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Skeptic's Circle 68

Category: Skeptics Circle

Compiled by Martin Rundkvist, at Aardvarcheology....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • •

Classifying abstracts on global climate change

Category: Global Warming

Via William Connolley I find another attempt to claim that there is no consensus in the scientific literature: In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:35 PM • 61 Comments •

Robert Chung on David Kane

Category: LancetIraq

Boosted from comments. Robert Chung writes: David Kane wrote: Anyway, it seems clear to me now that you are bluffing Me, bluffing about knowing how calculate a CMR? Ouch, that hurts. David, what a fascinating example of hubris. You do...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 154 Comments •

Delurk and win!

Category: meta

Scienceblogs is running a contest where you can win a five-day trip for two to one of the world's greatest science cities. All you have to do to enter is post a comment one of the blogs here. So if...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 PM • 39 Comments •

Jim Easter on Sweeney, Ruckelshaus and DDT

Category: DDT

It's often claimed by DDT advocates that the 1972 ban on the agricultural use of DDT was made in spite of a report that cleared DDT from harm. Jim Easter has found and posted a copy of the report. It...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 6 Comments •

Open access to scientific papers is bad because it makes them more accessible

Category: astroturf

No really! That's the argument. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In January I wrote how for-profit publishers had hired an infamous PR firm to run a campaign against open access publishing. They've now produced an organization called PRISM (Partnership...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 49 Comments •

Maybe the Australian could employ a solar power PR person for balance?

Category: Global Warming

Last Tuesday Matthew Warren [reported] in the Australian: Labor plans to rid Australian homes of off-peak electric hot water systems, in a move it claims will cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5million tonnes each year. ... Labor will keep...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:22 PM • 177 Comments •

The call of the rake

Category: Fumento

I really don't know where to begin with this anti-Lancet piece by Michael Fumento. Should I start with the way Fumento describes Kane's paper as "so complex" that it "may cause your head to explode" while being utterly certain that...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:57 PM • 45 Comments •

Another meltdown at the Australian

Category: Global Warming

Last month the Australian mounted an over-the-top defence of one of their pundits after blogs criticised him for spinning as favourable to the government an opinion poll that showed the opposition way ahead and no change in its lead. So...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 9 Comments •

Top 5 Top 100 Australian blog lists

Category: meta

Here are the top 5 lists of the top Australian blogs: Rank From Method 1 Janette Toral Blog Juice 2 Ratified.org Technorati + Feedburner + Google Rank 3 Craig Harper Technorati 4 Meg Tsiamis Technorati + Alexa 5 Australianblogs.com.au links...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • •

The Australian's War on Science IX

Category: The War on Science

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote how the Australian had misrepresented Rajenda Pachauri (IPCC head), falsely claiming that he supported the Australian government's policy of delay. Media Watch has the latest developments. Pachauri wrote to the Australian: I am...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 37 Comments •

Good news about malaria

Category: DDT

The Washington Post reports: Long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets should be distributed free, rapidly and widely in malaria-endemic areas, World Health Organization officials said here Thursday, setting new guidelines for fighting the mosquito-borne disease around the globe. For years, a policy...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments •

This week in Global Warming Denial

Category: Global Warming

Four of the six government members on a committee examining geosequestration put out a dissent denying the existence of anthropogenic global warming. I was going to write a post on what they got wrong, but I realised that since they...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:25 PM • 144 Comments •

Study finds that DDT not the most effective for IRS

Category: DDT

Members of the "we hate Rachel Carson" club have been touting a new study on indoor residual spraying as showing that DDT remains effective against malaria even when the mosquitoes are resistant. For examples, see Angela Logomasini and Ron Bailey....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:14 PM • 10 Comments •

The crumbs that fall from Instapundit's table

Category: Global Warming

If I summarized Glenn Reynold's response to my post on his hyping of a small correction to GISS data, you would not believe me, so I'm quoting the whole thing: Lamberted! But no Instalanche. Later: In an update: "Matthew Yglesias...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 PM • 28 Comments •

Nexus 6 has a new cartoon

Category: Global Warming

Nexus 6 has a new cartoon making fun of global warming denialists....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:51 PM • 14 Comments •

