With the likely installation of a Biden administration comes a renewed and likely vicious climate war.
I have inside information that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will be pushing the Biden administration, calling for prominent climate skeptics, and climate skeptical organizations to be put on investigations and “show trials” for daring to question the consensus. There may be worse than that coming, as he seems to genuinely believe we’ve committed some sort of crime and should be punished for it. Make no mistake, it’s coming.
I suspect I’ll be personally targeted as well.
While it’s been an easy ride during the Trump administration with him pulling out of the Paris agreement, bringing the gestapo-like EPA back to sensibility, eliminating WOTUS rules, appointing prominent climate skeptics to NOAA, and many other things, we now face a renewed “in your face” series of actions by the Biden administration to make batting the invisible boogeyman of climate change not just a priority, but a declared war.
Hence, eliminating and/or neutralizing the climate skeptics. It’s war psyops 101 – eliminate/neutralize competing voices and media outlets.
To that end, I’m not going down without a fight. I hope you won’t either.
First, starting tomorrow, WUWT will be changing to a new look, something that I’ve been working on behind the scenes on for months. Here is a preview of the new look.
Second, we are likely going to have to move our hosting again. If you haven’t heard about it, the plight of the Conservative Treehouse being de-platformed by their hosting provider provides a glimpse of the likely future ahead for many climate skeptic websites if a Biden administration becomes a reality.
Third, facts are power, and to that end WUWT is launching a new, second website that will be a reference website for many climate topics, linked to the main WUWT site in the menu. It won’t be a discussion or a blog, but more like a user friendly climate wiki. Look for an announcement in the first week of January.
Finally, I’m going to need your help. We’ll need you to share stories, to help get the word out, we’ll need guest authors, we’ll need programming help, and we’ll need donations.
Tomorrow, we start.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
–Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 82-83 (1770) in: Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 1, p. 146 (Liberty Fund ed. 1999).
Whitehouse is the least of your problems. The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset is far worse because once you yield to their motto “You won’t own anything and you’ll be happier”, climate concerns will be the last thing on your minds. It won’t be pretty for any of us.
The WEF and UN have no sovereignty over the US. And unlike the EU and its council of minister that control it, there are real electoral checks and balances in the US on radical politics, both left and right.
The US’s biggest problem will be the constitutional crisis that will happen when VP Commie Harris goes after her boss via a 25th Amendment coup d’état. With a US Presidential Administration so distracted by such an upheaval, it will be an open invitation to bad actors China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran to cause major problems for world geopolitical stability by taking military actions in their own spheres of influence. The forces at play would be so non-linear that how it all would turn out no one can/could predict.
Black Swans will be everywhere with the incompetent, climate scam-focused Dementia Joe Administration and the bad actors in the World taking advantage of that.
“The US’s biggest problem will be the constitutional crisis that will happen when VP Commie Harris goes after her boss via a 25th Amendment coup d’état.”
My expectation is that Joe Biden will, at some point, resign due to “health” factors, as a means to avoid prosecution for selling his vice presidential office for profit.
Remember a week or two ago when he said that if he had a major policy disagreement with Harris that he would “develop a disease or something and be forced to resign”?
I’m afraid after the 2020 election, that there are no longer any “checks and balances” in the USA any more !
Anthony, if one wanted to offer his or her software development skills, how might one go about contacting you or your team to arrange help?
You can use the contact form from the menu bar at top. THANKS
Anthony
Sucks to be on the losing side of an election.
bethan,
your comment will certainly not age well. The US voters need Biden-Harris criminals and incompetents to remind them once again why Crooked Clinton was rejected.
Not really. Well, at least that’s not how the US government is supposed to be arranged. There’s a majority party and a minority party. The minority party has rights, too, unlikely in centuries past where the minority or opposition their heads removed from their bodies.
Like most “progressives” bethan wants to return to an error where executing those you didn’t like was considered one of the rights of kings.
era, not error. Though it would be an error to go back to that era.
Funny how some typos/autocorrect errors just seem to work out well in the end
Why am I not surprised to find out that one of resident progressives has no problem with using the full power of government to persecute those you disagree with.
She’d probably volunteer to be a death camp guard.
It wasn’t the election that it sucks to be on the losing side of. It is the theft of that election that it sucks to be on the losing side of. It always sucks when someone steals anything of yours. and this was no different.
Fraud sucks. Treason sucks.
But that’s what progressive Marxists do.
“Sucks to be on the losing side of an election.”
We’ve been there before, and we came back strong, and we will do the same in the future. Conservatives are not going away. You’ll see.
It’s actually not so bad now, with the new rule that if you lose, you get to throw a tantrum, and scream and cry “no fair, we actually won”, “the election was stolen”, “voter fraud” etc. etc. Easy peasy. And if it undermines all elections, and thus democracy itself, and possibly even results in civil war, tough. Because “they” shouldn’t have “cheated”, so it’s their fault.
“Because “they” shouldn’t have “cheated”, so it’s their fault.”
Yes, it is their fault. If you let criminals get away with their crime, they will just do it again.
Did you complain the same way when the Democrats were throwing their tantrum over the 2016 election? I don’t recall you doing so.
You don’t recall, eh? You mean you assume, and you assume wrong. The Dems were wrong to say “not my president”, but even that isn’t as bad as the lying that the TraitorTrumpies are doing. And you are both lying and using circular logic calling voters “criminals”. You should be ashamed.
Who cares how much evidence is presented, you hate Trump and anything that defeats him is good.
