Tim Lambert
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March 22, 2011
Media Watch examines the coverage of climate change on commercial talkback radio. While Ian Plimer and Bob Carter are frequently on talkback radio,
Not one orthodox climate scientist - not one - has been interviewed by any of the climate sceptics on Fairfax stations.
As for 2GB, its management…
March 20, 2011
Ian Enting, author of Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial and the definitive list of errors in Plimer's Heaven and Earth has a talk on Ockham's Razor on the public debate on climate science:
the central issue is that if there was a real case against a significant human influence…
March 19, 2011
After arguing that people should trust the scientists about nuclear power, Andrew Bolt is back with a post advancing the claim that
anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.
Said claim comes not from a scientist but from Ann…
March 15, 2011
Here's the original story on March 4:
An Israeli model has been hospitalised after being bitten on the breast by a snake during an ill-fated radio stunt. ...
She received a tetanus shot and stayed for observation, but has suffered no long-term damage from the incident.
Here's the Daily Mail…
March 15, 2011
Andrew Bolt writes
Question: why do people who think their government and scientists would always lie about nuclear power also think green groups would always tell the truth? How can you be so cynical about the one and so gullible with the other?
Why do people who think their government and…
March 15, 2011
Scienceblogs management informs me:
Let me apologize again for the problems that many of you and your readers are experiencing. The attack is ongoing, originating from Turkey and Qatar, and until it stops, Rackspace must block IP ranges in order for the site to be accessible to anyone. They are…
March 14, 2011
Cardinal Pell's response to the Greg Ayers dissection of Pell's parroting of Plimer is telling -- he is unable to offer any sort of scientific argument and just blusters:
"Ayers, when he spoke to the House, was obviously a hot-air specialist. I've rarely heard such an unscientific contribution."
"I…
March 14, 2011
By popular request Flying Binghi has his/her own thread. This is the only thread that FB can post to, and all replies to any comment to FB should go here.
I can't move comments, so I will delete comments that do not follow these rules.
March 8, 2011
In this piece Roger Bate, Donald Roberts and Richard Tren accuse the UN of "Scientific Fraud against DDT". Their Accusation is based on an Opinion paper by Roberts and Tren published in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine. So let's look at their paper and see where the "Scientific Fraud" is…
March 8, 2011
With Donald Roberts about to give testimony before Congress it is instructive to look at his Senate testimony on October 6, 2004.
Just as the use of DDT in house spraying brought spectacular reductions in malaria,
declining use of house spraying brought spectacular increases in malaria. ... Data…
March 6, 2011
Shorter Clive James on Queensland floods:
I get my climate science from poems.
'Shorter' concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.⢠Acknowledgement copied from Sadly, No!.
March 4, 2011
The Australian has printed an opinion piece by Mark Hendrickx (who presents his own views on global warming in this stunning multimedia presentation alleging that comment moderation at an ABC blog demonstrated bias. I'm guessing that you are thinking that Hendrickx is complaining because he had an…
March 2, 2011
Barry Bickmore's three part review of Roy Spencer's Great Global Warming Blunder is well worth a read. In Part 1 he examines Spencer's model that supposedly shows that climate sensitivity is low. In Part 2 he looks at Spencer's claim that climate scientists ignore natural sourcs of climate…
February 26, 2011
Julia Gillard has done a backflip and agreed to introduce a budget-neutral carbon tax after last year promising not to introduce one.
In a matching backflip John Humphreys has come out against the tax, describing it as a "grab for cash" after writing a report in 2007 that favoured a carbon tax:
Our…
February 25, 2011
Graham Readfern explains how a thorough demolition of Ian Plimer is now in Hansard:
Back in October last year, the Senate's Environment and Communications Legislation Committee agreed to table a letter from Cardinal Pell which quoted heavily from Heaven and Earth to claim there were "good reasons…
February 23, 2011
In Richard's Bean play The
Heretic
anthropogenic global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a worldwide
conspiracy of climate scientists.
In David Williamson's play Heretic the role of nurture in
anthropology is a hoax perpetrated by two young Samoan women on March 13, 1926.
When you boil down the…
February 22, 2011
Bill Hughes, Director of Multi-Science Publishing threatens to sue Gavin Schmidt unless he retracts this statement:
"The evidence for this is in precisely what happens in venues like E&E that have effectively dispensed with substantive peer review for any papers that follow the editorâs…
February 20, 2011
This video by potholer54 demolishing Monckton's claims about climate sensitivity is very good, and not just because I'm in it.
Also worth a look is his video where Monckton is refuted by ... Monckton himself.
Update:
Update 2:
February 19, 2011
Remember how David Bellamy claimed that his TV career was ended (something that happened in 1994) because of an article he wrote in 2004? Now Johnny Ball is making similar dubious claims of persecution:
But his bookings have dropped by 90 per cent over the past year and the 72-year-old has blamed…
February 18, 2011
Eugene Volokh is taken in by a story in the Daily Mail:
So reports the Daily Mail (UK) reports:
Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured....
Locals had reinforced their windows with wire mesh after a series…
February 17, 2011
When Willis Eschenbach was caught lying about temperature trends in Darwin, I pointed out that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology trends agreed with those from the NOAA and asked:
I suppose the next argument is that the NOAA and the BOM are conspiring together to falsify the temperature record.…
February 11, 2011
The Australian's daily column called Cut and Paste should more properly be titled Quote Mining. Look at their latest effort:
Re-insurers don't seem to think that climate change is causing an escalating number of catastrophes ...
Peer-reviewed paper by Eric Neumayer and Fabian Barthe of London…
February 10, 2011
The latest attempt by the climate auditors to smear a scientist comes from Ryan O'Donnell who accused Eric Steig of "blatant dishonesty and duplicity". According to O'Donnell, as an anonymous reviewer Steig forced O'Donnell to use a particular method ('iridge') in his analysis and then, as himself…
February 8, 2011
This graph by Peter Gleick reveals the cherry pick used by Harrison Schmitt to claim that "Artic [sic] sea ice has returned to 1989 levels of coverage" and Heartland's Joseph Bast to claim
"In fact, National Snow and Ice Data Center records show conclusively that in April 2009, Arctic sea ice…
February 4, 2011
The Australian has a daily column called Cut and Paste which should more properly be titled Quote Mining. Consider this recent effort:
Heed the bureau. John Quiggin in The Australian Financial Review yesterday:
Tragically, while only a few people have been silly enough to ignore the Bureau [of…
February 3, 2011
Fred Pearce is going down the David Rose road publishing fabricated quotes. Gavin Schmidt in a letter to New Scientist (so far unpublished there) writes:
In the piece entitled "Climate sceptics and scientists attempt peace
deal"
Fred Pearce includes a statement about me that is patently untrue.
"…
February 1, 2011
Christopher Monckton is notable for the way he gets the science wrong over and over again. So the folks at Skeptical Science have created a handy resource listing the arguments he commonly uses and the refutations.
Monckton is in the news again, going to court to try to get prevent a documentary…
January 30, 2011
The Australian continues to express institutional contempt for science, scientists and the scientific method with a piece by Christopher Monckton
Graham Readfern has already commented on some of the errors in Monckton's piece, but there are plenty more.
Cap-and-tax in Europe has been a wickedly…