• Source: Ross McKitrick

Ross McKitrick (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying the scientific consensus on climate change, including co-authoring the book Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, published in 2002. He is the author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press.




Biography


McKitrick gained his doctorate in economics in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, and in the same year was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario. In 2001 he received an associate professorship and has been a full professor since December 2008. He has also been a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute since 2002. He is a member of the academic advisory board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.




Writing


McKitrick has authored works about environmental economics and ones denying climate science. With Christopher Essex he co-authored the 2002 Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, a book that propagates climate change denial and was a runner-up for the Donner Prize. McKitrick was involved in disputing hockey stick graph temperature reconstructions.




References






Sources


Dunlap, Riley E.; Jacques, Peter J. (June 2013). "Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection". American Behavioral Scientist. 57 (6): 699–731. doi:10.1177/0002764213477096. ISSN 0002-7642. PMC 3787818.




External links


McKitrick's publications and papers
Ross McKitrick publications indexed by Google Scholar

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Republikanisme di Amerika Serikat
• Ross McKitrick
• McKitrick
• Steve McIntyre
• Richard A. Muller
• Hockey stick graph (global temperature)
• Taken by Storm
• Temperature record of the last 2,000 years
• George C. Marshall Institute
• Wegman Report
• Jay Treaty