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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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April 30, 2008

Maybe getting public policy advice from SF writers is not a good idea

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...

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April 29, 2008

Heartland's bogus list of 500 scientists

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...

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Robot sumo

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......

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April 28, 2008

Latest on Listener vs free speech

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...

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April 27, 2008

Et tu, Ockham's razor?

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...

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April 26, 2008

The Australian's War on Science XII part 3

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...

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April 25, 2008

Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his case against Freakonomics

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...

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Survey: climate scientists agree that humans are causing warming

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...

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April 24, 2008

Open Thread

Category: Open Thread

Because we haven't had an open thread for a while....

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April 23, 2008

The Australian's War on Science XII part 2

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...

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The Australian's War on Science XII

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...

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April 22, 2008

Michael Molitor talk at UNSW today

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...

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No, global warming has not stopped

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...

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April 21, 2008

The Australian's War on Science XI

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...

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April 20, 2008

The Listener against free speech, part 2

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...

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April 18, 2008

Conspiratorial Thinking About Science

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....

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