Tim Lambert
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March 25, 2008
Thanks to Drudge and Instapundit another round of "global warming stopped in 1998" is making the rounds of the blogs.
It's only been a few months since the last time and yet you only have to look at a graph of GISS temperatures to see that warming hasn't stopped:
Falsehoods like this are able to…
March 22, 2008
Was I being unfair to Energy and Environment when I described it as a forum for laundering pseudo-science? I mean, didn't they reject Schulte? According to Boehmer-Christiansen:
For your information, I have informed Dr.Schulte that I am happy to publish his own research findings on the effect on…
March 22, 2008
Remember EG Beck's dodgy CO2 graph?
You really didn't have to know anything at all about the history and practice of measuring CO2 to deduce that something was wrong with Beck's theory that there were wild fluctuations in CO2 concentration that suddenly ended when the most accurate measurements…
March 18, 2008
Les Roberts has a given a briefing to German parliamentarians on deaths in Iraq.
Hat tip: Media lens
March 16, 2008
Nexus 6 has opened a school to teach global warming deniers the tricks of the trade. Lesson 1 was on the straw man, while lesson 2 revealed the secret of making things up. Andrew Bolt then almost immediately demonstrated lesson 1 and lesson 2.
March 13, 2008
CEI, which brought us the ludicrous "CO2: We call it life" ads is trying again. This time they are resorting to ad hominem attacks on Al Gore, and claiming that a carbon tax would result in "death on a massive scale". Makes sense. If CO2 is life, then taxing it must be death.
March 7, 2008
Monckton tells Glenn Beck how he organised the lawsuit against An Inconvenient Truth:
What happened is that I looked at Al Gore's movie with mounting horror and I identified three dozen scientific errors in it. So I had a weather mate of mine who takes an interest in these matters and also had the…
March 6, 2008
Good old Christopher Monckton speaking at the Global Warming Denial Conference
According to Monckton, the movement behind global warming alarmism can be traced to some ugly things, and being wrong about it could have a grave impact on humanity.
"I think the question you're asking is who's behind…
March 5, 2008
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Instapundit, Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair etc ), is this one Michael Asher:
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man…
March 1, 2008
James Annan tells the story of how no-one seems to want to publish a survey of climate scientists done by Fergus Brown. The survey found that the IPCC report represents the middle ground of climate scientists with most of them agreeing with it. However about 15% felt that it was too optimistic…
February 27, 2008
Diane Farsetta has an excellent and comprehensive write up on the Lancet and other studies on deaths in Iraq. A few extracts:
Theoretically, the public health surveys and polls that have been conducted in Iraq -- at great risk to the people involved -- should help inform and further the debate. But…
February 26, 2008
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Andrew Bolt, etc), is this one from Lorne Gunter in the National Post:
Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of…
February 26, 2008
Mark Hoofnagle reviews a new group blog, Science-Based Medicine.
I must say I've loved much of the writing at the new blog Science-Based Medicine. These guys are fighting the good fight and presenting very sophisticated aspects of evaluating the medical literature in a very accessible way. In…
February 24, 2008
Remember last year, when Exxon said that they would no longer fund organizations like the International Policy Network and the George Marshall Institute that misrepresent the science of global warming?
Well, they are still funding them. Also still on the list, are CO2science and the Center for…
February 19, 2008
Thanks to the Tobacco documents we've learned how tobacco companies have secretly funded astroturf organizations like junkscience.com, secretly paid for think tanks to run political campaigns for them, and even created their own astroturf scientific journal. The latest pile of astoturf to be…
February 18, 2008
The two millionth visitor here came from California State University, Sacramento. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by.
February 17, 2008
Reader James reports that the DDT ban myth is repeated in a new book:
Over the last few decades, however, the WHO has discouraged
the use of DDT in member states â encouraged by environmentalists,
who have often massively overstated the negative effects of
DDT on human and animal health (Roberts…
February 14, 2008
John Tirman has an article in Editor and Publisher. Extract:
The charge, repeated in all these media, that the Iraqi research leader, Riyadh Lafta, M.D., operated "without U.S. supervision" and was therefore suspect is particularly interesting. Munro, in a note to National Review Online, asserted…
February 14, 2008
Michael Spagat is back with another attack on the Lancet study. Most of it is stuff we've seen before, like absurd assumptions he makes for Main Street Bias, and the false claim that Soros funded the study. But there is some new stuff, including this (L2 is the second Lancet study):
The above…
February 13, 2008
An open thread where you can discuss anything you like. Especially Canadian health care and the Israel Palestine conflict.
February 13, 2008
KÃ¥re Fog has examined the lists of alleged errors in An Incovenient Truth put out by Monckton, the CEI and so on and counted how many actual errors they found. The score: in the film and book combined there were 2 errors and 12 flaws. (Fog
defines a flaw as "a misleading statement which does not…
February 12, 2008
Kim Larsen has an extensive story on DDT and malaria in onEarth. An extract:
DDT proponents are generally reluctant to acknowledge the complicating and protean factor of mosquito resistance. Entomologist May Berenbaum finds this galling. An expert on insecticide metabolism, Berenbaum is director of…
February 11, 2008
Neil Munro has had another go at the Lancet studies. This time he has gone on right-wing talk shows to attack Riyadh Lafta.
On Glenn Beck he claimed
This study -- the guys in this study have not shown the forms and the date and the sheets collected by the surveyors who worked for an Iraqi without…
February 10, 2008
At Malaria Matters, Bill Brieger suggests that a new report offers a "revisionist malaria history":
A new report on the implementation of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) by the World Health Organization begins with the following 'historical' perspective: "In the 1950s and 1960s the WHO led malaria…
February 9, 2008
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Instapundit, Andrew Bolt, etc), is this one from the Investors Business Daily:
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of…
February 7, 2008
John Mashey points me to a video of Naomi Oreskes' talk on "The American Denial of Global Warming":
The first part ("TRUTH") outlines the history of climate science
research, and the unpoliticized acceptance thereof that lasted until the
early 1990s. The second part "DENIAL" describes the George C…
February 1, 2008
The World Health Organization has a new report showing dramatic decreases in malaria in Rwanda and Ethiopia following the large-scale distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and artemisinin-combination therapy drugs (ACTs) :
Our investigation showed that declines of malaria cases…
January 31, 2008
In a paper claiming that safe-storage gun laws increase crime and do not decrease accidental deaths, Lott and Whitley:
The Cummings et al., supra note 15, research provides evidence of a
23 percent drop in juvenile accidental gun deaths after the passage of
safe-storage laws. Juvenile accidental…
January 30, 2008
I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to be more wrong than Neil Munro's prediction of the result of the Iraq war:
The painful images of starving Iraqi children will be replaced by alluring Baghdad city lights, smiling wages-earners and Palestinian job seekers.
But in a piece scare-…
January 30, 2008
Tanta writes:
I cannot make anyone stop responding to pointless or nuisance comments. You have to want to restrain yourself, because you understand that the only way to get rid of them is to fail to give them the attention they want. A "troll" is not just someone whose comments you disagree with,…