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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
June 30, 2006
Category: Global Warming
In February, 86 evangelical Christian leaders backed the Evangelical Climate Initiative, calling for federal legislation to reduce CO2 emissions. Opposing them is a group called the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance who are collecting signatures in support of a document arguing against...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:31 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: meta
PZ Myers writes Time's former "Blog of the Year," the execrable PowerLine blog with which I share a state, has done it again: said something so stupid and so palpably false that I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about ragging...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:02 AM • 9 Comments •
June 29, 2006
Category: DDT
A NY Times article on Arata Kochi, new chief of the World Health Organization's global malaria program wrongly stated that DDT was banned and had to be corrected: An article in Science Times on Tuesday, profiling Dr. Arata Kochi, the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabbett : Senator James Inhofe is demanding that AP provide him the names of the 19 atmospheric scientists who told the press agency that the science in "An Inconvenient Truth" was accurate. I have gone through a number of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Senator Inhofe (R, Exxon) has responded to the AP story on how top climate researchers say Gore got it right. Drudge pimped the response, so it's all over the place now. Inhofe's press release starts with a straight lie: AP...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:32 PM • 61 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
How is An Inconvenient Truth doing at the box office? Pretty well. The gross takings have increased every weekend and have almost reached $10,000,000. It's already the number 7 on the all time box office list for documentaries. How does...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:45 AM • 53 Comments •
June 27, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:10 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: criminology
Tim Blair has added a slew of updates to try to bolster his case against the accuracy of the British Crime survey. The most interesting things about these updates is the way he introduces his sources: Ex-Labour councillor and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:55 PM • 5 Comments •
June 26, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Judd Legum has already debunked Richard Lindzen's repetition of Benny Peiser's discredited study, but I want to add one point. Lindzen wrote: More recently, a study in the journal Science by the social scientist Nancy Oreskes claimed that a search...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:18 PM • 21 Comments •
June 25, 2006
Category: criminology
A while ago I Wrote about the Bulletin and Tim Blair's ignorance of basic statistics. Blair could not comprehend how random sampling could give more accurate crime statistics than police reports, while the Bulletin reported numbers from an Internet...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:12 PM • 10 Comments •
June 24, 2006
Category: Fumento
David Appell heard Michael Fumento on the radio: My God, he is even worse on the radio! You'd think he was the only journalist who ever went to Iraq. I only caught his segment for about two minutes, but during...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:29 AM • 16 Comments •
June 23, 2006
Category: timball
Tim Ball is suing Dan Johnson for defamation because of a letter to the editor published in the Calgary Herald (edited to add links): Whatever one may feel about Tim Ball's denial of climate change science, newspapers ought to report...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:59 PM • 28 Comments •
Category: misc
The Christian Science Monitor reports on a plan to effectively do away with the electoral college: Picture it: On election day in some future year, a presidential candidate ends up with the most popular votes but not enough electoral votes...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:43 AM • 25 Comments •
June 22, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The NAS NRC panel on temperature reconstructions has released its report. The press release states There is sufficient evidence from tree rings, boreholes, retreating glaciers, and other "proxies" of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:03 AM • 295 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Autism Diva has compiled the 37th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle. It's set in the Bermuda Triangle (Elvis needs boats!)....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:47 AM • 1 Comments •
June 21, 2006
Category: meta
The Australian's Higher Education supplement has a couple of articles on academic blogging. Andrew Leigh says that you should try it (and plugs this blog), while Bernard Lane tells us that the University of Sydney now provides blog hosting for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments •
June 20, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Stephen Soldz posts an exchange of letters between the IBC's John Sloboda and Les Roberts. Sloboda accused Roberts of spreading misinformation about a NEJM study. Roberts said: In a very prestigious journal called the New England Journal of Medicine there...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:05 PM • 51 Comments •
June 19, 2006
Category: McIntyre
Last year Steve McIntyre insinuated that Gavin Schmidt was dishonest after one of McIntyre's comments was held up in moderation: (link in quote is mine) Posting at realclimate is a little thing. I was once involved in trying to detect...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:21 PM • 48 Comments •
June 17, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tom Bethell's discussion with Chris Mooney is here. I agree with PZ Myers: Flatow let Bethell ramble on far too much. Bethell was allowed to burn up the first ten minutes of the show to make his first point --...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:29 AM • 23 Comments •
