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*[DEF2002] Chris de Freitas, ―Are observed changes in the concentration
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere really dangerous?‖ Bulletin of
Canadian Petroleum Geology Vol 50, No 2 (June 2002), P.297-327.
Received 03/28/02, Accepted 06/23/02.
web.archive.org/web/20030526163750/www.cspg.org/deFreitas_climate.p
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The hockey stick is attacked pp.11-14.
[DEN2005] Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj,
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, 2005. The WR used text
from this, unacknowledged, as did [SAI2008, SHA2008].
www.sna.pl/teksty/ESNAwP.pdf on-line copy, no need for OCR
*[ESS2002] Christopher Essex, Ross McKitrick, Taken by Storm – The
troubled science, policy, and politics of global warming. November 2002.
Neither author is a climate scientist. The book offers plenty of confusion,
and many references to science literature later strongly refuted, such as
Christy&Spencer on satellite MSU anomalies, D‘Aleo, Zbiginew
Jaworowski, S.Idso, John Daly, GES, etc.
Chapter 5 of 10 (p.155-174) is ‖T-Rex plays hockey.‖ – they were
attacking that in 2001-2002, well before McIntyre‘s involvement. Donner
Canadian (closely connected with the Fraser Institute) apparently gave
$20K to U of Guelph Economics 06/15/02 (presumably McKitrick), and
then after the book was published, awarded the pair another $20K as
runner-up Donner Book Prize. The book thanks Donner for their support.
*[EWE2010] Susan Ewens, Memorandum to Parliament (CRU 13)
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/c
limatedata/uc1302.htm
*[GMI2003] George Marshall Institute, Washington Roundtable, MM,
―The IPCC, the ―Hockey Stick‖ Curve, and the Illusion of Experience.,‖
11/18/03. Key document. Ebell introduced MM to GMI, interesting people
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attend, such as Inhofe counsel Hogan asking about tree-ring statistics, not
usually a topic of interest to Congressional lawyers.
www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/188.pdf
*[GMI2005] George Marshall Institute, Marshall News, describing
02/10/05 Roundtable, ―U.S. Climate Policy After Kyoto‘s Ratification,‖
p.1,10,11. See Inhofe, and GMI2005 in W.4.
www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/300.pdf
*[GMI2005a or MM05x] George Marshall Institute, Washington
Roundtable, MM, ―The Hockey Stick Debate: Lessons in Disclosure and
Due Diligence.,‖ 05/11/05. Also McIntyre, McKitrick(2005).
Key document: in essence lays out a campaign of which some was done.
www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/316.pdf
web.archive.org/web/20060213060236/www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/31
6.pdf
[GMU2007] GMU Statistics Colloquium Series, Fall 2007.
www.galaxy.gmu.edu/stats/colloquia/ColloquiaFall2007.html
This is an invaluable reference, that has since been removed, see A.11.
*[GOR2010] Steve Goreham, Climatism! 2010.
pp.180-181 ―Dr. Edward Wegman, an expert in statistics, was chosen by
the national Academy of Sciences to lead a team to provide an independent
critique of Dr. Mann‘s work for the House committee.‖
No, he was not. This is a persistent idea.
#[GUT2009] Donald Gutstein, Not a Conspiracy Theory – How Business
Propaganda Hijacks Democracy, 2009. (Canada)
This gives a useful Canadian viewpoint. See Chapter 7 on Fraser Institute
and the National Post.
*[HAY2008] Howard C. Hayden, A Primer on CO2 and Climate, Second
Edition, 2008, Vales Lakes Publishing. (self-published).
*[HOL2010] David Holland, Memorandum to Parliament (CRU 24)
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/c
limatedata/uc2402.htm