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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 30, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Stephen Soldz has posted his discussion with Jon Pedersen about the new Lancet study: [Pedersen thinks that the] prewar mortality is too low. This would be due to recall issues. ... Pedersen thought that people were likely reporting nonviolent deaths...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: DDT
Bjorn Lomborg interviewed by TCS Daily says: The use of DDT is probably the best example of this and its use in the third world was badly mismanaged. DDT is not dangerous to humans, but it is dangerous to some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 38 Comments •
November 28, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Laurie David, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth writes about what happened when she tried to donate copies of the movie to schools: So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:27 AM • 14 Comments •
November 26, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Science has Burnham and Roberts' reply (subscription required) to the criticisms that Science published on Lancet 2:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:56 AM • 7 Comments •
November 23, 2006
Category: Monckton
Monckton responding to an email about how volcanoes cause ozone depletion: I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of the general-circulation models, so I'm not sure how it is that the ozone hole appears only over the Antarctic. One...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 AM • 30 Comments •
November 22, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Glenn Reynolds, Nov 21: IRAQ: "So far this month, the civilian casualty count is well below the casualty count in October and below the six-month average. The security force casualties reduced 21 percent over the past four weeks, and are...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 AM • 19 Comments •
November 21, 2006
Category: Monckton
Christopher Monckton and George Monbiot have an exchange in the Guardian and William Connolley is not impressed. Today's grauniad has a piece by Monckton, "This wasn't gibberish. I got my facts right on global warming". Its in the "response" column,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:48 AM • 57 Comments •
November 20, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Slate has published a response from Burnham and Roberts to Kaplan's botched criticism of Lancet 2. Kaplan's latest article focused on two baseless criticisms of our 2006 study. First, he claimed that our measured base line rate, the rate of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:59 PM • 52 Comments •
November 19, 2006
Category: Monckton
The Daily Telegraph has published a piece by Al Gore that corrects Monckton's numerous errors. An extract: Monckton goes on to level a serious accusation at the scientists involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claiming that they have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:59 PM • 34 Comments •
November 18, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Sheldon Rampton has a nice summary of the reactions to the new Lancet study. He concludes: Even so, the results of the Lancet study, combined with what we know about the limitations of other attempts to count the dead, suggest...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:01 PM • 40 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The CBC's Fifth Estate has produced a documentary on the global warming denial industry: The documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:21 AM • 7 Comments •
November 12, 2006
Category: Monckton
Christopher Monckton's attempt to debunk anthropogenic global warming was full of errors. In a follow-up article he only corrects three of them, and even makes another error in his correction....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 AM • 61 Comments •
November 10, 2006
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin catches Andrew Bolt pointing to stratospheric cooling as evidence against global warming. Stratospheric cooling is one of the pieces of evidence that suggest that the warming at the Earth's surface (where people other than Andrew Bolt live) is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:39 PM • 9 Comments •
November 9, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
CBS news reports Iraq's Health Minister Ali al-Shemari said about 150,000 Iraqis have been killed by insurgents since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion. For every person killed about three have been wounded in violence since the war started in March...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:03 PM • 92 Comments •
Category: Monckton
Gavin Schmidt explains where Monckton went wrong in his calculations of climate sensitivity. John Quiggin collects some of the nutty ideas the global warming denialists have latched onto. I exchanged a few emails with Monckton. He conceded that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:13 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Thursday has done a heroic job with the 47th Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:15 AM • •
November 8, 2006
Category: politics
PZ Myers is being a bit "the glass is half empty", but Joe Barton will no longer chair the Committee on Energy and Commerce and James Inhofe will no longer chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. That's good news...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:27 PM • 21 Comments •
November 7, 2006
Category: meta
Tim Dunlop has a new blog called Blogocracy at News Limited's news.com.au site. Any thoughts that this might make him go easy on News Limited's John Howard brown-nose squad have been dispelled by this post. In other blogging news Andrew...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Kevin Grandia writes: Canada's latest and greatest climate change denial group, the Natural Resource Stewardship Project, has come up with a laughable reason for hiding it's funding sources. According to a recent CanWest News Service article, the NRSP's executive director,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 42 Comments •
November 6, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
This American Life have a show on Lancet 1 and Lancet 2. Much of it is a repeat of their story on Lancet 1, which is well worth listening to if you haven't already. Their comments on Lancet 2 are...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:09 AM • 55 Comments •
November 5, 2006
Category: Monckton
Christopher Monckton has a lengthy article in the Daily Telegraph where he attempts to debunk the notion that there is significant anthropogenic global warming. The main problem with his article is that he doesn't know what he's writing about it....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:32 PM • 71 Comments •
November 2, 2006
Category: bobcarter
Today's Australian has a Bob Carter opinion piece attacking the Stern report. Carter lets fly with his usual over-the-top rhetoric: the Stern review is destined to join Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and think tank the Club of Rome's manifesto,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:15 PM • 64 Comments •
Category: Bolt
In Andrew Bolt's latest column he sort of admits that Peiser was wrong, but still misleads his readers. As Attard reported, I'd cited research by British academic Benny Peiser, who claimed to have disproved a survey that concluded none of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:16 AM • 5 Comments •
