Matt Ridley responds with a “sleight of hand”
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 14, 2013 Matt Ridley’s first response to my post about his failed prediction was denial: I did not write for the Globe and Mail in 1993 let alone about climate! Then he moved onto stage 3, bargaining: global av temp (ignoring pinatubo drop) is about 0.2C above 1991 level after 22 yrs – so I was spot…
The Australian’s War on Science 81: Matt Ridley’s 20 year old wrong prediction
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 13, 2013 Matt Ridley, in The Globe and Mail, 31 Dec 1993. Global warming, too, has shot its bolt, now that the scientific consensus has settled down on about a degree of temperature increase over a century-that is, little more than has taken place in the past century. Actually, the scientific consensus at the time, as summarised…
January 2013 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 1, 2013 Australia makes into 2013 in good shape despite the carbon tax. How can this be?
The Australian’s War on Science 80: The Australian says it’s OK to lie about the science
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 21, 2012 The Australian is notorious for its attacks on climate science and its hypersensitivity to criticism, so this segment on the Science Show on the psychology of the rejection of climate science where this Maurice Newman opinion piece in the Australian was (correctly) described as “drivel” was pretty well guaranteed to draw lots of responses. So…
Sea level rise acceleration
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 12, 2012 You only have to look at the graph below showing sea level rise since 1880 to see that it has accelerated from about 1mm/year at the end of the 19th century to about 3mm/year at present.(from CSIRO). If you take a closer look at recent sea level rise you’ll see that it has been very…
December 2012 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 2, 2012 Despite carbon tax, Australia is still not in the Stone Age.
The Australian’s War on Science 79: Maurice Newman versus your lying eyes
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 6, 2012 Maurice Newman, former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has the necessary lack of scientific qualifications to write about climate science in The Australian (Google “Losing their religion as evidence cools off”): So when in 1969 Paul Ehrlich claimed because of global cooling it was an even-money bet whether England would survive until the year…
The Australian’s War on Science 78
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 4, 2012 Graham Lloyd is back with a story headlined “Climate link to Sandy invalid” (Google the title if you want to read it). As we’ve come to expect from The Australian the headline is contradicted by the story, with both scientists quoted agreeing that sea level rise caused by global warming had worsened the flooding from…
November 2012 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 1, 2012 It’s a new month!
Why is Yale Environment 360 spreading the DDT ban myth?
Posted by Tim Lambert on October 23, 2012 Yale Environment 360 has damaged its credibility by publishing a piece by Fred Pearce claiming: When Rachel Carson’s sound case against the mass application of DDT as an agricultural pesticide morphed into blanket opposition to much smaller indoor applications to fight malaria, it arguably resulted in millions of deaths as the diseases resurged. But the…