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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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March 31, 2008
Category: Global Warming
z, in comments: "CO2 is not causing global warming, in fact, CO2 is lagging temperature change in all reliable datasets. " See also my forthcoming paper: "Chickens do not lay eggs, because they have been observed to hatch from them"....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:47 PM • 118 Comments
March 29, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
Julie Rehmeyer has a decent article about the Lancet studies in Science News. Unlike Neil Munro and Megan McArdle, she doesn't have an axe to grind. She talks to experts in the field like Jana Asher instead of non-experts like...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:14 PM • 25 Comments
March 28, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
Last year AP-IPSOS surveyed Americans and asked them to estimate how many Iraqi civilians had died in the war. They grossly underestimated the number, with the median estimate being just 9,890. The Atlantic has now published Megan McArdle's latest anti-Lancet...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:16 PM • 30 Comments
March 27, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Desmogblog posted John Mashey's detailed examination of the spread of Monckton/Schulte's misinformation. For your amusement, Monckton's reply, in full: "Dr." Mashey says Mr. Schulte plagiarized my research. He did no such thing. It was he, not I, who conducted the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:05 PM • 19 Comments
March 25, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Thanks to Drudge and Instapundit another round of "global warming stopped in 1998" is making the rounds of the blogs. It's only been a few months since the last time and yet you only have to look at a graph...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 PM • 268 Comments
March 23, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Was I being unfair to Energy and Environment when I described it as a forum for laundering pseudo-science? I mean, didn't they reject Schulte? According to Boehmer-Christiansen: For your information, I have informed Dr.Schulte that I am happy to publish...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:56 AM • 23 Comments
March 22, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Remember EG Beck's dodgy CO2 graph? You really didn't have to know anything at all about the history and practice of measuring CO2 to deduce that something was wrong with Beck's theory that there were wild fluctuations in CO2 concentration...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 AM • 214 Comments
March 18, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
Les Roberts has a given a briefing to German parliamentarians on deaths in Iraq. Hat tip: Media lens...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:56 PM • 44 Comments
March 16, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Nexus 6 has opened a school to teach global warming deniers the tricks of the trade. Lesson 1 was on the straw man, while lesson 2 revealed the secret of making things up. Andrew Bolt then almost immediately demonstrated lesson...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:51 PM • 42 Comments
March 13, 2008
Category: Global Warming
CEI, which brought us the ludicrous "CO2: We call it life" ads is trying again. This time they are resorting to ad hominem attacks on Al Gore, and claiming that a carbon tax would result in "death on a massive...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:12 PM • 80 Comments
March 7, 2008
Monckton tells Glenn Beck how he organised the lawsuit against An Inconvenient Truth: What happened is that I looked at Al Gore's movie with mounting horror and I identified three dozen scientific errors in it. So I had a weather...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:35 AM • 25 Comments
March 6, 2008
Good old Christopher Monckton speaking at the Global Warming Denial Conference According to Monckton, the movement behind global warming alarmism can be traced to some ugly things, and being wrong about it could have a grave impact on humanity. "I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:50 AM • 29 Comments
March 5, 2008
Category: Global Warming
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Instapundit, Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair etc ), is this one Michael Asher: Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:30 PM • 77 Comments
March 1, 2008
Category: Global Warming
James Annan tells the story of how no-one seems to want to publish a survey of climate scientists done by Fergus Brown. The survey found that the IPCC report represents the middle ground of climate scientists with most of them...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:35 AM • 46 Comments
