As a guy who has dedicated a significant part of his life to uncovering environmental scams, naming this year’s Truth Teller is a no-brainer for me.
The winner is the man who just brought down the head of Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency: Christopher Horner.
Chris is a skilled lawyer and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. About a decade ago he wrote, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, which caused liberal heads to explode. This year he penned, The Liberal War on Transparancy, a book detailing how the Obama administration’s claim of being “the most transparaent” in history is pure hog washed propaganda.
more here: http://www.briansussman.com/news/2012-truth-teller-of-the-year/
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I offer my sincere congratulations to Chris, he’s risked a lot. – Anthony
You know, the sad thing in all of this, is that such things, ie the false e-mails etc, are not in the MSM. all the average man on the street sees, is what is in eg, the Sun/Mirror, Mail/Express, and Telegraph/Observer(Guardian). Some of these are so pro-warmist its just not believeable. Indeed, these people cannot see their local weather and dispute the IPPC forecasts!!!!!! It is despairing in that, no matter how many FACTS are put forward, these people will not believe… Or, do not give a toss…… Best of luck to the New Year, the honourable people need it
We should unite in giving thanks to Chris and many others (Anthony included) who make a stand for what is right and what is truth, usually at great cost to themselves. I have been amazed that we seem to live in an era where Governments seem to pander to those who hold numerous thingos after the name. The more bizarre the statements the more recognition they receive. Some of these wayward types have received various high awards even though they hold to some extreme and unacceptable ideas! In Aus we are being ruled by these rule makers who often lack logic and common sense. As long it is ‘green’ hang the cost to the populations. Leaders where are you???
I thought I was getting cynical in my old age and then after some research and listening to people with practical common sense I realised what is really happening!!!
Note in one region alone in NSW over the past two decades over 300,000 acres have been purchased from private landholders by Govenment agencies with a green colour.
Rupert
I have to wonder – what with 12 000 emails from the dog plus the ones on the official account – when did she ever get time to do any work? I can only assume that she was mechanically signing the pile of documents provided to her (without reading them) while reading/sending emails and talking on the phone.
So much for accountability.
Thanks, Chris. Thanks, Anthony & Mods. Great 2012, and look for an even better 2013 on the climate science and policy front.
Hum, 12,000 e-mails, when do we get to read them?
12,000 e-mails, when do we get to read them”
Who refused to increase security in Bengazi?
Who refused to send help to the seals and people in trouble?
Who concocted a false story about some crappy movie being the cause?
Who ordered the Fast & Furious program?
Who was/is sending US arms to Al Queda linked Islamists in Syria?
There is a lot the “most open Administration ever” is not telling.
yeah, i listen to The Suss-man weekday mornings on KSFO too, with Melanie Morgan and my favorite, Katie Green. i wish KSFO will start with the live video streaming of the morning show already.
btw, good to see a post by Sussman as i understand he is a meteorologist also(?), formerly with KTVU i think he said.
I wish we could all feel “comfortable and relaxed” for the New Year. Those are the words of exPM John Howard’s wish for Australians on the eve of the 1996 election. Australians haven’t felt that way since Mr Howard lost the 2007 election. We have had the incompetent Labor Government led by Kevin Rudd then Julia Gillard ever since. 2013 is the year the Australian people have their say and vote them out of office. It can’t come quick enough.
I admire all the inspirational people on WUWT site who want nothing more than truth, honesty and plain facts… as we Aussies say they are “true blue” and “fair dinkum”. Anthony, Willis and many more. Thank you sincerely.
Yes, Chris has got my vote. As far as the climate debate is concerned, he has done better investigative reporting than anyone else, this past year.
Curiously, Richard Windsor, the name that Lisa Jackson used for her off-grid email account, was a lawyer (now deceased) who worked for PEER. PEER is the group that is backing Mann’s defamation case. Jeff Ruch of PEER has even commented on the coincidence.
However, anybody looking for some sort of collusion between Jackson and PEER would have to explain why Ruch was one of Jackson’s most vehement critics. He vocally opposed her appointment, contrary to the wishes of many other ‘environmental’ groups including the Sierra Club.
Maybe Jackson thought it was ‘poetic’ to choose the name of a former ‘opponent’ for her secretive email account.
Gail Combs says:
December 31, 2012 at 3:33 pm
I also offer a sincere thanks to all those like Chris Horner, Anthony, Dr. Tim Ball, Mark Steyn and the National Review, Dr. Lindzen, Lord Monckton and all the others who stuck their necks out and risked there careers and livelihoods to defend the truth.
