If you've been following the climate change debate at all, then you know who Steve McIntyre is – he's the unassuming, patient, and skeptical amateur who has published more competent takedowns of warmist nonsense than anyone else. For someone like me, he's a pure delight – a ruthless seeker of scientific truth who mines the facts and slices up bogus statistical analysis like I wish I could. He's a hero to the entire AGW skeptic community.
Steve McIntyre has a hero himself: his mom.
Here he points out an article about her conquering her fear of heights – at 89 years old!