Ross McKitrick

Ross McKitrick is an economist who suggests global warming does not exist. However, his work shows an ignorance of basic science which, when remedied, invalidates his claims.

Taken By Storm

McKitrick is a co-author of Taken By Storm, a book which has been shown to have serious scientific errors which invalidate its major claims.

Decrease in stations

McKitrick has suggested that the increase in global temperature is due to a decrease in the number of stations measuring the temperature.

This claim is easy to verify: simply look only at the stations that have been measuring each year. McKitrick did not do this, but Tim Lambert did and he found that McKitrick's claim was indeed wrong -- the global warming continues to exist even when limited to these stations.

When confronted, McKitrick responded by claiming that to calculate global temperature, a random sample of stations across the Earth was required. But this is untrue, as both physical theory and empirical studies conducted have shown.

Tim Lambert, "Corrections to the McKitrick (2003) Global Average Temperature Series"