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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
May 30, 2008
Category: DDT
Sideshow Roy Spencer writes: Our environmental protection practices have already caused the deaths of millions of people, mainly in poor African countries. By far the most humans -- mostly women and children -- have been sacrificed in the mistaken belief...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 152 Comments •
May 29, 2008
Category: The War on Science
Chris Mooney reviews a new book about the war on science Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels (Oxford University Press, 359 pages, $27.95) ... Tobacco companies perfected the ruse, which was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 47 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Since Tilo Reber's comments always seem to take discussion off topic, all further comments from Tilo should be posted to this thread as well as any replies to any comment by Tilo....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:40 AM • 546 Comments •
May 28, 2008
Category: Global Warming
In 2006 Exxon said that they would no longer fund organizations like the Competitive Enterprise Institute that misrepresent the science of global warming? Last year we found out that they were still funding the George Marshall Institute and others. Now...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 118 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Time for a new open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:29 AM • 190 Comments •
May 27, 2008
Category: DDT
John Quiggin has some comments on Roger Bate's response to our article in Prospect on Rachel Carson. My response to Bate will take more than one post. Let's start with this paragraph: I was never a tobacco lobbyist. After I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 15 Comments •
May 22, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Oh look, it's Glenn Reynolds: Cracks in the Consensus? Hey, science advances by changing its mind in response to new data. The worrisome thing would be if people didn't. And from his link: Professor Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:43 PM • 12 Comments •
May 20, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Last year RealClimate reported that there had been another mass mailing to get more signatures on the notorious Oregon Petition. They are now announcing that they've increased the number of signatures from 19,000 to 31,000. The original objections to the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:21 AM • 204 Comments •
May 19, 2008
Category: stupidity
Last year Graham Young, accused me of being blatantly dishonest for writing that Peiser had admitted to making multiple errors, even though Peiser had confirmed this in an email to Young. He ended up writing 20 comments denying Peiser's admission....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:40 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
More carriages have come off the rails in the Roger Pielke Jr train wreck. Pielke finally does a hypothesis test. Trouble is, it's an unpaired t-test, which would only make sense if GISS and HADCRU were independent of each other,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:11 AM • 2 Comments •
May 17, 2008
Category: Global Warming
In the second part of his Ockham's razor talk Aitkin said: I gave a public address on this subject a few weeks ago, which was picked up in the daily newspapers, the text of the address was put on one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:30 PM • 17 Comments •
May 16, 2008
Category: Global Warming
If you haven't been watching the Roger Pielke Jr train come off the rails and the carriages smashing into each other and exploding, I suggest you look at this post from James Annan: Roger Pielke has been saying some truly...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:31 AM • 164 Comments •
May 13, 2008
Category: Global Warming
What Mark Kleiman says John Tierney, demoted from the NYT op-ed page and now continuing his libertarian propagandizing in the guise of "science writing," points out that flying around to climate-change conferences creates a large carbon footprint for high-profile environmental...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:49 PM • 105 Comments •
May 12, 2008
Category: DDT
I think this article in Prospect on Rachel Carson and DDT is quite good. Update: John Quiggin has posted the director's cut....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:54 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute spliced the audio of an Al Gore interview to turn a statement that Arctic melting was a consequence of global warming: And we're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:16 AM • 29 Comments •
May 10, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair declares: Global cooling is now a flight-safety hazard. The post he links speculates on a cause of the crash of BA flight 38: But it would appear that the major contributory factor could have been the extreme...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 21 Comments •
May 8, 2008
Category: Open Thread
Because the previous Open Thread has dropped off the sidebar...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:41 PM • 259 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Via Gareth Renowden: Q: How many climate sceptics does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. It's too early to say if the light bulb needs changing. Though I think the answer should be: None. The light bulb...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 PM • 48 Comments •
May 7, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The first four words in this Wednesday's article in the Australian : In 1633 Galileo Galilei There is no point in reading further....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 AM • 77 Comments •
May 5, 2008
Category: Global Warming
A week ago I wrote I predict that Avery will maintain that all the scientists are wrong about their own work and refuse to remove any names from the list. And look what they wrote: In response to the complaints,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:16 PM • 155 Comments •
Category: funny
A handy tip from Bug Girl Also, a tip: if you walk into your new workplace brandishing a container of putative pubic lice and sand, you may want to provide a more detailed back story than "I bought them on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 AM • 15 Comments •
May 4, 2008
Category: Global Warming
There really is no excuse for this, from Michael Duffy: Global warming stopped six years ago. It might start again tomorrow, but from 2002 until now, average global temperatures have remained fairly constant. This is in contrast to the previous...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:51 PM • 115 Comments •
May 2, 2008
Category: DDT
Arnold Kling decides to spread the DDT ban myth: According to Iain Murray's new book, the worst disasters come from environmental policy. It is remarkable the magnitude of the harm caused by government relative to the harm caused by the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:08 AM • 130 Comments •
