Tim Lambert
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March 1, 2007
Andrew Bolt is still trying to revive the bogus "Gore is a fat hypocrite" story. His main points are:
Gore is fat.
And:
Here he was, receiving film's highest honour for his smash documentary, in which he warns that within a century the seas will rise up to 6m while monster hurricanes tear…
March 1, 2007
Nature has a news story by Jim Giles on the criticisms of the study from IBC supporters.
Several researchers, including Madelyn Hicks, a psychiatrist at King's College London, recently published criticisms of the study's methodology in The Lancet (369, 101-105; 2007). One key question is whether…
February 28, 2007
Gilbert Burnham has just given a talk at MIT on the Lancet studies on deaths in Iraq. You can watch the video here.
Some of things he mentioned:
USAID (which has expertise in cluster sampling) was told to look for holes in the study, but couldn't find any.
They will soon release the data (with…
February 27, 2007
The previous open thread dropped off the front page, so here's a new one.
February 27, 2007
Conservatives and faux libertarians have been running with an attack on Al Gore from a junior version of the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- apparently he has a big house/office and it uses a lot of energy. Genuine libertarian Jim Henley puts it like this: (Quoted in full because not a word is…
February 27, 2007
SkepticLawyer has a nice round up of blog reactions to the Australian Government's plan to ban incandescent light bulbs by 2010. (As well as lot more interesting links -- check it out.) For once, I find myself agreeing with Miranda Devine, who wrote:
So what kind of hypocrisy is there in a…
February 26, 2007
John Quiggin suggests some terminology
The problem of terminology has always been difficult. It's obviously unreasonable to use terms like "skeptic" or "contrarian" to describe people who produce or swallow transparently fraudulent propaganda like that of Singer and Seitz because it happens to suit…
February 26, 2007
Last year I wrote about the Australian's War on Science. It's continued this year, leading Ian Musgrave to write:
The Australian is Anti-Science, it's a conclusion I'm reluctant to draw, but the accumulated evidence drives me to it.
Read his post to find out why. He then has a post on the next…
February 24, 2007
The AP reports:
Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in
Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed.
When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 U.S.…
February 23, 2007
CNSNews is a news analogue of Conservapedia. They have a story arguing that An Inconvenient Truth should be disqualified from the Oscar for best documentary because it's inaccurate. CNSNews tells us:
A new scientific study shows that for the first time they're finding polar bears that have…
February 22, 2007
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is infamous for their reckless disregard of the evidence for global warming. They've just published an op-ed by Pete Du Pont which manages to get pretty well every single factual claim wrong. As with most of these things, correcting every single false claim…
February 21, 2007
Ed Brayton reports on Conservapedia, set up by Creationist Andrew Schlafly because he didn't like the "anti-Christian" bias of Wikipedia. Andrew Schlafly is the son of Phyllis Schlafly and legal counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which publishes bad science promoting…
February 20, 2007
Montreal's La Presse has published an article on the global warming skeptics' on-line war on science. (Google translation here.)
I get mentioned:
Certains vont jusqu'à accuser les éco-sceptiques d'utiliser de fausses identités dans les blogues afin de donner des voix multiples à leur opinion,…
February 18, 2007
Queensland's Land and Resources Tribunal has rejected objections to a new coal mine by environmental groups who wanted offsets for the carbon emissions of the mine. Unfortunately, the Tribunal got the science badly wrong, understating the emissions by a factor of 15, making inappropriate…
February 14, 2007
Les Roberts in the Independent:
On both sides of the Atlantic, a process of spinning science is preventing a serious discussion about the state of affairs in Iraq.
The government in Iraq claimed last month that since the 2003 invasion between 40,000 and 50,000 violent deaths have occurred. Few have…
February 14, 2007
Back in July I mentioned that the AEI was offering $10,000 to scientists for a "review and policy critique" of the new IPCC report. This month the Guardian caused all kinds of grief for the AEI when they described these payments as bribes. David Roberts and Andrew Dessler tell the story and what…
February 10, 2007
You want to look away as this Andrew Bolt post comes off the rails, crashes and burns, but you can't. In his column, Alan Ramsey had quoted Tim Flannery:
"What we've seen in the Arctic over the last two years has been such breathtaking change that you have to worry about stability for sea levels…
February 9, 2007
Last October, the story of how there were 650,000 or so excess Iraqi deaths in the war wasn't important enough to make the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. In today's paper I see that the death of a minor American celebrity gets five out of eight columns on the front page.
February 9, 2007
Glenn Reynolds wrongly claimed that I'd said that 59 was similar to 88. I hadn't, so he tried to wriggle out by pretending that he was just kidding), adding this:
In a related matter, rumors that Lambert once asked a date for "96" on the ground that it's "similar to" 69 are probably false.
Randy…
February 8, 2007
Here is a thread where you can discuss anything you like. For example, Canadian health care policies.
February 8, 2007
Writing about the new IPCC report, Andrew Bolt said
The scientists of even the fiercely pro-warming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict seas will rise (as they have for centuries) not by Gore's 600cm by 2100, but by between 14 and 43cm.
While Ron Bailey wrote:
By 2100 sea level is…
February 7, 2007
Dale Keiger's article on the Lancet studies is now online:
Newspapers the world over put the number in their headlines. Reporters tried to explain it, often bungling the job. To dismiss the research, critics seized on its implausibility, in the process frequently distorting its meaning. Political…
February 7, 2007
Bjorn Lomborg makes the (by now traditional) claim that the new IPCC report has significantly reduced the estimates of projected sea level rises.
Six years ago, it anticipated ocean levels would be 48.5 centimeters higher than they are currently. In this year's report, the estimated rise is 38.5…
February 6, 2007
There's pathological denial and there's super-duper-pathological denial.
In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has now written 20 comments denying that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors.
This Media Watch report?
"And when we pressed him to provide the names of…
February 6, 2007
Eli Rabett has some extracts from a 5,000 word article by Dale Keiger on the Lancet studies that appeared in the Johns Hopkins Alumni Journal. Keiger says that it will be available online in a few days.
Update: Here it is.
February 6, 2007
Tim Ball has written another silly article, declaring:
Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science.
He provides no evidence at all in support of his claim, so apparently we are supposed…
February 5, 2007
Nexus 6 writes about critics of the IPCC
There has been a concerted attempt by a number of contrarians with media access to use the findings of the summary to discredit claims about the degree of climate change and its impacts.
A lot of these claims seem to revolve around the myth that the IPCC…
February 5, 2007
William Connolley is somewhat bemused by Christopher Monckton's review of the IPCC's Summary for Policy Makers. Because the IPCC changed the way sea level rises were reported, critics seem to inevitably misunderstand them and claim that the IPCC has substantially reduced its projections.
Monckton…
February 4, 2007
In my review of Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, I contrasted Mooney's book with Gross and Levitt's book about the the postmodern left's war on science, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Now Mooney has got together with Alan Sokal (who punctured the…