As a guy who has dedicated a significant part of his life to uncovering environmental scams, naming this year’s Truth Teller is a no-brainer for me.
The winner is the man who just brought down the head of Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency: Christopher Horner.
Chris is a skilled lawyer and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. About a decade ago he wrote, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, which caused liberal heads to explode. This year he penned, The Liberal War on Transparancy, a book detailing how the Obama administration’s claim of being “the most transparaent” in history is pure hog washed propaganda.
more here: http://www.briansussman.com/news/2012-truth-teller-of-the-year/
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I offer my sincere congratulations to Chris, he’s risked a lot. – Anthony
12,000 e-mails is one hell of a lot of typing and propaganda! I presume this was not done in her free time!
We’ve got a lot of heroes and leaders in the sceptic community . You are one of them also Anthony and we are fortunate to have you . Mr Horner and Mr McIntyre have been active and beneficial to us this year as well as the folks over at Heartland . Steven Goddard has pounded them this year and Willis has been informative as well as entertaining . My thanks to all of you. And we shouldn’t forget the many others who are good influences to those we learn from . We are now an army with huge numbers and the truth is winning .
And that 12,000 e-mails referred to communications sent through ONE alternate identity to ONE agency. How many other government offices received e-mails from that masquerade identity? How many other masquerade identities did Lisa Jackson use? How many other EPA officials have used alternate identities to conduct government business? How many non-EPA Obama Administration officials are conducting official business under false persona?
How can any rational U.S. citizen believe Obama’s Justice Department, the recipient of those 12,000 acknowledged e-mails, is upholding federal law?
Congratulations to Mr. Horner. He has given some of us more courage to stick our own necks out.
Choosing any “man of the year” is a tough task because there are always so many deserving people. Horner is as good a choice as one could find, though. Congratulations to him.
Hono(u)rable Mention for late entry by Alec Rawls.
Congrats to Chris Hormer. It was long past time Lisa ‘Tricky Dicky’ Jackson got her come-uppance for her corrupt malpractices. What was the name of the guy who wrote the climate change report she didn’t like? I bet he’s enjoying the news.
Chris Horner.
Good on you, you’re appreciated more than you know.
Happy New Year to All
The truth will out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Richard Windsor does not use a computer as he is a dog. Remember she said that she never really used he computer. She lied!. But why have an alias anyway? This really is a big deal.
In my work I have always been extreamly careful with emails in what I say and how I say it as it is a history of my work. But little old me having a alias email account to discuss dubious particulars is unthinkable..
But for someone like Lisa Jackson, opps sorry Richard Windsor, and the EPA, I mean WOW!!
Thank you Chris Horner you are a star!
“…The Liberal War on Transparancy, a book detailing how the Obama administration’s claim of being “the most transparaent ,,,”
Hi Brian, like to hear you nail the warmistas when you’re guest hosting for brother Mark. You do need more work on spelling, though.
I enjoy listening to Brian Sussman on my local KSFO Morning Show when I get the chance (which isn’t often these days). Thanks, Brian!
Nevertheless, he’s a member of UCS!
If the US is anything like Oz she will have a cushy high paid job somewhere else in the Obama administration afterall she was working on the government gameplan,
PS typo in “the most transparaent”
There are so many heroes in this story, so many people making a difference. If it were not for these amazing individuals giving their time and effort unstintingly, so many of us would still be in the dark. I think 2013 is going to be a very good year. Happy New Year, everyone.
mr. horner is most definitely a worthy winner.
A very Happy New Year to all, A special thanks to Anthony for running a valuable science forum, and to the mods, thanks for being patient with my quirkiness this year (laughing). All the best everyone!!
Gerard says:
December 31, 2012 at 1:49 pm
If the US is anything like Oz she will have a cushy high paid job somewhere else in the Obama administration ….
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Actually probably as a lobbyist.
I also offer a sincere thanks to all those like Chris Horner, Anthony, Dr. Tim Ball, Mark Steyn and the National Review, Dr. Lindzen, Lord Monckton and all the others who stuck their necks out and risked there careers and livelihoods to defend the truth.
We should also pause for a moment and remember the ranks of the fallen.
WUWT moderator, Robert Phelan, Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski, Dr. John Daly, Ernest Beck and the others who refused to back down.
Congrats not only to Mr.Horner,but also Anthony,Willis,Gail, Leif,et.al.who make this site for us laypeople(persons?) so enjoyable.
A Joyous New Year’s to all.
Nope. Truth teller of this year and every other year is Mark Steyn.
Yes, well done Mr. Horner. Happy New Year to all!
The New Year has just hit here in the UK (I’m reluctant to use ‘Great Britain’ any more) but I’d like to raise a glass (Laphroaig Quarter Cask single malt) to all WUWTers and to add special thanks to Anthony and the oft-overlooked Moderators for making this site so great. An additional mention for Willis: you have the ability to put into words emotions I have felt but could never express.
Like fishing in a small boat on the Lower Zambezi when you are unaware that a few hours before the Kariba Dam floodgates have been opened and your first indication that something’s not right is the thunderous roar of a foaming crest coming downstream. We ran the boat straight into the bank and sprinted uphill as fast as we could. Just made it, but the boat and engine disappeared for ever.
Personally I think Leif Svarlgaard deserves a mention here.
For tirelessly debunking the evermoving claims of “it’s the sun what dun it” folk who say:
It’s UV
Its solar wind
Its jupiter/saturn/venus harmonics causing solar output of yobber* rays to increase (TSI obviously misses some unknown energy)
Your ideas are wrong – you know nothing.
I read this last night and now I know your years of research are wothless
and of course the thing that drives the zero point energy believers – It’s magnetism.
etc etc.,
He has repatedly debunked the same plots, the same new science, and only occasionally lost his cool. A real hero in my books.
Thanks Leif
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Patrol_(1962_TV_series)
I’ve have had a lot of respect for Chris Horner for a long time. He used to be a slick lawyer that rented his brain to manhattens highest bidder. And I’m sure the highest bid was high. He could have the supermodel of his choosing for his wife and switch her out as often as his every other astronomically priced supercar. And he would have been on his way to Lear jet richdome and any-city wide power across the worlds great cities. He could even have been looking at high positions in politics with all the money those scams bring in.
But no, he chose to stand up for himself and the real ‘no pretend’ version of dignity. He left it all behind and joined ranks with the likes of us.
That takes a man with his heart in the right place.