Tim Blair
tlambert | June 16, 2011Rosslyn Beeby at The Canberra Times follows up her earlier story: (Hat tip Dave McRae):
Two of the most shocking cases involved young women who have had little media experience or exposure. One was invited to speak on climate change at a suburban library. Her brief was simple - talk about everyday things people can do to cut their carbon footprint, talk about climate books available at the library (list provided), leave time for questions, and mingle afterwards. The other woman was asked by a local newspaper to pose with her young children for a photograph to illustrate an article promoting a…
tlambert | June 5, 2011The Canberra Times reports
Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats.
The Australian National University has confirmed it moved several high-profile climate scientists, economists and policy researchers into more secure buildings, following explicit threats to their personal safety.
Whoever could be inciting people to make such threats? Oh look, here's Tim Blair's response to the news:
But on the weekend we discovered that it only takes a few emails to scare climate…
tlambert | October 28, 2010Tim Blair, The inconvenient truths about Al Gore's hot-air footprint:
Al Gore is fat.
Note that this was a column in the Daily Telegraph, so presumably there was an editor who could have saved a lot of ink and paper by trimming Blair's column down to just 11 letters.
'Shorter' concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.⢠Acknowledgement copied from Sadly, No!.
Update: James Massola promotes Blair's column in The Australian.
tlambert | October 25, 2010The WikiLeaks Iraq archive, while incomplete, reveals many more previously unreported violent deaths in the Iraq war -- Iraq Body Count say that the archive reveals 15,000 people shot, blown up, had the heads cut off or killed in some other way that they had not recorded. So Tim Blair, who claimed that the Iraq Body Count was way way too high (and predicted that the coalition would suffer "below 50" casualties) has posted a correction. Ha ha, just kidding. Blair has a post claiming that the WikiLeaks archive, which is, as I have already noted, incomplete, proves that the Lancet study on…
tlambert | September 21, 2009Tim Blair disputes Charles Johnson's estimate of the size of the September 12 rally. Johnson wrote:
Here's the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009:
September 12, 2009: Metrorail: 437,624
Comparable Metrorail Ridership 1 Year Ago: 362,773
The difference between these two figures is -- 74,851.
Oddly enough, this almost exactly matches the unofficial estimate given by a Washington DC Fire Department spokesman, who estimated the crowd at 60,000 to 70,000 people.
Blair writes
comparing September 12, 2008, to September 12, 2009, won't yield reliable…
tlambert | August 20, 2009
Because Tim Blair gets political commentry about Australia from Taiwan, it comes as no surprise that he gets his commentry on the States from England, from one Gerald Warner who reckons that Obama's attempts to create a "Union of Soviet States of America" will fail and that he will be a one-term president. I think it is more likely that Warner has his fingers on a gin and tonic than on the pulse of the American people, but this claim intrigued me:
The one glimmer of realism [Obama] displayed was when he recently told an audience in Montana that, with regard to health care, he was "not in…
tlambert | July 6, 2009With US combat troops withdrawing from Iraq's cities it is time to compare the 4639 coalition casualties with the predictions made by warbloggers before the war:
John Hawkins: "Probably 300 or less"Charles Johnson:"Very few"Henry Hanks: "Less than 200"Laurence Simon: "A Few hundred"Rachael Lucas: "Less than three thousand"Scott Ott: "Dozens"Glenn Reynolds: "Fewer than 100"Tim Blair: "Below 50"Ken Layne: "a few hundred"Steven Den Beste: "50-150"
And there were roughly a million excess Iraqi deaths.
tlambert | June 6, 2009
Tim Blair, running the time-worn AGW denialist line "It's the sun" tells us
NASA discovers that the sun makes things warmer.
Blair's link goes to another denialist, Simon Scowl, who adds a dash of "Al Gore is fat" to the argument:
Wait. The Sun Can Make Thing... Warmer? I know, that doesn't sound right to me either. Whatchoo talkin' about, Science? ...
As Al Gore and other people who stand to make a lot of money from global warming scare tactics will tell you, "the science is settled." Unless you drive a hybrid, stumble around in the dark at night, and only eat things you find in your yard…
tlambert | June 2, 2009
Remember when Tim Blair's commenters combined to take on a six year old boy? And lost. Now Blair and his commenters are taking on a Nobel Physics Prize winner. On physics.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, one of the world's greatest minds, believes painting roofs, roads and pavements white will help contain global warming. Reader Steve H. reviews the Chu plan:
According to a 2004 study by the U.S. Geophysical Union, all constructed so-called "impervious surfaces" (buildings, roads, parking lots, roofs, etc.) in the USA total a combined 112,610 km^2. Which is a bit less than the total area of…