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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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May 30, 2007
Category: DDT
I've been doing a little research into how the Rachel-killed-millions hoax was spread. In The War Against the Greens (1st edition, published in 1994), the argument appears, but it is confined to the lunatic fringe: "How many people have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:13 PM • 34 Comments
Category: astroturf
In 1995, several think tanks mounted vitrolic attacks on the FDA using expensive radio, television and print ads. In an article in the Los Angeles Times Myron Levin wrote: Although the attacks do not mention tobacco, the industry is a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:06 AM • 37 Comments
May 29, 2007
Category: Global Warming • Monckton
Remember how Christopher Monckton claimed that Gavin Menzies' fantasies about the Chinese navy sailing around the Arctic in 1421 proved it was warmer then? EG Beck (of CO2 graph nonsense fame) makes the same argument and has a map to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 AM • 10 Comments
May 28, 2007
Category: DDT
The wedge document is the Discovery Institute's secret plan to defeat scientific materialism and promote Creationism. Below is Africa Fighting Malaria's wedge document. One part of the wedge is to use a simple message: "banning DDT spread malaria and killed...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 12 Comments
May 27, 2007
Category: DDT
Today is the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birth. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th century: Silent Spring, serialized in the New Yorker in June 1962, gored corporate oxen all over the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Martin Durkin's "Great Global Warming Swindle" used fake graphs to try to make a case that global warming is a hoax. Compare their version of temperature change (on left) which they claimed came from NASA with what you actually get...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:44 AM • 10 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
It turns out that global warming denialist Sinclair Davidson is also a Lancet denialist: The Carson piece tells us it's impossible to spray 3/4 of the houses in malarial areas. Yet, the Lancet tells us a research team went to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:54 AM • 116 Comments
May 26, 2007
Category: DDT
You know what's coming when a post starts with: "At times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson that Josef Stalin at his peak." J. R. Dunn has written the usual Rachel-killed-millions post, but has added some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:02 PM • 11 Comments
May 23, 2007
Category: DDT
From the people who gave you "CO2: We call it life", we now have a website: "Rachel Carson: we call her a baby killer". They have pictures of children they allege Carson killed on every single page of the site....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:27 PM • 42 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Via Gristmill, reasic's magisterial debunking of Michael Crichton's silly "Aliens Cause Global Warming" talk....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:37 PM • 4 Comments
May 21, 2007
Category: DDT
Glenn Reynolds approvingly quotes Rich Karlgaard's ill-informed comments on Rachel Carson: FORBES' RICH KARLGAARD ASKS how many people died because of Rachel Carson? Buried in paragraph 27, and paraphrasing the Congressman, The Washington Post concedes that "numerous" deaths might have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:48 PM • 51 Comments
Category: Global Warming
MarkH has written a guide to the global warming denialists. The Competive Enterprise Institute wins the "bottom of the barrel" rating....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:34 PM • 12 Comments
May 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
I wrote earlier about William Broad's many misrepresentations in his story that criticised Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Now Kevin Libin has produced an article for the National Post that makes Broad look like a paragon of virtue. Look at...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:39 PM • 9 Comments
May 19, 2007
Category: DDT
In 1962 Monsanto published a parody of Silent Spring called The Desolate Year where they imagined death and destruction from "the garrote of Nature" if the United States went without pesticides for a year. Quietly, then, the desolate year...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 19 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Roger Pielke Jr has stopped blogging. James Annan comments: It had appeared for some time that RPJr's his blog was on the wane, attracting little more than a handful of denialist ditto-heads, and now he's decided to knock it on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:15 AM • 1 Comments
May 18, 2007
Category:
NASA's GISS has on-line graphing system that lets you see a graph of temperatures for a particular weather station (For example, here is Sydney airport).) Steve McIntyre decided to run a script that asked the GISS system to produce graphs...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 72 Comments
