Over at DeSmog blog, the hilarity from the Daily Bayonet Story earlier today continues.
Gotta love this comment from the DeSmog thread:
It makes me think of DeSmoggers James Hoggan or Richard Littlemore shouting this famous Seinfeld line from Frank Costanza:
“I won’t tolerate infestation!”
You have to register there at DeSmog Blog and be approved by the powers that be (they don’t let just anybody make angry rants), so any “infestations” are of their own doing.
UPDATE: 9:40AM 2/28 – This post has become the “top post” aka #1 on WordPress blogs worldwide today. This was probably not the sort of attention DeSmog was seeking. Here’s a screencap from my WordPress dashboard:
A very perceptive comment by Andrew McRae over at JoNova’s site:
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/02/fakegate-the-sound-of-a-meme-collapsing/#comment-986241
Doug Jones, I’m not sure that I agree with McRae’s thesis. Except for the Pentagon Papers, all of the examples that he gave were government vs government in normal intelligence operations. Gleick was cold-bloodedly planning to harm, if not destroy, an organization for no better reason that he didn’t agree with them. This was an individual deciding that he was better than the laws for a ‘nobel. cause’. People can do a lot of damage with that kind of reasoning. As an example I give you 9/11
Do you think DeSmug could muster a swarm? A cloud? ok a couple? no, one person then?
Funny how a PR firms web site doesn’t get the folowing of a true science site, scratch that the No.1 Science site and it’s been doing it for years, got an award for that to, would you like to see them I’m sure Anthony will let you look at one of his two awards, DeSmug? you there?
I remember the good old days when PR firms such as DeSmug would give us such things as Ronald McDonald, I guess he gave up fronting Maccy’Ds and went to work for DeSmug blog.
Right I’ve had my fun back to work.
Nah, they’re just hoping to get a few WUWT commenters over there to bump their page views up. It doesn’t seem to occur to them that when you’re used to the best, you don’t need the rest.
For some strange reason Desmog Blog’s feelings of persecution remind me of a story I once heard about Winston Churchill.
It took place on one of those infamous Country House weekends in the 1920’s. Late one night Churchill (as usual the worse for drink) was stumbling along a corridor when he heard a shriek!
A rather frumpish lady pointed at him with a horrified look and said. ‘ Oh Mr Chruchill…it’s sticking out.’
Churchill looked back at her and replied.
‘You flatter yourself Madam..it’s ‘hanging’ out.’!
Hiding dissenting comments is a stupid feature — I am quite able to judge for myself what to think about things I read, no-one needs to protect me…
And the presence of this lame censoring device shows the way of thinking of the blog owner for using it.
The more pressure the warmists feel, the more I see that they are a bunch of paranoid conspiracy minded people. Everything is a conspiracy to them. Big oil is hiding behind every shrub. They are constantly being attacked that is well funded and well coordinated. Reminds me of the era of McCarthy: everyone was a communist. A lot of these guys need psychological evaluation.
That solid pillar of the academic community known by his initials as Dr.CO2, from the Anglia-Americus Superior University, was found out as bit of a fraud, was seen inebriated tottering down the road late at night.
O/T but my laugh of the day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-henry-fair/heartland-furor_b_1297069.html
J Henry Fair describes Gleick as a hero, “Peter Gleick is a hero, and a man of gumption.”
I tried to make my first ever comment on Huffpo, tried to log in under my Facebook account that uses my real name, and guess what:
I get the message “You have been banned” 🙂
Tim Minchin says:
Philip Finck – A little secret … the advert you see is targeted on your behaviour…. 😉
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If anyone is concerned about privacy when using search machines and…
“Google is about to start storing a lot more information about the websites you visit.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/24/pass-notes-browsing
…then you might want to try alternative search engines which supposedly don’t track you.
These seem to be generally recommended although I’ve only just started using them so it’s early days:
https://duckduckgo.com
https://ixquick.com
https://startpage.com (a search engine run by ixquick which searches through Google but privately)
Meta-pix from this morning Guardian front page
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/gleick-glack.gif
(see also http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
My feeling is that DeSmog is meant for : “clearing the minds of the people from the smog of denialist lies ” They see themselves as crisaders, fighting evil,indeed.
More hilarity is to be found via this YouTube clip about the Global Warming Panic
Al Gore and his Nobel prize get a mention about 2 minutes in … the comic timing is perfection!
Idiots – if a glacier came knocking at their door, they would blame CO2-causes global warming.
