After publishing new book critical of Al Gore, climate scientist has website shut down by attacks

This is the equivalent of a modem day book burning.

As reported on WUWT on Tuesday, New book from Dr. Roy Spencer on Al Gore’s fallacies: An Inconvenient Deception – How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy – Al Gore has provided a target-rich environment of deceptions in his new movie.

Now, Dr. Spencer reports his website drroyspencer.com has become inoperable due to attacks:

Hell hath no fury like an alarmist scorned. I’ve been the victim of The Wrath of Gore too..

After Climategate, WordPress.com reported that all advertising they sponsor via Google Adwords was inexplicably pulled from their servers whenever it was displayed on WUWT. When wordpress.com executives requested a meeting with Google to explain this, it was at first granted, then canceled 24 hours later with no explanation and attempts to reschedule fell on deaf ears.

Mr. Gore of course, is on the board of  directors for Google.

So let’s send these fools a message, by Dr. Spencer’s book: entitled An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy

Click image to buy on Amazon.com

UPDATE: about two hours after this post was published, service was restored. – Anthony

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August 24, 2017 9:42 am

1984 all over again! Algoricle could be Big Brother, if only he had didn’t emanate weakness and cowardice.

Science or Fiction
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 11:23 am

Agree – It is great. I read every word of it. Very well written.

afonzarelli
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 11:41 am

Dr S is tops in that regard. (NOBODY can articulate climate science as well as he can)…

Ian_UK
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 12:55 pm

Done!

Roger Knights
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 1:53 pm

The cost on Amazon is $4.

Patrick Hrushowy
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 4:16 pm

Me too done!

catweazle666
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 4:57 pm

Bought!

GeologyJim
Reply to  Janice Moore
August 24, 2017 6:57 pm

Please do NOT buy this book through Amazon!
Jeff Bezos is lock-step with the international-globalist cabal and is a big-time promoter of government control of energy, speech, and commerce.
Find a way to compensate Dr.Spencer directly, even if the sale does not show up on Google/NYTimes/blahblahblah metrics.
The current War for Independence in the USA these days is about corporate/government exploitation of personal information, including your private selections of reading material
Squash the Amazon Bug!!

Reply to  Janice Moore
August 25, 2017 8:18 am

I did and it is fabulous. Remarkable that Roy was able to get this together in such a short time. We all need to flood Amazon with the five star reviews it deserves.

HotScot
Reply to  andrewpattullo
August 24, 2017 10:58 am

Janice Moore
Thanks for the link. Just bought on Kindle, I’ll look forward to reading it and will put a link on my FB account.
Regards.

Dave Fair
Reply to  HotScot
August 24, 2017 11:22 am

I, also, bought an e-copy on Amazon/Kindle. Short and punchy; no wasted anti-CAGW verbiage: Just the facts that Gore gets wrong or lies about.

Rick Beavers
Reply to  HotScot
August 25, 2017 4:31 pm

also bought on Kindle. Does that help Amazon or not?

Reply to  andrewpattullo
August 24, 2017 2:16 pm

I just tried some fact checking on Gore being on Google’s board of directors, and came up with:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google/advisors
I saw 19 directors and advisors, none of them Gore.

Michael Jankowski
Reply to  Donald L. Klipstein
August 24, 2017 4:19 pm

Probably confusion with Apple.
He is “only” a senior advisor at google.

DeLoss McKnight
Reply to  Donald L. Klipstein
August 24, 2017 5:04 pm

An article about Gore’s wealth. He was an “advisor” for Google before it went public and received a nice compensation of pre-release stock.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-making-of-a-businessman-how-al-gore-got-rich/

richard verney
Reply to  andrewpattullo
August 25, 2017 1:20 am

I was unaware of the problems that Anthony suffered, and as you say this is 1984 all over again.
I consider that this sort of action should encourage sceptics and reaffirm that they are on the right track holding the better scientific position since this sort of action confirms that warmists are concerned that the science is flawed and anything but settled, and are concerned that it can not withstand the rigours of debate and honest examination.
Well done Dr Roy.

MarkW
Reply to  andrewpattullo
August 25, 2017 7:15 am

We are so dedicated to free speech, that we won’t permit you to disagree with us.

Shanghai Dan
Reply to  andrewpattullo
August 25, 2017 9:28 am

We’ve always been concerned over global warming.
We’ve always been concerned over global cooling.
We’ve always been concerned over global warming.

John
August 24, 2017 9:43 am

Well, that explains why I can’t get to his site.
Anyone that tries to pull back the curtain has to be silenced it seems.

