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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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
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: McIntyre
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 •
May 17, 2007
Category: Global Warming
The New Scientist has published a handy guide, rounding up 26 of the most common myths and misperceptions in climate science....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:51 PM • 18 Comments •
Via Angry Toxicologist, John Gravois on The Secret: Oprah, I don't think you've done quite enough to make up for turning the Law of Attraction into the biggest thing since TomKat. Since you gave it your endorsement, The Secret has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin: Phillip Adams and Peter Dixon have prepared a reply (over the fold) to the opinion piece by Robson and Davidson in the Australian which offered a range of incoherent criticisms of proposals to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:04 AM • •
May 13, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Rupert Murdoch might be concerned about the harm that threatens from global warming, but the Australian is still in denial, printing an opinion piece by Alex Robson and Sinclair Davidson, who continue to deny the existence of scientific evidence for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:16 PM • 6 Comments •
May 11, 2007
Category: Milloy
Desmogblog have organised a petition asking Fox to fire Steve Milloy. Sign it here. If Desmogblog's reasons aren't enough, consider this: Milloy wrote articles for Fox about how cigarette smoke was not harmful, while taking undisclosed payments from a tobacco...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:54 PM • 9 Comments •
May 10, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
It's choose your own adventure time at Skeptic's Circle 60!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:14 AM • •
May 8, 2007
Category: McIntyre
What did Steve McItyre when he discovered that his post claiming that Bob Ward's complaint was discredited was completely wrong? He originally wrote: My main point here is that the RMS [actually by Bob Ward - TL] letter, publicly endorsed...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:54 PM • 58 Comments •
Category: Monckton
Christopher Monckton gets profiled in the Observer: From those momentous words on, in his own head, Christopher Monckton appears always to have been starring in a Boy's Own adventure entitled 'Monckton Saves the Day!' ......
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:10 PM • 13 Comments •
May 6, 2007
Category: McIntyre
Steve McIntyre attempts to defend Martin Durkin against Bob Ward's criticism: In a legal complaint about inaccuracies in Swindle, one would expect meticulous accuracy, but once again in their statements about sulphates, RMS and the 37 profs [actually Bob Ward...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:51 AM • 29 Comments •
May 5, 2007
Category: DDT
John Berlau has responded to my post on his accusations that environmentalists were racists. Berlau starts by describing me as: a computer science professor who fancies himself an expert on everything from DDT to climate change. Berlau, I should note,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:38 PM • 50 Comments •
May 4, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Nature has started Climate Feedback, a blog on climate change. One of the first posts is by Roger Pielke Jr, who claims Even the venerable New York Times is prone to completely botching a discussion of the science of climate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:15 AM • 141 Comments •
May 3, 2007
Category: Global Warming
In 2005 I wrote about a survey of "renowned scientists" conducted by spiked (if you've never heard of spiked, read this) that included 14 global warming skeptics and only three from the mainstream of climate science. Now they've conducted another...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:07 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Levitt
David Glenn reports: The economist Steven D. Levitt's colleagues at the University of Chicago might be tempted to cancel their classes and wander down to Chicago's federal courthouse on October 1. That's the date that has been set for the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:10 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Gareth Renowden has started a blog about climate change and New Zealand. He's going to use the term "climate cranks" for those people. Plus he has the latest from Ringworld....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:50 AM • •
May 2, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Nexus 6 notes that Andrew Bolt has come another cropper after he posted a graph showing a cool April in Australia and implied that this was evidence against global warming. Unfortunately for Bolt, the cool April was in 2006. Nexus...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:43 PM • 7 Comments •
May 1, 2007
Category: Global Warming
The Nation Post's Lawrence Solomon has been writing a series of articles falsely casting scientists such as Nigel Weiss and Sami Solanki as deniers. His latest target: Roger Revelle: Then in 1991, Dr. Revelle wrote an article for Cosmos, a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Australian talkback radio host John "Cash for comment" Laws on global warming: Yeah. It's interesting to note that in the last 17 years there has not been the slightest increase in temperatures in the world. Over 100 years there's been...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:39 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: meta
Chris and Mark Hoofnagle's denialism blog has joined ScienceBlogs. Check out Mark's post on the Unified theory of the crank. Sound like anyone we know?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:06 AM • 3 Comments •
