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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
October 26, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 31 Comments •
October 24, 2007
Category: timball
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:04 PM • 100 Comments •
October 22, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 PM • 13 Comments •
Pinko Punko visited DC and took some pictures, including a couple for us. The American Enterprise Institute:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:40 PM • 32 Comments •
October 19, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:07 PM • 58 Comments •
October 18, 2007
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"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:02 PM • 203 Comments •
October 16, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 48 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 35 Comments •
October 15, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:48 PM • 128 Comments •
October 14, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:46 PM • 24 Comments •
October 13, 2007
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:55 PM • 30 Comments •
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!....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:02 PM • •
October 12, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:16 PM • 77 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:06 AM • 52 Comments •
October 11, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:39 PM • 97 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:26 PM • 12 Comments •
October 10, 2007
Category: Global Warming
RealClimate reports that the notorious Oregon Petition is back. This time the mailings are using the new JPANDS version of the Robinson's dodgy paper. RealClimate are doing an open source debunking, so head over there and join in the fun....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:26 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Gilbert Burnham and Les Roberts have an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun: Not wanting to think about civilian deaths in Iraq has become almost universal. But ignorance of the Iraqi death toll is no longer an option. An Associated Press...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:46 PM • 130 Comments •
October 7, 2007
Category: timball
Tim Ball and Tom Harris tell us: The world is cooling. Global temperatures have declined since 1998 and a growing number of climate experts expect this trend to continue until at least 2030. Do you think that Ball or Harris...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:15 AM • 134 Comments •
October 6, 2007
The latest issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPANDS) has attracted the attention of Eli Rabett and Lauredhel. Rabett notices that JPANDS has published an updated version of the paper used to mislead folks into signing the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:50 PM • 9 Comments •
October 4, 2007
Category: DDT
Revere reports on a new paper that found that women with the highest DDT exposure had a five-fold elevated breast cancer risk: This is one study, albeit a well conducted one by experienced investigators. It is also relatively small, limited...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:42 PM • 12 Comments •
October 3, 2007
Category: Monckton
On June 6, someone with IP address 81.77.248.148 added this passage to Christopher Monckton's wikipedia page (emphasis mine): Monckton has been published in academic journals on the subject of climate change and his principal calculations have been reviewed and found...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:02 PM • 17 Comments •
October 1, 2007
Category: meta
This is an open thread (and your last chance to get into the 500,000th comment contest)....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:45 PM • 27 Comments •
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