There comes a time when you just have to decide not take the abuse silently anymore, but instead, to laugh at it.
As many of you know, this is the world’s most read website about climate – by both sides. As a result, my email is like a firehose. I get a lot of legitimate email, but I also get a lot of abuse from people that think I’m not allowed to have a different opinion on all things climate; some people think I shouldn’t even be allowed to have a website or a voice. You know who you are, since WUWT is read equally by both sides daily.
Typically though, I just delete hate mail like this. Today, given a few other elements that made me laugh, and since this person is obviously ignorant, misinformed, and filled with hate, I’ve decided to publish it. It’s not like the person wasn’t warned, our WUWT contact page has this statement:
Contacts made under this form (especially hate mail and threats) are considered to be fair game for publishing, just like the “submit story” form.
So, here it is in full, with a small redaction in the email address to prevent automatic spambot harvesting. Thanks to Steve Jones for kicking off this new feature.
Name: Steve Jones
Email: sjones956 “at” yahoo.com
Message: Koch brother shills like you should be ashamed of themselves for spewing such anti-science garbage for the goal of deceiving the public about global warming. Sickening…
Time: May 12, 2015 at 8:35 am
IP Address: 76.216.173.235
Contact Form URL: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
Sent by an unverified visitor to your site.
For the record, I’ve never gotten a dime from the Koch Brothers, and never even had an email, telephone, or face-to-face conversation with them. I doubt they even know of my existence. I find this fascination the left has with the Koch Brothers a revealing window into their psyche.
But, that fact that I’m not now, nor ever have been on the take on in employ of Koch (or anyone else for that matter) doesn’t seem to stop the irrational hatred we see on display. Even supposedly educated people like Dr. Michael Mann falls victim to Koch Derangement Syndrome, such as when I sent him a free Josh calendar at Christmas, paid for by my own credit card:
Read it here: Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory
This isn’t an isolated incident in Dr. Mann’s delusional missives:
I find it all highly amusing, because they can’t envision that I’m able to run WUWT simply on my own merits, without having some sort of daily backing or being in the employ of somebody, somebody with an agenda. They can’t imagine that I’ve been able to succeed by sheer will and persistence, along with the help of guest authors, and millions of readers. No, they can’t imagine that, because for them, it’s the ultimate projection.
So the best medicine for such things is to laugh at them, and that’s what I plan to do. Perhaps I’ll gather up each week’s hate mail and make a weekly feature of it.
As my friend Barry Woods said today, we seem to have reached “peak climate”, hence the increase in irrational wailing:
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Thanks for the laughs, Anthony!
Mr Watts, your delusions of grandeur are a wonder to behold.
Thanx for the laugh.
The warmistas are being driven insane by jealousy.
It’s not jealousy mark, it’s amusement. I’ve always loved a good joke, and I love this website.
Not half as much a joke as your delusions of grandeur
If you want to understand more about climate change just look at the references above, nothing doctored, nothing changed it is exactly as it is from the science reported by the agencies, NOAA, NSIDC, UAH, etc, etc.
As for delusions of grandeur, Well, you have to elaborate for me to understand what you mean. If you mean that WUWT has had over 230 million hits and is the second most popular site on WordPress, Anthony has done extremely well. Do you know any other pro-agw site that could compete with this? SkS, RC, now that is what I call a good laugh, they trail this site by miles and miles. In fact, does anybody go there any more ?
So take your delusions of grandeur and point them at those site for Anthony’s website outperforms all of them put together.
@ur momisugly Lee gable
So, Lee, ol’ buddy, like, let me just say that those two Pavlovian-reflex, party-line-generator-genic, wit-free bot-comments of yours, above, are just the sort of classic, stuffy, mouth-off, nothing-boogers that I’ve observed to be closely associated with your standard-issue, good-comrade, collectivist, brain-washed, cheka-monitored hive-mind. And, in that regard, Lee, I must sadly advise that your two comments, above, pose, IMHO, an unfortunate, “road-back” mentality to the sincere, good-faith efforts of us “Good-Guy”-lovers-of-individual-freedom-and-ethical-science to find common-ground with and “build bridges” to you dumb-ass, “Hive-Bozo”, Gaia-freak weirdos.
And I especially like, Lee, that little attempt of yours at phony-baloney, witting-tool hive-psychiatry, in your first comment, above. So, Lee, is your puffed-up, two-bit, shrink-wannabe act, like, you know, inspired by the hive-hero example of Andrei Snezhnevsky, or not?–be honest, Lee.
And you know, Lee, your above comment (and the one that follows it), reminds me of nothing so much as the creep-out, attention-seeking antics of those socially-incompetent, little-sneak, tattletale, geek-ball, tag-along pests, we all remember so well from our grade-school days, who, in their later, can’t-get-a-date lives, all went on to score some sort of goof-off, ivory-tower, cushy, tenured-parasite trough (or, at least, a hired-gun enabler-gig with some one or another of Al Gore’s make-a-greenwashed-buck, crony-capitalist enterprises), and who, to this very day drive to the airport, on their way to yet another of their interminable, CO2-spew, frequent-flyer, brazen-hypocrite, carbon-piggie eco-confabs (which could easily be held as zero-carbon video-conferences, but won’t be) in weenie-ready, babe-repellant, mummy-pleasing, nerd-chic, electrified dork-mobiles that go “hmmmmmm”. (Of course, I’m talkin’ about a general case, here, Lee, and not about you personally, since we all know you’re, like, a really “cool dude” and everything–I’m just talkin’ about all those other swill-sucking sell-outs you know, that your comments remind me of.)
And the reason I say all this, Lee, is that your two comments, above, are the blog-comment equivalent of some snot-nosed school-kid gropin’ up a really choice, dripping goober, and wavin’ it around the playground, as it hangs off his forefinger of choice, to show it off to all the girls, during recess, and then popping that “beaut” into into his mouth, in front of everyone, and chewing on it with his momma-boy’s maw wide-open, to the accompaniment of disgusting liquid noises and bad-breath exhalations, and then swallowing the whole masticated-mess in a full-throated, “YUMMMMM!!!”, fry-tone, concluding flourish. You know what I mean, Lee?
You sir have my utmost admiration. I have never before read a post that boggled my mind as brilliantly and enjoyably as your post just did. Well done, loved it.
Grable, you probably are one of those people who thinks they belong to an intellectual elite that should rule the world under some kind of dictatorship-of-the-proletariat arrangement. You and all of your fellow “climate change” people scare me.
Prat.
You misspelled Michael Mann’s name there.
Or did you mean some other Klimate Klown?
@Mike, May 14, 2015 at 1:36 am
Dammit, Mike! I needed a hyphen a moment ago, and found that you had used them all.
g
Interesting that Mann chose to add #CourtJester, that he presumably intended as an insult. The court jester, despite acting the fool was often a very sharp witted and his role was to criticise members of court and even the monarch through his clowning around.
The jester, through his image of being a fool, could speak the truth in a way none of the sycophants of the court would dare.
The court of the IPCC is in dire need of a court jester.
@Mike, that might become the first time a court jester might die laughing at his employer!
Although, in Game of Thrones there’s a particularly graphic scene of one getting his tongue cut out…
Hence ‘many a true word spoken in jest’.
Careful or Mann will start redefining the term “court jester”. He will show us how everyone has always been wrong about what it meant and he will have a graph to prove it.
I beleive Dr Mann may be working on a paper that proves an increase in court jesters was responsoble for the Medieval Warm Period and he has the tree ring data to prove it. /sarc (or is it?)
There’s a song for that…
I’m Anthony, Anthony!
My fame before me rings!
King of Jesters
and Jester of Kings!
Rajendra Pachauri wasn’t good enough for you?
I’d never heard of the Koch brothers until some of my fellow students decided that I was on their pay roll after I’d mentioned that there has been no warming for 18 years.
Please do….it encouraging to see the level of ignorance that supports the alarmists…truth wins in the long run
Science is the search for truth. That is why the catastrophists can not be called scientists. A PHD does not a scientist make.
Catastrophists used to search for truth. Now that they have found it, the search is over, and anyone who doubts it is a poopie-butt. Actual science is soooo twentieth century. Now that the truth is out there, all we have to do is obey our masters and repeat our truth/dogma everywhere we can. That way we can ascend to Mann-made heaven where it is never gonna get warm, but stay cold all the time. Sort of like endless winter where we can surf down mountains of ice.
In grad school we referred to PHD as “piled hip deep”.
@JBob
I heard it as Piled Higher and Deeper…
That would be the best thing you could do to expose the joke that the warmist are. Often, they are like trolls, they delight in other people answers to them, they like to see how many answers they get. I am sure that in their circle the answer back number is a badge of honor.
A determinant of compensation.
One problem with responding to off-the-cuff hate mail like this is respond well requires taking 10x to 100x the time the original post took. Maybe if you had a little form with check off boxes and links to the full explanation for each item.
One for Koch money, one for Big Oil money (you promised me 10%!), two or three for the 97% consensus claims, several for each of the Michael Mann “exonerations”….
Modify/add to as desired:
____________________
Thank you for the entertaining email, you have been selected to be featured in our Hall of Lame. Your message contained the following:
[X] Personal insults
[X] Accusations of impropriety
[X] Incoherent ranting
[X] Unintelligible gibberish
[X] Psychological projection
[X] Display of innumeracy
[X] Political posturing
[X] Eco-superiority social positioning
[X] Impenetrable groupthink
[X] Competitive pedantry
[X] Mentioning “Big Oil”
[X] Mentioning Koch brothers
[X] Mentioning 97%
[X] Mentioning melting polar regions
[X] Mentioning melting glaciers
[X] Using the phrase “anti-science”
[X] Using the word “denier”
[X] Demanding we “think of the children”
[X] Demanding we “think of the developing world”
[X] Demanding we “educate ourselves”
“Hall of Lame” – ha ha! Love it! 🙂
Thanks for starting my morning with a good chuckle!
Eco-superiority social positioning
I call that eco-piety. People suffering this can often be seen driving a Toyota Pius.
[X] Thinking of the children
[X] Thinking of the Polar Bears
The polar bears have survived much warmer periods and
Children learn to live in the world they are born into
Piper….can I add: The Precautionary Principle? Just in case….
The thing is to expose and ridicule such hate mail without giving it too much time. Otherwise the hate-mailer becomes a successful troll. Possibly just posting such stuff to a new reference page would do the trick. Having one’s name attached to vacuous ranting ultimately would be an embarrassment. Of course then there would be a shift to anonymous hate mail!
Occasionally writers in the broader press will do an occasional story on hate mail. Having the finer specimens on display would make that process easier.
Publishing the email address of the hate-mailer is an interesting move as they might find some hate-mail of their own in the inbox. I have often thought that there should be a penalty for spreading vitriol and this seems appropriate.
Recording the IP addresses of hate-mailers might not be a bad idea.
Good on you, Anthony. These fools need to be busted.
I’m still waiting for my first check from the Koch brothers.
While I’ve been told that “things go better with Koch,” I’ve been open to consideration to selling out to government funding, but so far I’m still “free ranging” it.
Ah Neo, that reminds me of a time, many years ago, when I was a guest of a German company called Koch that was involved in the pre-fab business.
I kept laughing and eventually had to explain that it was the name: Firma Koch, that had got me smiling.
For Germans they had a great sense of humour. Fortunately, they laughed too. It could have been a real cock up otherwise.
“Koch” in Germany is no. 12 on the list of the most common family names. No. 1 is Müller(Miller), followed by Schmidt, Schneider, Fischer (Smith, Tailor, Fisher)…
Also, Koch is simply German for Chef.
You would think the Koch brothers would have some extra money lying around, after all they do “live rent free” in all the minds of the demented.
As for Steve Jones, he is just following the lead of Sen Harry Reid. The Washington Free Beacon put together a very long string sound clip of Harry’s speech’s on the Senate Floor calling them out by name.
134 Times Harry Reid’s Railed Against the Koch Brothers | SuperCuts #50
Opensecrets.org has a comparison of Koch versus Soros’ contributions to 527 tax-exempt non-profits.
Individual donations to 527 organizations (2001 to 2010)
George Soros: $32.5 million
Koch Brothers: $1.5 million
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-koch-brothers/
Despite pleas for funding, I’m still waiting for that Koch Bros. money… not seen any yet…
I am 100% available for climate related or computer work. Reasonable rates. So far I’ve made about $100 per year…. so reasonable is not very expensive! Heck, even minimum wage would be a couple of orders of magnitude improvement.
(My last paying gig was 18 months for a fortune 200 co. doing disaster recovery planning P.M. work, nothing climate related brings in money for me. Oh Well. It does make it funny when folks shout Oil Money or Koch…)
fighting global warming one calendar at a time
(that cover pic is really hard to look at – probably supposed to be)
keep it up
Thank you for all you do Anthony. You will go down in history with others for slaying the CAGW dragon. You rock!
Anthony is the man!
I notice you wrote that you never gotten a dime from the Koch brothers. Is this some sort sort of Nixonian denial. Perhaps you have gotten quarters?? Maybe one Koch brother wrote you the check as a gift? How about a Koch neice or nephew? My other questions to you is if the Koch brothers are giving money away how do I get some? /sarc
I am a K0CH Brothers Organization (K0BO) recruiter. If you are interested in working for us please mail us a stamped self addressed envelope, a deposit slip for your bank account, two passport photographs and a hair sample. The investigation takes three months, if you meet our requirements you will have to swear the super secret oath and undergo a series of training sessions which cost £1776 (loans are available if you can’t afford it). After your final exam you get your own blog, $17000 per month and remote secretarial services 24 hours per day from our service center in Bangalore, India. You will be proud to belong to our secret network, which so far numbers over 332 million members in 155 nations.
Dammit, Fernandoleanme! Haven’t you been told not to out us? Still, I expect your only in a junior position on a lousy 17000 a month. I’ll bet you don’t even have your shopping delivered by helicopter yet- a black one, natch!
But there’s a simple explanation: psychological projection. The “professional” ice-worshippers (as I dub those guys) are too incompetent to get a dime by working in a real job; their propaganda is supported by billions, if not trillions, of tax dollars and funds from countless lefty organizations.
Now you hit the nail on the head Phil.
“The “professional” ice-worshippers”
I like that. What should glaciers do during an interglacial period?
The ice-worshippers might see the light if they looked at their ice through a glass of Glenfiddich!
Anthony, no amount of money could buy you. With your integrity, hard work, and fine communication abilities, you are priceless.
Envy is an ugly thing, huh?
Chin up, dear warrior for truth! If you weren’t a threat, they wouldn’t bother.
Envy is not only ugly, it can never be sated. The glutton may eat, the slothful can act, etc., but nothing can quench envy or the envious, You can rule the world and still envy. And, never forget Lucifer.
Mm, hm.
… the Father of L1es.
Lucifer is the bearer of light. That’s what the name means.
RoHa, that was very lucid. It was also illuminating.
Classically, Lucifer was associated with the planet Venus. So, the odds are that the original term in some way was a descriptive attribute of the goddess.
RoHa,
You missed the point. Read “Paradise Lost.”
RoHa:
So is a match. But you have to strike it first.
@ur momisugly inMAGICn
No-one – not even John Milton – has ever read anything more that the first 26 lines of Paradise Lost (most of us never get beyond “Sing,Heavenly Muse” in line 6) and yet many think the whole story, including Lucifer being driven out of Heaven by cannon – is in the Bible. But hardly anyone has ever read that thing either.
@ur momisugly Harry Passfield.
Yes. While you’ve got lucifer to light your fag, then smile, boys, that’s the style.
Andrew Breitbart said it best – when you are taking fire you know you are over the target.
I just sent you a comment via:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
Does my IP address check out?
Steve Jones
sjones956 “at” yahoo.com
(Not my real/fake name or real/fake email address because the only way you know is by checking the IP addresses. D’oh!)
well, I have satellite and my IP shows Buffalo NY = not where I am
Some people haven’t heard of VPN, apparently
Don’t think you ought to post the email addresses, unless you have a method of validating them as having been legitimately sent. Faking an email, or just typing in someone else’s email address when posting abuse, would lead to you wrongly attributing the abuse to someone. Since that, in turn, becomes searchable, it could lead to very unfortunate outcomes (e.g. affecting someone innocent party’s employment).
Good point. However it was an email (rather than a post) any decent mail filter, including gmail, yahoo mail, etc., will check to see if the domain has been spoofed.
Uh, no. First, gmail, yahoo, live, etc.. are not “filters”. As Stephen Frost wrote, with a bit of knowledge, it’s simple to spoof any email address. Oh, yeah, you can manually check the “Authentication-Results:” in the full header and compare, but none of the major email servers will do this for you. So, the conclusion, is DO NOT post “From” email addresses without explicit permission. You are just asking for trouble.
Good idea. But the formatting needs work. Segregate, perhaps in two columns. Any answer right below. And then allow general comments.
Let the light shine on these people. They have been allowed to be abusive behind closed doors. Let them be seen in broad daylight.
I am going to enjoy this (hopefully) weekly feature.
“You know you’re over the target when you start taking flak.”
Hate mail is a badge of honor.
Silly little faux-green trolls. They are afraid of the money taps being shut off, when people realize the truth!
I am a (C)AGW sceptic – My English and Research skills can be proven, SO please someone offer to pay me…The first 1,000 words will be free..
I am also a devoted believer in the diabolical perils of man made CO2 – my research and English skills are well known amongst international peers, and for YOU my fellow planet saving warmist, the first 500 words and one photoshopped image for an article of your choosing will be free…
Happy Mr. J for the second offer to be as your confidential ghost writer _ I mean to say, imagine since you are receiving a massive salary that just a few percent of it will get all the compelling “proof of CAGW” you could wish for, allowing you to spend quality time with your faculty mates and all the cute (if a little unkempt) green eyed chicks at the local watering holes…
Trust me i can “spin” faster than a twin tub Hoover doover.
“You don’t really know what’s happening here, do you, Mr. Jones?”
Haha, best comment
[Can you tell I became an adult in the 60s?]
“Something is happening but you don’t know what it is. Do you Mr Jones?”:
Bob Dylan
I think the tune is called:
“Ballad Of A Thin Man”
Wonderful idea, Anthony. I’ll look forward to the new feature for a good laugh.
I second (or third) the request for this to be a weekly feature.
Typical of the rubbish the eco facists spew here in Seattle, with the Shell Oil platform and support coming for a temporary berthing to prepare for Arctic summer exploration. That’s all they have left now, their failed “settled science” fully exposed – just rancid, hateful filled babble. The media exposes them for the fools that they are.
Separate from all the various scientific issues, what CAGWers like Mann fundamentally seem not to get is what rejection is. At the basest level people reject them because they are just not up to snuff (not remotely).
quite a few years ago I looked at a book Mann wrote and was shocked to see it was crap. Not only had I never been to WUWT, I had never read a sentence of skeptic material.
Mann, for starters, needs to look in a mirror, and admit he needs to be a better scientist. Blaming other people for mocking him, for not believing him, “oh they must be paid otherwise why would they” seems almost high-school-like.
Thanks, Anthony. You are priceless.
WUWT is a learning tool in all climate-related science.
Very true, Andres. I’ve learned a tremendous amount by just reading the articles and comments. The climate alarmist contingent hates Anthony because he provides a forum where the truth gets sifted from all the misinformation raining down on us 24/7/365.
Just telling the truth has become a revolutionary activity.
That’s exactly right dbs. I always advise people when sharing a link to WUWT to read all the comments too – or at least to sift through for those with scientific information and ‘real life experience’ in them.
Informed debate is the most powerful tool there is; the truth can never emerge from a censored forum.