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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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June 30, 2008
Category: Global Warming
In my previous post I noted in his story promoting AGW denial Adam Shand disputed even the most uncontroversial statements (eg "Summer is warmer than winter") from supporters of mainstream science he uncritically accepted everything from the AGW deniers. For...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:22 PM • 174 Comments
June 29, 2008
Category: Global Warming
You only have to look at the delight exhibited by Andrew Bolt ("Warming priests defocked [sic] on Sunday") in this story on Channel Nine's Sunday to know that they are promoting AGW denial. The reporter, Adam Shand, makes a pretence...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:00 PM • 40 Comments
June 28, 2008
Category: Washington
Jim Lindgren believes that a post by Carl Bogus on the DC handgun ban is uninformed. Bogus wrote: A careful study that compared the nine year period before the ban was enacted with the nine years following enactment, and then...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:22 PM • 21 Comments
June 26, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Olive Heffernan on Nigel Lawson's new book: Like many of those who saw the Channel 4 documentary, readers of Lawson's offering on climate change 'An Appeal to Reason' are probably unaware it has been scientifically discredited in almost every review,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:11 PM • 49 Comments
June 23, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
The punditariat at the Australian has lashed out at bloggers yet again (see here and here for previous examples). This time it's David Burchell, whose thesis is that all bloggers provide is a "vast outpouring of pseudo-expertise and vituperation". Naturally...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:28 PM • 15 Comments
June 20, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Remember the wacky satellites cause global warming theory? Maria Brumm has found another one. Global warming has caused a fivefold increase in seismic activity. And this one was published by CBS news (though it's now been deleted) and picked up...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:19 PM • 21 Comments
June 19, 2008
Category: Bolt
In his latest column, which is about polar bears or something, Andrew Bolt quote mines the NSIDC: And ssshhh. Don't mention that the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre says the extent of Arctic ice is in fact "greater...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:59 PM • 18 Comments
June 18, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Last year the Tennessee Center for Policy Research made quite a splash with a press release on Al Gore's energy usage: In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh--more than 20 times the national average. They've just released figures for the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:07 AM • 246 Comments
Category: Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot
Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:36 AM • 13 Comments
June 17, 2008
Category: Open Thread
Time for a new open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 26 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabett has been looking at Joel Kauffman who has published some HIV/AIDS denial in JPANDS and some AGW denial in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. I've mentioned JPANDS here before, but JSE is even further out on the fringe,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:58 PM • 37 Comments
June 16, 2008
Category: Global Warming
John Mashey points me to this site, which claims that microwaves from satellites are causing global warming! Satellite antennas transmit UHF and higher microwaves frequencies all over the planet. Because orbiting Satellites are in the vacuum of space, the microwave...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:40 PM • 19 Comments
June 12, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Via John Quiggin, Rudy Baum, the editor-in-chief of Chemical & Engineering News has JPANDS number. JAPS [usually abbreviated as JPANDS for obvious reasons] is a curious entity. It is not indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service, Pubmed, or ISI's Web of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:39 AM • 19 Comments
June 11, 2008
Category: stupidity
Andrew Bolt should have been embarrassed with his unthinking linking, but he is unrepentant: If someone claims to find 24 mistakes in your work and you manage to kind-of defend just three, it might be wiser to actually stay quiet....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:41 PM • 14 Comments
June 10, 2008
Category: meta
Eli Rabett has written a how-to guide for climate trolls. If you think of some troll tactics that he missed, add them in comments....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:50 PM • 84 Comments
Category: stupidity
On the essential Missing Link, Ken Parish links to my post of yesterday: Tim Lambert ably defends himself on scientific grounds against a concerted attack by anti-science RWDB "heavyweights". And explains the scare quotes: I wrote that extract. Blair...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:48 PM • 12 Comments
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