July 31, 2008
Category: Monckton
This is the very first paragraph of Monckton's response to Gavin Schmidt's demolition of Monckton's paper on climate sensitivity. For the second time, the FalseClimate propaganda blog, founded by two co-authors of the now-discredited "hockey-stick" graph by which the UN's...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:06 PM • 108 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Frank Bi suggests on open letter to John Coleman, Christopher Monckton, and Owen McShane, who have been threatening to sue Al Gore and James Hansen challenging them to bring it on....
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:03 PM • 7 Comments
July 29, 2008
Category: The War on Science
Undaunted by the dismal failure of its war on science, the Australian presses on, with a piece by Dennis Jensen. Oops, that's not the link, this is the link: It has been an article of faith for many years that...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:43 PM • 53 Comments
Category: Global Warming
The latest Newspoll finds that 84% of Australians accept that climate change is occurring and 96% of those that believe that climate change is occurring think that it is wholly or partly caused by humans. A 1993 ISSP survey found...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:55 PM • 56 Comments
Category: Global Warming
David Appell showed David Evans the AGW signature from the IPCC report that Evans claimed was missing. Evans replied: Comparing a model to observations doesn't prove the model works. It's encouraging to the model builders, but it's not proof. For...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 28 Comments
July 28, 2008
Category: Bolt
Back in January, Steve McIntyre used some erroneous data of satellite-measured temperatures from RSS to argue that Hansen's 1988 temperature projections were too high. A week later he posted a corrected graph, blaming RSS for not making the error clear:...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:18 PM • 16 Comments
July 27, 2008
Category: Monckton
Last year Christopher Monckton was threatening legal action if Naomi Oreskes did not apologize to Schulte: By making the allegations his own and endorsing them with such lamentably unscientific enthusiasm, however, he has exposed himself to the legal action which...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:02 PM • 16 Comments
July 26, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Hey, remember when David Bellamy claimed? Indeed, if you take all the evidence that is rarely mentioned by the Kyotoists into consideration, 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:47 PM • 30 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Tom Bozzo at Angry Bear gives us a shorter Megan McArdle: I once heard these terms of art from the electricity industry. No quizzes! P.S., Al Gore is fat. Bonus McArdle on Gore: It is a funny but irrelevant fact...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:51 PM • 4 Comments
July 25, 2008
Category: Monckton
Catherine Brahic, at the New Scientist enviromental blog has more on Monkcton and the APS: [Al Saperstein, an editor of Physics and Society,] stressed that that the article was not sent to anyone for peer-reviewing. Saperstein himself edited it. "I'm...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 12 Comments
July 24, 2008
Category: Global Warming
A new paper by Chilingar, Khilyuk and Sorokhtin is up to their previous standard. Here's the abstract: The writers investigated the effect of CO2 emission on the temperature of atmosphere. Computations based on the adiabatic theory of greenhouse effect show...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:23 PM • 20 Comments
Category: Monckton
Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate finds even more mistakes in Monckton's work....
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:59 PM • 0 Comments
Category: meta
Check it out....
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:56 PM • 2 Comments
July 23, 2008
Category: Open Thread
A new open thread, because the old one is full....
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:21 PM • 78 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Earlier, I predicted: You can bet that Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Bolt etc will be falsely claiming that Ofcom ruled that Swindle was not misleading. And, sure enough, here's Andrew Bolt with a thoroughgoing misrepresentation of the findings: Great Global Warming...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:41 PM • 41 Comments
July 22, 2008
Category: Global Warming
David Rado emails: although the accuracy sections of our complaint were considered under section 2.2 of the broadcasting code, that was not the section that we had complained under. We complained primarily under section 5.7, but Ofcom decided section 5.7...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 21 Comments