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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
July 28, 2005
Category: DDT
In response to my post showing that DDT is not banned, David Adesnik suggests that there is a de facto ban on DDT There are two ways that this de facto ban is supposed to work: first, by aid agencies...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:25 PM • 38 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 27, 2005
Category: Singer
The Christian Science Monitor has published Fred Singer's acceptance speech after he won the 'Flat Earth Award'. This paragraph is interesting: What matters are facts based on actual observations. And as long as weather satellites show that the atmosphere is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:33 AM • 14 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
July 26, 2005
Category: misc
Keiran Healy observes that the U Chicago Federalist Society acted with integrity when Lott libeled Donohue. In the comments, Michael Maltz posts the letter that he sent with Dudley Duncan to the AEI about Lott and the reply they received:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:13 PM • 11 Comments •
July 25, 2005
Category: misc
Lott has a response to my post about his libel of John Donohue. He writes: 2) Unfortunately, the second planned debate was also cancelled. The debate was rescheduled for April 13th this year, and I made sure to reconfirm it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:25 PM • •
July 23, 2005
Category: personal
A beautiful sunny winter's day today so I took some pictures on a walk with my dog....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:51 AM • 6 Comments •
July 21, 2005
Category: More Guns Less Crime
On his blog Lott has a sequence of postings telling a story of how the University of Chicago Federalist Society tried to organize a debate between himself and John Donohue, but Donohue kept backing out. What really happened bears little...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:12 PM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 20, 2005
Category: personal
To celebrate 125 years of publication, The Bulletin is posting historical pictures of Australia from its archives. In the latest set, one from 1946 has my father in it. If I was a better writer I could probably tell you...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:23 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: More Guns Less Crime
In 1996 we were discussing Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" paper on the firearmsreg mailing list. I've posted my comments on my blog as entries for August 1996....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:29 AM • 2 Comments •
July 18, 2005
Category: MaryRosh
Last year an anonymous person from the American Enterprise Institute repeatedly tried and failed to remove all criticism of Lott from his wikipedia page. He eventually admitted to being Lott and claimed that the "posting contains a huge number of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:11 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
RealClimate has some responses from scientists to Barton's letters, including the replies from the three scientists that Barton sent his letters to, Mann, Bradley and Hughes. Of note is that the fact that Mann has released the source code for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:25 AM • 75 Comments •
July 16, 2005
Category: DDT
Brian Schmidt tries to track down a source for the quote "People Are Pollution" that John Ray claims was the slogan of Zero Population Growth. Ray was unable to give a source for his quote, which would seem to be...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:15 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: bobcarter
On June 7, the national science academies of the G8 nations and Brazil, China and India issued a joint statement saying: Increasing greenhouse gases are causing temperatures to rise; the Earth's surface warmed by approximately 0.6 centigrade degrees over the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:09 PM • 9 Comments •
July 15, 2005
Category: Global Warming
John A, one of the bloggers at Climate Audit writes: You should know that Lambert's scientific knowledge is *ahem* "challenged". Ask him if he's discovered what entropy is and how it applies to closed thermodynamic systems. What a guy. Following...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 AM • 32 Comments •
July 12, 2005
Category: meta
It's now a quarter of a decade since I started this blog. Originally it was just a web page for my comments on John Lott's Mysterious Survey. I figured that the survey issue would be resolved in a few weeks...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:01 AM • 6 Comments •
July 11, 2005
Category: MaryRosh
Last year blogger Xrlq dismissed my criticism of Lott as "paranoid rantings" and "gratuitous attacks on Lott personally", calling me "Dim", "Timwit", "Timbecile", "a jerk" and "Dim Lambert". This year I noted that Lott had signed his name to a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:20 PM • 43 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
July 10, 2005
Category: meta
After three posts on a spelling mistake Chris Sheil made, and another one on a Sheil typo, it seems that Tim Blair couldn't find any more Sheil errors. Undaunted, he has a new post linking Sheil to spelling mistakes made...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:49 AM • 9 Comments •
July 9, 2005
Category: meta
By popular request, I've installed a comment preview plugin. I'd tried a live preview, but it didn't display Markdown. Now with a preview and a spell check you can avoid making a mistake in a comment and having Tim Blair...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:56 AM • 1 Comments •
July 8, 2005
Category: Kininmonth
Oh, great. After getting his bogus claims about climate models into the Australian, Kininmonth now has them in the Age: The IPCC radiative forcing hypothesis ignores the atmospheric and ocean circulations that transport surplus solar energy from the tropics to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:05 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley has been reading the House of Lords report on The Economics of Climate Change and he's not impressed: Because they decided to talk nonsense about the Great Hockey Stick debate. They manage to say: "We sought evidence that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:28 PM • 11 Comments •
July 7, 2005
Category: world
I'm in favour of this suggestion from Kevin Drum. If I could have one small wish for today, it would be for the blogosphere on both left and right to refrain from political point scoring over the London attacks. Just...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 PM • 7 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Check out the 12th Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • •
July 5, 2005
Category: meta
If you are using WordPress you urgently need to upgrade to version 1.5.1.3 (released last week). This is why. Update: OK, apparently that hole had already been fixed, but there was another vulnerability. You should still upgrade....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:44 AM • 1 Comments •
July 3, 2005
Category: politics
The Jargon Dictionary says: spelling flame: n. [Usenet] A posting ostentatiously correcting a previous article's spelling as a way of casting scorn on the point the article was trying to make, instead of actually responding to that point (compare dictionary...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:27 AM • 40 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
July 1, 2005
Category: meta
Actually that's an undercount since some people read my blog via the RSS feed. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:07 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: meta
Blogwise have used the Google Maps API and GeoURL to get a map showing locations of blogs (If you follow the link you'll have to click on the satellite button to see anything). Those shadows don't look quite right. How...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:36 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Roy Spencer
For years now global warming skeptics have been using satellite measurements to argue that global warming isn't happening, For example (from 1998): Surface-based temperature records are too few in number and too unevenly spaced to generate accurate global temperature maps....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:08 AM • 109 Comments •
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