{"id":224396,"date":"2022-10-18T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=224396"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:33:06","slug":"30-ross-mckitrick-on-big-problems-with-paleoclimate-data-and-land-temperature-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=224396","title":{"rendered":"#30 &#8211; Ross McKitrick on big problems with paleoclimate data and land temperature records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"408\" data-attachment-id=\"224504\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=224504\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"892,503\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=723%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?resize=723%2C408&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?w=892&amp;ssl=1 892w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfZS_wFmJCXqPr4MYtAIN6w\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/ytc\/AMLnZu8sgEmUAfSKSUrNjr5JKuslrTcD2zd42tQeHpp4fg=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj\" alt=\"\">Tom Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy. He has published widely on the economics of pollution, climate change and public policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His book Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor McKitrick has made many invited academic presentations around the world and has testified before the US Congress and committees of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-mFnG-i7Fg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":224504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0Screenshot-2022-10-18-122647.png?fit=892%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Wni","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334299,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334299","url_meta":{"origin":224396,"position":0},"title":"\u201cClimate Alarm is a Good Way of Expanding Government Power\u201d: Interview With Professor Ross McKitrick","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/06\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"While there is a lot of talk about renewables being cheap, Ross McKitrick, Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph in Canada, gives a simple example of why this is not true. 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