The Walter E Williams diet

Category: DDT

DDT hoax spreader Walter E Williams has a new anti-environmentalist column where he writes: In one long-term study, volunteers ate 32 ounces of DDT for a year and a half, and 16 years later, they suffered no increased risk of...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 AM • 25 Comments •

Greenhouse denial and delay from the CIS

Category: Global Warming

In comments to my post on a review of Guy Pearse's High and Dry, JC pointed to a dispute between Andrew Norton and Pearse on whether the CIS had promoted denial and delay on greenhouse gasses. Pearse makes his case...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:13 PM • 111 Comments •

Did NASA report that 1998 was the warmest in the US?

Category: McIntyre

Because of the corrections to the GISS data 1998 and 1934 went from being in a virtual tie, to being in a virtual tie.. This, of course, has not stopped global warming denialists from endlessly hyping it as a big...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:02 PM • 142 Comments •

High and Dry, by Guy Pearse

Category: Global Warming

Guy Pearse's book, High and Dry has been reviewed by Tim Flannery: The Prime Minister and several of his key ministers, Pearse asserts, have been captured by a group of industries and their lobbyists, known as the greenhouse mafia. They...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 AM • 23 Comments •

Global warming totally disproved again

Category: McIntyre

Steve McIntyre found an error in the GISS temperature data for the US. The GISTEMP page says: USHCN station records up to 1999 were replaced by a version of USHCN data with further corrections after an adjustment computed by comparing...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:33 PM • 305 Comments •

Open Thread

Ok guys, how about you move the off-topic discussion here,. please....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 57 Comments •

Junkscience's misinformation about DDT

Category: DDT

Ed Darrell is working is way through the inaccuracies in junkscience.com's "100 things you should know about DDT". He's up to the claim that DDT prevented 500 million deaths: First, the mathematics are simply impossible: At about 1 million deaths...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 9 Comments •

Bray's useless survey published?

Category: Global Warming

Remember Dennis Bray's useless survey of climate scientists? The URL and password were posted to the climatesceptics mail list, so the results were biased and included responses from people who were not climate scientists. Bray refused to concede that this...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:03 PM • 70 Comments •

Rajendra Pachauri verballed by the Australian

Category: Global Warming

Matthew Warren claims in the Australian: The head of the world's leading climate change organisation has backed the Howard Government's decision to defer setting a long-term target for reducing greenhouse emissions until the full facts are known. Despite widespread criticism...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:09 PM • 1 Comments •

Steve Milloy's new latest scam

Category: Milloy

Kent Hovind has an offer of $250,000 for anyone who can give a scientific proof of evolution. Now Steve Milloy is following in Hovind's footsteps with the Ultimate Global Warming Challenge: $100,000 if you can provide a scientific proof of...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:59 PM • 17 Comments •

Lancet at the ASA meeting

Category: LancetIraq

The AP's Paul Foy reports on the American Statistical Association meetings discussion on the Lancet studies: Number crunchers this week quibbled with Roberts's survey methods and blasted his refusal to release all his raw data for scrutiny -- or any...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:16 PM • 34 Comments •

The denial industry

Category: Global Warming

Newsweek has a good story on the global warming denial industry: Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change. Through advertisements, op-eds,...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:50 PM • 135 Comments •

Rahmstorf on sea level rise

Category: Global Warming

The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Rises in sea levels caused by climate change are likely to be bigger than predicted and more dangerous, but scientists are reluctant to "stick their necks out" on the issue for fear of being labelled...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:37 AM • 9 Comments •

Good electricity news from Iraq

Category: Iraq

Surely Baghdad's electricity supply couldn't get worse than shown in the graph on the right? Alas, it seems it can: Iraq's power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 82 Comments •

Deltoid on Facebook

Category: meta

I must follow the fashion here at Scienceblogs, so there is now a group for Deltoid readers on Facebook....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:21 AM • 4 Comments •

Lott tries to amend his complaint against Levitt

Category: Levitt

When we last visited Lott's lawsuit against Levitt, Lott was asking the judge to reconsider the dismissal of his case against Freakonomics. Well, the judge denied this, so now Lott wants to amend his complaint. The new complaint adds is...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 31 Comments •