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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
December 31, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Geoffrey Lean in The Independent claims: Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:09 AM • 24 Comments •
Don't pay any attention to the date stamp on this post. It's 2007 already here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:24 AM • 1 Comments •
December 30, 2006
Category: Fumento
In response to my post, Michael Fumento has offered a bet: 10 to 1 odds on a pandemic in the next year. That means that Fumento thinks that there is a 10% of a pandemic in the next year. This...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 PM • 1 Comments •
December 28, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Some readers think I should use the piñata whenever I write about something silly by Tim Blair, but the rules for piñata usage are stricter than that. The rules are that it is only to be used when Blair...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:59 PM • 11 Comments •
December 26, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Kevin Vranes wonders if scientists have oversold climate change: We wonder if we've oversold the science. We're wondering what happened to our community, that individuals caveat even the most minor questionings of barely-proven climate change evidence, lest they be tagged...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 PM • 71 Comments •
December 23, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Radio Open Source has a program on the Lancet study with comments from Les Roberts, Colin Kahl (arguing that the number is too high), Juan Cole and Iraqi bloggers....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 AM • 1 Comments •
December 22, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Iain "CO2 is life" Murray complains about politicization of science. No, I'm not kidding. More seriously, Andrew Dessler gives a definition I agree with:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:20 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: meta
I knew if I kept blogging long enough, I'd eventually win one of those awards....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:35 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
Theo has a Carl Sagan theme for the 50th Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:40 AM • •
December 20, 2006
Category: Fumento
Michael Fumento thinks there is nothing to worry about. Revere disagrees: It isn't that what Fumento says is so outrageous one would have to be stupid or ignorant to believe it. It's that it would be folly (and stupid) to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 AM • 9 Comments •
December 17, 2006
Seed has published a group portrait of all the ScienceBloggers. I'm hiding at the back somewhere....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • •
Category: DDT
Brent Herbert debunks some myths about bedbugs and DDT: Since I discovered that I have bed bugs I have been touring around the internet doing research right from day one and what I have discovered is that the media is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:47 AM • 12 Comments •
December 15, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair writes: Heat Down Less heat is evidence of a continuing hotness trend: 2006 is set to be the sixth warmest year on record, continuing the trend of global warming and extreme weather conditions worldwide, the UN's weather...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:21 AM • 74 Comments •
Category: McIntyre
Shorter Steve McIntyre: Al Gore is fat. (Shorter concept invented by D squared, perfected by Busy, busy, busy.) Update: McIntyre has edited his post. Here's what he originally wrote: Gore has gotten a little stout over the years and a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:03 AM • 5 Comments •
December 14, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Cynthia Burack, guest bloggging at Thus Spake Zuska reports on a Christian Right conference: You may not be surprised to learn that, in the Right world, global warming does not exist. Nay-sayers have been making this claim since scientists first...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:20 AM • 6 Comments •
December 13, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabett on the Oregon Petition where we find John Humphreys in the graveyard resurrecting this unkillable climate denialist zombie. Tim Lambert, thermometer in hand tries to bludgeon the poor beast into eternal peace (and quiet). For those of you...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:28 AM • 7 Comments •
December 12, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Stephen Soldz has a nice summary of the congressional briefing on the Lancet study:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:54 AM • 6 Comments •
December 11, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The Sunday Telegraph has published an inaccurate story about the forthcoming IPCC fourth assessment report: In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 43 Comments •
December 10, 2006
Category: Global Warming
We last encountered anti-Kyoto activist John Humphreys in this post when I tried to get him to correct a post that incorrectly claimed that satellites showed a cooling temperature trend and he responded by repeatedly accusing me of lying. Now...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:41 AM • 137 Comments •
December 9, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Via Stephen Soldz WASHINGTON - December 8 - In a bipartisan Congressional briefing hosted by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) the authors of the Lancet Study, which found that as many as 650,000 Iraqi civilians...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:47 AM • 45 Comments •
December 8, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Gavin Schmidt reviews Inhofe's last Senate hearing on climate change, which starred Bob "global warming ended in 1998" Carter. Kevin Grandia also says good bye. And while I'm posting links: Nexus 6 catches NSW politician Jon Jenkins peddling Peiser's discredited...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:51 AM • 10 Comments •
December 7, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
The 49th Skeptic's Circle has been hosted by channeling a dead skeptic... Go, read....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:55 PM • •
Revere has the latest on the scientific evidence that proves their innocence. Janet Stemwedel has addresses where you can send letters....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:39 PM • 12 Comments •
December 6, 2006
Category: Global Warming
The latest paper being touted by the global warming skeptic crew is by a couple of petroleum engineers named Khilyuk and Chilingar and concludes The current global warming is most likely a combined effect of increased solar and tectonic activities...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:16 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Monckton
William Connolley has the latest on Monckton. It seems that he's throwing around threats to sue for libel. Also Eli Rabett describes yet another Monckton error....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:59 AM • 1 Comments •
December 5, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
The latest issue of the Walkley Magazine has an article I wrote about the media coverage of the Lancet study. They haven't made it available on line, so I've put a copy below the fold....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:20 AM • 50 Comments •
December 2, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair tells us: Think on this awhile: if a vengeful Gaia were to smite both Canada AND Australia out of existence, that would reduce by only 3.4 per cent of these warming gases some believe are killing the planet....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:44 AM • 101 Comments •
December 1, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Too much has been made of the claims about main street bias in the new Lancet study -- if you do a few calculations you'll find that even if it exists, it doesn't make much difference. As Jon Pedersen said:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:02 PM • 55 Comments •
