Tim Lambert
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September 29, 2010
The Australian sure can't take criticism. Tim Dunlop gently mocks them for their latest temper tantrum where they outed an pseudonymous blogger who dared to criticize the media. See also John Quiggin.
Note to excitable journalists working for The Australian reading this - the title is a reference…
September 29, 2010
David Karoly is giving a free talk on climate change in Sydney on 11 October. Details:
Climate change: Do you want the good news or the bad news?
Professor David Karoly will separate the truth from the spin on climate change, telling it how it is.
There are fascinating good-news stories about real…
September 27, 2010
... is not just plagiarism. John Mashey has written a 250 page report on the Wegman scandal.
September 27, 2010
The Australian breathlessly informs us that:
The UN is to appoint an astrophysicist to be the first contact for any aliens ...
Mazlan Othman will describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society's Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire.
But Matthew…
September 24, 2010
On top of the 21 climate scientists correcting the numerous errors in Christopher Monckton testimony to Congress, we also have Rachel Pinker and Ellsworth Dutton correcting Monckton's misunderstanding of Pinker, Zhang and Dutton (2005):
1 Viscount Monckton attempts to directly link the change in…
September 23, 2010
Heartland already had one of their Climate Change conferences this year, but they are holding another one in Sydney on Friday October 1st and it's FREE.
Speakers and topics:
Chris de Freitas: Developments in Climate Science: Potential Drivers of Emissions Policy Beyond 2012
Robert Carter: The…
September 21, 2010
I detailed a couple of the serious factual errors in Monckton's testimony to Congress back in May. Now John Abraham and others have organised a comprehensive rebuttal to Monckton, with corrections to Monckton's many errors from 21 climate scientists. Leo Hickman summarises in this story in the…
September 19, 2010
Not only was the Wegman report plagiarised, three of Wegman's PhD students committed plagiarism in their theses. Deep Climate has the report.
September 15, 2010
Ed Darrell points to a WUWT post by Indur Goklany which promotes the use of DDT to fight malaria instead of more effective measures. As with most of the DDT promoters, Goklany carefully avoids mentioning the way mosquitoes evolve resistance to insecticides. For example, here's what he has on Sri…
September 11, 2010
Judith Curry has started a blog.
Michael Tobis has written Tom Fuller off. Been there, done that. See ThingsBreak for the details.
September 9, 2010
Alden Griffiths has another excellent presentation, this time dissecting Christopher Monckton's claim that temperatures are below the IPCC's projections.
September 6, 2010
John Cook has the details on a TV show on SBS tonight where the late Stephen Schneider answered questions from a room full of skeptics, followed by a live chat with David Karoly.
One of the skeptics was blogger Legal Eagle who writes about it here. I don't think she was correct about the science…
August 30, 2010
She's still just as adorable twenty five years later:
August 29, 2010
Stephan Lewandowsky is conducting a survey on attitudes towards climate science and related issues and is interested in responses from readers of pro-science blogs. Go here if you are interested.
August 26, 2010
Hey, remember how the Sunday Times retracted that bogus Jonathan Leake story which was based on "Research by Richard North"? Now the Sunday Telegraph has retracted and apologized for a bogus story by Christopher Booker and Richard North alleging that Rajenda Pachauri was making millions from his…
August 22, 2010
Barry Bickmore is compiling a list of the politicians, journalists etc who have damaged their credibility by relying on Christopher Monckton as a source of infomration about climate science.
Also well worth a look is Alden Griffith's lucid explanation of what is wrong with Monckton's claim that "…
August 19, 2010
Arthur Smith details a pattern of deception in Keith Kloor's writing. Kloor's response in comments completes the case -- he takes offence at the very first sentence and uses that as pretext for avoiding the criticism.
Update: Kloor responds again, projecting:
I sense their intent is to harm my…
August 19, 2010
Peter Sinclair's latest video is on the "CO2 is plant food" crock.
August 16, 2010
Seems that there's some excitement about a new paper A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable? to be published in Annals of Applied Statistics. Their reconstruction appears to be closest match to a hockey…
August 15, 2010
The discussion involving Judith Curry and The Hockey Stick Illusion has continued at Collide-a-Scape, with posts on the views of Judith Curry (Curry did admit to getting one of her ten points wrong, but not the other nine) and those of Gavin Schmidt.
Steve McIntyre's comments in the second thread…
August 14, 2010
The University of Queensland has surveyed Australian politicians (press release here, results here) on their attitude to climate change:
"Labor politicians are more influenced by scientists than Liberal/National politicians - 85 per cent of Labor politicians are highly influenced by this group…
August 11, 2010
Monckton's fight with the House of Lords continues, with The Guardian reporting
Last month, Michael Pownall, clerk of the parliaments, wrote to Lord Monckton, a hereditary peer, stressing that he should not refer to himself as a member of the House of Lords, and nor should he use any emblem…
August 8, 2010
Following in the foot steps of the Sunday Times' retraction of their bogus Jonathan Leake story, the BBC has apologized for falsely stating that UEA researchers had "distorted the debate about global warming to make the threat seem even more serious than they believed it to be". The BBC offers…
August 7, 2010
Anthony Watts has guest post by Ferdinand Engelbeen (the guy Plimer plagiarised) explaining how we know that the increase in CO2 is not natural. Good on Watts for putting some accurate science on his blog. Mind you, the comments include folks like Richard Courtney arguing against it.
Hat tip:…
August 4, 2010
Christopher Monckton is now threatening to sue Scott Mandia as well:
I also note that you have publicly accused me of "fraud", and have widely circulated that accusation on the internet, and have expressed the intention to invite the mass media to repeat it. Since this is a serious charge, do you…
August 4, 2010
I guess if the wind is going to blow the big tree in my back yard down, I should be grateful that it fell in the direction that minimized the damage -- only the fence and our clothesline were crushed.
July 31, 2010
In a column at the New York Times (or is it an advertorial for Watts up With That?), Virginia Heffernan uses the Pepsi affair to refight the postmodernist Science Wars. It seems that she's still upset by the Sokal hoax and wants some payback against the scientists.
Heffernan writes (and if you are…
July 30, 2010
Thingsbreak has produced a graphic illustration of how lazy journalists mislead in the name of "balance". On right is his colour coding of her story on the NOAA report on the State of the Climate in 2009, with red marking coverage of "Climategate" and contrarians and green marking coverage of the…