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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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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 • stupidity
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: Bolt • Global Warming • Monckton • bobcarter • patmichaels
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
