Tim Lambert
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August 20, 2008
Alicia Newton, an Associate Editor of Nature Geoscience, discovers the truth about CO2Science:
But rather than its promise of "separating reality from rhetoric in the emotionally-charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change", on the contrary CO2 Science twists…
August 19, 2008
Two from Nexus 6:
(Referring to this.)
From wadard
From Jon Snow:
From Gummo Trotsky:
From Stefan:
From Frank Bi
And see also the ones in comments to my earlier post.
August 19, 2008
It seems like extreme gullibility must be a job requirement for reporters at Channel Nine. You might recall how Adam Shand uncritically accepted everything he was told by global warming skeptics and aggressively disputed the mainstream science. Tara Brown has gone down the same path on Channel…
August 17, 2008
I think LOLdenialist macros deserve their own thread.
You can make your own with this convenient online tool.
You can't post images in comments, so email them to me at deltoidblog AT gmail.com.
It doesn't have to be AGW denial -- Lancet/Iraq, HIV/AIDS, evolution, DDT resistance are all worthy of a…
August 16, 2008
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 textbooks alone.
"For the Earth to neither warm…
August 14, 2008
People have noticed that there was an advertisement for Bjorn Lomborg's Cool It! on ScienceBlogs. Seed's sales staff know not to accept ads for Creationists, psychics and pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, so how did Lomborg slip through?
Well, he's managed to present himself as being in the middle…
August 12, 2008
Barry Brooks, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change at the University of Adelaide, has started a blog, Brave New Climate. Check it out.
Of particular interest to Deltoid readers is his post on David Evans. After his claims about a missing hot spot signature were refuted, it seems that Evans…
August 11, 2008
Last year I wrote about Steve Milloy's latest scam -- a $100,000 if you prove the existence of harmful AGW. Of course, since Milloy judges whether your prove is good enough, you know he'll never pay up, just as you know that Kent Hovind will never pay his $250,000 for a proof of evolution.
The…
August 11, 2008
John Mashey emails me a link to a video a Naomi Oreskes talk about the Western Fuels Association's PR campaign against the global warming science.
Mashey's summary of her talk:
Naomi is an award-winning geoscientist/science historian, a Professor at
UCSD and as of July, promoted to Provost of of…
August 9, 2008
This piece by Arthur "Let's bomb Iran!" Herman published by the Australian and the CIS, has it all.
the author is a historian, not a scientist
every single claim about the science is wrong
climate scientists are called "knaves" , "a priesthood" and likened to the Spanish Inquisition and the Nazis…
August 9, 2008
Atmoz examines a Climate Audit thread as Steve McIntyre and company wrestle with the question of why the northern hemisphere is warming faster than the southern hemisphere.
August 7, 2008
Clif at Sadly No mocks some blogger who thinks that because the draft report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States used a photoshopped picture of flood to illustrate a flood, rather than a picture of a real flood, this casts doubt on the science. Following the links I get to Anthony…
August 6, 2008
Eli Rabett has the latest: Monckton and SPPI seem to think that if you declare that it is "for educational purposes" you can ignore copyright.
August 3, 2008
Robert Grumbine writes
Since I'm an ice guy, I'm saddened that a place with ice in its name turned out to be unreliable. Still, I wandered over there and took a look at the first article ... The article was by Joseph D'Aleo ... In very short order, I found a major error, a cherry pick, and an…
August 2, 2008
You can now sign the "Sue Us" peition, which calls for those people who keep threatening to Sue Gore and Hansen to do so. See also Frank Bi's post on promoting the petition.
August 1, 2008
Tamino has written three posts explaining what is wrong with Roy Spencer's calculations of a low climate sensitivity. See Part 1, Part 2and Part 3.
Brief summary: 90 days of data is not enough to estimate climate sensitivity.
August 1, 2008
Global warming skeptics just keep trying to show that Hansen's projections in in his 1988 climate model were wrong. We've had Pat Michaels, who dishonestly erased scenarios B and C from Hansen's graph, Willis Eschenbach at Climate Audit, who used the wrong baseline for temperature data and Steve…
July 31, 2008
This is the very first paragraph of Monckton's response to Gavin Schmidt's demolition of Monckton's paper on climate sensitivity.
For the second time, the FalseClimate propaganda blog, founded by two co-authors of
the now-discredited "hockey-stick" graph by which the UN's climate panel tried…
July 31, 2008
Frank Bi suggests on open letter to John Coleman, Christopher Monckton, and Owen McShane, who have been threatening to sue Al Gore and James Hansen challenging them to bring it on.
July 29, 2008
Undaunted by the dismal failure of its war on science, the Australian presses on, with a piece by Dennis Jensen. Oops, that's not the link, this is the link:
It has been an article of faith for many years that humans are gradually destroying the environment, and are specifically responsible for…
July 29, 2008
The latest Newspoll finds that 84% of Australians accept that climate change is occurring and 96% of those that believe that climate change is occurring think that it is wholly or partly caused by humans. A 1993 ISSP survey found that 32% of Australians don't believe that humans evolved from…
July 29, 2008
David Appell showed David Evans the AGW signature from the IPCC report that Evans claimed was missing. Evans replied:
Comparing a model to observations doesn't prove the model works. It's encouraging to the model builders, but it's not proof. For instance, the model could just be lucky.
So when…
July 28, 2008
Back in January, Steve McIntyre used some erroneous data of satellite-measured temperatures from RSS to argue that Hansen's 1988 temperature projections were too high. A week later he posted a corrected graph, blaming RSS for not making the error clear:
The fact that users are "falling into the RSS…
July 27, 2008
Last year Christopher Monckton was threatening legal action if Naomi Oreskes did not apologize to Schulte:
By making the allegations his own and endorsing them with such lamentably unscientific enthusiasm, however, he has exposed himself to the legal action which may well follow if Oreskes does not…
July 26, 2008
Hey, remember when David Bellamy claimed?
Indeed, if you take all the evidence that is rarely mentioned by the Kyotoists into consideration, 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980.
And George…
July 26, 2008
Tom Bozzo at Angry Bear gives us a shorter Megan McArdle:
I once heard these terms of art from the electricity industry. No quizzes!
P.S., Al Gore is fat.
Bonus McArdle on Gore:
It is a funny but irrelevant fact that freak cold snaps have occurred several times that Al Gore was giving a big speech…
July 25, 2008
Catherine Brahic, at the New Scientist enviromental blog has more on Monkcton and the APS:
[Al Saperstein, an editor of Physics and Society,] stressed that that the article was not sent to anyone for peer-reviewing. Saperstein himself edited it. "I'm a little ticked off that some people have…
July 24, 2008
A new paper by Chilingar, Khilyuk and Sorokhtin is up to their previous standard.
Here's the abstract:
The writers investigated the effect of CO2 emission on the temperature of atmosphere. Computations based on the adiabatic theory of greenhouse effect show that increasing CO2 concentration in the…