Tim Lambert
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August 11, 2011
The Sunday Age plans to investigate the top ten questions on climate science and policy as voted on OurSay. Not suprisingly Andrew Bolt and company have freeped the poll. This made The Australian's Cut and Paste very excited:
Top question so far (961 votes):
The very point of Australia's carbon…
August 9, 2011
Monckton sure didn't like it when the reporter brought John Abraham's dissection. Monckton yet again claimed that he is about to sue Abraham.
August 7, 2011
Chip Le Grand, Victorian editor of The Australian, complains that Stuart Rintoul was victimized by Media Watch. Just like Rintoul, Le Grand misrepresents Watson's paper:
[Rintoul] brought to national attention research by NSW researcher Phil Watson showing that sea levels around Australia over the…
August 4, 2011
A talk by Macquarie University's Murry Salby where he opines that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is natural is gaining some attention. (See, for example, Gavin Schmidt, Judith Curry, and Things Break). Unfortunately, we just have the audio and Salby has not responded to my request to provide the…
August 4, 2011
John Mashey and Rob Coleman have a guest post at The Chronicle of Higher Education's blog replying to Peter Wood's hit piece.
Wood's article misused the platform of CHE. Its relevance to the concerns of CHE was minimal. It had little purpose but to damage the reputation of one of us, John Mashey,…
August 3, 2011
Media Watch does an excellent report on Stuart Rintoul's misrepresentation of Phil Watson's paper.
Count the whoppers from The Australian. The Australian:
as I understand it the CSIRO was invited to comment to Media Watch and declined to do so.
Kathleen McInnnes of the CSIRO on how they weren't…
August 1, 2011
Kudos to John Quiggin, not for winning the 2011 Distinguished Fellow Award from The Economic Society of Australia (even though that's pretty impressive), but for winning the 2011 Distinguished glass jaw punching award, for his posts on the "mistakes, misleading headlines and outright lies" from…
July 29, 2011
The latest volley in The Australian's ongoing war on science is extended ad hominem attack on climate scientists from Jo Nova. Nova claims that climate science is a "mess", but in 1200 words Nova doesn't make one scientific argument. Instead she argues that the scientific consensus was "purchased…
July 22, 2011
Phil Watson, Team Leader of the Coastal Unit in the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water was probably pleased when The Australian's Stuart Rintoul asked to interview him about his work. Watson was the man who organised A snapshot of future sea levels: photographing the king tide…
July 21, 2011
Graham Readfearn writes about how Monckton is threatening the sue the ABC because he didn't like Wendy Carlisle's Background Briefing episode. This isn't really that interesting, Monckton has also threatened to sue Al Gore, John Abraham, Scott Mandia, The Guardian, as well threatening to jail…
July 20, 2011
The Smith School at the University of Oxford has released a report on international efforts to address climate change. Australia is rated "Poor".
Figure 1 - A map of countries of the world rated in terms of national actions and commitments on climate change. Annex I countries are rated based on…
July 20, 2011
The Australian regularly shows its contempt for science, scientists and the scientific method, titling an article "Respect the science and don't call CO2 a pollutant" is more than little hypocritical. You might think from the title that the author, Ziggy Switkowski, presents some sort of…
July 18, 2011
Check out Wendy Carlisle's Background Briefing episode on Monckton and the Galileo Movement
I'd like to highlight a couple of things. Monckton denied that he compared Garnaut to a fascist (at 15:20):
Monckton: You said that it's been reported that I compared Ross Garnaut to a fascist?
Carlisle:…
July 18, 2011
After The House of Lords wrote to Monckton telling him that he should not claim to be a member, Monckton kept doing it. So now The House of Lords has written an open letter to Monckton:
My predecessor, Sir Michael Pownall, wrote to you on 21 July 2010, and again on 30 July 2010, asking that you…
July 15, 2011
Another scientist got a death threat a couple of days ago. This time it was Hans Schellnhuber. The Australian reports:
Anger against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it's only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans…
July 14, 2011
In a news story in The Australian Christian Kerr claims:
Former US vice-president turned climate crusader Al Gore has used footage of the Queensland floods from earlier this year as proof of climate change, contradicting the findings of the Gillard government's Climate Commission.
A new video…
July 13, 2011
The Conversation reports:
Scientists today said they were appalled and disappointed by Greenpeace protesters who whippersnippered a genetically modified wheat crop being grown as part of a CSIRO trial.
The trial crop was part of an investigation into altering wheat carbohydrate content to reduce…
July 13, 2011
Bob Carter has been cherry picking for a long time, trying to make global warming go away. Tamino examines Carter's latest effort. This, for me, was the highlight
Carter does pay lip service to the idea of a trend. But he disdains the trend for the entire data set -- in fact he seems to disdain…
July 12, 2011
You know the paper in PNAS by Kaufmann et al that found:
that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known…
July 10, 2011
Good news! I'm still able to post -- Australia has not returned to the Stone Age. A few links:
Key points of the carbon price package
Frank Jotzo: popular tax cuts and a carbon price that just might deliver
Roger Jones
John Quiggin
Larvatus Prodeo
Gareth Renowden.
The carbon tax alarmists are now…
July 9, 2011
Christopher Monckton was so annoying when interviewed by Adam Spencer that Spencer hung up on him before finishing the interview later on. The Australian was so impressed by Monckton's performance that they posted a partial transcript. Moth at New Anthropocene corrects many of Monckton's…
July 6, 2011
At The Chronicle of Higher Education's blog Peter Wood excuses Wegman's plagiarism, calling it a flyspeck:
Mashey has been, as he puts it, "trying to take the offense" against global warming skeptics by flyspecking their publications. "You hope they make a mistake," he says, and when they do, he…
July 6, 2011
The Australian's Cut and Paste column is notorious for its dishonest quote mining, but today they went one step further into quote doctoring. Here's the quote that they present as contradicting the Prime Minister's quote:
Julia Gillard at a press conference on Monday:
The science is telling us that…
July 5, 2011
Check out all the awesome blogs at the new Scientific American blogging network!
July 3, 2011
On the heels of his previous piece, Bob Carter has got another opinion published in a Fairfax newspaper, this time in the Sun Herald. (No link, I don't want to encourage them -- you can find it via Sou). Once again, the editor at Fairfax appears to completely indeifferent to whether Carter's…
June 30, 2011
John Cook has already thoroughly demolished this Bob Carter opinion piece in The Age, but I just wanted to highlight the failure in the editing process that allowed Carter's piece to be published as it was. Amongst other false or misleading claims, Carter claimed as a "Fact" that CO2
acts as a…
June 26, 2011
Last year on Counterpoint Anthony Watts appeared:
Michael Duffy: In which direction does the bias lie? Are you suggesting that the temperature has not got as hot as the American official historical record suggests?
Anthony Watts: That's correct. It's an interesting situation. The early arguments…
June 25, 2011
The series of articles on climate change in The Conversation concludes:
David Karoly: Bob Carter's climate counter-consensus is an alternate reality:
Let's fall through a rabbit hole and enter a different world: the "Carter reality". In that world, it is OK to select any evidence that supports your…
June 24, 2011
Earlier I wrote:
Shortly after she got the death threat, [Anna-Maria] Arabia was attacked by Andrew Bolt.
This was wrong. Although Bolt's post was date stamped 11:16am, which was after Arabia received the threat, the first comment was at 6:39am so Bolt's [ost appeared then. There was also a 7:…