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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
May 31, 2006
Category: Levitt
The LA Times publishes Jon Wiener on Lott's lawsuit: But Lott is not suing those who have said some of his pro-gun research was "invented," "faked" or "cooked." The lawsuit turns on the definition of "replicate," from the "Freakonomics" sentence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:10 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Iain Murray, one of the masterminds who made the CEI ad that claimed that Al Gore produced as much CO2 as the state of Kentucky, discovers that Gore, on net, produces no CO2: Al Gore justifies his enjoyment of a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 PM • 17 Comments •
May 30, 2006
Category: Global Warming
One trouble with cherry picking is that you have to be very careful not to change anything or the whole thing falls apart. Dennis Avery picks up Bob Carter's "Global Warming stopped in 1998" cherry but fluffs it The official...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:26 PM • 12 Comments •
May 29, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Roy Spencer takes a break from his parody writing with a new column at Tech Central Station. He has some questions for Al Gore. I think he should have just used Google to find the answers, but what the hey,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:04 PM • 20 Comments •
May 28, 2006
Category: Global Warming
After everyone laughed at their first two ads, CEI have made another one. This purports to compare Gore's CO2 emissions from flying around to give his presentation on global warming with that of an average person. This screen capture shows...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:13 PM • 41 Comments •
Category: Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot
The Editors on Gregg Easterbrook: I was going to do a whole thing about how disingenuous Gregg Easterbrook has been about global warming, but I see that Media Matters has already done a very thorough job. I would like to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:13 AM • 6 Comments •
May 27, 2006
Category: DDT
Several days ago I described how the World Bank's Booster Program and Attaran et al both misunderstood an article published by Akhavan, Musgrove, Abrantes, and Gusmao. Since then, the World Bank has corrected the error while Attaran, even though his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:46 PM • 15 Comments •
May 26, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Roger Dewhurst, who is a member of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, has sent a letter to NZ MPs: "I was appalled to see a one page propaganda sheet apparently put out by the Ministry of Education which made...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 8 Comments •
May 25, 2006
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin notes that Michael Shermer and Sir David Attenborough have now accepted that the evidence for global warming is overwhelming and that the skeptics now mostly consist of the deluded like Ken Ring and the shills like the CEI....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 57 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Skeptico got a creationist guest blogger to put together the 35th Skeptics' Circle. Check it out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:04 PM • •
May 24, 2006
Category: meta
Tim Blair is incensed at my conclusion that Steyn had stolen from a blogger. He calls me "the Lambot" and "a thief", searches for something to attack me with ... and comes up with an incorrect comment I made on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:52 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
UNICEF reports: Despite the laudable efforts of the Public Distribution System (PDS) of food baskets, many of Iraq's poorer households are still food insecure, according to a Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis launched today, based on the most recent data...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 PM • 16 Comments •
Probable human to human to human transmission....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
This weeks ask a Science blogger question is: "If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:27 AM • 16 Comments •
May 23, 2006
Category: Global Warming
I think Exxon should be asking for their money back from some of the think tanks they are funding. I mean, these people are supposed to be slick professionals, well versed in the art of media manipulation, but they've completely...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 PM • 57 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Pinko Punko applied for a job at the CEI. The Editors award Ron Bailey the coveted Golden Winger. Ron Bailey comments on my earlier post: You invited me to come on down, so here I am a bit late (you...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:48 PM • 9 Comments •
May 22, 2006
Category: DDT
Philip Musgrove, one of the authors of the paper that Amir Attaran misunderstood writes: The one--and only--point on which Attaran and his co-authors are right is that in the Appendix to the Booster Program document, someone at the World Bank...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:46 AM • 1 Comments •
May 21, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The Washington Post reveals that Roy Spencer is the man behind environmentalist parody site ecoEnquirer.com: Somewhere in an office about 600 miles southwest of here, former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer is laughing. The 50-year-old, white-haired PhD dreamed up the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:30 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Steyn
Quoting myself: One of the less pleasant parts of my job is talking to students that I have caught plagiarizing assignments. All too often, rather than admit to copying they will tell me clumsy lies and blame somebody else. Like...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:33 AM • 3 Comments •
May 20, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Media Matters catches Pat Michaels in an outrageous bit of quote mining: MICHAELS: Well, it's an exaggeration. Global warming is a very real thing. People have something to do with it in the last several decades of the 20th century....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:08 PM • 21 Comments •
May 19, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The reviews are in on the CEI's ads: Ha ha ha ha ha. Here's a small selection:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 20 Comments •
May 18, 2006
Category: Global Warming
In a previous post I wrote that the "leading climate scientists" in the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition only contained one actual climate scientist, Chris de Freitas. I was wrong. They have prominent links to papers by de Freitas, but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:35 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
