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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
April 30, 2008
Category: politics
Via Sadly No!, we find out the latest from the SF authors who helped bring us Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative Now a fixture at Department of Homeland Security science and technology conferences, SIGMA is a loosely affiliated group of science...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:12 PM • 26 Comments •
April 29, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Richard Littlemore reports: Dozens of scientists are demanding that their names be removed from a widely distributed Heartland Institute article entitled 500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares. ... DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:49 PM • 60 Comments •
Category: personal
Here's a cool video of my first year class in Engineering Design. One of their projects is to build and program a Lego robot to compete in robot sumo......
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:42 AM • 10 Comments •
April 28, 2008
Category: meta
frankbi has the latest on the Listener against free speech. Pamela Stirling, after using dubious legal threats to shut up a critic says: So that, we're not into censorship of any kind. As we discussed with Brian Leyland, the Voltaire...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:10 PM • 1 Comments •
April 27, 2008
Category: Global Warming
ABC's normally excellent Ockham's razor has taken a refreshing change from presenting the thoughts of scientists on science based on peer-reviewed research to presenting the opinion of a political scientist on global warming based on stuff he found on denialist...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:03 PM • 32 Comments •
April 26, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The Australian wasn't content to publish Phil Chapman's silly ice-age article, but also published a news story that treated it like a legitimate scientific paper. Now, instead of publishing a correction to Chapman's falsehoods from a climate scientist they have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:07 PM • 53 Comments •
April 25, 2008
Category: Levitt
Ted Frank has the latest on Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his case: Lott is now claiming that the case should have been decided under the allegedly more friendly Virginia libel law than the Illinois law under which his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Robert Lichter reports on a survey of American climate scientists commissioned by STATS at GMU. Some of the findings: In 1991 the Gallup organization conducted a telephone survey on global climate change among 400 scientists drawn from membership lists of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 84 Comments •
April 24, 2008
Category: Open Thread
Because we haven't had an open thread for a while....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:53 PM • 40 Comments •
April 23, 2008
Category: The War on Science
As well as Chapman's silly ice-age article, the Australian published a news story about it, treating it as if it was a legitimate paper and failing to get comments from climate scientists. The ABC acted like a real news organization...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: The War on Science
Here we go again. Phil Chapman, in the Australian: All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:41 PM • 73 Comments •
April 22, 2008
Category: Global Warming
From the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre CLIMATE CHANGE: Show me the money? Michael Molitor 6:45pm for 7pm start, Wednesday 23rd April, 2008 Science Theatre, UNSW . In order to stabilise concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at safe...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:09 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Robert Fawcett and David Jones of the National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology have written a short paper debunking the global-warming-has-ended myth: There is very little justification for asserting that global warming has gone away over the past ten...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:06 AM • 106 Comments •
April 21, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The latest editorial from the Australian on the science of global warming cites a cardinal and a historian and no climate scientists: We can trust that Catholic cardinal George Pell has not had to resort to inside knowledge to play...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:28 PM • 31 Comments •
April 20, 2008
Category: meta
Lawyer Steven Price, who specialises in media law, comments on the Listener's use of legal threats to silence a blogger: In the comments section of the correction and apology, someone has helpfully posted a link to a copy of HotTopic's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:35 AM • 8 Comments •
April 18, 2008
Category: The War on Science
Daniel Engber's Slate article The Paranoid Style in American Science is well worth a read. He explains how the Creationists, AGW and HIV/AIDS skeptics go well past skepticism into conspiracy theries about science. Hat tip: Mark Hoofnagle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:20 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Earlier, I wrote how the environmental writer for the New Zealand Listener was fired after Heartland demanded he be silenced, and: Gareth Renowden has the full story. Well not any more. The Listener hired a lawyer to threaten him and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:01 PM • 37 Comments •
April 17, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Another news story about scientists being shown up by a teen also proves to be completely wrong First the story appeared on April 4 in Germany's 'leading' tabloid ("I have calculated the end of the world ... and NASA says,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:38 PM • 3 Comments •
April 16, 2008
Category: Global Warming
A few weeks ago Dave Hansford, the environmental writer for the New Zealand Listener, wrote an article on how global warming deniers create an illusion of dissent: In November, three members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition - Bryan...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:45 PM • 18 Comments •
April 15, 2008
Category: Global Warming
NPR has run a puff piece on Kristen Byrnes. Byrnes stuff is full of errors, but the reporter seems uninterested in whether Byrnes' science is accurate or not. James Hrynyshyn notes that Byrnes has libelled James Hansen, while Janet Stemwedel...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:56 PM • 57 Comments •
Category: meta
I don't like banning people from commenting here. To make sure this is transparent I keep a list here of everyone who is banned. Inspired by the example of John Quiggin, I've added a third name to the list, the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:18 PM • 19 Comments •
April 14, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Instead of correcting his erroneous post Tim Worstall has put up another post coming out against corrections. This time it's about an inaccurate textbook. Can you pass the test at the book's online study centre? Question 16. True or False?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:48 PM • 51 Comments •
April 12, 2008
Category: Global Warming
About a week ago, the World Meteorological Organization put out a statement to correct the erroneous claims in the media that global warming had stopped (emphasis theirs): GENEVA, 4 April 2008 (WMO) - The long-term upward trend of global warming,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:28 PM • 143 Comments •
April 9, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The Australian front pages an article on "eminent historian" Don Aitkin who attacks the "quasi-religious" scientists of the IPCC for advocating that some action to combat global arming should be taken. Aitkin deploys the argument from incredulity He says an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:32 PM • 87 Comments •
April 8, 2008
Category: misc
John Lott in his Fox news column claims: During the 2000 election, with Bill Clinton as president, the economy was viewed through rose-colored glasses. According to polls, voters didn't realize that the country was in a recession. Pgl has the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:16 PM • 13 Comments •
April 7, 2008
Category: Global Warming
John Mashey on the global warming deniers who reckon that AGW is a plot against capitalism: What's really weird about this is that many of the people who do this (claim that AGW believers are attacking capitalism) a) Have rarely,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 167 Comments •
April 6, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Terence offers a definition of Gore's Law: Gore's Law: As an online climate change debate grows longer, the probability that denier arguments will descend into attacks on Al Gore approaches one....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:23 PM • 80 Comments •
April 4, 2008
Category: funny
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:58 AM • 8 Comments •
April 2, 2008
Category: Global Warming
James has written an open letter to Kevin Rudd. Key paragraphs: Global climate is near critical tipping points that could lead to loss of all summer sea ice in the Arctic with detrimental effects on wildlife, initiation of ice sheet...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:32 PM • 102 Comments •
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