August 2012 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on August 2, 2012 Still here. It seems the carbon tax has not destroyed the Australian economy. Phew!
Climate Crock: “Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives”
Posted by Tim Lambert on July 10, 2012 Watch Peter Sinclair’s latest video:
The Australian’s war on technology
Posted by Tim Lambert on July 7, 2012 Nick Ross writes: The Australian’s technology coverage (in print) is a mixed bag in that it has some of the very best technology writers in the country but their section’s reputation gets tainted by almost-incessant, poisonous beat-ups of the National Broadband Network coming from elsewhere on the masthead. These have done it few favours in…
July 2012 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on July 1, 2012 Phew, looks the carbon tax has not returned Australia to the Stone Age.
June 2012 Open Thread
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 1, 2012 More thread.
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…