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:
Last time I checked the ip addresses of CP and TP they were both running off the same group of servers anyway. The forum software on both sites looked similar too. So if both sites are getting a makeover, it sounds like a platform move.
It’ll be interesting to see how long Joe can stomach being under tighter editorial control. I suspect a hissy fit won’t be long in coming.
It would seem that the Center for American Progress preaches the sort of progress that the majority of the American public, scientists and laymen both, do not want.
I’ve always been a bit confused by the name drop of Romm here and there on skeptical blogs since I still have little idea who the heck he is. The blog he ran was always so shrill and frankly odd that I guess I’ve ignored it all these years. I think I was moderated out every time I posted there so I got bored with them.
Other skeptic bashers feature prominently in my latest info-graphic, at in paraphrased fashion:
Authority: http://oi56.tinypic.com/2nbtwcp.jpg
Good one, Nik.
Maybe Romm’s new site will have a new cable TV game show called ‘Spin the Romm’ hosted by Nick Stokes.
Or maybe Romm’s new site will have a new cable TV show called ‘CP Jeopardy’ hosted by Romm himself. The correct answer to every question will be ‘What did Joe Romm say?”
Anyone have other ideas on game shows for Romm’s new site?
John
This is how the knife falls when you are affiliated with a smarmy little woodchuck like John Podesta, CEO of the Center for American Progress.
George Soros and his ilk put a lot of money into these specialty political bloggers. Since Joe didn’t seem to make friends, he was set up to have someone control his money. Joe will come out swinging with justifications and excuses. He also will blame the Koch Bros.
So much for his claim of having such massive audience. Either he had low numbers and no one posted except a small handfull or he was incredibly tight on deleting posts.
Loss of CP offset by addition of Canadian version of Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Although, after I had a quick look at the new Canadian version, it doesn’t look too left leaning. I heard that Elizabeth May, leader/head of the Green Party and David Suzuki both had an inaugrual article, but I have’nt come across those yet, and I really don’t want to risk seeing them so early in the morning.
I would be reluctant to gloat over this event. I don’t doubt that the alarmists are regrouping for another major push.
Has Romm ever described how one goes about ‘polluting the climate’? If you can do that, then can’t you also ‘pollute the weather’?
Re: My comment yesterday, 6:53 pm.
What’s so scary about the common term for “National Socialist”? It’s a governing philosophy (albeit disastrous), not a bogeyman.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
Mr. Romm must be freaking out that maybe the Earth’s “fever” is going to spike and the Arctic Ocean is going to boil over while his web site is being revamped…
But…the trees are bigger.
msnbc had open forums on their website with many discussion threads, including environment, until a couple years ago. Much debate centered around AGW and some very knowledgable posters were regulars. Folks routinely contradicted the “facts” of msnbc “green” articles. This became so embarrasing for them that they shut the message boards down. Like Romm, msnbc, without warning or explanation, simply removed the entire record from the website. For a while the UK version of the msnbc message boards were still running, and so many Americans migrated to their boards. It was funny seeing the brits there (mostly “progressive” or radical environmentalist folks) react to the invasion of rational Americans. The UK message boards were also disappeared about three months ago.
They can’t handle the truth.
The mainstream media yearn for the old days of the one way conversation.
Luckily for us, that genie is out of the bottle.
The love of my life, my Nam vet, has been known to stick one in his hat, right next to the poppy.
This is the part that struck me: “it is supposed to provide better controls”
I was never in the military, been a civilian contractor to various agencies, knew a lot of Vets and active. I fly my late Father-in Law’s Flag as a rule- this year is going to be
an exception due to the wet,nasty,weather….
He’d understand, miss sitting in his shop with a bit of good Kentucky sippin’
Whiskey, and hear the stories of Normandy, The Bulge, Remagen, Aachen
Oh cold, then,too. Thank you to all Vets on this Blog and elsewhere.
I notice the last day or 2 the weather has turned very cool for the Memorial day weekend. It is almost always very hot. Joe must be whut dun it. Saving electric by combining servers.
I tried reading Romm’s predictions for 2030 , but couldn’t finish the thing . However , I did get the impression that ol’ Joe is going to have a lot of egg on his face in nineteen years . I hope I’m still around to see it .
Hide the decline, refuse to comply with FOIA requests, refuse to debate, use IP address tricks to prevent ‘deniers’ from viewing AGW pages, delete information, on and on. Seems our friends have literally no clue what this tactic looks like to the general public:
“One of the main priorities for [AGW] promoters is to steer the general public away from hearing the skeptics’ side of the story. They’ve been amazingly successful so far, aided by legions of environmentalist bloggers. But these efforts require constant maintenance. When people notice contradictory elements and other details that don’t square up, tough questions start getting asked. Evasive answers or dead silence to those only speeds the erosion of credibility for the issue..” http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/05/26/global-warming-promoters-unsustainable-accusation-tactic/
The elimination of “Climate” from the blog name is telling: not enough interest, not enough convinced of the rabid fear-mongering, to maintain itself as a “climate” blog. Good sign.
Keith;
Good comment; I wonder what the ratio of “regulars” to “banned” was. Probably a small fraction.
Anthony, what would you say it is for WUWT? My WAG is about 20. Or maybe 200. 😉
Some interesting reading on Romm :
http://masterresource.org/category/romm-versus-bradley-enron/
Memorial Day is for honoring those who have died—not the living—especiallay for honoring those who have died in service to their country.
There is really no other way to honor them except to memorialize the graves of the individual veteran and to honor the country for which they all served. And this includes honoring the symbols of their country.
As for cheapening the flag, ignoring it is, perhaps, as demeaning as almost anything you can do.
This 2¢ from a veteran who just got back from helping place flags on veterans’ graves.
OK S.
P Walker says: “I tried reading Romm’s predictions for 2030 , but couldn’t finish the thing . However , I did get the impression that ol’ Joe is going to have a lot of egg on his face in nineteen years . I hope I’m still around to see it .”
Heck, I hope Joe Romm is around to see it. I have no doubt that he’ll be back at the helm of his pathetic little proctoganda machine next week, churning out absurdities that make the global warming hoax even more transparent than it already is. God bless Joe Romm!