Global Warming – General overviews
BEIJING FORUM: I was invited to speak to the 2011 BeiJing Forum being held at Peking University, November 4-6. My presentation is here. I also presented on State-Contingent Emission Fees at the Peking University School of Engineering and Environmental Science and the Central University of Finance and Economics. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: Presentation via Webinar, August 28, 2011. The event was in Denver CO and I was in Guelph. I assume there was an audience, all I saw was my own computer screen.
THIRD AGE LEARNING SOCIETY: I made a presentation to a large group of retirees on campus (Sept 28 2011) at the Arboretum, entitled "Global Warming: Who's Disagreeing with What?" My slides are here in PDF format.
AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION: I was invited to participate in a panel discussion called "Addressing the Evidence for Anthropogenic Climate Change" at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the ASA in Miami, August 3 2011.Other presenters are Mark Berliner, John Christy, Stephen Sain and Richard Smith. We each had 10 minutes for an opening presentation, and then we had a round-table/Q&A for an hour or so. My opening presentation covered 3 topics I have worked on that involve statistical methods in hypothesis testing.
DEUTSCHE BANK, ROUNDS I & II: In September 2010 DB released a report to rebut major skeptic arguments on global warming. Several topics in their report related to areas I am quite familiar with. I posted a response that critiqued their handling of the hockey stick and the "hide the decline" email. The authors of the DB report published a response which you can read here. My reply is available here.
EARTH HOUR: In 2010 I was asked by a journalist for my views on the importance of Earth Hour. Here is why I do not celebrate it.
I wrote an invited article in the April 2008 edition of Academic Matters critiquing the notion of an environmental crisis in general and touching on global warming in particular.
- *McKitrick, Ross R. (2008) The Environmental Crisis: The Devil is in the Generalities Academic Matters April-May 2008, pp. 13-17.
In August 2008 I was asked by the Manning Centre in Calgary to speak at a course for journalists on public policy issues. The specific topic given to me was "Questions every journalists should ask about global warming." My presentation was pretty well received (whether it changes the way global warming gets reported on in Canada is another matter).
- McKitrick, Ross R (2008) Questions every journalist should ask about global warming Manning Centre, Calgary, August 27 2008.
I have recently presented some variation on the following talk to a few, mostly student audiences.
- McKitrick, Ross R. Some Complicating Factors in Understanding Climate Change (2 MB pdf file)
This one is a few years old but still presents what is, I think, a sound critique of the general sequence of thinking underlying the present policy quagmire.
- McKitrick, Ross R. (November 2003) An Economist's Perspective on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol Invited presentation to the University of Manitoba Economics Department Fall Workshop, 2003.
This one is very short but poses some questions I wish were asked more often.
- McKitrick, Ross R. (February 2002). Asking the Right Questions about Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol Fraser Forum.
