There comes a time when you just have to decide not take the abuse silently anymore, but instead, to laugh at it.
As many of you know, this is the world’s most read website about climate – by both sides. As a result, my email is like a firehose. I get a lot of legitimate email, but I also get a lot of abuse from people that think I’m not allowed to have a different opinion on all things climate; some people think I shouldn’t even be allowed to have a website or a voice. You know who you are, since WUWT is read equally by both sides daily.
Typically though, I just delete hate mail like this. Today, given a few other elements that made me laugh, and since this person is obviously ignorant, misinformed, and filled with hate, I’ve decided to publish it. It’s not like the person wasn’t warned, our WUWT contact page has this statement:
Contacts made under this form (especially hate mail and threats) are considered to be fair game for publishing, just like the “submit story” form.
So, here it is in full, with a small redaction in the email address to prevent automatic spambot harvesting. Thanks to Steve Jones for kicking off this new feature.
Name: Steve Jones
Email: sjones956 “at” yahoo.com
Message: Koch brother shills like you should be ashamed of themselves for spewing such anti-science garbage for the goal of deceiving the public about global warming. Sickening…
Time: May 12, 2015 at 8:35 am
IP Address: 76.216.173.235
Contact Form URL: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
Sent by an unverified visitor to your site.
For the record, I’ve never gotten a dime from the Koch Brothers, and never even had an email, telephone, or face-to-face conversation with them. I doubt they even know of my existence. I find this fascination the left has with the Koch Brothers a revealing window into their psyche.
But, that fact that I’m not now, nor ever have been on the take on in employ of Koch (or anyone else for that matter) doesn’t seem to stop the irrational hatred we see on display. Even supposedly educated people like Dr. Michael Mann falls victim to Koch Derangement Syndrome, such as when I sent him a free Josh calendar at Christmas, paid for by my own credit card:
Read it here: Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory
This isn’t an isolated incident in Dr. Mann’s delusional missives:
I find it all highly amusing, because they can’t envision that I’m able to run WUWT simply on my own merits, without having some sort of daily backing or being in the employ of somebody, somebody with an agenda. They can’t imagine that I’ve been able to succeed by sheer will and persistence, along with the help of guest authors, and millions of readers. No, they can’t imagine that, because for them, it’s the ultimate projection.
So the best medicine for such things is to laugh at them, and that’s what I plan to do. Perhaps I’ll gather up each week’s hate mail and make a weekly feature of it.
As my friend Barry Woods said today, we seem to have reached “peak climate”, hence the increase in irrational wailing:
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I’ve been waiting a long time for my money from such groups as the Koch Brothers and from Israel for all the time I have spoken on the various issues regarding them. I am frustrated to not have earned a single cent from these groups.
Robert of Ottawa May 14, 2015 at 6:03 am
I chuckled out loud at your introduction of the “Toyota Pius”.
And a question: why is there a “Reply” selection after some postings and not after others? I wanted to reply immediately after ‘Robert’s posting but could not.
Ian
It depends on the depth of the chain (replies to replies to replies can’t be replied to).
Good post Anthony.
It will be interesting to see if Mr. “Jones” has the balls to respond and follow up with some hard facts instead of just throwing t*rds into the fan.
The funny thing about many of these experts on Koch brother funding ties is that they don’t even know how to pronounce Koch.
Well, I didn’t either. I used to know a German fellow named Koch, and he pronounced it ‘kach’, rhymes with ‘Scotch’. /Mr L
The pronounciation in scottish dialect of ‘Loch’ as in ‘Loch Lomond’ for example comes close to ‘K.och’. The german ‘ch’ is hard to pronounce for non-native speakers. Btw. forget the dot, it’s just there to avoid being mod-ded.
Debating any subject with a leftists is like trying to teach calculus to a cat.
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Climate is not unique.
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They have no idea that anything they believe in and feel strongly about could possibly be wrong, so anyone who even attempts to discuss any of their beliefs quickly comes under the usual leftist character attacks.
