Yeah I haven't dug too deeply into the article itself, can't really find the motivation given the history of both the Financial Post and Ross McKitrick himself. McKitrick has a long history of terrible arguments, like claiming it's impossible to have an average temperature, and bad math, like one incident I remember had McKitrick's analysis having gaps in the data, in itself not necessarily bad, but in the gaps he put in a temperature of zero degrees, of course producing a cooling trend when all those zeroes were lumped in with real data.
McKitrick is also a signatory of the Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, which says this:
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We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.
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http://www.cornwallalliance.org/arti...lobal-warming/
Starting with the belief and working backwards is the opposite of science.
So I'd have to be really motivated or really bored to look hard at anything McKitrick says. That's probably not the best scientific view, but if he ever comes up with something that merits a look I'm sure it'll come to light.