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July 31, 2007

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....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:32 PM • 295 Comments

July 29, 2007

Fumento's nemesis: the rake

Category: Fumento • LancetIraq

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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:31 AM • 3 Comments

July 17, 2007

ABC makes lemonade

Category: Global Warming • bobcarter

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...

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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...

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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...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:54 AM • 0 Comments

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 51 Comments