June 16, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair responds to Mieszkowski's conclusion that "climate scientists say that, basically, Gore got it right" with a link to an article by Tom Harris who writes: Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 68 Comments •
June 15, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Matt Drudge recently linked to a web site claiming that climate experts disagreed with Al Gore about global warming. Hundreds of blogs uncritically swallowed the claim. One of the few skeptics was Bruce Perens who wrote We ran a pointer...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:00 PM • 71 Comments •
June 13, 2006
Category: survey
Jim Lindgren has two posts about John Lott. First, on Lott's lawsuit against Levitt he concludes: I think that Freakonomics is misleading in its juxtaposition of different studies, a juxtaposition that might bring one to conclude that the reason that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:00 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The latest from the NZ Climate Science recommended Ken Ring: Basic science: Scattered here and there, ozone is individual molecules, not some kind of sheet metal covering the whole sky. How much? 3 parts in 100,000 of the atmosphere. Even...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:36 PM • 82 Comments •
June 12, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Over at Salon Katharine Mieszkowski asks "Did Al get the science right?" The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 7 Comments •
June 11, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Christopher Pearson foolishly relies on Ian Plimer for an article claiming that the link between global warming and sea level rises is "bad science": Plimer notes that "the tidal measuring station at Port Adelaide is sinking, thereby recording a sea...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:13 PM • 37 Comments •
June 10, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Brad Delong: And Iain Murray makes me sorry I named John Derbyshire the Stupidest Man Alive: The Corner on National Review Online: A meteorite hit a remote area of northern Norway yesterday. The explosive force of the impact was equivalent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Julian Sanchez speculates: Given the choice between an ultimately misguided but thoughtful post, for which the aforementioned piss-taking might require some research or careful grappling with facially plausible arguments, and some hack's latest howler, a lot of us are going...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:45 PM • 33 Comments •
June 9, 2006
Category: meta
The ScienceBlogs empire has expanded, with twenty-odd blogs joining us here. There is a new look home page which has channels like "Planet Earth" to help organise all the posts across all the blogs. The "Last 24 hours" channel is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • •
June 8, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition go for a variation of the global warming ended in 1998 cherry pick: "The NIWA record tells us that the current pother on global warming was caused by the sudden temperature increase in New...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:56 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Dr Charles has compiled the 36th Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 PM • •
June 7, 2006
Category: Global Warming
In this post I stated: The New York Post found someone [Kyle Smith] with less knowledge of science than Tim Blair to review An Inconvenient Truth. I was wrong. Tim Blair has less knowledge of science than does Kyle Smith....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:05 PM • 51 Comments •
June 5, 2006
Category: Global Warming
In Paul Krugman's May 29 column he wrote about Pat Michael's "fraud, pure and simple" that James Hansen's 1988 prediction of global warming was too high by 300%. (Michael's fraud was described earlier by Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, Hansen again and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:06 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The New York Post found someone with less knowledge of science than Tim Blair to review An Inconvenient Truth. David Roberts takes the review to pieces. Henry Farrell writes about Dave Kopel's claim that global warming skeptics don't get enough...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:18 PM • 14 Comments •
June 4, 2006
Category: Levitt
William Ford has the latest news on Lott's lawsuit against Levitt: Levitt and HarperCollins have filed motions to dismiss the case. Some new snippets of information(from the Joint Initial Status Report): Lott wrote Levitt on January 11, 2006 requesting that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 AM • 13 Comments •
June 2, 2006
Category: Fumento
I wrote earlier about how consultants for PG&E published a fraudulent article exonerating chromium-6. The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is now publishing a retraction of the paper. From the EWG press release:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:33 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
From the Onion: Critics Blast Al Gore's Documentary As 'Realistic' Not from the Onion: Republicans gave out free snow cones to students for an event they called "Global Cooling Day." From Ringworld: Gareth: You may care to reflect on another...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:47 AM • 150 Comments •
June 1, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Hansen's 1988 paper that Pat Michaels misrepresented in testimony is not available online. I've put some extracts here. Hansen, J., I. Fung, A. Lacis, D. Rind, Lebedeff, R. Ruedy, G. Russell, and P. Stone 1988. Global climate changes as forecast...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:21 PM • •
Category: Global Warming
I'm with John Quiggin in the debate about Joel Achenbach's story on the global warming skeptics: he's hung them out to dry. Bill Gray looks crazy when he likens Gore to Hitler, and Achenbach even gets a CEI shill to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 AM • 36 Comments •