RealClimate informs us of two ads being put out by the Onion Competitive Enterprise Institute. Punchline: "CO2: they call it pollution, we call it Life!". If the CEI staff was locked in an airtight room, would they still call CO2...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:43 AM • 49 Comments •
May 17, 2006
Category: DDT
The New York Times reported: The World Bank failed to follow through on its pledges to spend up to $500 million to combat malaria, let its staff working on the disease shrink to zero, used false statistical data to claim...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition registered climatescience.org.nz for their domain. A bit cheeky, given the dearth of actual climate scientists in their "coalition". Greenpeace New Zealand has countered by registering climatescience.co.nz and climatescience.net.nz and creating a web site describing...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:09 AM • 14 Comments •
May 16, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
This week's ask a ScienceBlogger question is "Will the 'human' race be around in 100 years?"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:31 PM • 42 Comments •
May 15, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Richard Lindzen has jumped on Bob Carter's global warming stopped in 1998 bandwagon. Here's one slide from a presentation he gave at right-wing Swedish think tank....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:42 PM • 62 Comments •
May 14, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Reporting on global warming in the media is far too often of the "he said/she said" type that just leaves the impression with the reader that is controversial and there is no way for the reader to work out what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:43 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: personal
We were out walking the dog at Malabar Bay and saw some dolphins. They're not an unusual sight in the ocean off Sydney but I've never seen them this close before -- you could almost reach out and touch...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:48 AM • 3 Comments •
May 11, 2006
Category: Iraq
In February I linked to a detailed report in IEEE Spectrum that explained how billions of dollars had been wasted and electricity production in Iraq at 3,600 megawatts was still less than it was before the war. Glenn Reynolds felt...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
It's a gem of a Skeptic's Circle over at Second Sight. Check it out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:14 AM • •
May 10, 2006
Category: DDT
Daniel Son writes While an inordinate amount of attention is given to distant, theoretical threats of global warming, a tragically minimal amount of attention is given to the life and death problems of today, some of which directly result from...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 PM • 28 Comments •
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
ScienceBlogs has a new feature where all the bloggers answer a question. Today's question: "If you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?" Easy. Cold...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:10 AM • 15 Comments •
May 9, 2006
Category: politics
The fun never ends with Glenn Reynolds' "steal the oil" post. Tim Blair exclaims: Warming alarmite Tim Lambert (current average daily visits: 3,577) is now demanding $520 per week for ad space at his rarely-viewed site; $3360 for three months!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:55 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
In the olden days to become a leading climate scientist you had to work hard, do lots of research and publish it in good journals. Now there's a quicker method. Put out a press release....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:03 PM • 12 Comments •
May 7, 2006
Category: politics
Folks are still having fun with Glenn Reynolds' "Let's invade Saudi Arabia and Iran and steal their oil" post. Sean Carroll reckons that the wrongness might be enough to form a singularity. But that can't be right, because the wrongness...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:01 PM • 35 Comments •
The LA Times has cancelled Michael Hiltzik's column because of his use of sock puppets. Cathy Seipp comments: No matter what you think of the mainstream media, journalists generally try to be honest and Hiltzik's fundamental dishonesty meant he was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:38 AM • 1 Comments •
May 6, 2006
Category: Milloy
A while ago I wrote about Steve Milloys Free Enterprise Action Fund and its dismal performance: "From inception on March 1 of last year through Dec. 31, Free Enterprise Action returned 2.32 percent; the S&P 500 returned 4.72 percent. That's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:20 AM • 14 Comments •
May 4, 2006
Category: politics
Glenn Reynolds has kept adding updates to his "seize the oilfields" post, including a response to my post that managed to entirely miss my point. (Invading Iraq has reduced its oil production.) The resulting post is rather confused. Fortunately Jim...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 35 Comments •
May 3, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Last Sunday, about a hundred zombies lurched through downtown Sydney. In an interesting coincidence some zombie facts have lurched through a column by Ruth Lea: And, interestingly, global average air temperatures, which are regarded as more reliable by climate scientists,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:18 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: politics
Glenn Reynolds: Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. Yeah, because that's pretty much...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:06 AM • 60 Comments •
Category: DDT
Lisa Payola is OK! de Pasqaule writes: In the spirit of Conservative Shopping Day and celebrating conservative ingenuity, JunkScience.com has just released "the world's first pro-DDT, anti-malaria t-shirt." The t-shirt launch is part of an educational program to help debunk...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:48 AM • 2 Comments •
May 2, 2006
H347h3r p1ck w4rn5 0f t3h d4ng3rz 0f 1337: The language is morphing into a dangerous dialect that's completely foreign to parents. "It gives criminals, kids, whomever, another way to communicate covertly with one another without maybe parents catching on to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: bobcarter
One favourite tactic of creationists is that of "quote-mining", using out-of-context quotes from scientists that appear to support the creationists' position. Global warming skeptics play this game as well and a recent Calgary Herald column Tim Ball is a good...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 AM • 22 Comments •
May 1, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
In an earlier post on the IBC I wrote: Sloboda says: We've always said our work is an undercount, you can't possibly expect that a media-based analysis will get all the deaths. Our best estimate is that we've got about...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 26 Comments •
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