Dr. McKitrick specializes in environmental economics. He has published many studies on the economic analysis of pollution policy, economic growth and air pollution trends, climate policy options, the measurement of global warming, and statistical methods in paleoclimatology. His latest book is "E...
Dr. McKitrick specializes in environmental economics. He has published many studies on the economic analysis of pollution policy, economic growth and air pollution trends, climate policy options, the measurement of global warming, and statistical methods in paleoclimatology. His latest book is "Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy," published by University of Toronto Press (fall 2010). He has also published numerous invited book chapters, newspaper and magazine essays and think tank reports.
In 2003 his co-authored book "Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming" won the $10,000 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy.
McKitrick has been cited in media around the world as an expert on the science and policy of global warming. He has made invited academic presentations in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliamentary Finance and Environment Committees. In 2006 he was one of 12 experts from around the world asked to brief a panel of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences on paleoclimate reconstruction methodology.