Cherry picking stations.org
Category: Global Warming
Tamino has the scoop on the latest attempt to revive the old UHIs-mean-it's-not-getting-warmer argument. Eli Rabett has more....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:32 PM • 295 Comments •
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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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July 29, 2007
Fumento's nemesis: the rake
Category: Fumento
Long time readers will be familiar with the epic that is Michael Fumento's attempt to debunk the first Lancet survey. A summary can't really do it justice, but what basically happened is that Fumento dismissed the 100,000 number because he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:13 PM • 1 Comments •
July 28, 2007
No electricity news is good electricity news
Category: Iraq
The good electricity news from Iraq has been lots of announcements of plans to improve things. Unfortunately, electricity production has not improved. To the left you can see how the electricity supply in Baghdad has gotten worse and worse....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 30 Comments •
Lott vs Levitt over. Or maybe not.
Category: Levitt
David Glenn, in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Lott-Levitt lawsuit has been provisionally settled: The letter of clarification, which was included in today's filing, offers a doozy of a concession. In his 2005 message, Mr. Levitt told...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:58 AM • 3 Comments •
July 27, 2007
Lancet debunking cargo cult
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies summarizes what is wrong with David Kane's criticism: The mathematical guts of the paper is that under certain assumptions, the addition of the very violent cluster in Fallujah can add so much uncertainty to the estimate of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:31 AM • 25 Comments •
July 24, 2007
David Kane on Lancet confidence intervals
Category: LancetIraq
David Kane has asked me to post his argument that Roberts et al. (2004) claim that the risk of death increased by 2.5-fold (95% CI 1.6-4.2) in Iraq after the US-led invasion. I provide evidence that, given the other data...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:19 PM • 241 Comments •
July 19, 2007
Joining the dots on an anti-Gore story
Category: politics
David Roberts shows Your media at work: People magazine reports that Al Gore's daughter Sarah just got married, revealing in the course of the article that Chilean sea bass was served at the rehearsal dinner. In the Daily Telegraph, Australian...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 AM • 139 Comments •
July 18, 2007
Sloppy reporting in the National Geographic on DDT
Category: DDT
Nick Matzke finds that Michael Finkel in the National Geographic is guilty of some sloppy reporting: The article, for once, actually sensitively discusses the issue of DDT use, and notes accurately (for once) that environmental groups and governmental agencies were...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Riyadh Lafta makes it to Canada
Category: LancetIraq
DWE reports: Dr. Lafta has now been allowed to visit Canada, where he is meeting with researchers from the University of Washington and Simon Fraser University. On Friday, he'll be participating in a live interactive webcast. Dr. Riyadh Lafta Al...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:31 AM • 3 Comments •
July 17, 2007
ABC makes lemonade
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin details how the ABC made lemonade from the lemon that is the Great Global Warming Swindle. You can see the video of Tony Jones' questioning of Martin Durkin here, or read the transcript here. Durkin was unable to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:30 PM • 38 Comments •
July 15, 2007
Jason Soon defends John Lott
Category: misc
Jason Soon is very angry that I dared to criticize John Lott in this post. I wrote about Freedomnomics (where Lott claims that women's suffrage caused a massive increase in the size of the government): Lott doesn't like women's suffrage...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:06 PM • 305 Comments •
Walter E. Dove and DDT
Category: DDT
Alan Dove writes about his grandfather's involvement in the history of DDT (my emphasis): DDT owes its notoriety to American applied research during World War II. At the start of the war, chemists had known how to synthesize the compound...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:54 AM • •
July 13, 2007
Lubos Motl vs the logarithm function
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabett has a post where he corrects Lubos Motl's blunders about the greenhouse effect, but he left a few crumbs for me. Motl writes (warning, link goes to Motl's blog, which has a design so ugly it makes most...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 AM • 15 Comments •
July 11, 2007
Merced murders again
Category: Merced
David Friedman examines John Lott's claims that safe storage laws were to blame for the deaths in the Merced pitchfork murders, and comes to similar conclusions to me: Putting it all together, I conclude that the Merced murders provide evidence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:29 AM • 28 Comments •
July 8, 2007
Shorter Lavoisier workshop
Category: Global Warming
The Lavoisier group has published the presentations from their 'Rehabilitating Carbon Dioxide' workshop. Allow me to shorten them for you. David Archibald: I predict imminent global cooling based on the record from five US weather stations. Tim Curtin: Nicholas Stern...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:07 AM • 127 Comments •
July 6, 2007
Town Hall haiku
Category: misc
Sadly, No has turned all the partisan right-wing commentary at Town Hall into haikus. An example: Ann Coulter Fact: Women are dumb. Didja hear that, Time? Newsweek? I want the cover! And they weren't being unfair. Here it is from...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 51 Comments •
July 4, 2007
No link between cosmic rays and global warming
Category: Global Warming
At Wired Science Fraser Cain reports on the latest research on global warming and cosmic rays. There is no link: But T. Sloan from the University of Lancaster and A.W. Wolfendale from Durham University have looked carefully at the evidence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:09 PM • 18 Comments •
July 2, 2007
The Rachel Carson is worse than Hitler Pelerin Society
Category: DDT
Gus Dizerega reports Rachel Carson has never been forgiven by the chemical industry or the right wing for her efforts to educate the public on the downside of trying to solve pest problems with DDT. When I was invited to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 58 Comments •
Catallaxy's war on everything
Category: stupidity
Warning: This post concerns an inter-blog fight. Skip unless you find this stuff interesting....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:37 PM • 39 Comments •
July 1, 2007
Glenn Reynolds calls Al Gore a Fuddy-Duddy
Category: Global Warming
Law professor Glenn Reynolds calls Al Gore a fuddy-duddy: How to be a 21st century fuddy-duddy. Reynolds' source is novelist Roger L Simon, who writes: What fascinates about Al Gore is not - as this article from the Chicago Sun-Times...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:02 PM • 21 Comments •
