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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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June 29, 2007
Category: DDT
Bug Girl has a post on setting the record straight on Rachel Carson, quoting US Fish and Wildlife Service, who, unlike Carson critics, know what Carson actually wrote about DDT and malaria, and another on a two-part article in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:23 PM • 0 Comments
Category: DDT
Kirsten Weir has an excellent article in Salon on DDT and Rachel Carson. Weir took the time to talk to actual scientists and found: Socrates Litsios, a historian and former scientist for the World Health Organization (the agency that has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:38 PM • 35 Comments
June 26, 2007
Category: Steyn
Johann Hari reports on the National Review cruise: The idea that Europe is being "taken over" is the unifying theme of this cruise. Some people go on singles' cruises, some on ballroom-dancing cruises. This is the Muslims Are Coming cruise....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 62 Comments
June 25, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Via Eli Rabett, Rolling Stone has the story of the Bush administration's war on global warming science: But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:50 PM • 91 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
James Wimberly updates estimates of deaths in Iraq. If you extrapolate from Lancet 2, the death toll is now over a million. Which sort of explains why the coalition won't do counts of their own....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:14 PM • 50 Comments
June 21, 2007
Category:
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Miranda Devine likes to import the ideas for her anti-environmentalist screeds from America. (For example, DDT ban kills millions, and hockey stick is broken.) Her latest import is the claim that low-flush toilets don't work. Here...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:21 PM • 18 Comments
June 16, 2007
Category: Global Warming
I've written before about the Australian's war on science (see Part I II III IV V VI VII VIII). According to the Australian global warming isn't happening and we're not causing it and stopping it would destroy the economy. Now,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:53 PM • 54 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Remember E-G Beck's dodgy CO2 graph? Well, at RealClimate Stefan Rahmstorf finds Beck presenting another dodgy graph. Look at the perfectly regular temperature cycles in Beck's graph: But they are only regular cycles because Beck changed the horizontal scale in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:36 AM • 10 Comments
June 15, 2007
Category: Levitt
In the Chronicle of Higher Education David Glenn reports: A federal judge has rejected John R. Lott Jr.'s request that a gag order be placed on any and all information that emerges in the pretrial discovery process in Mr. Lott's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • 0 Comments
Category: timball
At DeSmogBlog, Richard Littlemore reports: The self-styled Canadian climate change expert, Dr. Tim Ball, has abandoned his libel suit against University of Lethbridge Professor of Environmental Science Dan Johnson. Ball dropped the suit without conditions, but also without acknowledging that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:41 AM • 5 Comments
June 14, 2007
Category: DDT
The record for the highest claimed death toll for the fictional DDT ban remains at 3 BILLION AND COUNTING, but Pajamas Media is up there with a claim that the number is "hundreds of millions, if not more". This is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 PM • 33 Comments
June 13, 2007
Category:
Over at the denialism blog, Mark Hoofnagle catches the creationists at Uncommon Descent blaming Rachel Carson for millions of deaths. The funniest bit is in the comment at UD pointing out that they should blame God, not Carson: All very...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 6 Comments
Category: DDT
Bug girl has a pearl of a post on why folks like Steve Milloy and John Tierney are wrong to dismiss DDT resistance as a problem. As well as knocking down their claims, she provides a handy introduction to the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments
June 12, 2007
Category: DDT
I think the employment contract at the CEI must include a clause requiring their hacks to write an article accusing Rachel Carson of killing millions of people. So far we've seen John Berlau, Angela Logomasni, Jeremy Lott and Erin Wildermuth,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 12 Comments
Category: Bolt
Nexus 6 catches Andrew Bolt telling his readers about the latest crime of the evil climate scientists. From 1997. Bolt said: (Thanks to reader Michael.) Well done, reader Michael!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:58 AM • 0 Comments
June 11, 2007
Category: criminology
Via GrrlScientist I find the latest story claiming: What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument--whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 6 Comments
