Open Thread 18
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Time for another open thread...
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December 31, 2008
December 30, 2008
Skeptic's Handbook: not novel, not right
Category: Global Warming
Jeremy Jacquot has written a three part debunking of the claims in Joane Nova's "Skeptic's Handbook": Part 1: increasing CO2 won't make much difference, Part 2: warming has stopped and ice cores show that CO2 increases do not cause warming,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:27 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2008
The Australian's War on Science XXIX
Category: The War on Science
I suppose it was inevitable that the Australian would reprint Christopher Booker's claim that winter disproves man-made global warming. It was a global warming denial piece, it was picked up Drudge and the arguments were pathetically weak. So here it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:11 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2008
Denialists scraping the bottom of the barrel
Category: Global Warming
You have to think that global warming denialist Matt Drudge must be getting desperate when he touts a column by Christopher "White asbestos is harmless" Booker arguing that winter has disproved man-made global warming: First, all over the world, temperatures...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:22 AM • 306 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2008
The Creamy Baileys Nobel Peace Prize for Science, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Over at The Poor Man Institute voting is underway for the 2008 Wingnut Awards. The nominees for The Creamy Baileys Nobel Peace Prize for Science, 2008 are Chad Myers, Camille Paglia, Charlie Daniels, Gregg Easterbrook and James Inhofe. Hmmm......
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2008
Christmas at Deltoid
Category: personal
Best wishes to my readers. Hope you get some nice presents!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The top 5 anti-science think tanks
Category: The War on Science
Josh Rosenau is collecting nominations for the top 5 anti-science think tanks in America. Clearly the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Discovery Institute have a lock on two of the places, but which ones should fill the other three places?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2008
The Australian's War on Science XXVIII
Category: The War on Science
Today's salvo in the Australian is a quote from Christopher "White asbestos is harmless" Booker. Booker writes: Last weekend, US meteorologist Anthony Watts noticed that something very odd had happened to the daily updated website that shows how much sea...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lott's latest conspiracy theory
Category: misc
As well as his work on guns, John Lott has produced some bizarre claims about the Florida 2000 election. For example: African-American Republicans who voted were 54 to 66 times more likely than the average African American to cast a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:49 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2008
John Tierney's Easterbrook number is one
Category: Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot
The down side of the link exchange between ScienceBlogs and the New York Times is that in the side bar there is now a link to John Tierney's attack on John Holdren, using such stellar authorities as Bjorn Lomborg, Roger...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:29 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So who's on Inhofe's list and the HIV/AIDS deniers list?
Category: Global Warming
So, I after looking at who was on Inhofe's list of scientists that he claims dispute global warming and on the Discovery Institute's list of Darwin dissentors, I thought I should see who was Inhofe's list and this list of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2008
David Evans doesn't even know what the hot spot is
Category: Global Warming
Back in July, David Evans had on opinion piece in the Australian claiming: The greenhouse signature is missing. ... The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. This...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2008
The Australian's War on Science XXVII
Category: The War on Science
The Australian seems to have realized that their delight over Rudd's ETS was a giveaway and they are trying to provide some cover. Today we have a piece from Henry Ergas opposing the scheme: As for the emissions trading scheme,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Open Thread 17
Category: Open Thread
More open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:34 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As long as we beat New Zealand
Category: Global Warming
Australia's climate policy may be inadequate, but at least it's better than New Zealand's!
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:15 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Archer's "The Long Thaw"
Category: Global Warming
I haven't read David Archer's "The Long Thaw" yet, but it comes highly recommended. John Mashey: This concise (180-page), clearly-written book is an excellent first book on climate science for the general audience, generally not requiring knowledge beyond that of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:22 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2008
More on Inhofe's alleged list of 650 scientists
Category: Global Warming
Senator Inhofe quote mined Joanne Simpson to make it look like she was rejectioning global warming.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:18 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 16, 2008
How many on Inhofe's list are IPCC authors?
Category: Global Warming
Only three IPCC authors (out of 618) appear on Inhofe's list of 650 (really 604) alleged climate change skeptics. Only one of the three is really a skeptic.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:19 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 15, 2008
Shortcut on White Paper
Category: Global Warming
The quick way to see if the Australian government's CO2 emission targets are adequate is to check the reaction from The Australian. Since The Australian believes that it's not warming and we're not causing it and it will not be...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 AM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2008
The Australian's War on Science XXVI
Category: The War on Science
I'm afraid the very silly editorial in the Weekend Australian about how environmentalists hate the proletariat, already taken to pieces by Glenn Albrecht doesn't qualify as part of their War on Science because it doesn't include anything on the science,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:25 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 13, 2008
Inhofe: less honest than the Discovery Institute
Category: Global Warming
Inhofe's list of 650 scientists that supposedly dispute the consensus on AGW reminded me of another list: The Discovery Institute's list of scientists who dissent from Darwinism, so I thought I'd compare the two lists. First, numbers. The Discovery Institute's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:42 PM • 118 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Potty peer pokes 'pedia
Category: Monckton
Looks like our favourite fabulist (or someone who writes and thinks exactly like him) is busy editing the Wikipedia page on Christopher Monckton. William Connolley (or "failed Green Party candidate in the pay of a convicted internet-gaming fraudster and money-launderer")...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2008
650 international scientists? Err, not exactly.
Category: Global Warming
Last year Inhofe released a list of 400 scientists who disputed mainstream climate science. But as Joe Romm and Andrew Dessler observed, the list was padded with TV weathermen, economists and so on and contained very few actual climate scientists....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:45 PM • 102 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And the winner is ...
Category: Global Warming
Michael, whose response to the graph showing the global average sea level going up was There's no such thing as a global average sea level. The awesome thing about this response is that it really is a corollary to McKitrick's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:23 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 9, 2008
How would you describe this graph of global sea level?
Category: Global Warming
How would you describe this graph of global sea level from the University of Colorado?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:52 PM • 83 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good news on malaria vaccines
The NEJM reports some extremely promising results on a vaccine against malaria: In this trial, RTS,S was given along with other vaccines for children (a vaccine containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis vaccine, and conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:37 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 6, 2008
Another correction to Duffy
Category: Global Warming
The Sydney Morning Herald has printed another letter correcting Michael Duffy's wrongheaded column. Bob Beale writes Accusing a scientist of falsifying data is a grave and professionally damaging charge, about the worst one can make. Michael Duffy was careless and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 AM • 133 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 5, 2008
Chris Mitchell's folly
Category: stupidity
Back in 1996 the Australian Press Council upheld a complaint against The Courier Mail under editor Chris Mitchell for printing a nutty story that historian Manning Clark was an agent of the Soviet Union who had been awarded the Order...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:29 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 4, 2008
The Australian's War on Science XXV
Category: The War on Science
On Saturday the Australian published a story by John Stapleton offering as evidence against global warming the fact that "the Arctic ice is expanding". Something that happens every winter. Anyway, Stapleton's piece is about biased reporting on global warming. Stapleton...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Open Thread 16
Category: Open Thread
Time for a new open thread....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 3, 2008
Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot
Category: Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot
Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot who is a science expert at the Brookings Institute....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:42 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 2, 2008
Windschuttle's vote of no confidence in Quadrant's climate science articles
Category: The War on Science
Last week Keith Windschuttle, editor of Quadrant declared: People who are really confident [of their facts] relish debate. It seems that Windschuttle has no confidence in the articles on climate science he has been publishing. Windschuttle rejected without even looking...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
