Stephen McIntyre

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Stephen McIntyre is a former mining executive; prior to 2003 he has been officer or director of several small public mineral exploration companies. He is most prominent as a critic of the temperature record of the past 1000 years, particularly the work of Michael Mann and his co-authors.

McIntyre is the primary author of Climate Audit, a blog devoted to the analysis of paleo climate data and frequently critical of positions of established scientists in the paleo-climate community. A recurrent topic in the blog is the struggle to obtain underlying data from peer reviewed papers. McIntyre has stated [1] that he started Climate Audit so that he could defend himself against attacks being made at RealClimate, a blog run by a group of climate scientists.

1 Personal
2 The Hockey Stick Controversy
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Personal

McIntyre has worked in hard-rock mineral exploration[2] for 30 years, much of that time as an officer or director of several public mineral exploration companies. He has also been a policy analyst at both the governments of Ontario and of Canada [3]. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics from the University of Toronto [4]. At the University of Toronto he studied algebraic topology, group theory, differential manifolds, linear algebra, and advanced statistical analysis methods. He was offered a graduate scholarship to study mathematical economics at MIT and another one to study politics and economics at Oxford. He opted for Oxford and graduated with a degree in the mentioned subjects in 1971. Upon his graduation, he left London and returned to Toronto.

Mr. McIntyre is married with three children and two grandchildren. He is an active squash player and once won a Gold Medal in the World Masters Games in squash doubles.