https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/01/the-man-who-broke-the-bank/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 13:09:28 -0400<![CDATA[Steve McIntyre, whose previous careers included mineral exploration and policy analysis for the Canadian government, has been one of the foremost critics &#8220;of the temperature record of the past 1000 years and the data quality of NASA&#8217;s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.&#8221; His detailed look into the data quality of the so-called Hockey Stick graph (see below) upon which much of the Global Warming thesis has been based, unearthed problems that the National Research Council was tasked by Congress to investigate. They concluded in 2006 that &#8220;there were statistical shortcomings in the MBH analysis, but &#8230; they were small in effect&#8221;.]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:04:53 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2009/10/01/the-man-who-broke-the-bank-n189240