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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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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
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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 • 0 Comments
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
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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 • 0 Comments
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: Global Warming
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
