Stephen (Steve) George McIntyre

 Credentials

• PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Oxford University, (1971).
• B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Toronto (1969).

Source: [1]

 Background

As of 2003, McIntyre had worked in the mineral business for 30 years and he has been an officer or director of small public mineral exploration companies for over 16 years. [1]

He left the mining company Noranda around 1988 to help found Timmons Nickel. Mcintyre then became president of Northwest Explorations which was taken over by CGX Energy in 1998. [2]

He became president of Dumont Nickel, but left Dumont in 2002 to "pursue other interests."  In 2003, CGX Energy's annual report listed McIntyre as a "Strategic Advisor," the same year he first published an article with McKitrick. [3], [4]

According to his biography at the University of Guelph website, (.doc) this period involved, among other things, "general corporate management, including specific oversight of company audited financial statements, annual reports, numerous corporate disclosure documents; oversight of exploration programs; direction of several corporate re-organizations."

Other companies McIntyre has been involved in incldue Vedron Gold Inc., Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc., and DNI Metals Inc. [5]

As of 2010, McIntyre says he missed out on a lucrative mining boom due to his climate blogging, and said he would be getting back into the mining sector. [6]

McIntyre has been the director of Southeast Asia Mining Corp. since August 23, 2011, director of Augen Gold Corporation since September 23, 2011, and Chairman of the Board of Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc since June 30, 2011.

McIntyre has been described as a "persistent amateur who had no credentials in applied science before stepping into the global warming debate in 2003." McIntyre now maintains the blog climateaudit.org where he documents what he asserts are statistical mistakes in peer-reviewed scientific literature. [1], [6]

Several descriptions of McIntyre portray him as an advisor to both the Ontario and Canadian governments, including the Marshall Institute, Wikipedia and interviews. Other than his testimony to Canadian Parliament in 1991, we have been unable to find any reference to his role as a policy advisor. [7], [6]

Stance on Climate Change

Responding to the question, "Does your work disprove global warming?", McIntyre replied that "We [McIntyre and Mckitrick] have not made such a claim. There is considerable evidence that in many locations the late 20th century was generally warmer than the mid-19th century.

However, there is also considerable evidence that in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, the mid-19th century was exceptionally cold. We think that a more interesting issue is whether the late 20th century was warmer than periods of similar length in the 11th century. We ourselves do not opine on this matter, other than to say that the MBH results relied upon so heavily by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2001 report are invalid." [8]

Key Quotes

"What I find that is far too prevalent among climate scientists is that if they don't persuade somebody of something, they blame the audience, not the presentation."

Referring to Michael Mann's climate data, McIntyre concluded "Nobody had ever checked this stuff with any sort of due diligence." [9]

"In my opinion, CRU has manipulated and/or withheld data with an effect on the research record. The manipulation includes (but is not limited to) arbitrary adjustment ('bodging'), cherry picking and deletion of adverse data." [10]

Key Deeds

Ongoing

McIntyre and McKitrick have published two papers that were re-published and distributed by the George C. Marshall Institute, a right-wing think tank that has received $715,000 from Exxon Mobil since 1998. [11]

Together McIntyre and Mckitrick (who call themselves "M&M") have since published a series of articles and papers criticizing Michael Mann's Hockey Stick Graph. [12]

One of their papers has been rejected by Nature. Their work has also been discredited by the scientists at RealClimate. [13], [14]

DeSmogBlog has also covered the back-and-forth debate between Mann, McIntyre, and McKitrick.

May 16 - 18, 2010

McIntyre was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change. [15]

December, 2009

McIntyre has been accused of "quote mining" material from the stolen CRU emails with the purpose of suggesting the IPCC was hiding information. [16], [17]

November, 2009

Steve McIntyre, through his website ClimateAudit.org, was one of the first people to receive an anonymous link to the original leaked data from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

McIntyre had been in contact with Paul Dennis, who was questioned by police investigating the theft of climate data. Dennis insisted that "I did not leak any files, data, emails or any other material. I have no idea how the files were released or who was behind it," although he had been in contact with McIntyre at the time.

Dennis said he emailed Mr McIntyre to alert him to a "departmental email saying that emails and files were hacked" and that "police had copies of my email correspondence with Steve McIntyre and Jeff Id [a pseudonym for the climate sceptic Patrick Condon]. They said it was because I had sent the emails that they were interviewing me." [18]

May, 2005

McIntyre and McKitrick were brought to DC to speak at the National Press Club, introduced by Jeff Kueter and Myron Ebell (full PDF transcipt here). [19]

That afternoon the pair went to Capitol Hill for a 3pm meeting with undisclosed congressional staffers. [20]

2004

In 2004, Tom Harris produced a film called Climate Catastrophe which featured interviews with McIntyre and McKitrick. At the time, Harris was working for tobacco-industry PR firm APCO Worldwide.

November, 2003

The George Marshall Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute have invited and arranged for McIntyre and McKitrick to do speaking events in Washington DC, and have arranged meetings for the pair with legislators. [20]

In November 2003, the CEI and GMI invited M&M to speak at a Round-Table on Science and Public Policy series where they were introduced by Jeff Kueter of the Marshall Institute and Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. [11]

 Affiliations

• George C. Marshall Institute — Past Round-Table Speaker. [21]

• Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc — Chairman of the Board (since June 30, 2011). [22], [23]

• DNI Metals Inc. — Past President. 

