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Better late than never at The Australian
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 2, 2012 The Australian finally publishes Mike Sandiford’s correction of the false claims from Plimer that The Australian published two weeks earlier: Deliberately misrepresenting data or making it up is just not on. Here’s an example. In a section from his new book, How To Get Expelled from School, as reprinted in The Weekend Australian recently, Plimer…
The Australian’s War on Science 75: Plimer vs Plimer
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 21, 2011 The Australian has continued its war on science by printing an extract from Ian Plimer’s new book, How to Get Expelled from School. The extract is largely plagiarised from this press release on a recent paper in Science by Funder et al finding large fluctuations in Arctic sea ice over the last 10,000 years. Plimer…
Plimer suffers from crank magnetism
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 15, 2011 Crank magnetism is the tendency of someone attracted to one crank idea to be attracted to more. Ian Plimer, already notable for his acceptance of the iron Sun theory and the volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans theory has now been revealed as believing (like Christopher Booker) that white asbestos is harmless. But Plimer has…
Ian Enting on Climate science and public debate
Posted by Tim Lambert on March 20, 2011 Ian Enting, author of Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial and the definitive list of errors in Plimer’s Heaven and Earth has a talk on Ockham’s Razor on the public debate on climate science: the central issue is that if there was a real case against a significant human influence on climate, why is…
The Bureau of Meteorology fights back
Posted by Tim Lambert on February 25, 2011 Graham Readfern explains how a thorough demolition of Ian Plimer is now in Hansard: Back in October last year, the Senate’s Environment and Communications Legislation Committee agreed to table a letter from Cardinal Pell which quoted heavily from Heaven and Earth to claim there were “good reasons for doubting that carbon dioxide causes warmer temperatures”.…
Tony Abbott and the Roman Warm Period
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 14, 2010 Ian Musgrave has written an open letter to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, correcting him on his claim that “at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth the climate was considerably warmer than it is now”. But where did Abbott get the notion that it was considerably warmer in Roman times? Most likely from…
Plimer busted by Media Watch
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 4, 2010 The volcanic eruption in Iceland produced a net reduction in emissions because the decrease in emissions from all the grounded flights was more than the total CO2 from the volcano. So naturally Ian Plimer has been repeating his discredited claims that volcanoes produce more emissions than humans. Media Watch busts him for it.
Plimer exposed as a fraud
Posted by Tim Lambert on December 15, 2009 Ian Plimer’s performance in his debate with Monbiot has to be seen to be believed. Rather than admit to making any error at all, Plimer ducks, weaves, obfuscates, recites his favourite catch phrase, tries to change the subject and fabricates some more. When confronted with the fact that the USGS says (backed with scientific papers)…
AAP reports from the future
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 18, 2009 This story from the Australian Associated Press contains the usual scare-mongering from Ian Plimer: AAP November 19, 2009 01:36pm Australia will go broke and become the laughing stock of the world if politicians ignore basic science on climate change, a leading global warming sceptic says. But there is one intriguing detail: Prof Plimer’s comments came…
Plimer calls his critics “rent-seekers”
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 12, 2009 Ian Plimer responds to criticism with by calling his critics names and failing to address their arguments. In an interview on BBC Radio 4, Plimer spouts his usual outrageous falsehoods: “We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes.” Not true — even Martin Durkin’s Swindle retracted this one. And when the…