Tim Lambert
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January 5, 2007
Taylor Owen at Oxblog on the reaction to the Lancet studies
"The principal question is why are we so surprised that this level of conflict would result in such levels of excess mortality?
I would argue it is a direct result of our sanitised view of war. We consider the costs of war to be limited to…
January 4, 2007
James Annan summarizes the whole non-skeptic middle heresy thing with: "No, I'm in the middle".
The RealClimate team check the list Revkin gives and find that they also qualify as NSMHs. (See also Revkin's response.)
Andrew Dessler (who was one of the people Pielke Jr originally labeled as a NSH)…
January 3, 2007
Following up on my previous post on claiming the middle ground, we have:
David Roberts didn't like Revkin's article. Revkin replies in the comments. I do think that the media has focused too much on he extremes (Pat Michaels and we're all going to die stuff), but the middle they should be paying…
January 2, 2007
Roger Pielke Jr writes:
Andy Revkin has a well-done article on the "middle ground" in the climate change debate. I fully expect that many of the usual suspects on the extremes of the debate (both sides) will respond to this story by saying that they've been in the middle all along.
The most…
January 1, 2007
Christopher Monckton was talking about how he was going to get his silly Telegraph article published in a journal and now he has.
It's been published in Nexus magazine, right between articles on UFOs and 9/11 conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theory folk seem to think that "An Inconvenient…
December 31, 2006
Geoffrey Lean in The Independent claims:
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of…
December 31, 2006
Don't pay any attention to the date stamp on this post. It's 2007 already here.
December 30, 2006
In response to my post, Michael Fumento has offered a bet: 10 to 1 odds on a pandemic in the next year. That means that Fumento thinks that there is a 10% of a pandemic in the next year. This sits rather oddly with his dismissal of concerns about bird flu. With a 10% chance of a pandemic,…
December 28, 2006
Some readers think I should use the piñata whenever I write about something silly by Tim Blair, but the rules for piñata usage are stricter than that. The rules are that it is only to be used when Blair produces another nugget of stupid after being beaten with a clue stick. For example, this…
December 26, 2006
Kevin Vranes wonders if scientists have oversold climate change:
We wonder if we've oversold the science. We're wondering what happened to our community, that individuals caveat even the most minor questionings of barely-proven climate change evidence, lest they be tagged as "skeptics." We're…
December 22, 2006
Radio Open Source has a program on the Lancet study with comments from Les Roberts, Colin Kahl (arguing that the number is too high), Juan Cole and Iraqi bloggers.
December 22, 2006
Iain "CO2 is life" Murray complains about politicization of science. No, I'm not kidding.
More seriously, Andrew Dessler gives a definition I agree with:
In the end, claims repeatedly verified by the scientific community (e.g., the earth is warming, DNA is a double-helix, CFCs destroy ozone) come…
December 22, 2006
I knew if I kept blogging long enough, I'd eventually win one of those awards.
December 20, 2006
Michael Fumento thinks there is nothing to worry about. Revere disagrees:
It isn't that what Fumento says is so outrageous one would have to be stupid or ignorant to believe it. It's that it would be folly (and stupid) to act as if you believed it. Fumento couldn't care less about public health nor…
December 17, 2006
Seed has published a group portrait of all the ScienceBloggers. I'm hiding at the back somewhere.
December 17, 2006
Brent Herbert debunks some myths about bedbugs and DDT:
Since I discovered that I have bed bugs I have been touring around the internet doing research right from day one and what I have discovered is that the media is doing a terrible job of covering the bed bug story, and as a result many of the…
December 15, 2006
Tim Blair writes: Heat Down
Less heat is evidence of a continuing hotness trend:
2006 is set to be the sixth warmest year on record, continuing the trend of global warming and extreme weather conditions worldwide, the UN's weather agency said.
As Andrew Bolt observes: "Only the sixth ?"
December 14, 2006
Shorter Steve McIntyre: Al Gore is fat.
(Shorter concept invented by D squared, perfected by Busy, busy, busy.)
Update: McIntyre has edited his post. Here's what he originally wrote:
Gore has gotten a little stout over the years and a little jowly, as though he was subconsciously morphing into a…
December 14, 2006
Cynthia Burack, guest bloggging at Thus Spake Zuska reports on a Christian Right conference:
You may not be surprised to learn that, in the Right world, global warming does not exist. Nay-sayers have been making this claim since scientists first began sounding the alarm about climate change, and no…
December 13, 2006
Eli Rabett on the Oregon Petition
where we find John Humphreys in the graveyard resurrecting this unkillable climate denialist zombie. Tim Lambert, thermometer in hand tries to bludgeon the poor beast into eternal peace (and quiet). For those of you fortunate enough not to know what the hell Eli is…
December 12, 2006
Stephen Soldz has a nice summary of the congressional briefing on the Lancet study:
Les Roberts again made the point that their data implies that the majority of deaths in Iraq are from violence, whereas alternative accounts from Iraq Body Count, the Brookings Institution, or the Iraq Ministry of…
December 11, 2006
The Sunday Telegraph has published an inaccurate story about the forthcoming IPCC fourth assessment report:
In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It…
December 10, 2006
We last encountered anti-Kyoto activist John Humphreys in this post when I tried to get him to correct a post that incorrectly claimed that satellites showed a cooling temperature trend and he responded by repeatedly accusing me of lying. Now he's back with three more zombie arguments:
Peiser…
December 9, 2006
Via Stephen Soldz
WASHINGTON - December 8 - In a bipartisan Congressional briefing hosted by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) the authors of the Lancet Study, which found that as many as 650,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed during the war, will present their…
December 8, 2006
Gavin Schmidt reviews Inhofe's last Senate hearing on climate change, which starred Bob "global warming ended in 1998" Carter.
Kevin Grandia also says good bye.
And while I'm posting links: Nexus 6 catches NSW politician Jon Jenkins peddling Peiser's discredited criticism of Oreskes and Eli Rabett…
December 7, 2006
The 49th Skeptic's Circle has been hosted by channeling a dead skeptic... Go, read.
December 7, 2006
Revere has the latest on the scientific evidence that proves their innocence.
Janet Stemwedel has addresses where you can send letters.
December 6, 2006
The latest paper being touted by the global warming skeptic crew is by a couple of petroleum engineers named Khilyuk and Chilingar and concludes
The current global warming is most likely a combined effect of increased solar and tectonic activities and cannot be attributed to the increased…