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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
October 29, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Leading climate scientist has a new theory Environmentalism is just the latest attempt to find a substitute for the theory of evolution and it is paradoxical that it can be so widespread when next year (2009) is the 200th birthday...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 34 Comments •
October 25, 2008
Category: criminology
Back in 2006, Tim Blair declared I'd lean towards the official police figures myself (although jerked-around crime counting methods make comparisons problematic), mainly because they're, you know, official police figures. The British Crime Survey is just a survey. Alas,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Time for another open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 289 Comments •
October 24, 2008
Category: Levitt
William Ford reports on the oral arguments in Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit against Levitt: Evans and Sykes asked all the questions. Ripple remained silent. I have only glanced at the briefs, but based on the questions...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 PM • 7 Comments •
October 22, 2008
Category: Monckton
I think the funniest part of Monckton's open letter to John McCain is his description of himself at the beginning: His contribution to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 - the correction of a table inserted by IPCC bureaucrats...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:52 PM • 53 Comments •
October 20, 2008
2008 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture: Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will deliver the 2008 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture in UNSW's John Niland Scientia Building on Thursday 23 October at 7:30pm. Dr Pachaui's lecture...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:23 PM • 3 Comments •
October 19, 2008
Category: The War on Science
This column in the Australian from Frank Devine is mainly about how the latest Disney cartoon is "pernicious and propagandistic" and threatens our freedom, but he also includes some war-on-science stuff: An alternative view of good coming out of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:39 PM • 11 Comments •
October 16, 2008
Category: Monckton
Monckton continues to entertain: Dear Professor Serene - A Fellow of the APS has drawn my attention to a new policy apparently adopted by the Executive Board of the American Physical Society, to the effect that every paper published in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 44 Comments •
October 15, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The latest salvo from the Australian in their war on science is a column from Bjorn Lomborg. Lomborg tells us: Have you noticed how environmental campaigners almost inevitably say that not only is global warming happening and bad, but also...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:17 PM • 73 Comments •
October 14, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Remember Dennis Bray's useless survey of climate scientists? The URL and password were posted to the climatesceptics mail list, so the results were biased and included responses from people who were not climate scientists. Bray refused to concede that this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:42 PM • 10 Comments •
October 7, 2008
Category: DDT
This is the long-awaited part 2 of my response to Roger Bate's reply to the article on DDT in Prospect by John Quiggin and me. (Part 1 is here.) In this part I look at Bate's false history of DDT...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:48 PM • 9 Comments •
October 5, 2008
Category: The War on Science
This piece by Brendan O'Neill in the Australian combines two of the Australian's favourite things: making war on science and supporting Republicans. Here's O'Neill: In May this year, Palin, as Governor of Alaska, said she would sue the federal Government...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:58 PM • 86 Comments •
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