When you’ve lost Fumento …
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 28, 2012 Triggered by the Heartland Billboard debacle Michael Fumento has written an article explaining why he has broken with the “hysterical right”. (Hat tip: hardinr). John Quiggin comments on the rarity of such moves, while Mark Hoofnagle draws a parallel with Stephen Sumpter leaving the UK Greens over their opposition to scientific experiments on GM crops.
Monckton and the Mob
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 24, 2012 Gareth Renowden tells the story of Monckton and the Mob.
Death threat denial
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 21, 2012 Even when we have video of a death threat there are those who try to deny that scientists have been threatened. Like, oh, The Australian. Media Watch reports on media coverage of death threats on climate scientists: One news outlet comes out of it, in our opinion, almost unscathed: Fairfax Media’s The Canberra Times. The…
Tim Curtin’s incompetence with basic statistics
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 17, 2012 Tim Curtin’s incompetence with basic statistics is the stuff of legend. Curtin has now demonstrated incompetence at a fairly new journal called The Scientific World Journal. Consider his very first “result” (emphasis mine): I first regress the global mean temperature (GMT) anomalies against the global annual values of the main climate variable evaluated by the…
April 2012 Open thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 31, 2012 More thread.
Wegman Heartland update
Posted by Tim Lambert on February 26, 2012 John Mashey, in comments writes: —- It has been a busy week or so, with more to come. 1) See Fakery, p.3 and p.12. In ~2009, Heartland+SEPP+CSCDGC got ~$8M. The other 9 on p.3 got ~$39M.The additional 36 501(c)(3) on p.12 added another $283M. Now, only some of that is for climate disinformation, but some…
Robert Manne on Monckton’s plan for the Australian media
Posted by Tim Lambert on February 8, 2012 Over at the Monthly, Robert Manne [writes about Monckton's plan for a super-rich person to establish a Fox News for Australia](http://www.themonthly.com.au/blog-lord-monckton-and-future-australian-media-robert-manne-4575). I thought we already had that in *the Australian*.