From the “what you sow, so shall you reap” department:
I was advised in comments, that Treehugger is sponsoring a new “best of” awards poll.
WUWT is not in it of course, because, well it’s “Treehugger” what did you expect? However, my choice for one “best of” category might surprise some people. Read on.
In the category of Best Political Blog, which you can visit here:
http://www.treehugger.com/best-of-green/business-politics/
My choice is for Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog.
Why? Well even though I may disagree with many things Mr. Revkin prints, unlike some blog operators, Mr. Revkin remains civil and courteous in the face of disagreement.
I never have to worry about being purposely insulted by Mr. Revkin, he always responds to my emails, and he provides space for rebuttal of his views and has done so for me. He’s fair.
In short, he’s a professional and operates his blog accordingly.
That’s why I think every WUWT reader should vote for him here:
http://www.treehugger.com/best-of-green/business-politics/
Like with the Weblog awards, you can vote daily according to this at the bottom of the voting page:
Clicking the vote button will submit your choices and bring you to the next topic page. Votes may be submitted in every category of each topic once per day per user.
We need more level headed fairness in the climate debate, and like I say, while I disagree with much of Mr. Revkin’s views, the fact that he affords people he disagrees with a level of respect, is worthy of me giving him an endorsement.
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[snip let’s leave that out of the debate please, but thanks – Anthony]
Done
I voted for Revkin. It seems climateprogress is desparate and needs both votes and clicks on their site.
Reading what Revkin shares, it seems before he changed jobs and climate gate events transpired, he had pressure to lean a certain way by his company.
Actually I have been surprised and impressed with the balance in many of the articles I have read on Tree Hugger. I look at it every once in a while. It pops up in searches fairly often. They have good articles at times particularly on new technologies.
Voted for the Rev. Rev.
(Maybe he should advertize for Mazda, “Zoom Zoom”?!
How can eco-consumption of any product or service ever be Green, or tree-huggish? Check out most of that stuff is not necessary for life and is instead luxury stuff for the idle rich.
Eco consumption is an oxymoron.
Actually paying for an eco-consumption product or service is Physical Realization of an Oxymoron.
I especially like the Downhill ‘The Original Clear Cutters’ Skiing offers.
Dan Hughes (14:41:33) : “How can eco-consumption of any product or service ever be Green, or tree-huggish? Check out most of that stuff is not necessary for life and is instead luxury stuff for the idle rich.”
I suppose “green” is relative, e.g. using fossil-fueled electricity to light your home, but lighting with LEDs or fluorescents instead of incandescents…not exactly “green”, but certainly less “un-green”.
Hey, I’m a “tree hugger”…I hug a pile of tree each time I carry some fire wood to the wood stove. I love the warm “tree hugging” feeling of the “green” renewable resource of my truly “green” fuel. Here in the rain forests of Maine this stuff just grows on trees.
So…hug a tree…they grow faster and big trees burn longer!!
Ben D, burning my way to a greener me
I’m waiting to see if Revkin has the cojones to present his views on the issue of climate here or at Climate Audit. I know that both you and Steve are willing to provide a forum for such people. I place a high value on people who engage in public discourse in good faith, and thus far I see encouraging signs with Revkin, but I’m still waiting for a definitive sign. He’s drunk pretty deep of the alarmist koolaid…if he’s willing to test his assumptions somewhere other than the echo chambers he’s frequented in the past, then perhaps he’s worth my endorsement.
No choice of “None of the above”???
No problem. I need to put him back on my blog roll. I thought Dot Earth was going to shut down when he left the NYT.
If you vote only for DotEarth and skip all the other topics, this might raise a flag.
You’re a good man, Anthony Watts.
There is a value to civility. Revkin has earned props and so have you by giving them.
Mark
Anything that grieves Joe Romm gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I look at this as any other opportunity to vote, even if I don’t like the candidates I can still push things in the right direction.
So while I don’t agree with Revkin, I do agree with civil discourse and if voting for him here helps promote that, even in a small way, then it’s worth the 10 seconds.
I agree. Revkin, although misguided, is a good egg. I’m just glad he hasn’t banned me over the years. I like to get into barfights there, as DotEarth features some of the most annoying, arrogant True Believers the blogosphere ever sees.
I strongly encourage the more *ahem* passionate of you to join the fray sometime.
Shouldn’t tree huggers be glad about a rise in CO2, making trees grow faster?
Well said, Anthony, and I agree with your assessment! The vote has been cast.
Too bad there isn’t more variety in the organizations listed, I’ve been impressed with Trout Unlimited and a few other sportsman-oriented groups.
We do need more dialogue, and HONEST presentation of strong data! I think we are starting to see some of this starting to happen, in no small part to blogs like WUWT and Climate Audit.
Fair assessment of Dot Earth. Everything is relative. True believer but polite and respectful.
Perhaps at some point it would be fun for WUWT to do something similar to award the worst site… even though there are so many choices for that it would be more difficult.
Maybe it would be simpler just to tally the number of times the word “denier” or “catastrophic” appears than to make any subjective call.
My deepest respect for Anthony aside, I can’t vote for anything on that poll.
Andy Revkin’s starting place is that population growth is the central problem facing humanity, which is to say that he is a disciple of Paul Ehrlich.
As for climate science, he made a trip a few years ago to the Arctic, was told that the ice melt he witnessed was extraordinary/meaningful, and bit down hard. If I had a time machine that could let him visit the many other similar melts during just the past two centuries, I would book him a seat.
The conceit that because we are witnessing it with our very own eyes means that something is unusual or significant is anti-science at its purest. Throwing the gasoline which is ignorance onto the fire of climate fears, likewise.
While I agree that Revkin is civil, I can’t vote for anyone who is 180 degrees wrong in the majority of what he says.
Revkin I can vote for – while he might not have always been even handed (TBH I never paid him much attention until a few months/weeks back) he does seem to be making an honest effort of it now – and catching hell for it.
Now Best Non-US Eco Fashion Brand… I couldn’t really offer an opinion on that one. Having had a client in the apparel/fashion industry for a number of years I’ve seen how that sausage is made. As distrubing as it is if you really want earth friendly apparel go to Wal Mart – it all comes from the same manufacturing facilities overseas anyway… at least they’re efficient about it. I don’t follow that advice mind you, it’s a cultural thing – I have to dress somewhat nice ; )
I didn’t realize that Treehugger was an Official Site of the Discovery Channel and its affiliates. Hmmmm… that takes my opinion of them down a few (more) notches. It’s ironic as hell considering that the Discovery Channel now seems to be the Used Car Auction channel – making all of their money off the most polluting of automobiles 🙂
That and at first I read their “Take Action” menu item as “Toke Action.” I think that makes more sense.
Perhaps the other sites are even worse, but Revkin is simply a bridge too far. If there was a “none of the above” or a write in category, the popularity contest might be worth considering.