• Noranda Mines Ltd. — Past Employee. [24]

• Dumont Nickel Inc.  — Past President.

• Northwest Explorations Inc.  — Past President. [2]

• Timmins Nickel Inc.  — President (1989). [25]

• Vedron Gold Inc. — President (in 1991). [26]

• Augen Gold Corporation — Director since September 23, 2011 (Augen gold is now owned by Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc.).

• Southeast Asia Mining Corp.  — Director since August 23, 2011. (PDF)

 Publications

Steve McIntyre and Fraser Institute Senior Fellow Ross McKitrick co-authored two papers claiming to debunk the 'hockey stick' graph. 

The first was published in Energy and Environment, a journal not carried in the ISI listing of peer-reviewed journals and whose peer review process has been widely criticized for allowing the publication of substandard papers. 

Their second paper was published in Geophysical Research Letters after an unsuccessful process of trying to publish in the highly-regarded journal Nature. The first paper received very little attention outside of climate skeptic circles, and the GRL paper made a minor correction to what was, by then, peripheral to climate science.

However, a high-level PR campaign helped place M&M on the front-page in the National Post followed by a front page story in the Wall Street Journal. [27], [28]

McKitrick maintains a full list of "M&M" publications as related to the Hockey Stick on a page entitled "The M&M Project." [29]

Key Publications

• Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick. "Corrections to the Mann et. al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemispheric Average Temperature Series," Energy & Environment, Volume 14, Number 6 (November 2003), p. 751 - 772.

 Resources

1. Stephen McIntyre. "Short Bio: Steven McIntyre" (.doc), University of Guelph, October 25, 2003. Accessed December 15, 2011.

2. 2003 Annual Report: cgx energy inc. (PDF - See p. 13, "Corporate Information").
   Archived April 12, 2007.

3. Demian McLean. "NASA Fixes Data; 1934 Ousts 1998 as Hottest U.S. Year (Update1)," Bloomberg, August 14, 2007.

4. "Dumont Appoints New Management" (Press Release), Dumont Nickel, November 20, 2002. Archived April 8, 2007.

5. "Stephen George McIntyre," Executive Profile, Bloomberg Busniessweek. Accessed April, 2012.

6. Colby Cosh. "Centre of the storm: Colby Cosh profiles the gentle Canadian who has changed the climate science world," Macleans, December 13, 2009.

7. "Stephen McIntyre," Profile at the George C. Marshall Institute. Accessed April, 2012.

8. "Backgrounder for McIntyre and McKitrick 'Hockey Stick Project'" (PDF), University of Guelph, January 27, 2005.

9. "Portrait of a local climate skeptic," The Star, December 12, 2009.

10. "APPENDIX – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE SUBMISSION" (PDF) S. McIntyre, Feb. 10, 2010. From psu.edu.

11. Stephen McIntyre and Dr. Ross McKitrick. "The IPCC, the 'Hockey Stick' Curve, and the Illusion of Experience," George C. Marshall Institute, November 18, 2003.

12. "The M&M Project: Replication Analysis of the Mann et al. Hockey Stick," University of Guelph. Accessed December 15, 2011.

13. "False Claims by McIntyre and McKitrick regarding the Mann et al. (1998) reconstruction," RealClimate, December 4, 2004.

14. "Rutherford et al 2005 highlights," RealClimate, November 22, 2004.

15. ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Steve McIntyre.

16. "Steve McIntyre, down in the quote mine," Deltoid, December 11, 2009.

17. "McIntyre provides fodder for skeptics," Deep Climate, December 11, 2009.

18. Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell. "Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers," The Independent, February 7, 2010.

19. Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. "The Hockey Stick Debate: Lessons in Disclosure and Due Diligence" (PDF), George C. Marshall Institute, May 11, 2005.

20. Steve McIntyre. "Upcoming Washington Trip," Climate Audit, May 7, 2005.

21. "Roundtable Speakers," The George C. Marshall Institute. Accessed December 15, 2011.

22. "Management & Directors," Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc. Accessed December 15, 2011.

23. "Directors & Officers," Profile of Trelawney Mining at Financial Times. Accessed December 15, 2011.

24. "Who The Heck Is Steve McIntyre? Portait of The Denier As A Young Man," BigCityLib Strikes Back, August 17, 2007.

25. Nicholas Tintor. "Private company pland '89 start for rich Timmins nickel deposit," The Northern Miner, January 16, 1989 (Subscription Required).

26. "Timmins Nickel gets control of Vedron," The Northern Global Miner, Volume 76, Number 52 (March 4-10, 1991).

27. James Cowan. "Canadians find flaw in Kyoto ’hockey stick’ Global warming debate," National Post, January 27, 2005. Republished by anticorruption.ca.

28. Antonio Regalado. "In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off," The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2005. Republished by The Heat Is Online. Archived with WebCite, April 10, 2012.

29. "The M&M Project: Replication Analysis of the Mann et al. Hockey Stick," University of Guelph. Accessed December 15, 2011.

30. "Steve McIntyre," SourceWatch Profile.

31. McIntyre Response to Michael Mann's critique, October 29, 2003 (PDF). Republished by stephenschneider.com.

32. "CRU Emails: Watching Steve McIntyre Make a Fool of Himself," EnviroLeaks, January 29, 2011.

33. Steve McIntyre's presentation at the Heartland Institute's Fourth Internatinal Conference on Climate Change. YouTube Video. Uploaded by user jrcorsi, May 16, 2010.