August 31, 2007
Skeptic's Circle 68
Category: Skeptics Circle
Compiled by Martin Rundkvist, at Aardvarcheology....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 0 Comments
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August 31, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
Compiled by Martin Rundkvist, at Aardvarcheology....
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August 30, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:35 PM • 61 Comments
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 154 Comments
August 29, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 PM • 39 Comments
August 28, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 6 Comments
August 27, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 49 Comments
August 26, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:22 PM • 177 Comments
August 24, 2007
Category: Fumento • LancetIraq
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:57 PM • 45 Comments
August 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming • The War on Science
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 9 Comments
August 22, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • 0 Comments
August 21, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 37 Comments
August 20, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments
August 19, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:25 PM • 144 Comments
August 18, 2007
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:14 PM • 10 Comments
August 17, 2007
Category: Global Warming • stupidity
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 PM • 28 Comments
August 16, 2007
Category: Global Warming • funny
Nexus 6 has a new cartoon making fun of global warming denialists....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:51 PM • 14 Comments
