Category: The War on Science
The Australian has plumbed new depths in its war on science, claiming that climate models cannot be trusted because they don't account for the heat from the sun or the Earth's core.
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 PM • 111 Comments •
Category: stupidity
Gerald Warner claims that the number of deaths from hospital-acquired infections shows that socialized medicine is a bad idea but the death rate from such infections is higher in the US.
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:59 PM • 27 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Piers Akerman evens denies the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:33 AM • 135 Comments •
Category: stupidity
The scientists said "For the last 20 to 30 years, we believe greenhouse gases have been the dominant influence on recent climate change" and the human-caused global warming denialists heard them saying that the sun was the cause of recent climate change.
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:38 AM • 63 Comments •
Category: stupidity
Tim Blair thinks scientists are stupid. They are not.
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:42 PM • 33 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:29 PM • 8 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:53 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: stupidity
Via Gummo Trotsky, the latest argument posted by Jennifer Marohasy: Radiative equilibrium is one of the foundation stones of radiative forcing theory. But it is not a law of physics, only a rather archaic and untested supposition found in climatology...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:04 PM • 82 Comments •
Category: stupidity
Andrew Bolt should have been embarrassed with his unthinking linking, but he is unrepentant: If someone claims to find 24 mistakes in your work and you manage to kind-of defend just three, it might be wiser to actually stay quiet....
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:41 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: stupidity
On the essential Missing Link, Ken Parish links to my post of yesterday: Tim Lambert ably defends himself on scientific grounds against a concerted attack by anti-science RWDB "heavyweights". And explains the scare quotes: I wrote that extract. Blair...
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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:48 PM • 12 Comments •