Wikipedia climate revisionism by William Connolley continues

The total irony is that William Connelly has his own wikipedia page which shows not the slightest sign of being notable – because the only thing that makes this idiot notable is his bully boy tactics on Wikipedia.
Personally, I used to write quite a few articles on wikipedia (NOT ABOUT CLIMATE – house of Lords reform was one I wrote) and I happened to accept the climate dogma.
Then I met this silly billy and I took exception to his bullying and found that Wikipedia did absolutely nothing to stop him. So:
– I stopped writing anything for Wikipedia.
– I felt I could no longer trust the word of the “warmists” if they were so underhand with things like Wikipedia
– Since I discovered their lies … I’ve had a little hobby undoing their work on Wikipedia and I think I probably have more than compensated for Silly Billy!! He he he he!!

To be fair, The Register *isn’t* a reliable source. The original poster erred in using it and not waiting for the later RS link. In doing so he provided cover for Mr Connelly to strike and technically be in the right.
I don’t say that Mr Connelly was right or honorable, as the right and honorable thing would be to replace the non-RS link with an RS link, which would have taken a 15 sec googling.
Mr. Connelly knew he was being a “rules lawyer” by showing his bias in saying “happily”.
The useful lesson here is “dot all i’s and cross all tees,” or the unscrupulous will capitalize on the trivial to silence the essential.

John Galt says “Who is Hal Lewis?”

tonyb:
If it is not “verifiable” by Wikipedia’s standards that well-intentioned and credible skepticism exists to AGW given the huge mass of information that exists on the subject, then I would say there is a problem with the “strict editorial rules” you cite.
I fully recognize that some kind of guidelines ought to exist as to what can be posted, but when editors spend hours keeping a single undisputed (except for the sourcing) piece of information out of a stub class article, and express schadenfreude-esque glee because they have the Pharisaic right to do so, there is a problem with the rules, or the people, or both.

Will no one rid us of this troublesome editor?

“…and King Canute stood on the shore and commanded the waves to stop their crashing as he was King and Master of All He Surveyed.”
Canute was almost swept away by the incoming tide, but survived, humbled with a new perspective

Woe is me, triple woe is me! Once again an intrepid WUWT reader gets the Canute story backwards. So, dear scientist, what was your source? Did you check at source???
Canute knew perfectly well what the tide would do. His action was to demonstrate to his fawning ministers that he did NOT have command over the elements.

Wikipedia needs a Torquemada to gracefully revise its articles. But Lucy Skywalker’s idea of a weekly Wikipedia piece here would be worst than taking all of them to the Inquisition, they would have one and only choice left: To repent wholeheartedly of their sins or disappear.

They would probably replace him with the equally impartial man of integrity, gavin schmidt.

ah, meant to add some more from that particularly interesting deletion of mere comments.

Agreed – This edit here:
“In 2010, Lewis resigned in protest from the American Physical Society and labelled its position on global warming a “scam” and a “hoax” ”
is a misrepresentation and miss quotes Lewis.
Lewis stated without any confusion that it was global warming and the climate science behin it that he consiered a scam:
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.”
The reasons that he offer for his resignation are
“So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it.”
and
“APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal”

Perhaps this was an autobot delete because unsigned, but I’m not sure. The Good Locust here knows the malfeasances there pretty well.

Is it true that that con olly is paid off of tax payers money to do all this?

Hello Thomas, you should do comedy. Perhaps you know this chap:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100058818/what-on-earth-is-bob-ward/
‘….isn’t this exactly what Bob Ward does all the ruddy time, popping up like a bad smell on TV and radio whenever a rentaquote spokesman is needed to talk about ‘Climate Change’? He’s a PR man, let us remind ourselves, not a scientist ‘
And Connolley does much the same on wikipedia. Maybe you do here. When the music’s over, Connolley and his ilk will (perhaps, since they appear to have no insight now) realise that they made a bargain with the devil, like Faustus, trading their reputations, if they had them, for temporary power. Mountains from molehills eh? The end of the world from 0.036%?