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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
January 30, 2007
Category: DDT
Via Ian Hart I find Paul Driessen in the Washington Times offering alarmist claims that action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be economic suicide. We see how important the DDT ban myth is to these folks: It's a classic...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 PM • 12 Comments •
January 29, 2007
Category: Global Warming
There's denial and there's pathological denial. In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has continued to deny that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors. The latest bit of denial: "To say he concedes, when...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:42 PM • 16 Comments •
January 27, 2007
Category: astroturf
revere reports The for-profit publishers don't like BMC or Public Library of Science (PLoS) or any of the other open access publishers and are determined to crush them. So they hired the PR firm of Eric Dezenhall, who also worked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:28 AM • 83 Comments •
January 26, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Earlier I wrote about Khilyuk and Chilingar their mistake is so large and so obvious that anyone who cites them either has no clue about climate science or doesn't care whether what they write is true or not. So who...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:48 PM • 21 Comments •
January 25, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Paul Hamer sends me an email about Khilyuk and Chilingar: (my emphasis) I had a quick poke around on the ISI database to see if anyone had cited their original study that you've covered. I found that their is a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 32 Comments •
January 22, 2007
Category: Fumento
Michael Fumento has been booted off Winds of Change because he misrepresented a scientific article. As usual he responded with abuse: I'm off to Ramadi again next month. Put that alongside the chickenhawks and chairborne rangers whose blogs you print....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:59 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Milloy
From The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America 19. Steven Milloy Charges: It's a pretty fucked up world in which a falsified memoir of drug addiction can spark widespread outrage, but a lawyer and registered lobbyist posing as a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 PM • 15 Comments •
January 21, 2007
Category: Global Warming
In comments to my post at On Line Opinion Graham Young declares that it is his "dispassionate assessment" as the editor of On Line Opinion that I am "deeply dishonest" for stating that Peiser admitted his analysis was full of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:55 AM • 13 Comments •
January 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
My inbox has been filling up with emails from anti-science warrior Marc Morano furiously denouncing the suggestion by Hedi Cullen that meteorologists should understand the basic science of climate change and I'd like to take that suggestion a step further....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is coming out on Feb 2 and we have some leaks about the drafts appearing in The Toronto Star and in Reuters. Just so you know not to trust them, the reports contracdict each other....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 AM • 7 Comments •
January 18, 2007
Category: Global Warming
When we last encountered NRSP director Tom Harris he was busy denying he was associated with the High Park Group (a PR company that lobbies for energy companies). Now, in a totally surprising twist, Jim Hoggan reveals: Two of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:20 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: meta
Online Opinion has published my post Andrew Bolt gets a perfect score on global warming as part of its Best Blog posts of 2006. This comment from Jennifer Marohasy is priceless: Interestingly this piece by Tim Lambert was published at...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:56 AM • 7 Comments •
January 17, 2007
Category: bobcarter
The Stern Review: A Dual Critique was published in an economics journal and critiques climate science. Not surprisingly, as Nexus 6 reports, peer review was grossly inadequate. The critique slams Stern for, get this, ignoring Khilyuk and Chilingar. That's the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:16 PM • 27 Comments •
January 16, 2007
Category: Kennesaw
In an opinion piece in the New York Times Glenn Reynolds claims: Last month, Greenleaf, Idaho, adopted Ordinance 208, calling for its citizens to own guns and keep them ready in their homes in case of emergency. ... And it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:25 AM • 17 Comments •
January 15, 2007
Category: Fumento
Michael Fumento is making even less sense than usual: Lambert is one of the most obnoxious trolls on the Internet. He produces nothing; he exists to tear down other people to make up for some perceived deficiency on his part....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:52 AM • 13 Comments •
January 14, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Please welcome new blogger tamino at Open Mind. He writes about global warming. CO2 science are notorious for cherry picking -- tamino shows how they cook up their misleading temperature of the week posts. Also, if you don't know what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:09 PM • 1 Comments •
January 13, 2007
Category: guns
A Harvard School of Public Health Press Release describes a new study by Miller, Hemenway and Azreal: In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:34 PM • 182 Comments •
January 12, 2007
Category: Levitt
The judge for Lott's lawsuit against Levitt has thrown out Lott's claim that he was defamed by Freakonomics. (Decision is here.) Some quotes from the decision: The Court will grant a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) only if "no...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:56 AM • 14 Comments •
January 11, 2007
Category: Global Warming
One of factoids Alistair McFarquhar offered up trying to support his post that vanished down the memory hole was this: Among Economists almost twice as many believe that rising greenhouse gas levels will cause the economy to grow. Most think...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:05 PM • 9 Comments •
January 10, 2007
Category: timball
Richard Littlemore has the Calgary Herald's Statement of Defence against Tim Ball's lawsuit....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:18 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
At the grandly named Adam Smith Institute blog, Alister McFarquhar (an economist who was one of the sixty scientists denying that climate change was real) asserted: Surveys show two-thirds of scientists either don't know or don't believe man can influence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:09 PM • 20 Comments •
January 9, 2007
Category: stupidity
Remember, the piñata is only deployed when Blair produces another nugget of stupid after being beaten with a clue stick. So let's look at the nuggets we got from Blair this time: Chinatown seems not to have been burned...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 AM • 63 Comments •
January 8, 2007
Category: DDT
Allan Schapira writes a letter to the Lancet DDT: a polluted debate in malaria control A recent press statement from WHO about dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and indoor residual spraying for malaria control [1] caused a considerable stir, despite the fact that,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:51 AM • 15 Comments •
January 7, 2007
Category: stupidity
American student Kunthea Ker wrote how she was verbally abused at Sydney's New Year fireworks because of who she was. Tim Blair's response? He accuses her of lying....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 34 Comments •
January 6, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabett is calling for nominations for the S Fred award for spreading disinformation. He has started with: Diplom Beck proving CO2 concentrations over smokestacks in the 1940s were higher than they are today globally. Willis Eschenbach and the moving...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:13 AM • 21 Comments •
January 5, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Taylor Owen at Oxblog on the reaction to the Lancet studies "The principal question is why are we so surprised that this level of conflict would result in such levels of excess mortality? I would argue it is a direct...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:04 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
For all your skeptical blogging needs: the 51st Skeptic's Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:26 AM • •
January 4, 2007
Category: Global Warming
James Annan summarizes the whole non-skeptic middle heresy thing with: "No, I'm in the middle". The RealClimate team check the list Revkin gives and find that they also qualify as NSMHs. (See also Revkin's response.) Andrew Dessler (who was one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:50 AM • 14 Comments •
January 3, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Following up on my previous post on claiming the middle ground, we have: David Roberts didn't like Revkin's article. Revkin replies in the comments. I do think that the media has focused too much on he extremes (Pat Michaels and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:17 PM • 34 Comments •
January 2, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Roger Pielke Jr writes: Andy Revkin has a well-done article on the "middle ground" in the climate change debate. I fully expect that many of the usual suspects on the extremes of the debate (both sides) will respond to this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 45 Comments •
January 1, 2007
Category: Monckton
Christopher Monckton was talking about how he was going to get his silly Telegraph article published in a journal and now he has. It's been published in Nexus magazine, right between articles on UFOs and 9/11 conspiracy theories. The...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:58 AM • 25 Comments •
