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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
September 30, 2007
Category: personal
There was a sales person at my front door. The conversation went like this: SP: Are you interested in getting Foxtel? Me: No. SP: Well, [he's about to launch into his sales pitch, but then he notices Silas] That's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:41 PM • 29 Comments •
September 29, 2007
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn on the trouble he has with facts: Incidentally, I stopped writing for the [New York] Times a few years ago because their fanatical "fact-checking" copy-editors edited my copy into unreadable sludge. I think it's some sort of chemical...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 173 Comments •
Category: patmichaels
Robert McClure reports: Now the Society of Environmental Journalists' Watchdog Tipsheet has just revealed that Michaels withdrew as an expert witness in a recently decided landmark court case in which automakers sought to turn back state efforts to rein in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:46 PM • 1 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Global Warming
James Hansen replies to the deceitful IBD editorial: The latest swift-boating (unless there is a new one among seven unanswered calls on my cell) is the whacko claim that I received $720,000.00 from George Soros. Here is the real deal,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 AM • 251 Comments •
September 27, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Via RealClimate, James Hansen refutes the Investor's Business Daily's claim that he endorsed global cooling in 1971: Mr. McCaslin reported that Rasool and Hansen were colleagues at NASA and "Mr. Rasool came to his chilling conclusions by resorting in part...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:13 PM • 57 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: DDT
Last year I wrote about the inaccurate claims that the World Health Organization had reversed its policy on DDT when it had in fact supported its use all along. A recent paper in Lancet Infectious Diseases 2007; 7:632-633 also concludes...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:58 PM • 10 Comments •
September 24, 2007
Category: Monckton
William Connolley provides an example of Christopher Monckton telling a fib. I have another example. In Monckton's letter to Senators Snowe and Rockefeller, he writes: Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:45 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: meta
Say hello to two new to ScienceBlogs bloggers, Coby Beck, of How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic fame, and Science Woman who writes about balancing family and an academic career....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 PM • 3 Comments •
September 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabbett coined the usage "to Rasool", to refer to the practice of attributing papers to just one of the authors in order to target the only author mentioned: A very famous paper by S. Ichtiaque Rasool and Steven Schneider...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 57 Comments •
September 21, 2007
Category: DDT
Aaron Swartz has written a nice article giving the story of the anti-environmentalist war on Rachel Carson....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:17 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Will McLean found an error in the detailed tables for the ORB survey. The tables indicated that 60% of the Baghdad sample was Christian, which doesn't seem plausible. They've now released corrected tables. It looks like the religion of some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: astroturf
Jim Giles, who broke the story of how for-profit publishers had hired Eric Dezenhall to run a PR campaign against Open Access, has a post at the New Scientist Science News blog, where he posts a copy of Dezenhall's proposal....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments •
September 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Study this cartoon by Nexus 6. Read this post by Richard Littlemore. Update: Nexus 6 rubs it in....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:24 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The McIntyre factor is the amount that you have to multiply the size of an adjustment in the GISS US temperatures by to get the number of words in the resulting Steve McIntyre post. Empirical evidence puts the McIntyre factor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:06 PM • 77 Comments •
September 18, 2007
Category: DDT
Ed Darrell writes about the fools promoting DDT as a solution to West Nile virus. It's as if these people think that there are no other insecticides in the world. And he has more examples in a later post: Steve...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 AM • 109 Comments •
September 17, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
James Wimberly adds the new ORB survey to his chart that extrapolates the various surveys of Iraqi deaths. He comments: The ORB estimate of 1.22 million is very close to Lancet 2 updated according to the IBC body count timeline...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:13 PM • 36 Comments •
September 16, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Earlier I suggested that surfacestations.org was cherry picking by showing a station with warming as an example of a "bad" station, and a station with no warming as an example of a "good" station. Of course, it could have turned...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:20 PM • 38 Comments •
September 14, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
A new survey puts the Iraqi death toll at over one one million: These findings come from a poll released today by O.R.B., the British polling agency that have been tracking public opinion in Iraq since 2005. In conjunction with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:04 AM • 114 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
There has been more discussion at Crooked Timber on David Kane's criticism of the Lancet study. In response to Tim Burke's comment: Good faith skepticism starts with, "Ok, I want to look at why you're making this claim, and your...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:49 AM • 43 Comments •
September 9, 2007
Category: Monckton
Schulte has published a reply to Oreskes' response. While Schulte claims not to be a contrarian, Kevin Grandia has been looking at his links with Christopher Monckton. Meanwhile, John Lynch posts on Shulte's reply and commenter "Chris" (who is, I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:28 AM • 52 Comments •
September 8, 2007
Category: Global Warming
One of Climate Care's carbon offset schemes involves replacing diesel pumps for irrigation with treadle pumps. They say that the benefits include: Allows 2 or 3 harvests a year, instead of 1 Prevents farmers having to leave their families to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:31 PM • 78 Comments •
September 7, 2007
A 2003 paper in the British Food Journal by Powell et al described an experiment that found that, given a choice between genetically modified sweet corn and the regular kind, consumers preferred to buy the GM corn by a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 PM • 27 Comments •
September 5, 2007
Category: Global Warming
John Lynch has posted Naomi Oreskes response to Schulte and the claims that there is no consensus: 3) The piece misrepresents the results we obtained. In the original AAAS talk on which the paper was based, and in various interviews...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:34 PM • 28 Comments •
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