We should also pause for a moment and remember the ranks of the fallen.
WUWT moderator, Robert Phelan, Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski, Dr. John Daly, Ernest Beck and the others who refused to back down.
thank you Gail. Right on. I’m heart warmed that you included Jaworowski. He’s still my number one unsung and forgotten hero. I’d like to add some names:
Tallbloke, for defending liberty over Christmas last
Steve Mosher (despite our differences) for holding the explosive Climategate emails safely and wisely
Tim Ball (despite some differences) for continuing to speak up from a unique insider’s viewpoint, despite being a non-person at Wikip**
Marcel Leroux, of Wikipedia deletion fame – I hope to see Tallbloke writing about him soon!
Steve McIntyre – no explanations needed
Tom Segalstad, co-author with Jaworowski, who I believe has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on account of the still-unaudited ice core shenanigans – the (imho highly questionable) results of which are the very first piece of showcased evidence in the IPCC propagandanotebook
Paul Dennis, for suffering the attacks of both sides while working inside the stronghold of corruption at UEA
FOIA! – I still regard this as possibly a miraculous intervention though I know it’s
scientificallypolitically incorrect to take seriously the evidence for the reality of miracles.Last year I changed direction somewhat, as I became aware of the massive challenge of the “exotic energy” cover-ups – a wall of silence so effective that most people here haven’t even heard about them. With that in mind, I’d just like to commemorate one name (RIP – please google him). There are many more.
Eugene Mallove – for services rendered to humanity – before the cover-up of his name becomes completely effective.
Lucy Skywalker says:
January 1, 2013 at 3:31 am
….. I’m heart warmed that you included Jaworowski. He’s still my number one unsung and forgotten hero. I’d like to add some names…. Jaworowski is also one of my all time heros as is Segalstad.
……FOIA! – I still regard this as possibly a miraculous intervention though I know it’s scientifically politically incorrect to take seriously the evidence for the reality of miracles…… You do not have to be religious to consider FOIA and that blizzard a miracle.
…..Eugene Mallove – for services rendered to humanity – before the cover-up of his name becomes completely effective…. To Mallove I would like to add Congressman Mcfadden who despite threats and attempts on his life would not shut-up until ‘They’ finally killed him.
Only by being too numerous can wiping out individuals become ineffective although Stalin didn’t seem to think so. The escalation in the viciousness attacks on skeptics is something to take very seriously.
Lucy Skywalker says:
January 1, 2013 at 3:31 am
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Right. Not to forget to mention Freeman Dyson, Ivar Giaever (see also his Lindau Nobel Laureates presentation) and many more.
Skeptics have many names, in a way good of desmo blog for putting up that hall of fame! Such a list intended to intimidate may achieve other results.
Congratulations to Christopher Horner to be one of the truth teller of the year considering such a list of options!
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thefordprefect says:
December 31, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Personally I think Leif Svalgaard deserves a mention here.
For tirelessly debunking the evermoving claims of “it’s the sun what dun it” folk who say:
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I’ll second that, at least for one of the best. I have a small library of his linked graphs, data & pdfs.
This makes me jealous of the alarmists. They have much nicer enemies than the skeptics do.
I think the Truth Tellers of the Year award should go to the Met Office and the IPCC for revealing that Global Warming Isn’t Happening.
Perhaps WUWT could come up with a Certificate and award one to each body? Just imagine it: The Watts Up With That Truth Tellers of the Year Award 2012. The MSM must cover a story in which the world’s foremost AGW Sceptics Website finally throws in the towel and finds itself in agreement with the IPCC!
The downside of course is that Michael Mann will claim he was a WUWT Certificate winner.
Now that she has left the government just try and get copies of those emails, because they are in a PRIVATE account. You will need to get a subpoena, and her lawyers can delay you in court for years.
bwanamakubwa says:
December 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm
I seemed to have missed your handle before, but this reminds me now of my old dissertation advisor, who’d spent years in Zambia, and who pronounced it “bwana ‘m kubwa”
The Big Boss.
What’s all this BS ridiculing the sun? Of course it’s the sun–what else could it be? Short term, medium term, sunspots and weather–sunspots and climate–go hand in hand. Long term, it’s Milankovitch Cycles. Until we understand just how sunspots are related to climate, all or nearly all options are still on the table. Anyone who says different is no better than Galileo’s dismissing the moon’s effect on tides. Or maybe core/mantle coupling runs the show. –AGF