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Wegman one of The Scientist‘s top five science scandals
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 22, 2011 The Wegman scandal has made The Scientist‘s list of the top 5 science scandals of 2011: A controversial climate change paper was retracted when it was found to contain passages lifted from other sources, including Wikipedia. The paper, published by climate change skeptic Edward Wegman of George Mason University in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis…
The Australian’s War on Science 75: Plimer vs Plimer
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 21, 2011 The Australian has continued its war on science by printing an extract from Ian Plimer’s new book, How to Get Expelled from School. The extract is largely plagiarised from this press release on a recent paper in Science by Funder et al finding large fluctuations in Arctic sea ice over the last 10,000 years. Plimer…
Plimer suffers from crank magnetism
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 15, 2011 Crank magnetism is the tendency of someone attracted to one crank idea to be attracted to more. Ian Plimer, already notable for his acceptance of the iron Sun theory and the volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans theory has now been revealed as believing (like Christopher Booker) that white asbestos is harmless. But Plimer has…
Monckton debunks Monckton
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 11, 2011 Peter Hadfield dissects Monckton’s response to Hadfield’s demolition of Monckton’s claims about climate science. Hadfield coins the term “Monckton maneuver” to describe Monckton’s tactic of changing his position when shown to be wrong and pretending that his position hasn’t changed.
December 2011 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 1, 2011 McKitrick’s quote mining
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 29, 2011 Deep Climate dissects Ross McKitrick’s deceptive quoting from the emails stolen from CRU in 2009: In one particularly outrageous and error-filled passage, McKitrick accuses IPCC AR4 co-ordinating lead authors Phil Jones and Kevin Trenberth of selecting their team of contributing authors solely on the basis of whether they agree with the pair’s scientific views. He…
On the trick to hide the context
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 28, 2011 Peter Hadfield (potholer54) talks on the deceitful quoting of the emails stolen from CRU in 2009 Juliette Jowit in The Guardian puts some more of them in context.
The Australian’s War on Science 74: Spinning the IPCC Extreme Weather report
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 24, 2011 The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) found: Regarding the future, the assessment concludes that it is virtually certain that on a global scale hot days become even hotter and occur more often. “For the high emissions scenario, it is likely that the…
Stolen CRU emails: the rejects
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 22, 2011 Some more of the emails stolen from the Climate Research Centre in 2009 have been released. This time they are accompanied by a readme with out-of-context quotes that asserts the purpose of the release is information transparency, but that’s an obvious lie, since they’ve sat on them for two years and released them just before…
The Australian’s War on Science 73: Blainey’s false history
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 9, 2011 In an interview in The Australian (behind The Australian‘s paywall, search for “Gadfly Geoffrey Blainey”) historian Geoffrey Blainey gets his history wrong: In 1970 the overwhelming majority of scientists believed that there was not going to be global warming over the next 40 years. That’s not true, as Ian Musgrave explains.