UPDATE: Josh catches the essence, see below.
It appears the mendacious Joe Romm has been given new marching orders by Center for American Progress Big Brother Blog: “Think Progress”. From what I make of it, it seems the management realized that CP just wasn’t holding much readership, as it looks like the same 30 commenters or so frequent the place. Sooo…the spin is on. Joe’s doing his best to make his forced merger under Think Progress look like a win.
“Prettier”? Heh. Me thinks this is Joe’s “lipstick on a pig” moment.
What is most strange though, is this:
Not only are comments disabled, they are gone, all of them, from the present to when the blog started in 2006. That may be a temporary condition, but we’ll see. When I moved from Moveable Type back in October 2007 to WordPress.com, everything remained in place, comments and all and is still there today.
You gotta love a guy like that that treats his user community like they don’t exist anymore.
Joe’s last post was about his vision of Memorial Day, 2030
That reminds me to remind everyone (and especially Joe) to be sure to fly your flag this coming Memorial Day, to honor those who gave so much, but have not been forgotten (nor disappeared).
I look forward to seeing more “high quality” climate articles on Think Progress, like this one:
ThinkProgress discussion of the tornado outbreak – click image for the full article
UPDATE: Josh captures the essence:
Well, they are switching over to a new comment system. Sometimes wholesale database migrations are tricky. Check back on Tuesday when the new site is up.
And BTW, Climate Progress has always been part of CAP (Center for American Progress) this change appears to be making it a more integral part of the CAP blogging effort.
“Not only are comments disabled, they are gone, all of them, from the present to when the blog started in 2006. That may be a temporary condition, but we’ll see.”
I expect they’ll be back. There may be no technically suitable provision for read only access during the conversion and at some point a line must be drawn in the sand prior to conversion.
Joe will play it and wear it well, unfortunately he still has the pigs ear of the lame stream media, but that to will end!
Happy lonely trails Joe.
AP “Far Right”Claim
Anthony,
Jeepers. Joe Romm clocked out for the holiday just in time to miss the
Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello with some help from Associated
Press deputy polling director, Jennifer Agiesta:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110527/D9NFUAL80.html
While attributing “cap and trade” legislative plans over time to the political
left, right, and middle, the authors of the piece send the clear message under
the auspices of AP news that doubters of government climate change control
solutions are either on the far right of the U.S. political mainstream, or stooges
of the far right’s machinations.
One direct quote Ms. Cappiello uses that has nothing to do with opinion
polling takes us there:
The only innuendoes missing are that big oil, big coal, or big autos are financing
the FOI harassment of climate scientists and the resistance on the right.
If you fly the flag for the holiday, please take care to display it properly !
See:
http://www.usa-flag-site.org/etiquette.shtml
Joe Romm RIP.
The Norway Rat tool issues his apologia for the collapse of the odious and censoring CP blog. Why am I not surprised?
At least Joe Romm can now claim he’s not a bought and paid for stooge…
…oh, wait. Romm’s got a new gig…
…Bought. Paid for. Unlike WUWT – which is supported by entirely voluntary, personal donations and nothing else.
Let the free market sort the winners from the losers; Romm lost. Survival of the fittest, eh?
Don’t honour the flag, honour the humans.
A flag is but a piece of cloth.
Humans are made of living tissue – the same as you are made of yourself.
Progress through promotion of secret science. How enlightening.
Oh noes! Whatever will I do??
And the only correct spelling.
Most people don’t know this, but all Viet Namese words are one syllable, according some Viet Namese friends I had long ago. And no, I didn’t serve in Nam, not quite that old. 😉
Just to clarify, I’m not against flying the flag. I just don’t partake. And I feel that pasting cheap flags all over one’s car or the like cheapens what it stands for.
Admiral Romm – you exited climate space too close to the sceptics outpost – your failure will not be tolerated…
Fingers close… huhhhnnn…. kerplunk!
Any site that censors all dissent becomes an echo chamber. BOOORRRING!
They deleted all comments on that truly horrid 10/10 video of exploding children. But I saved the lot for posterity and put them here.
http://climate-catastrophe.blogspot.com/2010/10/yes-warmists-are-catastrophe.html
A nice little victory. This ain’t going down the memory hole.
So Climate Progress goes from a site with about a dozen regular posters and merges with a site that has about 2 dozen posters who usually veer off topic in 2-3 posts and start talking like jr. high school kids. I guess that’s an upgrade in Romms world.
gallopingcamel says: May 27, 2011 at 10:54 pm
“Any site that censors all dissent becomes an echo chamber. BOOORRRING!”
Any site that censors all dissent becomes an echo chamber. BOOORRRING!
Any censors echos dissent
echos
dissent
Real Climate seems to have fallen into a bit of a slough of despond as well. Only a few lead writings per month. Should we hold our breath for a terminal makeover with extreme prejudice there too?
I’m sure Joe Romm will be posting “progressive” propaganda again shortly. The site is just getting a few small changes, like erasing all references to AGW. This will allow Joe to focus on promoting ideas like bio-crisis, bio-debt and bio-justice. All those embarrassing rants about climate just distract from “progress” toward bio-debt being collected by the UN under a framework for global governance.
Wow. So not only are you either willfully ignorant or malicious in reporting about science, you’re petty too? I never would have guessed.
Putting all the bad eggs in one basket. That’s progress for you…
Climate pollution?
The cover of ‘Joe Romm’s Latest Book – Straight Up’ is wrong on so many levels.
Is that a hokey shtick in your pocket…?
I think that all debate forums run by anger and the suppression of dissent will eventually fail in the marketplace of ideas.
By the way, on September 11, 2001 I was in San Francisco. In the succeeding days, I flew the US flag from my hire car. It wasn’t knee-jerk patriotism. It was the right thing to do. Neither Joe Romm nor Glenn Beck will understand why.
Steven Rasey [27 May @7.12pm], that story from The Times is a fabrication. No raw data was ‘thrown away’-only copies-,and no scientists made any admissions of the sort the journalist Jonathan Leake concocted. He took a sentence from a website,published well before The Times article,and contrived to make it appear as an admission to questions from the media.
I agree. CP had become and echo chamber working hard to convert the converted. Brutal censorship of any contradictory evidence disguised and getting rid of mis-information – even when backed up with peer reviewed evidence. I stopped trying to post after many deletions. CP is crap, now deny that Joe Romm.