Ah, a new buzzword is it. It must be buzzing godawful inside their heads. I doubt their heads’ll go pop though, what with how dense they are, implosion seem rather the more logical concluding end. :p
What some of the folks running censored blogs probably don’t realize is they are partially responsible for the actions of Gleick and others like him. By continuing to present lies about skeptics they get a few dolts to actually believe we are funded by the fossil fuel industry and our only goal is disinformation. If they allowed real scientific debate then people would know this is a lie.
Of course, since that’s about all they have to support the continued scam I guess you can see why it’s done.
Gleickogenic Global Swarming, the Catastrophic kind
The desmugblog comment was apparently (& unexpectedly!) already disappeared. I was on Huffpo for a little while to make trouble but it got down to the point that they were desperately and shamelessly blocking my comments that contained links to even government sites like NOAA and NASA that backed up my claims. Yep, it ain’t just a river in Egypt…
If enough of those kind of people, (aka communists), infest our government the 1st Amendment will no longer have any meaning at all which then leaves us starting off with the 2nd.
Global Swarming – perfect.
THAT was darned good .. best laugh of the morning so far …
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Ok. OT but just got to say it and Ben Pile over at spike noted it today. The amazing thing revealed by Fakegate and other recent revelatuions isn’t how little funding skeptics receive from any source compared to the CAGW alarmists. We already knew that. What is amazing is how much more the greenshirt organizations get from fossil fuel companies than skeptical scientists. It’s truly mind boggling. Climategate showed the UEA CRU getting grants from Shell, Susuki funded by Encana, Sierra Club funded by a huge donation from Chesapeake Energy.
This was all made really clear to me by an American friend the other day. We were talking about our investments and energy prices and he said “don’t be afriad of high gasoline prices”. I realized that Obama, in his quest for high prices at the pump, is the fossil fuel companies’ little helper along with the greenshirts. Greenshirts are also really happy to take money from banks who would dearly like to rip us by trading carbon credits since the subprime loan scam has played itself out.
Well I do worry about high pump prices. I worry about single moms and working poor who need to drive cars to get to work because there isn’t adequate public tranist. I worry about fuel poverty for the elderly during the winter. Everything that the greenshirts are doing in the name of climate seems to be expressly designed to harm the weekest in society. Have they no conscience?
And that word ‘FEW’ my friend pretty much sums up the reason they are losing – not only did they way overestimate the impact CO2 has on temperature, they WAY overestimated the number of dolts stupid enough to believe it.
I know this place is usually too high-brow for such simple pop-culture references, but I’ll go ahead and lower the bar.
LAUNCH EVERY SWARM FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
ALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO US.
So anyone care to guess when all of this insanity finally flips Megan McCardle as she realized she has been backing a theories defended by a bunch of bozos rather than the repeatable and accurate theories of clear headed AGW skeptics?
She’s soooo close to figuring it all out.
My bet is March 17th.
In regard to the meme that, despite all the deception and dishonesty the leaked memos still demonstrate the “massive” support offered to the skeptic community by HI, consider this list from http://opensecrets.org/ of the top 140 biggest political donors in federal-level politics from 1989-2011
.http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
HI can’t make these contributions because of their tax status, but this is the arena of influence which they are trying to affect. As a point of reference if you are looking for that other very popular leftist bugaboo Koch Industries, they are down in 79th spot. Pay particular attention to the Tilt column where the relative Dem/ Rep ratios are shown
OpenSecrets has collected an incredible amount of data on the really “massive” quantity of money devoted to manipulating political and public thought and,if you spend any time browsing through it, the overwhelming edge enjoyed by the forces dedicated to the notion of the great need for and true wonderfulness of ever more intrusive and powerful government is undeniable. In almost all areas the money dedicated to pressing the notions of individual liberty and market economics barely rises above the level of round off error of the total.
The recent PR dump about the upcoming Rio conference demonstrates the inexorable quality of the effort. Having determined that CAGW is a loser on the merits, the meme has shifted to the much more amorphous challenge of “Sustainability” and the bureaucratic Leviathon moves ever forward.
Of course focusing on the overt money flows ignores the real edge the statists enjoy in in kind propaganda support from their dominance of academia, media and entertainment. Their combined efforts have so far been entirely successful at concealing the well established historical fact that only one thing always has and always will be “Unsustainable” which is Marxist economics. Sooner or later, and in the present moment much sooner, you always run out of Other People’s Money.