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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 29, 2008
Category: The War on Science
On Tuesday the Australian had a piece by David Bellamy claimed to be victimized for his dissent: The sad fact is that since I said I didn't believe human beings caused global warming, I've not been allowed to make a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:52 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Miranda Devine, in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald brings us the sad story of how Ian Plimer is being shouted down and silenced: Human-caused climate change is being "promoted with religious zeal ... there are fundamentalist organisations which will do anything...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Erika Lovley, on the curious phenomenon that when Gore gives a speech, about half of the time the weather is colder than average: While there's no scientific proof that The Gore Effect is anything more than a humorous coincidence, some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:18 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
The Iraq Family Health Survey, conducted by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, found that there were about 400,000 excess deaths in Iraq up to June 2006 associated with the invasion. The second Lancet survey conducted by researchers...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 AM • 102 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war up to Oct 08. SurveyViolent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:42 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
I've been remiss in not commenting on Obermeyer, Murray and Gakidou's paper in the BMJ, Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme. OMG derive estimates of violent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:02 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2008
Category: The War on Science
Quadrant follows the fashion of much of the rest of the right in Australia in making war on science. It has promoted Creationism, HIV/AIDS denial, the DDT ban myth and, of course, global warming denial. But ever since new editor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 AM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2008
Category: Global Warming
It seems that Christopher Booker as well as being a global warming denier, is also an asbestos-is-harmful denier. George Monbiot has the story (links added by me): This week Richard Wilson's book Don't Get Fooled Again is published. It contains...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:48 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2008
Category: Open Thread
Time for a new open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:22 AM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2008
Category: Global Warming
It was entirely predictable that the denialists would hype up the glitch in the surface temperature record for last month. This opinion piece by Christopher Booker was picked up by Drudge, so the usual collection of global warming denialists have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:46 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2008
Category: The War on Science
The Australian has a daily column called Cut and Paste which is usually a collection of quotes from recent opinion columns in other papers. But like every other part of the paper, it has been used in their unending war...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:14 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Robin Meija writes about the Lancet studies: In any case, such problems are common in war zones, according to nearly a dozen leading survey statisticians and epidemiologists I spoke with. "Iraq is not an ideal condition in which to conduct...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:56 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Some more responses to Michael Duffy's wrongheaded column. Gavin Schmidt's letter in yesterday's SMH: The opinion piece by Michael Duffy contains multiple errors of fact and plenty of errors of interpretation ("Truly inconvenient truths about climate change being ignored", November...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:35 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bolt
Andrew Bolt, angered because I observed that he doesn't understand basic statistics, proceeds to prove my point, by referring to my bog standard Least Squares trend line as a graph of temperatures over just the past nine months, with a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:48 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2008
Category: Global Warming
It's only been six months since his previous wrong-headed column claiming that global warming has ended, but Michael Duffy has decided to write another one: Last month I witnessed something shocking. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:46 PM • 94 Comments •
November 5, 2008
Category: Bolt
On July 16, Andrew Bolt gave us this: What consensus? The American Physical Society reports: There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:49 AM • 12 Comments •
November 3, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Jennifer Marohasy has posted a list of the "ten worst blog posts". Tamino and Eli Rabett are crowing are crowing because they got number one and two and the best I could do was number six. Cohenite, the guy who...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:53 AM • 36 Comments •
November 1, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Journalist Andrew Bolt reckons that the "green sickness" is "spreading". He quotes from a story by journalist Bryony Gordon: Psychiatrists in America have identified a new mental illness that threatens the very fabric of society: an obsession with saving the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:40 AM • 31 Comments •
