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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 27, 2007
Category: Global Warming
After Matt Drudge linked this Christopher Booker column in London's Daily Telegraph, the usual dupes are declaring global warming a myth. Booker claims: the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:25 AM • 294 Comments •
November 25, 2007
Category: politics
John Quiggin writes about the culture warmongers: Third, and most importantly, the factoid-based, point-scoring, style of argument that goes with the culture wars eventually leads to complete insulation from factual reality. Any proposition, no matter how ridiculous, can be defended...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: politics
Caroline Overington has topped her previous effort with this: Top journalist Caroline Overington has denied hitting George Newhouse, the Labor candidate for the Sydney seat of Wentworth - but he insists he was slapped, and it hurt. ... A Labor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:28 AM • 5 Comments •
November 23, 2007
Category: meta
I don't know whether it's that the Australian just hires journalists with really thin skins or that the water there contains some skin thinning chemical, but they always seem to overreact to criticism. The latest is from Caroline please preference...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:52 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Andrew Dessler contacted Steve Milloy's demanddebate.com to see if they could provide a global warming skeptic for debate. Alas, Milloy could not come up with one....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:29 AM • 44 Comments •
November 21, 2007
Category: DDT
Discover has a good article on Rachel Carson, DDT and malaria. Unlike many other recently published articles (e.g. the New York Times) it gets the science right: But elsewhere, the picture is murkier. According to the World Health Organization (WHO),...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 2 Comments •
November 19, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Ray Pierrehumbert takes apart two French global warming skeptics, Claude Allègre and Vincent Courtillot. My favourite bit: This flub is nothing compared to the trouble Courtillot's collaborator Le Mouël got into during the debates, when he was trying to show...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:17 AM • 19 Comments •
November 17, 2007
Category: Global Warming
US delegates tried to water down the latest IPCC report: US delegates in particular said references to "irreversible" climate change and impacts were imprecise. They argued, for example, that the melting of glaciers or ice sheets -- which could raise...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:13 PM • 36 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The IPCC Forth Assessment Synthesis Report has been released. The Summary for Policy Makers is in Microsft Word format, so I've made a PDF version for easier reading. A few extracts:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:25 AM • 79 Comments •
November 16, 2007
Category: politics
Via James Hrynyshyn, Nature has a good summary of the state of climate politics in the lead up to Bali. There's even a decent summary of the state of play in Austrlia. Any campaign veteran will tell you that voters...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 2 Comments •
November 15, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Gareth Renowden reports: On Thursday morning, TVNZ's Breakfast Business programme included an interview with Baron Lawson of Blaby. It's available here. Nigel's opening statement is a shocker: "There's no global warming happening at the present time. That's clear, accepted on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:13 PM • 13 Comments •
November 14, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Richard Black continues his excellent series on climate scepticism with a look at the question of whether science journals are biased against warming skeptics. It turns out that they are not. And he also examines the claims that the sun...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:16 PM • 64 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Andrew Revkin is normally a great reporter, so it is particularly disappointing when he turns in a shocker. He's fallen again for the attraction of a middle ground (see Middle Muddle for the previous occasion). If the IPCC says 2+2=4...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 PM • 24 Comments •
November 13, 2007
Category: politics
It's always good value when Media Watch criticizes The Australian because journalists there react with foaming-at-the-mouth outrage. For example, when Media Watch nailed them for misrepresenting Rajenda Pachauri they reacted with 4672 words blasting Media Watch, including the entire editorial,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 AM • 19 Comments •
November 12, 2007
Category: Levitt
Back in August I wrote how Lott tried to amend his complaint against Levitt. Unfortunately for Lott, the judge rejected his proposed amendments as "futile and unduly delayed". So now Lott is appealing the decision. William Ford has the update....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:32 AM • •
Category: Global Warming
The BBC has a nice piece listing and refuting the top 10 arguments used by global warming skeptics, while Richard Black has surveyed the 61 "scientists" who signed a letter opposing action to prevent warming....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:41 AM • 132 Comments •
November 11, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Daniel Cressey summarizes the story of the spoof paper that pretended to prove that global warming was caused by benthic bacteria rather than humans. He also has an interview with the author of the spoof. David Thorpe, who helped set...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • 26 Comments •
November 9, 2007
Category: Milloy
Ed Darrell has been working his way through Steve Milloy's 100 things about DDT. See if you can spot what Milloy did in number 10. Here's Milloy: [Rachel Carson wrote] "Quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 AM • 20 Comments •
November 8, 2007
Category: Milloy
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:27 PM • •
Category: meta
Steve Milloy's Junk Science has now endorsed Climate Audit in the Weblog Awards, telling readers to vote for Climate Audit instead of JunkScience. I know that the we shouldn't take the awards seriously, but other people will. Phil Plait's Bad...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:52 AM • 44 Comments •
November 5, 2007
Category: meta
I don't like the way the Weblog awards are decided. Because you can vote once per day per computer you have access to, to win bloggers need to post every day and shamelessly exhort their readers to vote. This felt...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:46 PM • 24 Comments •
November 3, 2007
Category: personal
I'm with Silas down at Coogee Beach. There's an alcohol ban in the park behind the beach so the rummies hang out at the bus shelter next to the park. There's a bench seat around the side of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:32 AM • 7 Comments •
November 2, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Michael Dobbs continues to disappoint as the Washington Post's Fact Checker. In his new column he refuses to correct the mistake he made when he wrongly said that the judge had found "nine significant errors" in An Inconvenient Truth. Instead,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:46 PM • 7 Comments •
