Tim Lambert
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November 5, 2008
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 probably likely to be primarily responsible for…
November 3, 2008
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 compiled the list, had earlier compiled a list of the "ten best climate research papers…
November 1, 2008
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 planet. Some people are so addicted to…
October 29, 2008
Leading climate scientist has a new theory
Environmentalism is just the latest attempt to find a substitute for the theory of evolution and it is paradoxical that it can be so widespread when next year (2009) is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of…
October 25, 2008
Back in 2006, Tim Blair declared
I'd lean towards the official police figures myself (although jerked-around crime counting methods make comparisons problematic), mainly because they're, you know, official police figures. The British Crime Survey is just a survey.
Alas, he backed the wrong horse…
October 24, 2008
William Ford reports on the oral arguments in Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit against Levitt:
Evans and Sykes asked all the questions. Ripple remained silent. I have only glanced at the briefs, but based on the questions and comments during the oral argument, Lott's chances do not…
October 22, 2008
I think the funniest part of Monckton's open letter to John McCain is his description of himself at the beginning:
His contribution to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 - the correction of a table
inserted by IPCC bureaucrats that had overstated tenfold the observed contribution of the…
October 20, 2008
2008 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture:
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will deliver the 2008 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture in UNSW's John Niland Scientia Building on Thursday 23 October at 7:30pm.
Dr Pachaui's lecture is entitled Our Vulnerable…
October 19, 2008
This column in the Australian from Frank Devine is mainly about how the latest Disney cartoon is "pernicious and propagandistic" and threatens our freedom, but he also includes some war-on-science stuff:
An alternative view of good coming out of the financial crash is that, with another global…
October 16, 2008
Monckton continues to entertain:
Dear Professor Serene - A Fellow of the APS has drawn my attention to a new policy apparently adopted by the Executive Board of the American Physical Society, to the effect that every paper published in any APS journal must in future carry a disclaimer to the effect…
October 15, 2008
The latest salvo from the Australian in their war on science is a column from Bjorn Lomborg. Lomborg tells us:
Have you noticed how environmental campaigners almost inevitably say that not only is global warming happening and bad, but also that what we are seeing is even worse than expected?
This…
October 14, 2008
Remember Dennis Bray's useless survey of climate scientists? The URL and password were posted to the climatesceptics mail list, so the results were biased and included responses from people who were not climate scientists. Bray refused to concede that this meant that the survey was hopelessly…
October 7, 2008
This is the long-awaited part 2 of my response to Roger Bate's reply to the article on DDT in Prospect by John Quiggin and me. (Part 1 is here.) In this part I look at Bate's false history of DDT and malaria.
Here's Bate's history:
But while there were serious concerns about the bioaccumulation of…
October 5, 2008
This piece by Brendan O'Neill in the Australian combines two of the Australian's favourite things: making war on science and supporting Republicans. Here's O'Neill:
In May this year, Palin, as Governor of Alaska, said she would sue the federal Government for labelling polar bears as officially…
September 30, 2008
Monckton should have SPPI investigated for making him look like a "potty peer", because they've published a wrongheaded piece of his about the hockey stick, where he calls for Mann, Bradley and Hughes to be put on trial for genocide. Yes, really.
"The environmental extremists, who have already…
September 28, 2008
So the latest headline on Drudge is this:
BBC investigated for 'deliberately misrepresenting' global warming skeptics...
Which sounds serious, but if you read the linked article in the Daily Mail, all that has happened is that Monckton complained to Ofcom that the BBC Climate Wars documentary was…
September 26, 2008
Monckton has written to the New Scientist in response to Lawrence Krauss' article:
I have not been a "journalist" for 15 years. Until I retired two years ago I directed a leading technical consultancy. I have made a fortune from probabilistic combinatorics.
I think that means he made money from…
September 18, 2008
Well, we didn't have a fancy sign, on account of being on the other side of the world from Seed High Command, but people were able to find us by spotting the Scienceblogs mug. My brilliant plan to have the party in the Attic Bar because it would be fairly empty on a Wednesday night was foiled by…
September 15, 2008
The saga of Monckton's Physics and Society article continues (previous posts: 1 2 3 4
5). Via Eli Rabett, here is Arthur Smith's list of 125 errors in Monckton's piece.
Also, a few more snippets on how Monckton's article ended up in Physics and Society. Lawrence Krauss (outgoing chair of the…
September 10, 2008
If you haven't ever commented here, this open thread is a good opportunity to enter the millionth comment contest:
Plus, one lucky reader will win an all-out science adventure -- a trip for two to New York City and exclusive science adventures only ScienceBlogs could give you access to.
The trip…
September 10, 2008
All readers of this and any other ScienceBlogs blog are invited to a party in Sydney on Wednesday 17th September from 7pm onwards. We'll be in the Attic Bar of the Arthouse hotel. Daniel MacArthur, who will also be there, has a map. Finding the Attic Bar once you're in the Arthouse hotel is a…
September 9, 2008
The latest volley from the Australian is an article by John McLean. You might remember him as the guy who kept steering Andrew Bolt into brick walls. He's now styling himself as a "climate data analyst and a member of the Australian Climate Science Coalition", which might sound impressive if you…
September 7, 2008
Well, everyone's doing it, so let's have a ScienceBlogs millionth comment party in Sydney. Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future might be able to come, so there could be two bloggers from SceinceBlogs there. We're looking at some time between 14 and 21 September. If you have any suggestions or…
September 6, 2008
Naomi Oreskes and Jonathan Renouf have a fascinating article in the Sunday Times about the secret climate change war in the early 80s:
Even today few people have heard of Jason. It was established in 1960 at the height of the cold war when a group of physicists who had helped to develop the atomic…
September 5, 2008
The latest report from the NSIDC on Artic sea ice is out, and states:
Record ice loss in August
Following a record rate of ice loss through the month of August, Arctic sea ice extent already stands as the second-lowest on record, further reinforcing conclusions that the Arctic sea ice cover is in a…
August 27, 2008
The Register, an occasionally accurate online IT newspaper, has been running a series of warming denial pieces, by one Steven Goddard. Goddard has been trying to cast on temperature and ice data. Unfortunately, he does a whole lot of cherry picking. For example:
A second important issue with NASA'…
August 25, 2008
On Saturday the Australian published an article by Jennifer Marohasy. It's the usual cherry-picked global-warming-ended-in-1998 nonsense, and Barry Brook has written a detailed refutation.
But I felt I should post this graph from Marohasy's piece where she tries to make global warming go away by…
August 23, 2008
Richard Littlemore has posted an annotated transcript of his debate with Monckton, with corrections to Monckton's numerous false statements.
Andrew Bolt thinks the best argument that Monckton had in the debate with Littlemore was his defamation of one of the funders of Desmogblog, so he repeats it…
August 21, 2008
Another post on John Mashey's virtual blog. Everything that follows is from comments posted here by Mashey, lightly edited.
This long essay grew from a dialog in this thread into something that may be a more general resource than just some answers to Mr Manny.
There are 3 parts so far:
Part 1…