]], but constantly accuses NASA and other scientists of cooking the books, hiding data and methodology, and conspiring to stonewall all the 
skeptics
 deniers. He's also declared all the [[Climategate]] investigations to be whitewashes. In [[reality]], this is probably due to the fact that he's still butthurt over his name coming up in the leaked e-mails. 

In an obscenely [[ironic]] move, the man who whines incessantly about "corruption" in climate science has himself defended fraudulent claims. Another notable denier, [[Patrick Michaels]], accused [[James Hansen|Jim Hansen]] of NASA of making wildly inaccurate [[prediction]]s in a paper published in the 1980s. Michaels supported his claim by ''erasing data and graph lines from Hansen's paper'' and presenting it as the original. When Michaels was called on this dishonesty, McIntyre rushed to his defense. A fraud crying fraud while defending another fraud. That's a lot of fraud.

==See also==
*[[Wegman Report]]
*[[Yamal controversy]]

==External links==
*[http://climateaudit.org/ Climate Audit], the site itself.
*[https://sites.google.com/site/rossmckitrick/ Publications by McIntyre] and [[Ross McKitrick]]
*[http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/global_warming/mcintyre/ Deltoid] has a whole category dedicated to McIntyre's shenanigans and has been cataloging his dishonesty in depth for years.
*[http://www.skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=mcintyre&x=0&y=0 Skeptical Science's posts on McIntyre]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=skeptical+science+steve+mcintyre#q=site%3Arealclimate.org+McIntyre&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=ivnsb&ei=D5ISTuKpOera0QHqzZyQDg&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=73edc9aee1714464&biw=1366&bih=705 A boatload of posts on McIntyre] by Real Climate
*Deep Climate on McIntyre "hiding the incline": [http://deepclimate.org/2010/05/11/how-to-be-a-climate-auditor-part-1-pretty%C2%A0pictures/ How to be a climate auditor], [http://deepclimate.org/2009/12/11/mcintyre-provides-fodder-for-skeptics/ McIntyre provides fodder for skeptics], [http://deepclimate.org/2010/06/29/revisiting-tar-figure-2-21-part-1-another-false-claim-from-steve-mcintyre/ Revisiting TAR figure 2-21]

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