Dick of Utah
August 24, 2017 9:43 am

Assuming this has been done on purpose, doesn’t it hurt the alarmist cause rather than help?

arthur4563
Reply to  Dick of Utah
August 24, 2017 9:47 am

Don’t expect logic from these desperate fools

george e. smith
Reply to  arthur4563
August 24, 2017 11:03 am

It’s time to declare ANY sort of information access denial on public or private media to be Terrorism.
G

RWturner
Reply to  Dick of Utah
August 24, 2017 10:26 am

And don’t expect anyone inside the alarmist circle jerk to actually know or care that this happened.

pameladragon
Reply to  Dick of Utah
August 24, 2017 6:02 pm

Yes, it does hurt their cause, but only if their actions are widely broadcast. Sometimes it never even gets out and they get away with their dirty tricks.
I bought my copy as soon as I heard about the book and it is safely tucked away in my Kindle App in the phone!
PMK

Michael 2
Reply to  pameladragon
August 25, 2017 10:30 am

“is safely tucked away in my Kindle App in the phone!”
Then it is not safe. Kindle books can be revoked. http://www.pcworld.com/article/168654/kindle_e_book.html
“Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider.” https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

TheLastDemocrat
Reply to  Dick of Utah
August 24, 2017 9:56 pm

they don’t have many tools at their disposal, when it comes down to it.
slander, bullying, suppression, and changing the topic are about the extent of it.

Mr Bliss
Reply to  TheLastDemocrat
August 25, 2017 1:58 pm

“The one thing that global warmists have given us is slander and bullying”
“That’s 2 things!”
“The 2 things global warmists have given us are, slander, bullying and suppression”
That’s 3 things!”
“Among the many things ….””

richard verney
Reply to  Dick of Utah
August 25, 2017 1:23 am

I consider that it does more harm to the warmist agenda since it reaffirms that they are aware that the science is anything but solid and it cannot withstand the the rigours of debate and honest examination.

August 24, 2017 9:43 am

Hopefully, Dr. Spencer has GOOD web and IT people at Huntsville, not second rate by any means. This now becomes an “intelligence battle” on the battle ground of technology. ERGO the “religious fanatics” (AKA, Gorebull Warming crowd) go into the battle, UNARMED.

HotScot
Reply to  Max Hugoson
August 24, 2017 11:00 am

It will probably be blamed on Russia.
And whilst we can’t accuse Gore directly, the whole thing stinks.
Best we can all do is post it on FB & Twitter.

Frank Dziuba
August 24, 2017 9:43 am

his Facebook page is also not working

JB
August 24, 2017 9:44 am

I bought it. A good read. Thank you Dr. Roy for putting it out there.

August 24, 2017 9:45 am

Is this part of Liberals agenda to push Freedom of Speech?

John Harmsworth
Reply to  usurbrain
August 24, 2017 10:00 am

Push it off a cliff, yes.

tom0mason
Reply to  usurbrain
August 24, 2017 10:02 am

usurbrain
As Winston found out you can not even think of such a question — report to room 101 for a, talk.

Robert MacLean
August 24, 2017 9:45 am

Already purchased Dr Roy’s Kindle ebook on Amazon.co.uk. This was originally to support the good Dr but now has added significance as one in the eye to the online vandals.

Old Goat
Reply to  Robert MacLean
August 24, 2017 10:00 am

Just done the same thing. That’ll teach ’em…

Frank Dziuba
August 24, 2017 9:46 am

Actually, his facebook is up. The link you posted to the Tweet is removed. His FB is:
https://www.facebook.com/roy.w.spencer

August 24, 2017 9:47 am

“Do No Evil.” They lie only when they speak.

Bob boder
August 24, 2017 9:50 am

Total disgrace, Dr Roy Spencer is one of the most even handed, mindful scientist out there. He lets the evidence shape his theories not ideology. If the evidence strongly supported CAGW he would most assuredly back that view, it doesn’t so he doesn’t end of story.

afonzarelli
Reply to  Bob boder
August 24, 2017 11:59 am

Yes, Dr Spencer may have been born dangling from the right wing, but when it comes to climate science he’s right down the center…

JB
August 24, 2017 9:51 am

Amazon sales rank 952! This morning when I bought it, it was in the 1100’s. Come on people, let’s move it up a bit. It’s the price of a cup of coffee.

Malcky
August 24, 2017 9:51 am

you can get web hosting with ddos protection these days

Bart Tali
August 24, 2017 9:52 am

He should look into using CloudFlare for DDoS protection.

tom0mason
Reply to  Bart Tali
August 24, 2017 10:28 am

Err, I think you might not be seeing the error message that comes up —

What happened?
You’ve requested a page on a website (www.drroyspencer.com) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare is currently unable to resolve your requested domain (www.drroyspencer.com).

Bart Tali
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 11:12 am

I’m not getting that. And the NS record for drrroyspencer.com points to dreamhost.com, which is currently down.
https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
August 24, 2017 9:20AM PDT[Investigating] Our Operations teams are currently investigating connectivity issues which indicate an issue related to our name servers. We will provide updated information as it becomes available.
August 24, 2017 10:20AM PDT[Identified] Our engineers have identified the cause of the DNS degradation as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. We are beginning to mitigate the attack and will update this post as new information becomes available.

tom0mason
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 12:06 pm
tom0mason
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 12:09 pm

Probably these old stories are hosted on the Cloudflare server, and current stories on the dreamhoststatus servers.

