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Ron Bailey makes a dreadful hash of things in this article on the IPCC 4AR. He tries to describe how projections of warming by 2100 have changed as each of the IPCC's four assessment reports has come out. Unfortunately, Bailey confuses warming projections with climate sensitivity (how much…

I must be really important because Glenn Reynolds has made a specious attack on me based on something I wrote, not in a post, but in a comment on another blog. I wrote that the sea level projections in the draft AR4 report were similar to those in the previous report. Reynolds: Number problems for…

Now that the new IPCC report has been released it's time to revisit the inaccurate leaks that appeared in The Australian and in The Sunday Telegraph. Both reporters made the same two errors: they reported the value for climate sensitivity (the eventual warming from doubling CO2) as the IPCC…

The IPCC has released the Summary For Policymakers of the Fourth Assessment Report. Some of the conclusions: Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined as >90% probability] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic…

Occamsedge has put toether the 53rd Skeptic's Circle.

Via Ian Hart I find Paul Driessen in the Washington Times offering alarmist claims that action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be economic suicide. We see how important the DDT ban myth is to these folks: It's a classic bait-and-switch tactic, repeated endlessly by activists, scientists,…

There's denial and there's pathological denial. In comments to my post at On Line Opinion OLO editor Graham Young has continued to deny that Peiser admitted to making multiple errors. The latest bit of denial: "To say he concedes, when you know he doesn't, is not only "deeply dishonest", but…

revere reports The for-profit publishers don't like BMC or Public Library of Science (PLoS) or any of the other open access publishers and are determined to crush them. So they hired the PR firm of Eric Dezenhall, who also worked for convicted Enron execs and others of that ilk, to do "media…

Earlier I wrote about Khilyuk and Chilingar their mistake is so large and so obvious that anyone who cites them either has no clue about climate science or doesn't care whether what they write is true or not. So who has discredited themselves by citing them? Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas,…

Paul Hamer sends me an email about Khilyuk and Chilingar: (my emphasis) I had a quick poke around on the ISI database to see if anyone had cited their original study that you've covered. I found that their is a single citation - a self citation. It turns out Khilyuk and Chilingar have written…

Michael Fumento has been booted off Winds of Change because he misrepresented a scientific article. As usual he responded with abuse: I'm off to Ramadi again next month. Put that alongside the chickenhawks and chairborne rangers whose blogs you print. In short, I was doing you a great favor and…

From The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America 19. Steven Milloy Charges: It's a pretty fucked up world in which a falsified memoir of drug addiction can spark widespread outrage, but a lawyer and registered lobbyist posing as a science expert can take money from Exxon Mobil and Phillip Morris…

In comments to my post at On Line Opinion Graham Young declares that it is his "dispassionate assessment" as the editor of On Line Opinion that I am "deeply dishonest" for stating that Peiser admitted his analysis was full of errors. Here are the relevant bits of the exchange (links added), with…

My inbox has been filling up with emails from anti-science warrior Marc Morano furiously denouncing the suggestion by Hedi Cullen that meteorologists should understand the basic science of climate change and I'd like to take that suggestion a step further. If a meteorologist has an AMS Seal of…

The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is coming out on Feb 2 and we have some leaks about the drafts appearing in The Toronto Star and in Reuters. Just so you know not to trust them, the reports contracdict each other. The Toronto Star reports that projected warming by 2100 will be 2.0-4.5 degrees…

When we last encountered NRSP director Tom Harris he was busy denying he was associated with the High Park Group (a PR company that lobbies for energy companies). Now, in a totally surprising twist, Jim Hoggan reveals: Two of the three Directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship…

Online Opinion has published my post Andrew Bolt gets a perfect score on global warming as part of its Best Blog posts of 2006. This comment from Jennifer Marohasy is priceless: Interestingly this piece by Tim Lambert was published at OLO today as it is considered one of the '40 best blogs' written…

The Stern Review: A Dual Critique was published in an economics journal and critiques climate science. Not surprisingly, as Nexus 6 reports, peer review was grossly inadequate. The critique slams Stern for, get this, ignoring Khilyuk and Chilingar. That's the paper that compared human CO2…

In an opinion piece in the New York Times Glenn Reynolds claims: Last month, Greenleaf, Idaho, adopted Ordinance 208, calling for its citizens to own guns and keep them ready in their homes in case of emergency. ... And it may not be a bad idea. While pro-gun laws like the one in Greenleaf are…

Michael Fumento is making even less sense than usual: Lambert is one of the most obnoxious trolls on the Internet. He produces nothing; he exists to tear down other people to make up for some perceived deficiency on his part. Perhaps it's a deficiency that can be measured with a three-inch ruler; I…

Please welcome new blogger tamino at Open Mind. He writes about global warming. CO2 science are notorious for cherry picking -- tamino shows how they cook up their misleading temperature of the week posts. Also, if you don't know what red noise is, he has a clear explanation.

A Harvard School of Public Health Press Release describes a new study by Miller, Hemenway and Azreal: In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at the Harvard Injury…

The judge for Lott's lawsuit against Levitt has thrown out Lott's claim that he was defamed by Freakonomics. (Decision is here.) Some quotes from the decision: The Court will grant a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) only if "no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be…

One of factoids Alistair McFarquhar offered up trying to support his post that vanished down the memory hole was this: Among Economists almost twice as many believe that rising greenhouse gas levels will cause the economy to grow. Most think rising greenhouse gas levels will have virtually no…

Richard Littlemore has the Calgary Herald's Statement of Defence against Tim Ball's lawsuit. Best bit: The Defendants (the Calgary Herald) state that the Plaintiff (Ball) never held a reputation in the scientific community as a noted climatologist and authority on global warming. The particulars…

At the grandly named Adam Smith Institute blog, Alister McFarquhar (an economist who was one of the sixty scientists denying that climate change was real) asserted: Surveys show two-thirds of scientists either don't know or don't believe man can influence climate Jim from Our Word is our Weapon…

Remember, the piñata is only deployed when Blair produces another nugget of stupid after being beaten with a clue stick. So let's look at the nuggets we got from Blair this time: Chinatown seems not to have been burned down recently. racists generally comment behind people's backs Lambert…

Allan Schapira writes a letter to the Lancet DDT: a polluted debate in malaria control A recent press statement from WHO about dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and indoor residual spraying for malaria control [1] caused a considerable stir, despite the fact that, in terms of policy, it merely…

American student Kunthea Ker wrote how she was verbally abused at Sydney's New Year fireworks because of who she was. Tim Blair's response? He accuses her of lying. Her story: We [her family] are American but we are also Asian, and the crowd seemed full of people making racist, disparaging…

Eli Rabett is calling for nominations for the S Fred award for spreading disinformation. He has started with: Diplom Beck proving CO2 concentrations over smokestacks in the 1940s were higher than they are today globally. Willis Eschenbach and the moving line Monckton of Blenchley whose climate…