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Leftists judge people by what they say — if it agrees with them, nothing else matters — that’s why the Clinton Slush Fund Charity doesn’t matter — as long as the Clintons say the right things in their (expensive) speeches, fellow leftists don’t care about their Slush Fund or their bizarre marriage.
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It must be really embarrassing to be a leftist, and support an inferior economic system (socialism), that results in slow economic growth and chronic high unemployment .. which they ignore … because they are too busy promoting BIG GOVERNMENT by scaring people with false boogeymen such as “climate change”
BTW new posts have stopped appearing on Steven Goddard’s “Real Science” site for a couple of months now. Anyone know WUWT?
It is not true. He was going to switch off wordpress and do his own hosting because of the twitter episode, and was running a parallel site for a while. He is still active on wordpress. Be selective; some of his stuff is incorrectly derived.
ristvan
You’re right, thanks – I was looking at the wrong, not yet active site.
My brother thinks its just fine to insinuate that Anthony is a Koch brothers lacky. He thinks we’ll all be busy running around that meme while he himself takes over the world. I’m loathe to disagree with him, on the off chance he succeeds
WUWT is brilliant . Don’t spoil it with hatemail . Hatemail does not warrant such publicity . Long live WUWT.
You know what else would be a cool weekly feature? Ask Anthony (Watts): In which an ‘alarmist’ asks Anthony Watts any sort of AGW/CC question, and he answers it.
Maybe call it the “nugget of nonsense section”
P.s love the site-from London.
December and Paris looming, are the believers starting to get worried?
No.
I would also like to see your top 5 haters of the week and then have a chance to vote on who gets first prize.
There is a famous book it seems you heard of:
“Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded”,
by famous SF author, John Scalzi.
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Hate-Mail-Will-Graded/dp/0765327112
I think you could write a good book that would be quite successful by basing it on the loony-tune garbage the climate obsessed and climate kooks sen in.
Sounds good in theory, but it will probably just create a new “game”.
Send the most nasty e-mail/twit you can think of, and it gets play at WUWT.
As tempting as it is, just ignore the flies.
“They” can’t imagine this site can be ran on your own merits and your own skills because such a task is completely, utterly beyond their capabilities, so it must be beyond yours also.
Another brilliant move from WUWT. The WUWT Blog is brilliant to read and now hilariously amusing work from the enemy is added to it. It is all so enjoyable. Well done, Anthony.
Anthony:
I was going to count all the responses you got to this blog post; but too many to count. I am on your site twice a day to view what is happening in AGW. This site has educated me to the extent that no warmest dare challenge me and my “climate realist” knowledge. I refuse to be bullied when it comes to Global Warming, Climate Change…or what ever title they give it next month.
When the earth’s atmosphere starts to cool more than it has in the last 18 years (although CO2 continues to rise)…there will be some very embarrassed scientists who have allowed their science to become biased to the extent that they are no longer respected in the scientific field. Michael Mann I hope you are reading this!
I, for one, do not want to read some warmest ranting in hate mail. I get enough of that myself, and I have more important things to do, and they are really insignificant in my life. Let them rant!
Keep doing what your are doing Anthony. You and all the others at NIPCC should be rewarded when this whole mess is finally expose as just another United Nations failed effort, to create the New World Order.
Dick Piland
Niwot, CO
Anthony,
Allow me to Second Mr. Piland’s statements. I rarely engage in the old internet standby of troll and debate, with the exception of this topic. I find the illogic and falsehoods propagated in the name of science to be downright insulting. Thank you for what you do. This page is an excellent source of knowledge, research and humor. I don’t really care if the atmosphere is or is not warming, but the downright shallowness and dishonesty of the work done in this field disgusts me. You shine a light on this and that makes all the difference. Thank you.
If you need a little help mocking these trolls or just want to give us all some entertainment, just post a weekly hate mail topic. I think it would be hilarious.
Indeed, while it is sickening verbage, publishing bursts of it may well be worthwhile to show more people.
But don’t let it get in the way of research.
Mr. Anthony Watts,
a stable platform, a forum of free speech You’re hosting.
Watch climatism defaitisms with half an eye:
Same as it ever was. Thanks -Hans