Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Can someone explain again why we should blindly accept anything Ross Garnaut says about the climate scam, while we should ignore everything Steve McIntyre says?

Ross Garnaut, gold miner's chairman | The Australian
ROSS Garnaut will be hoping that none of the 200 staff that Lihir Gold is planning to sack from its Ballarat mine are shareholders.

The climate change guru and gold miner's chairman, who was paid $US330,000 ($442,000) last year, is still sweating on a pay rise.
Ross Garnaut: Information from Answers.com
Dr Ross Garnaut (born July 28, 1946, Perth, Western Australia[1]) AO BA (ANU), PhD (ANU) is a professor of economics at the Australian National University.[2]

On 30 April 2007 the State and Territory Governments of Australia, at the request of Kevin Rudd, then leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, appointed Professor Garnaut to examine the claimed impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, and recommend medium to long-term policies and policy frameworks to improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity...
Stephen McIntyre: Information from Answers.com
Stephen McIntyre is the primary author of Climate Audit, a blog devoted to the analysis and discussion of climate data. He is most prominent as a critic of the temperature record of the past 1000 years, particularly the work of Michael E. Mann, and the data quality of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Toronto.[1] He studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford.

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 was the president and founder of Northwest Exploration Company Limited and a director of its parent company, Northwest Explorations Inc.

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