The web site Real Science has posted an announcement of the death of blogger and former WUWT contributor Steve Goddard. WUWT has not yet been able to verify any of the details but Anthony has asked that the link be posted.
UPDATE :
An alternate Steve Goddard site is claiming that Real Science was hacked and that the death announcement is fake. WUWT is still unable to verify the details.
UPDATE 2:
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the report of the death of Steve Goddard is somewhat premature. When I first e-mailed Anthony with this news, his first response was “I don’t know this might be a fake is real name is ….” a subsequent e-mail responding to a link to the Real Science site noted “some of it jibes with what I know it some does not I’d be cautious…” then he asked me to post the link to the notice with a notice that we could not confirm anything. Apparently his caution was justified and WUWT readers can be assured that Anthony keeps a close watch on his interns even when he takes a rare few hours off.
UPDATE # 3
Steve Goddard himself appears to have weighed in here at WUWT:
I’m fine. I was off at a soccer game when this happened. Basically, someone I trusted went insane and took control of the site. I still don’t have access, as my IP address has been blocked.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/
Real Science Was Hacked
Posted on April 21, 2012
I am fine and will be posting on this site in the future. No doubt this looks like a publicity stunt, but I had nothing to do with it.
Says here that the stie was hacked:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/real-science-was-hacked/
Very sad to hear. My condolences to family and friends.
Says here that the real science site was hacked and the story isn’t true:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/real-science-was-hacked/
It seems a bit sudden, but… I’m very sorry to hear this. He did Immense amounts of work to shine the light on the AGW fraud, and one can only hope those who take over for him, can keep the pressure on.
Got an e-mail just now saying this and wanted to confirm it. If so, condolences to his family and rest in peace, I’m sorry to hear this news.
-Scott
Of course new comments were not visible when I posted. Again, if this is true (the hacking), we need to know who did this, and they need to be made known far and wide.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/
Is something odd going on here?
Hmm, looks like from the above comments (not visible when I first commented) that this might be fake…if so, how low of whoever did this.
-Scott
I thought something was fishy about this. His server was done earlier in the day. Now we know why… and how
Why was this posted on WUWT by “rep49”, who doesn’t seem to have published anything else here?
[REPLY: That’s the moderator REP. Anthony is currently away for a few hours and asked me to post the link. WUWT has no additional information on what is going on with Steve Goddard or either of his sites. -REP]
StevenGoddard.wordpress.com was originally hacked in August 2011 hence the reason that Steven Goddard made Real-Science.com, so guys, please do not believe anything posted on StevenGoddard.Wordpress.com
My apologies if Steve did pass away, but I thought he lived in Maryland, not in Texas. My first thought is maybe this is/was a prank for the upcoming earth day . . ?
Again, my apologies for the above if he did indeed pass away . . .
Whoever did this is still over there and moderating comments. I posted one early that referred to the wordpress link and it (obviously) didn’t get put up but 21 new comments after that did.
Steve’s blog is being moderated, so no one can post it’s a hack…..
He’s back on his old blog….
Here he is…………
Real Science Was Hacked
Posted on April 21, 2012
I am fine and will be posting on this site in the future.
No doubt this looks like a publicity stunt, but I had nothing to do with it.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/real-science-was-hacked/
BTW….I think it goes without saying…..but don’t send an email to the address posted on his hacked blog
An alternate Steve Goddard site is claiming that Real Science was hacked and that the death announcement is fake.
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Anthony, that was Steve’s original site…the first one….he still has it….and kept it just in case something like this happened, or word crashed or something……….
I just wrote in the other post:
“Brian says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
April 21, 2012 at 1:21 pm
It says that he was 81 years old and new management will be taking over. Seems strange because I never got the impression that he was 81 years old. I figured he ran the blog on his also so I ask: New management?? Something seems strange or off.
If it’s real and not part of some joke or something, then RIP.”
Something seems “off” with this entire thing.
It appears it was a hack or something – see the below link:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/real-science-was-hacked/#comments
Thought it was a hoax all along.
I’m pretty sure Steve isn’t 81, and I know for certain he doesn’t live in Dallas.
A case for “Moshpit of the yard?”
Dudes…the end of the obit says “If you are interested in writing for Real-Science.com, please contact us at info@real-science.com”
Methinks it’s fake.
Attention people: StevenGoddard.Wordpress.com was hacked in August 2011 by some guy called Anthony hence the reason that Steven created Real-Science.com in the first place. He is definitely dead, his family have confirmed it.
I just got an email announcing this and my hotmail email message says when I open it “This message looks very suspicious to our SmartScreen filters, so we’ve blocked attachments, pictures, and links for your safety.”
He lives in COLORADO.
Yet it has him dying in Dallas Texas.
That he was supposedly 81 and yet he rides his bike continually even in cold wintry weather.How many 80 year old people doing that?
Phew!
The Twain quote springs to mind . . .