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:
Progress is change.
Climate Progress was against climate change.
Therefore Climate Progress was against climate progress.
I’m sure the logic conflict has been tickling away in the back of just about everybody’s brain for years now, whether they were aware of it or not. As it finished up, CP did a good job of fighting itself to its own failure.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says: “Progress is change. Climate Progress was against climate change. Therefore Climate Progress was against climate progress.”
All progress is change, but not all change is progress. Your syllogism fails. Sorry.
Jeff Alberts says:
May 27, 2011 at 10:39 pm
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From your website:
“The focus points of this site are Weather and Climate related topics, both from a scientific and a political perspective. My hope is that users of sites such as Watts Up With That will utilize this resource to continue discussions of important topics by using the forums and the file repository functionality of this site.”
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So, your “business plan” is to hassle Anthony, hoping it drives traffic to your site.
How’s that working out?
jorgekafkazar,
Progress is a subset of the set change. That which is against change must therefore be against progress. It does follow, as you have said, that change need not be progress, as progress is not the only subset of change and there are elements contained within change that are not part of subset progress.
If against climate change, then against climate progress. That still holds.
I was careful on my wording. Enjoy the weekend. ☺
There is, perhaps, a simple explanation for the change …
Joe got tired of getting slammed in the ratings … so, merge with Think Progress and hope for higher ratings (see Alexa) and maybe start beating out WUWT. And the way climate change (or whatever it’s being called this week) is getting hit lately, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Richard Black’s non-stop propaganda blog at the BBC has now limited comments to 400 characters… in case anyone cares.
In contrast, Black writes with such stupendous verbosity that it appears he is being paid by the word, by the BBC and/or Greenpeace and/or the UN crisis agencies.
AGW die-back.
Doesn’t sound very progressive. — John M Reynolds
Speaking of remembering Veterans, here’s a nice piece about WWII Vets in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704816604576333721638639298.html?mod=ITP_review_2
I hope it’s not behind the paywall.
My flag is out every day, as is my Gadsden Flag. I’m gonna go pay respects to my WWII dad tomorrow.
I’m proud to be a Vietnam War vet, and I’m eternally grateful to the fine young men and women who defend us and keep us free today. If you happen to encounter one, thank him or her in person.
When I first became skeptical about global warming I posted on Joe’s site and often only sections of my posts were allowed to appear. Finally, he banned me altogether.
He is a prime example of the arrogance, narrow-mindedness, and intolerance of the warmists.
When the global warming myth finally and completely collapses Joe Romm owes an apology to those who tried to put out the truth on his blog and were shut out.
Perhaps the saving grace will be: “We knew this all the time and were testing you all! No offense intended!”
I had an interesting email exchange with Joe regarding this – he said he’s not taking down the site, just revamping it. Having read the explanation on CP, I have to believe him (so far). However, what was much more interesting during these exchanges was Joe trying to claim that Hansen’s wildly off-beam ‘Scenario A/B/C’ predictions in the 80s actually proved Hansen was right all along! There was a lot of hand- waving about climate sensitivity from Joe, but I kept insisting (rightly) that Hansen’s predictions were wrong. Which they were. Badly wrong.
Joe also told me prophetically that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10-20 years time, probably even within 10. I told him I’ll hold him to that. We shall see…
BTW he also called me a ‘birther’, for some reason. I told him that as a British Citizen living in London, I couldn’t care less about where President Obama was born 🙂
Oh, further to my comment above: I have huge respect for all veterans – both from the US and the UK. We should never forget them.
We are witnessing the slow death of both Keynesian Economics and Hansenian Climatology at the same time. These quack theories were designed only for the purpose of expanding the power of the state at the expense of individual freedom. Good riddance.
Well, it looks like Climate Progress is back.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/05/31/231343/introduction-to-climate-progress/
The old comments aren’t there, but Joe says they will be, eventually.
The site is now an extension of Face Book – I posted a comment (asking about the old comments) and the comment header reported me by my age. When I told FB to only report my birth month and day but not birth year in my profile, then the CP comment stopped describing me as anything.
What a refreshing sense of perspective, as always. A technical glitch during a blog redesign is, of course, well worth shouting about. I look forward to further updates of this kind.
They probably aren’t glitches. Whatever FB interface software probably can’t handle past comments, and that should have been known beforehand. I’m not expecting the old comments to ever show up again.
Listing my age as a primary descriptor of was thanks to my FB profile not listing my employer or school, but allowing my full birthday in the profile, stupidity on my part. I probably should get that off of FB altogether as it’s an aid to people interested in stealing identity.
boy, do you guys hate each other!
Here we are, June 2nd, 2011.
Think Progress now has some neat little boxes on the right side of it’s masthead.
Some are for general topics. A couple are for individual contributors. If you
click on the one titled “Joe Romm: it takes you to:
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/
…and you can read all about it.
It may just be my security settings (I have to keep swatting away
on-the-fly requests to permit facebook cookies) but I don’t see
any place for comments following each article. ????
Is it just me, or is there some serious deterioration with Watts and his readers?
And, as far as I can tell, WUWT is as good as it gets now that Monckton is increasingly recognized as an embarrassing over-cooked prawn even among the denialists,.
Thank God for Pielke, Sr.
You are not right. I am
assured. I suggest it to discuss.