Skeptic's Circle 44
Category: Skeptics Circle
Martin has put together Skeptic's Circle 44. My pick: coturnix on denialist rhetoric, but check them all out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:24 PM • •
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September 27, 2006
September 26, 2006
Bush administration suppresses scientific report, lies about it
Category: Global Warming
I'm sure you can guess what the suppressed report says about the link between hurricanes and global warming. Jim Giles at Nature reports (subscription only): A statement on the science behind the politically sensitive issue of hurricane activity and climate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:18 PM • 39 Comments •
New WHO malaria policy is "operationally unsound"
Category: DDT
Chris White who is the Malaria Programme Leader with the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) responds to the new WHO malaria policy: The World Health Organisation's new stance on DDT, yet again only goes to show how so many...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:50 AM • 2 Comments •
September 25, 2006
Inhofe's speech on global warming
Category: Global Warming
It's almost cheating to play Global Warming Sceptic Bingo on an Inhofe speech. David Roberts takes it apart....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:30 PM • 9 Comments •
Becker and Posner's ignorance about DDT
Category: DDT
Gary Becker and Richard Posner have written a pair of posts about DDT and there is much wrong with what they have written. Becker writes: The world Trade Organization (WTO) declared in 1998 a "war on malaria" that aimed to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:06 PM • 25 Comments •
September 24, 2006
DDT in Uganda
Category: DDT
Jessie Stone, who runs a malaria education, prevention and treatment program in Uganda, comments in the New York Times on the WHO's DDT pushing. To many of us in the malaria-control business, it came as no great surprise last week...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:31 PM • 14 Comments •
September 23, 2006
Financial-disclosure Policies of Science Journals
Category: Global Warming
In June, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine retracted a fraudulent paper because: "financial and intellectual input to the paper by outside parties was not disclosed." Paul Thacker has an interesting article on financial-disclosure policies in scientific journals. Most...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 AM • 8 Comments •
September 20, 2006
Bush Administration muzzles scientists, lies about it
Category: Global Warming
Paul Thacker has the story in Salon: In February, there were several press reports about the Bush administration exercising message control on the subject of climate change. The New Republic cited numerous instances in which top officials at the National...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 PM • 46 Comments •
Free the Tripoli Six
Category: politics
Five nurses and a doctor have been falsely accused of deliberately infecting their patients with HIV. They've been imprisoned and tortured in Libya since 1999 and may now be condemned to death. Declan Butler writes: what is needed is an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:12 PM • 9 Comments •
Iain Murray might have to get a productive job
Category: Global Warming
The Guardian reports In a letter earlier this month to Esso, the UK arm of ExxonMobil, the Royal Society cites its own survey which found that ExxonMobil last year distributed $2.9m to 39 groups that the society says misrepresent the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 3 Comments •
Jeffrey Sachs invites the WSJ editorial page back to reality
Category: Global Warming
Jeffrey Sachs writes in the Scientific American about the Wall Street Journal's editorial page: Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:05 PM • 1 Comments •
September 19, 2006
Politically Based Medicine at the WHO
Category: DDT
The New York Times reports: Dr. Kochi said the most substantive change in the W.H.O.'s guidelines on the use of insecticides would extend the reach of the strategy. Until now, the agency had recommended indoor spraying of insecticides in areas...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:18 PM • 53 Comments •
September 18, 2006
Tim Ball's Statement of Claim
Category: timball
Richard Littlemore has posted Ball's Statement of Claim. Here is the heart of it with my commments: 8 The letter to the editor contains the follow statements which contain inaccuracies and are defamatory of Ball:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:08 PM • 23 Comments •
September 17, 2006
Basically, he invented climatology
Category: timball
Tim Ball's letter to Paul Martin starts: I was one of the first climatology PhDs in the world. He got his PhD in 1983....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:33 AM • 11 Comments •
September 15, 2006
Andrew Bolt gets a perfect score on global warming
Category: Global Warming
Andrew Bolt welcomes Al Gore to Australia with a column that accuses Gore of being "one of the worst of the fact-fiddling Green evangelicals". Bolt writes: Well, here are just 10 of my own "minor quibbles" with Gore's film. These...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:27 PM • 63 Comments •
September 14, 2006
Tim Ball sues for $325,000
Category: timball
The Globe and Mail reports CALGARY -- The skeptic at the centre of the heated debate about climate change that has been taking place in Canadian newspapers is moving the dispute to the courts, where Tim Ball is seeking $325,000...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:17 PM • 106 Comments •
Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind
Last night I saw went to the 2006 UNSW CSE Revue: The teXt Files: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind. An awesome show, especially if you are a nerd, with sketches on the X files, Stargate, role-playing games, computer...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:31 PM • 1 Comments •
43rd Skeptic's Circle
Category: Skeptics Circle
Janet D. Stemwedel, fresh from organizing the great nerd-off, has put together the sad puppy edition of the Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:19 AM • •
September 11, 2006
In denial about Climate Audit censorship
Category: Global Warming
Over at Climate Audit, Willis Eschenbach responded to my comment about CA's censorship of comments with this denial: Tim, you're posting here, free to blather on about nothing scientific at all ... meanwhile I'm totally censored from asking scientific questions...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • 93 Comments •
James Glassman is incorrigible
In 2004 Chris Mooney wrote on Op-Ed Seductions: Two of the most striking recent incidents involve the same author: James Glassman of Tech Central Station and the American Enterprise Institute. Some essential background on Glassman's operation comes from this article...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:34 PM • 21 Comments •
September 9, 2006
Greenhouse dirty dozen at work
Category: Global Warming
According to Clive Hamilton, Alan Moran is one of Australia's greenhouse Dirty dozen: As the head of the Regulatory Unit at the Institute for Public Affairs, a right-wing think tank with close ties to greenhouse sceptics, Moran's role has been...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 11 Comments •
September 8, 2006
A Nerd's Progress
Category: personal
Shelley does the call as the nerds strut their stuff... And declares a winner: Although, without further ado, Mark Chu-Carrol hands-down wins the nerd-off (in my humble opinion of course). For one, his CURRENT picture trumps PZ's old one, and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:23 AM • 14 Comments •
September 7, 2006
Nerd-off
Category: personal
Janet declared a nerd-off, so I must join the throng. Here is a colour-coded table of SciBloggers results in the Nerd test. Nerd Score SciBlogger 99 Nerd God Mark C. Chu-Carroll 99 Nerd God Tim Lambert 99 Nerd God Shelley...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:11 PM • 15 Comments •
September 6, 2006
Chronicle on Hockey Stick
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley has a few comments on the Chronicle of Higher Education's article on the hockey stick wars. There is also a question and answer session with Gerald North of the NRC panel. I liked this question, from one Patrick...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:04 PM • 96 Comments •
September 5, 2006
Bats Aren't Bugs
Category: Global Warming
This week's "Ask a Science Blogger" question is: I read this article in the NRO, and the author actually made some interesting arguments. 'Basically,' he said, 'I am questioning the premise that [global warming] is a problem rather than an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:07 PM • 7 Comments •
Matthew Warren continues where he left off
Category: Global Warming
So, what happens when you hire a coal industry PR guy as your environment writer? You get stories like this, by Matthew Warren: Science tempers fears on climate change The world's top climate scientists have cut their worst-case forecast for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:18 PM • 8 Comments •
September 3, 2006
The comments the NZ CSC won't publish
Category: Global Warming
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition posted a Bob Carter article repeating his bogus claim that global warming ended in 1998. When folks left comments pointing out the flaws in Carter's arguments, the NZ CSC responded by deleting all the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:50 PM • 18 Comments •
