Ross McKitrick - Writing

Writing

In 2002 with Christopher Essex, McKitrick co-wrote Taken By Storm, which was a runner-up for the Donner Prize. He has since published research on palaeoclimate reconstruction, including co-authoring "Corrections to the Mann et. al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series" and "Hockey Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance" with Stephen McIntyre. He continues to publish research in economics, usually in the area of environmental policy.

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".

In 2009, he wrote a criticism of Earth Hour, saying, "I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity."

McKitrick has said, "I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent."

McKitrick is a signatory to the Cornwall Alliance's "Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming".