While few have noticed, since hardly anyone but the handful of extreme faithful visit there anymore, it seems that the website run by the climate alarmist cabal of Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Stephan Rahmstorf, and others has gone dark this week. According to the “wayback machine” the last time the realclimate.org website was live was November 17th:
Now, it shows this, what appears to be a default page for a “parked domain”.
The domain is still registered, according to WHOIS:
‘Tis a puzzle, did Gavin or EMS forget to pay the hosting bill, have they given up, or is something else going on?
There’s no hint of why on Gavin’s Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin
Note to Gavin, this really doesn’t prevent me from reading your Twitter feed:
Hopefully we’ll find out the reason soon.
UPDATE: Russell Cook writes via email…
From what I’ve seen, the ultra-handy Internet Wayback Machine site is sometimes a bit slow on archiving current web sites.
Google Cache seems to have caught RealClimate up an running on Thursday the 19th: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eItUrDSLUIgJ:www.realclimate.org/
Nice!
Probably a combination of a lack of traffic and pulled advertising as a result. They obviously didn’t want to spend cash out of pocket to maintain the poorly visited site so, until additional commercial sponsorship can be arranged, the site was parked
Al Gorzeera??
Undoubtedly, this is another example of climate change, which has now affected the internet. Funny how climate change would be so specific, and only shut down this one website? Perhaps this would make a good study?
Gavin has been hacked.
http://www.realclimate.org/Climate%2C_Temperature.cfm?fp=PG2tGLEJcbeP%2FU3pTdikENectY%2FC5OZ1bDQ%2FkHkV6pvr1fFjxqbPVEAcT2xV1q2wZBkRYG4AuuItweMy0a2tArUig9SfcGlOUg9DApuk%2FSqM0Zvqj3v3Hd3srUhT7eA2CJHb4GxKJ92VKA2XOyy%2BIuW%2FAeiDoipmkojeWKO4QLWvbqQRaZxSm5fe9uoAN6Allcf%2FC4XhAzcQJk9cMO2vbw%3D%3D&klb=1&maxads=0&kld=1022&prvtof=7XRcN81IgmRWN1XI6ncm3q23rhhCHrFIHoHcXOqGyWs%3D&&&kt=250&&kbc=1877&ki=6215051&ktd=87960930238720&kld=1022&kp=2&bd=0%231024%231280%231%230%23570%23257
I think that is the case also
Don’t use link. attack!
The domain is currently changing registrars…
This line in Whois tells you that:
Domain Status: ok — http://www.icann.org/epp#ok
Normally the status would be:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
So, I’m sure the domain will reappear after the transfer is complete.
If we examine http://whois.domaintools.com/realclimate.org and scroll down to the bottom, we find these lines:
Name Server:EXPIRED1.ACTIVE-DNS.COM
Name Server:EXPIRED2.ACTIVE-DNS.COM
The domain name server has expired.
So with a bit of luck, it’s DEAD.
@catweazle666:
Of course since I don’t ever look at realclimate.org – at all – except right now… I can’t be sure of anything.
I would hope, from a technical perspective, that realclimate.org posted some warning or something before heading offline.
Anyway, the domain’s registration doesn’t expire until next year. So, if the domain is parked – as it seems to be – it’s simply a change of registrar or hosting provider or both.
Here are a few more details:
http://www.easycounter.com/report/realclimate.org
You will notice that there are two other name servers listed:
ns1517.ztomy.com
ns2517.ztomy.com
Generally you want to fill all five name server slots, not just four… but whatever.
It’s very likely that the realclimate.org domain will reappear online at its new hosting/registrar/something or other provided by:
Confluence Networks in the Virgin Islands.
It’s a bit strange to have the Domain Status changed for a simple hosting provider change — and a bit a risky if there’s no actual registrar change. But… again – whatever… It’s the Internet, and no one knows anything, especially the “experts”
Found their backup site:
http://realclimate-backup.org
I asked in comments regarding site fail if they could just “adjust the data” so the domain name Chiefs would “warm up” to them but it didn’t get past the moderators
Interesting. It may be possible they are completely rejigging their web site and plan to have it live in time for the Paris shrimp-fest.
Rejigging? You must mean “refibbing.”
ROTFLMAO …poor Gavin..maybe I should tweet him, oh wait, I’m blocked too ! Some people have no sense of humor !! LOL
I have never been to his twit, so I can send a message to him if you want.
Just don’t say anything that is factual or you’ll be BAAAAANNNNNED !!!!!
Me too….maybe it’s time. I hardly use twitter. At they might say in Newfoundland, “Twit’er, bye!”
Battlespace preparation for the biggest case of “we never said that” in history?
I don’t recall having ever said “I never said that,” but I also don’t recall ever having said that. Now what was the question?
Did you forget to remember to forget to remember?
Thank you for reading Gavin’s twitter feed so that we don’t have to!
Somehow I DON’T want to wish rip. 😉
On the one hand Real Climate likely isn’t needed any more, now that the last “western” skeptics have been driven from leadership (in Australia and Canada). On the other hand, it looks as if the political victory can do little more than further inflate the political egos of the Warmunistas. To quote a Warmunist leader of God’s Frozen People, at Paris “We are going to sit down at the table, roll up our sleeves and send a signal.”
But “Western Leadership” is an oxymoron these days.
Apparently you are not a believer in “leading from behind”. 😉
The UK is presently experiencing a cold snap. See; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3328202/First-snows-winter-hit-swathes-UK-5cm-falling-overnight-lows-4C.html
It would be a bit of a laugh if Paris was to experience a similar cold snap at the end of next week/beginning of December similar to the cold snap that hit Copenhagen 2009./
That is the “Al Gore effect” ?
Yes, heavy snow in the UK in the middle of November.
At this rate children aren’t going to know what “not knowing what snow is” is.
What a shame that we can no longer go and leave sarcy comments on the Independent article page.
One day of mildish weather,and they call it ‘the warmest month in recorded history, but a week of really cold weather marking the beginning of what might become a very cold winter, is dismissed as a ‘cold snap’.This is what made the british media great.
richard verney
Sorry to be a wet blanket. While I’d be quite happy with Alarmist chattering teeth I am concerned for the refugees. I have seen their clothes on “Vids” it is not acquitted, for European temperatures. I don’t think the E.U. has properly prepared for this.
I don’t think in the best of times anyone could have prepared for this.
While I can understand the sentiment for wanting “little ice age weather” for the shindig (cop21), I recommend this; if you pray, pray for warm weather where the refugees are, If you hope, when hope for warm weather for the refugees. And a safe and speedy return to their homelands .
michael
That is because 48 hours ago a north flowing surface wind pulled wind from around 30N all the way into Greenland. This warmed the intense cold which had been in place for over 30 days by 20 F on the 19th. The surface wind then turned east from Greenland, and dropped south right across the UK and into France. This has also changed the Paris 10 day forecast quite a bit as compared to 36 hours ago…http://www.intellicast.com/Local/ObservationsSummary.aspx?location=FRXX0076
Easily solved. Just turn up the heating in the conference venues. It worked before.
The windmill is broken and the solar panels shorted out.
LOL.
The problem is that when it’s cold in Britain there’s no wind, and the solar panels are covered in snow. At least we still have a few coal-fired solar panels. But in Scotland we hardy folk have not turned our heating on yet. We’ll wait till the ice starts to form on the inside of the Georgian window-panes.
Oh, and I’ve checked, and the domain name Realclimate.org has been allowed to lapse.
Monckton of Brenchley
Oh, and I’ve checked, and the domain name Realclimate.org has been allowed to lapse.
A thousand pardons (I am a skeptic!) where must I go to find this..
a friend
michael
P.S. do you (or anyone) know of any sewage enterprises that would want the domain?
respectfully
michael
Looks like someone forgot to pay the bill for the domain name.
Kevin Bloody Wilson has a song which sums up why the page is dark; if you asked most people about ‘Real’Climate, they’d answer “DILLIGAF?”.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Thank you Erny72. I am in tears laughing and I want the DILLIGAF licence plate for my car!
I want the T shirt so I can tell people what it means !!!!
TRM you should google some of his other works…real rib ticklers!
Marcus I am sure there is a franchise website where you can but that.
You can’t get one for your car, even if they give you the plate, someone will know what it means and report it. Then the DMV will take your plate away, no you don’t have a choice in the matter. You either take the plate in, or they suspend your license, the plate and the registration for the vehicle. I know because I asked when I was getting the custom tags for my wife’s car. The lady told me that every now and then someone will sneak through something that isn’t obvious, then someone that knows what it means will report it. When that happens they contact the person with the custom plate and tell them that they have to bring it in and get a replacement within a certain number of days. If they refuse, then they simply suspend that persons license, invalidate the plate and suspend the registration for that vehicle. Since some states use automated plate scanners these days, you don’t even have to get pulled over for them to know. The computer automatically alerts them to the invalid plate, the cop pulls the person over and in the end they get fined for driving without a valid license, for driving a vehicle with an invalid plate and for driving a vehicle without a valid registration.
Now most of the time the judge will wave those fines if you go in and talk to him/her, and just tell him/her that you do not feel that the plate is offensive. However, there are times that someone will show up with a bad attitude, be disrespectful and the judge will let the fines stand. Which ends up costing the person close to $1000 all because they weren’t smart enough to keep their mouth closed.
Baronstone, that’s not what happened to my wife in New Hampshire. She was assured her car was still registered (after all, the state had the registration fee), she just drove around for a couple weeks before the state decided they better send her a replacement. She wasn’t stopped by the police, but someone did run over to her in a parking lot to shake her hand.
http://wermenh.com/h8dcyf.html
With that plate, the state changed the rules and banned all license plates with hate (H8) speech. Including H8WAR, which no one had, and the chemical formula for propane (C3H8), which perplexed the fellow who wanted various chemical formulas for his energy business vehicles.
Lol, aside from his 3 readers who now longer have access, who gives a Schmidt.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
“The windmill is broken and the solar panels shorted out.”
(Comment: Gary – LOL)
A more accurate name for the website would be real propaganda.
Real policy based cultural Marxism propaganda?
No really who’s interested in realclimate or Gavin’s twitter?
The proper name would be something like my advocacy, or even my dear echo chamber TM.
The thing is, Gavin is dull. Duller than I can take. It might be CO2 causes dullness, or that the accumulation of heat prevents him thinking, or maybe a polar bear ate all the excitement, but frankly I can’t take it any more. If you are a world-known scientist but you don’t do science but some little pal review game – I can wait for the next generation of scientists. While I never agree fully with Lubos Motl, I like the way he writes hard science to his audience, his well-grounded opinions, and never lets advanced scientific stupidity pass without being used for entertainment. You don’t need to know your Lie groups inside out to enjoy the result.
He is definitely suffering from lack of Oxygen to his brain cell !!!
I am confident that this is only a temporary thing.
There is a lot yet to spin with the current 2015/16 El Nino; they need to claim that this is all part of the linear trend in CO2 induced warming, rather than the consequence of a natural event not driven by CO2.
Given that it is unlikely that Paris COP21 will achieve a binding deal which would truly result in reductions in CO2 emissions breach of which carrying legal consequences, and it is unlikely that the developed West will enter a binding agreement to pay Climate/carbon reparations, the need for lobbying and propaganda continues.
Expect to see the site back up and running within the next week to 10 days.
There are signs from the SOI that the El Nino (mild) is at an end. It certainly is not an super El Nino as in 1997-1998
I would not be surprised if they are doing a major overhaul, to be launched with the climate COP. Chock full of all the most recent propaganda.
The headline will be ‘2015 – warmest year ever globally’.
Why would they have to let the domain expire to develop a major overhaul? I doubt the ‘major overhaul’ theory for this reason. No need to do anything to your site while you are developing a ‘major overhaul’, plus, you would think they would have posted some explanation prior to it going dark.
I guess that makes me a ‘major oerhaul’ denier.
…and nothing of value was lost.
+5
and bandwidth was gained!
The climate hypesters are on a mission, and have effectively unlimited funding. They are not going under except in the integrity area, where they went under long ago.
Gavin tweeted at 5:21 am on 11/20/15 that there is a “RealClimate domain name issue. Working on it”.
&
Gavin tweeted at 2:34 am on 11/20/15 that they are “just renewing the domain – hopefully should be back soon”.
Sounds like maintenance of RealClimate has devolved to a much lower priority.
John
For a moment there I though we had hope…. Any bets on it coming back much cleaner?
QUICK , somebody buy it before he does !!!!
Marcus on November 21, 2015 at 10:19 am
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Marcus,
RC probably has a market value of about 57 cents (US).
John
The domain expiry date is one year away 11/19/2016, and the DNS name servers from the full whois record are ones used when domains expire, so it appears their calendar has been homogenized and they missed a renewal date. That can be painful.
All the propaganda outfits are turning up the volume before Paris. For example, the Guardian Environment section is now so fevered only the rabid fanatics comment there; it’s a lonely echo chamber. And that’s al;; it needs to be to keep the zealots on their toes to campaign in Paris.
RealClimate is meant to persuade the intelligent doubters. But there aren’t any of those left. The debate is too politicised and angry. The Alarmists abandoned any option of “It is happening but it may not be a problem” when they attacked Lomborg. That lost them any chance of talking to anyone save the far-out fatalists.
So RealClimate has been redundant as a propaganda tool for a while. And it’s useless as a science site as it refuses to examine the evidence that Climate Sensitivity was vastly over-estimated.
In summary:- RealClimate has been dead for a while. So let’s drink to that.
And let’s remember that the fact it’s ever existed is an argument for sacking Harrabin from the BBC.
well said, MCourtney.
The last time I was at realclimate.org I came across this beauty:
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Mark says:
3 Nov 2015 at 6:41 PM
Apparently Roy Spencer’s CMIP5 models vs observations graph has gotten some “uninformed and lame” criticisms from “global warming activist bloggers,” but no criticism from any “actual climate scientists.” Would any actual climate scientists, perhaps one with expertise in climate models, care to comment? models-vs-observations-plotting-a-conspiracy
[Response: Happy to! The use of single year (1979) or four year (1979-1983) baselines is wrong and misleading. The use of the ensemble means as the sole comparison to the satellite data is wrong and misleading. The absence of a proper acknowledgement of the structural uncertainty in the satellite data is wrong and misleading. The absence of NOAA STAR or the Po-Chedley et al reprocessing of satellite data is… curious. The averaging of the different balloon datasets, again without showing the structural uncertainty is wrong and misleading. The refusal to acknowledge that the model simulations are affected by the (partially overestimated) forcing in CMIP5 as well as model responses is a telling omission. The pretence that they are just interested in trends when they don’t show the actual trend histogram and the uncertainties is also curious, don’t you think? Just a few of the reasons that their figures never seem to make their way into an actual peer-reviewed publication perhaps… – gavin]
– My emphasis, ref this Link ( If the link will ever work again ):
(Gavin Schmidt is Climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York).
Has anyone told the 40 000 participants in the Paris idiocracy that:
“The refusal to acknowledge that the model simulations are affected by the (partially overestimated) forcing in CMIP5 as well as model responses is a telling omission.”
Sorry, I’m banned there!
Well, it’s a bit curious. Given:
Someone renewed the domain. Apparently it was the ISP or ICANN or someone doing it to protect the domain from being released and snarfed up by one of us evil-doers.
At the top of current page, it says:
That link has instructions that require the account holder to login, so we can’t renew for Gavin.
So all in all, just your basic we-forgot-to-renew-the-damn-domain screwup.
That’s a bit of a shame. We could have renewed the domain and then presented it back to Gavin as a present from all at WUWT.
In my business we control many social media accounts for many clients. The idea that blocking anybody from any Twitter page or even a private Facebook page is quite laughable. Whatever you put up on social media is available to all – or at least anybody who truly wants to view it or comment on it.
I nearly blocked someone at https://www.facebook.com/groups/wattsupwiththat/ – sometimes you don’t want to see someone’s annoying or too frequent posts. Then he disappeared, but his name pops up once in a while. Apparently he got annoyed at me correcting him all the time and blocked me first. Works for me.
🙂
The current IP address is located in the British Virgin Islands.
208.91.197.217
GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: VG, 00, N/A, Road Town, N/A, 18.416700, -64.616699, 0, 0
At least it’s warm there.
Hmmm…..
On “Funny Friday” in response to this:
I said this:
Perhaps there really is a seventh level of hell? And it’s been very busy! 😎
While Realclimate is down, let me suggest that everyone visit the much more uplifting http://john-daly.com .
It’s domain status is somewhat screwier. The last maintainer of the site died without prior notice to anyone who would be interested. The first we knew about it was when the web host disabled the site for non-payment. I hunted them down and explained the story as I understood it at the time, and we set up a new account and they were kind enough to give me a full copy of his files and link things there. So the site was good until the domain’s expiration date.
As I expected, the domain registrar (it’s a long story, going back to the theft of sex.com ages ago), wouldn’t transfer the domain to me and I’ve been dragging my heels and the rest of my body to get a notarized death notice, but the domain registrar has an interesting setup where they let anyone renew a domain. That’s a heck of a lot more convenient than jumping through the hoops to do it right!
Ya know, this would be a great time to take RealClimate off the right side nav bar. Maybe leave it off until RealClimate links to WUWT. 🙂
RealClimate (or any warmist site) link to WUWT?? As Buddy Holly and John Wayne said: “That’ll be the day”.
Going back to the early days of the internet, you could always judge sites by to whom they would or wouldn’t link. For example, creationist sites would never link to evolution sites, but evolution sites would link to creationist sites. When a site doesn’t want you to see the other side of a discussion, they have already lost.
Ric:
What you are proposing is using Real Climate as a genuine honest to goodness Real Climate site with honest stuff!?
Sounds good to me. Put up a donation button and we’ll buy it!
Ric,
Thanks for the 4-1-1 on the John Daly site. I would hate to lose that excellent information! Do you have it saved somewhere?
And ATheoK, I would also donate.
I’m really sloppy about backups in general, however I’m fond of keeping data on my local computer*. So I edit web pages locally and upload them to the target site. In john-daly.com’s case I downloaded everything I could as soon as they restored the site until we could switch over to my account, and then I downloaded everything in the account as soon as that was set up. It came in very handy once. I don’t know what they did, but the ISP had a catastrophic failure and their backups were involved too – basically, they wiped out a bunch of customer’s web sites and couldn’t restore them. They gave us profuse apologies, 3 or 4 months free hosting, and I had john-daly.com restored within an hour. At any rate, my web sites exist in two places and I haven’t lost much, if anything.
* My “new” system has a SSD root disk. I hear when these fail, they often just plain break and you can’t recover anything from them. So I both make a verbatim copy and a “tar” copy every night. I suppose I should check to see if those copies are still happening someday….
The sites which really made me skeptic was realclimate and skepticalscience. There wasn´t much real and skeptical in those sites.
..and these are the disorganized twats that are
oh never mind