Bart Tali
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 12:25 pm

1. The NS (name server) record for drroyspencer.com is on dreamhost, which was down.
2. The A record for http://www.drroyspencer.com is on cloudflare (not down, but unable to resolve because of #1).

AndyG55
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 12:32 pm

No problems now.

Anonymoose
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 9:15 pm

Actually, many people suspect that the Dreamhost DDoS attack was due to Dreamhost having had a “white power” web site on it. Many other sites got brought down by the attack.

Steven Miller
August 24, 2017 9:56 am

I went to Amazon using the link above, and bought the book. If the idiots hadn’t shut down Dr. Spencer’s website I probably would have just got the same info there. So Dr. Spencer can thank them for another book sale.

tom0mason
August 24, 2017 9:57 am

So two little blogs, WUWT and Dr. Spencer’s, are such dangerous threats to the well financed AGW/Climate Change™ industries that there can be no debate, these blogs must be shut them down, or at least have their normal business interfered with.
Jo Goebbels would be proud of AGW exponents of große Lüge.
Well done WUWT and Dr. Spencer you must be really upsetting them — keep at them.

J Mac
August 24, 2017 9:59 am

“The Ends Justify The Means!”
Standard Operating Procedure for Socialists Fascism, worldwide.

August 24, 2017 10:02 am

Surely you meant “buy”.

Reply to  Quelgeek
August 24, 2017 10:06 am

That makes more sense. I was a little confused… but still bought the book.

August 24, 2017 10:03 am

Bought the Kindle version.

August 24, 2017 10:05 am

Amazon enables gift copies and sends the recipient an email about the gift with any message you would like to accompany the gift notice. I gifted Dr. Spencer’s new book to Naomi Oreskes at Harvard, Admiral Tittle at Penn State, and Chris Mooney at WaPo. Well worth the 12 bucks. Must have made somebody mad.
Perhaps others here could do the same to their ‘special’ climate scientists. Katherine Hayhoe certainly deserves a copy amongst many others like Gavin Schmidt and Joe Romm.

HotScot
Reply to  ristvan
August 24, 2017 11:06 am

ristvan
Cunning. Is you real name Baldrick?
UK joke

Reply to  HotScot
August 24, 2017 1:29 pm

Blackadder

HotScot
Reply to  ristvan
August 25, 2017 1:44 am

Ah! A man of culture as well as education. 🙂

Reply to  ristvan
August 24, 2017 11:33 am

Also Susan Solomon, and let’s not forget Ben “punch-pat-michaels” Santer. And Kevin Trenberth, unindicted ClimateGate co-conspirator with Phil Jones to ruin peer-review.

Gil
Reply to  ristvan
August 24, 2017 9:13 pm

Seth Borens
Twin needs one.

Gil
Reply to  Gil
August 24, 2017 9:15 pm

Seth Borenstein no doubt wants a copy.

Greg
August 24, 2017 10:08 am

My word, why do they even bother? Dr Spencer’s web site is hardly high traffic. These fools are only aware of it because it was featured here. This criminal activity will probably not prevent even one person buying his e-book
If they are so sure of what they say, this science is so “settled” and climate disaster so obviously “here and now” , why do they even need to bother with this feeble effort to stop the tiny traffic going to Dr Spencer’s site?
they only underline how uncertain they are themselves by this kind of crap.
Funny the way the PC warriors are so ready to throw science, freedom of speech and the constitution under a bus just to win one policy argument.

afonzarelli
Reply to  Greg
August 24, 2017 12:59 pm

RWS february 20, 2014 6:39am:
“This website had over 80,000 unique visitors last month, and almost 500,000 page views.”
Greg, i don’t know what would fit the definition of “high traffic”, but here are some numbers that he gave out a few years ago. What do you (or anyone else) think?
BTW, learned about viewing an eclipse in a puddle of water back in ’84. So this is well known AND i’ve done it myself, back then and now. Eyes are fine (no pain, no pain)…

Keith
August 24, 2017 10:11 am

Google = Goolag……………….again

Barbara
August 24, 2017 10:15 am

Those who dare to speak are trashed.
IMO, there could be a serious situation developing in the U.S.?

tom0mason
August 24, 2017 10:19 am

The book ‘they’ tried to stop,
Dr. John Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, the scientists so dangerous ‘they’ tried to silence them perminently, ….
NOW Dr. Roy Spencer tells all!
Get the book before ‘they’ ban it.
Get the book before you loose your money, your rights, your future.
Buy it now, before it’s too late ….

tom0mason
Reply to  tom0mason
August 24, 2017 10:22 am

Oops …
Darn proofreading …
That should be “…tried to silence them permanently, …. “

rocketscientist
August 24, 2017 10:19 am

Heresy cannot be tolerated. The inquisition continues.
Unfortunately these buffoons aren’t using “pointy cushions”.
Sadly, the true victim is trust in communication and exchange of free ideas.

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