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Tim Lambert Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.

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October 26, 2007

Malaria eradication: it's back

Category: DDT

The Lancet provides a brief history of the attempt to eradicate malaria. In 1955, WHO set out to rid the world of malaria. The campaign, called the Global Malaria Eradication Programme, focused on vector control. The plan was to interrupt...

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October 24, 2007

Stossel's tall tales about global warming

Category: Global Warmingtimball

John Stossel is his usual misleading self with a piece denying anthropogenic warming. Video here and summarized here. Tamino details the way Stossel deceives his viewers: Probably the most irritating aspect of Stossel's "report" is a brief clip from An...

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October 22, 2007

Skyrails graph visualizations system

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Yose Widjaja, one of my students, has written a cool graph visualization system. The easiest way to get a feel for the way it works is to look at a video: We're looking for comments, new graphs to visualize and...

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Deltoid Enterprise Institute

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Pinko Punko visited DC and took some pictures, including a couple for us. The American Enterprise Institute:...

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October 19, 2007

The Washington Post's war on Gore, continued

Category: Global Warming

Correction: My post a few days ago implied implied that the Washington Post celebrated Gore's Nobel by publishing four items repeating the falsehood that a judge found nine errors in the movie. This was wrong. I missed their editorial on...

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October 18, 2007

Update on the nine alleged errors in An Inconvenient Truth

Category: Global Warming

Several climate scientists have now examined the alleged errors in An Inconvenient Truth. At RealClimate Gavin Schmidt (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and Michael Mann (director Penn State Earth System Science Center) write: First of all, "An Inconvenient Truth"...

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October 16, 2007

Now Tim Ball says that global warming ended in 1930

Category: timball

David Appell tells of his correspondence with Tim Ball The other day I challenged Tim Ball's assertion that "the world is cooling." I showed temperatures plots for the last several years, and of course it depends on how you want...

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John Mashey: What to do about poor science reporting

Category: EnvironmentPolitics

John Mashey offered some good advice in a comment on my post on the War on Gore. I'm following Michael Tobis' example and boosting it from comments. Editorial and News Editorial and news really are often quite separate, with the...

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October 15, 2007

Krugman on Gore Derangement Syndrome

Category: Global Warming

Paul Krugman offers an explanation of Gore Derangement Syndrome So if science says that we have a big problem that can't be solved with tax cuts or bombs -- well, the science must be rejected, and the scientists must be...

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October 14, 2007

Monckton was behind Dimmock's lawsuit

Category: Monckton

When last we heard from Christopher Monckton he was too gravely ill to answers questions about how someone claiming to be him and using his ISP had altered his own wikipedia entry and added on obvious fabrication, to wit, The...

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October 13, 2007

The Washington Post's war on Gore

Category: Global Warming

In my post on the decision by Justice Burton to allow the showing of An Inconvenient Truth because it was "broadly accurate" I listed some of the reporters who wrongly claimed that the judge decided that AIT had nine errors....

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Vote for Shelley!

Category: Chatter

ScienceBlogger Shelley Batts is competing for a $10,000 college blogging scholarship. She has a great blog called Retrospectacle. The scholarship winner is decided by votes, so go here and vote for Shelley!....

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October 12, 2007

Gore Derangement Syndrome

Category: Global Warming

For this post I didn't go trawling through freeper or blog comments or look at obscure blogs. I just went to memeorandum. William Teach The Nobel Prize committee has basically surrendered to hysterics, mass exaggerators, and liars, most of who...

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Congratulations to the IPCC and Al Gore

Category: Global Warming

Joint winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold...

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October 11, 2007

An 'error' is not the same thing as an error

Category: Global Warming

A UK High Court judge has rejected a lawsuit by political activist Stuart Dimmock to stop the distribution of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to British schools. Justice Burton agreed that "Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects...

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Dodgy News Limited survey

Category: politics

A news.com.au story asserts "Australians would re-elect Prime Minister John Howard in a landslide if votes were cast purely on policy - not personality or party loyalty - according to the first results from a "blind voting" tool developed by...

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