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
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UPDATE: about two hours after this post was published, service was restored. – Anthony
Google and its wholly owned Youtube have been removing search results and demonetizing speech it disagrees with for months now.
Boycott Google, Facebook and Twitter. Write major advertisers and let them know you will not be reading their ads on these services. Write your representatives and insist that RICO investigations into Google, Facebook and Twitter collusion be started. The simultaneous censoring, search removals and demonetization are not a coincidence. The class action lawsuits recently filed against them are not enough to change their behavior.
Looks to me like a DNS attack rather than hits directly on the web site. So if this article had contained the IP address (looks like numbers and dots) we could still reach it.
Anyone got the IP address?
I tried temporarily changing my DNS settings from automatic to the Google public DNS (8.8.8.8 for primary and 8.8.4.4 for secondary) and still had trouble. But after changing my DNS settings back to automatic, I was able to reach drroyspencer.com again after an hour or two of lack of access.
Meanwhile, I used traceroute to get what I think is http://www.drroyspencer.com‘s IP address. It did not work for me so I am not sure it is correct, so I won’t publish the IP address I tried. The results I got from entering my result into a web browser is “direct access not allowed”.
“direct access not allowed”
In many or most instances a web server has a large number of sites using the same IP address, and it inspects the request header to figure out which one you want. If there is no request header, such as the URL was just an IP address, typically there’s a default web page that is handed out; in this case the defatul web page says “direct access not allowed” but in fact it *is* allowed — and that is the content thereof!
I just Googled for the whois IP lookup tool. That gave me the same IP address, which I tried again – same result, “direct access not allowed”.
Donald,
Nowadays a server may host several hundred/thousand web site at the same IP address. The web server treats these sites as “virtual”. The only way it can differentiate which “virtual” website is being accessed is by the FQDN (Fully Qualified Host Name), like https://wattsupwiththat.com instead of https://192.0.78.25.
You need to join Gab.ai, The only place left on the internet where free speech is welcome.
I hope this gets maximum publicity. Decent people deserve to understand the sort of people who are Climate Change activists.
It’s all rather pathetic, isn’t it?
http://www.drroyspencer.com is working now.
No it is not. What ever the reason.
It’s working for me.
I was able to access http://www.drroyspencer.com. I also bought the book shortly after it came out. I have never bought a Kindle book before as I am not a big fan of Amazon (I generally buy Nook Books) and had to download the Kindle Reader, but it was well worth it as it is a well-reasoned response to Al Gore’s new movie.
Working for me.
The troglodytes do not like to be dissed.
You’re my hero, Dr. Spencer. Keep smiling. These attacks seem to me to be free speech violations. Has anyone told this story for Fox News to report?
Serious attacks out there today. I just got this update from Wordfence: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/dreamhost-ddos-attack/
Maybe just a coincidence after all…
From that page:
” It looks like it may be an Anonymous attack targeting the Dreamhost DNS to try to take a white supremacist website called ‘punishedstormer dot com’ offline.”
Coincidence, methinks, not a warmist conspiracy.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Looks like I used some ‘bad’ words. Live and learn.
The page essentially tells us this had nothing to do with Dr. Spencer’s book, just a particular nasty group that that Anonymous seems to have targeted, which happens to use DreamHost.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The page essentially tells us this had nothing to do with Dr. Spencer’s book, just a particular nasty group that that Anonymous seems to have targeted, which happens to use DreamHost.
Nothing to see here, move along.
(Mods, feel free to delete my comment in moderation. Next time I’ll be careful what words are in a quote. )
Yep. Anthony’s post is all about people and motives, and jumps straight to a conclusion based on that, with no consideration for other technical factors.
Let this be a cautionary tale of what happens when you only bring ideology to a technical fight.
Tell that to CAGW, Mr. Schaeffer.
What means ‘pulled from their servers’?
That the campaign appeared closed immediately after it was ‘tainted’ by wuwt?
So there was someone doing sabotage at Google according to your service provider?
Sounds like you do stuff people hate with passion. Good.
Typical. This is what you see when the swamp fights back.
I was able to get to his site from the link to the right here…
I think it time Greenpeace was subjected to a similar attack on an even greater scale. Either that or we see proper policing of the environmental groups for anti social behaviour and suitable criminal charges brought in all cases.
Hear hear
Some methods of media deception are detailed in this well put together video.
http://www.nukepro.net/2017/08/natural-news-exposes-negative.html
I’d buy the book if it was a book.
Indeed…perhaps the good Dr. will oblige?
Even a .pdf will do!
seems to be working now….
I bought my copy off Kindle. I love the intro and so far it’s a good read. Science fiction vs science fact.
Also, I was briefly able to get to his site. Now, there’s an error and it won’t come up. I stopped using Google for my climate/environmental searches about a month ago because their bias was so blatant. Skeptical science and other disreputable sites kept on showing up at the top of my searches. It was very aggravating to have to dig for non-ideological information.
Angela
August 24, 2017 at 11:40 am:
The search site for us dnrs is:
http://www.defyccc.com/search/#gsc.tab=0
Duckduckgogo for general use.
The current version of the “memory hole”. ManBearPig probably thinks “1984” was an instruction manual.
great publicity – what do the Alarmists want to keep hidden? – i’m buying it to find out
Read it – if you keep an open mind rather than a religiously obsessed AGW one you wiill find you have been hoodwinked by Gore and his ilk.
Can anyone get this story to FOX News? Tucker Carlson would like to see it.
Amazon.co.uk URL: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074XG6KX1/ref=sr_1_1
Progressives are more openly fascist every day.
Bought the book.
Thank you, Dr. Roy Spencer.
A new proxy fight appears..Google vs Amazon.
Maybe its time we all stopped using google and switched to other search engines – I am as of now.
I have just sent an email to RT (Russia Today) and referred to this article.
Crosstalk at RT has been skeptical in the past, but we will see.