Tim Lambert
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January 29, 2008
ORB has revised their estimate of violent deaths as a result of the Iraq war (discussed earlier here). They write:
Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the…
January 23, 2008
Eli Rabett chronicles the Climate Audit comedy of errors.
One consequence of the error in the RSS satellite data is that the global warming skeptics switched to using RSS, and now they can't switch back without making it look realy obvious what they are up to.
Update: McIntyre has a new post where…
January 22, 2008
John Lott claims:
The final numbers will be out in March, but the initial information makes it look as if 2007 will be the coldest in a decade. So much for the claim that "the probability that 2007 would be the hottest year as 60 percent."
NASA has 2007 tied for second, but he's referring to the…
January 22, 2008
Via Big City Lib, I find this, from Tim Ball and Tom Harris:
Like all philosophies that come to dominate society, climate hysteria is part of an evolution of ideas and needs an historical context. The current western view of the World essentially evolved from the Darwinian view. Even though it is…
January 21, 2008
John Tirman documents Neil Munro's dishonesty. I think this is an excellent catch by Tirman -- Munro selling his National Journal story to Iraq war architect Michael Rubin:
George Soros funded the survey. The U.S. authors played no role in data-collection, and did not apply standard anti-fraud…
January 18, 2008
Richard Littlemore has the latest on Tim Ball's antics. Check out this bit from Ball:
The point I made was with regard to the Antarctic and Greenland ice
sheets. I posed the question about what happens to the water level
when an ice cube is placed in a glass which is then filled to the brim
and…
January 17, 2008
In a 1988 paper James Hansen presented three scenarios (A, B and C) for future climate change, saying that Scenario B was the most plausible. In 1998 Pat Michaels committed scientific fraud when he erased scenarios B and C from Hansen's graph to argue that Hansen's predictions was out by 300%. In…
January 15, 2008
I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war so far.
Survey
Violent deaths
Excess deaths
ILCS
150,000
Lancet 1
290,000
420,000
IFHS
280,000
700,…
January 15, 2008
John Lott, in the National Review Online writes:
Nor does it really matter that the only academic research on the impact of trigger locks on crime finds that states that require guns be locked up and unloaded face a five-percent increase in murder and a 12 percent increase in rape. Criminals are…
January 14, 2008
Remember how Shane Morris posted a photo that he claimed showed that the "wormy corn" sign had been taken down when in fact the sign was visible in his photo? Here's the latest (from Private Eye):
After the Eye reported Morris's threats in issue 1194, he wrote to demand a right to reply and made…
January 14, 2008
Tim Blair has cancer. He says that the prognosis is good, but he's having major abdominal surgery next week. He has my best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery.
January 14, 2008
Johns Hopkins corrects some of the misinformation in the Neil Munro's hit piece.
John Tirman has gone through the whole thing, noting all the inaccuracies and misleading statements.
January 13, 2008
In a story funded by a pro-war billionaire, Brendan Montague, who seems to know which side of his bread is buttered on, writes:
A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.
Soros, 77, provided almost…
January 11, 2008
John Tirman comments on Neil Munro's misconduct:
One quick note about the Soros bugaboo. I commissioned L2. It was commissioned in Oct 2005, with internal funds from the Center for International Studies at MIT, of which I am executive director. The funds for public education (not the survey itself…
January 10, 2008
Les Roberts replies to a shamelessly dishonest WSJ editorial:
Your editorial entitled, "The Lancet's political hit" regarding our study of Iraqi deaths was a unique blend of error and innuendo. For example, I was not opposed to removing Saddam; I was opposed to invading a country while the UN…
January 9, 2008
A new study of violent deaths in Iraq has been published in the NEJM. You can read it here. Here's the abstract:
Background Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a…
January 9, 2008
Back in November 2001 Neil Munro was an advocate of war with Iraq and predicted:
The painful images of starving Iraqi children will be replaced by alluring Baghdad city lights, smiling wages-earners and Palestinian job seekers.
Iraq war advocates like Munro don't like the results of the Lancet…
January 1, 2008
Allan Schapira is skeptical about the new call for malaria eradication:
As much as I would like to point to progress in 2007 comparable to last year's advances, I feel compelled to point out that in international health, a development is taking place that may lead to wastage of resources,…
December 29, 2007
If you've never heard of the Data Quality Act go read this article by Chris Mooney.
Back? Good.
Steve McIntyre, still angry after a comment was not released from moderation on Christmas Day, is now trying to use the Data Quality Act against RealClimate. As far as I can make out, because Gavin…
December 27, 2007
Some time ago, Steve McIntyre insinuated that Gavin Schmidt was dishonest after one of McIntyre's comments was held up in moderation. In his latest post (at 9:20 am on December 26) McIntyre complains that:
realclimate censored my post, which pointed out an incident of realclimate fallability, as…
December 25, 2007
This was taken on Christmas Eve at the local seafood store. They were very busy inside.
Hope you all had a nice time!
December 23, 2007
I didn't write this. It is a guest post from Mrs Lambert, so be nice.
Everyone knows the Christmas story. Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem, the Inn is full so Mary has to give birth in a stable. The story sounds sweet, emphasizing the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth.
But that's not the…
December 23, 2007
This is your thread to discuss anything. Like, say, why the US government spends a greater fraction of its GDP on health care than Australia without providing universal care.
December 20, 2007
Hey, remember John McLean? The guy who kept steering Andrew Bolt into brick walls? Well he's teamed up with Tom Harris of the NRSP to accuse the IPCC of lying about the scientific support for its reports:
In total, only 62 scientists reviewed the chapter in which this statement appears, the…
December 18, 2007
Andrew Dessler tried again to get a debate. He was going to debate Tim Ball on BlogTakRadio, but alas, Ball couldn't get through.
He did get to talk to various callers. My favourite was one Robert Colmes who ordered Dessler to stop saying that there was a consensus because he (Colmes) didn't agree…
December 17, 2007
Christopher Monckton has responded to my Monckton Watch post. In a long and rambling post he writes:
If the science behind the scare is as certain as the zombies say, why are they so terrified of a few doubters? Google me and you'll find hundreds of enviro-loony websites, such as Wikipedia, now an…
December 13, 2007
Bob Carter has managed to get a whole bunch of people to sign a letter touting his warming ended in in 1998 claim. Here's what they signed:
there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th-century period of warming is consistent with the…
December 12, 2007
I don't think I've ever seen a more dishonest piece of reporting than this whoppper from Simon Caldwell at the Daily Mail:
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on…