An unreasonable hate, too. He can’t even articulate why he hates Trump so much. When you ask him, he has no answer. Maybe it’s a personality thing between him and Trump. It can’t be a policy difference, otherwise Bruce would bring it up. What do you say, Bruce, are you just overly emotinal about Trump?
“And you are both lying and using circular logic calling voters “criminals”.”
So you think I’m calling the voters cheaters. How ridiculous. No, I’m saying the Democrat election officials and possibly some Republicans are the criminals in this election fiasco.
You claim I’m assuming you didn’t criticize Democrats for their whining after the 2016 election. Could you supply a link or two showing your criticism? Because I think I would have remembered if you ranted against the Democrats the way you are ranting against the Republicans now.
So could you back up that claim?
Who cares if there actually was cheating. It’s more important that we fool the people into believing that the process was fair so that when we steal the next election nobody will be the wiser.
All you care about is that your guy won, you don’t care how.
Problem is – that the loosing side is actually the winning side – just ask Eric Coomer – or if you really want the facts ask Joe Oltmann – look them up if you don’t know what I’m talking about!
Have no idea why they haven’t been on the front page like in the old Watergate days.
(Dominion Voting Systems)
“… WUWT is launching a new, second website that will be a reference website for many climate topics, linked to the main WUWT site in the menu. It won’t be a discussion or a blog, but more like a user friendly climate wiki….”
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Consolidating the great resources and discussions into a wiki style reference will be a powerful tool. A lot of options there. Backing up WUWT at your own pace before some “…. monger” forces your hand could prove invaluable.
On another note, there is likely a grand opportunity for the creation of a service provider/hosting site not beholden to the likes of the current leftist cult/culture.
This is a thoughtful place, a rarity these days. It must be protected. My will has been thwarted by midnight presses manufacturing an unpopular vote. January 21st will be the evil pen’s first day of work, and we must prepare now.
But.. but .. Joe said he would fight hard for everyone, even those who didn’t vote for him. He wouldn’t lie… would he??
Like when he claimed that he had never said he would ban fracking, right after giving a speech promising to ban fracking.
Remember, it is the “yet to be submitted for ratification Paris Climate Treaty.”
I wonder if the idea of a show trial might be a good thing. I feel that defense should, in a fair trial, decimate the whole idea of the climate crisis.
You are assuming we’d be allowed to defend ourselves at all.
On other blogs the word “Wolverines!” has been an effective clarion call.
Absent that, “Going Galt”, to whatever extent you can is another option.
Mouvement des gilets jaunes works for moi.
Indeed, you need only look at how much “defending” the Dems in the house allowed during their manufactured impeachment nonsense to know that defending yourself will not be allowed. If they wouldn’t let the Presidents team ask questions or present witnesses , why would anyone expect there will be a fair hearing with time to present any kind of defense when it comes to their Climate show trials?
Exactly, we’re now in an Idiocracy. Sense and logic have lost their power now that reality has no bearing on what people believe.
It might not be an enjoyable experience, but the left would be crazy to go after you or any other skilled denier or skeptic. You and your lawyers would embarrass them in court. And reveal to the public the other side. I’m not a lawyer, but I see this ultimately as a free speech issue and if it got to the Supreme Court, I like your chances. “Walk toward the fire.”
You assume this would go to court.
More likely the companies that provide hosting services would find reason’s why they could no longer do business with him. Anyone who advertises on this site will find that IRS has decided that they need to be audited, every year for the next decade. The Justice Dept conducts a highly publicized raid on their facilities, telling the press that they’ve had an anonymous tip that child labor and prostitution were being conducted on this site. etc.
Like MarkW pointed out, they won’t go at him directly in court. Instead they’ll go indirectly – “de-platforming” (IE getting their web hosts to drop them, getting their advertisers to stop advertising with them, getting search engines not to return hits to their pages etc) & “false flaging” are some of their favorite tactics for silencing the voices that don’t want heard.
Remember that in the earlier days of WUWT the ‘Climategate Team’ included Anthony Watts and WUWT as well as others to be ‘names not to be spoken’ in hopes that he/they would fade away. Their boat has been and is still being rocked. WUWT will reach half-a-billion hits in the near future (tally now is 436,051,326). Considering the level of knowledge of the readers and commenters that is an astounding achievement!!!!
This is not about climate it is all to do with control
Correct, control of the US, who did not amuse Britain in 1783. Trump certainly did not amuse these, and got the full color revolution treatment for 4 years.
Control by “climate”, especially control by green finance. The EU is already controlled, with one or two dissenters.
Now what would want such control, I wonder?
It defines Empire.
Deja vu?
As far as I can tell, Biden is stuck with the Supreme Court as it is. ie. he can’t increase the size and appoint a pile of left wing radicals.
The Supreme Court should make quick work of any show trials.
Aren’t the congress critters sworn to uphold the constitution? Show trials should be the epitome of unconstitutionality.
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has stated on-the-record he would NOT support an increase of Supreme Court justices (pack the court with liberals). That effectively means it can’t happen even if the Dems do take both Georgia senate seats and then would take Senate majority via a VP Harris tie-breaker.
And with the Dem’s House of Reps majority for next year so small, there is no way such a controversial piece of legislation like Packing the Supreme Court could get through there as well.
So packing the the US Supreme Court with Libtards seems to be a threat that can’t happen for at least the next 2 maybe 4 years.
IF the Dems take the Senate, then they can pack SCOTUS if they choose. (Still Dem House majority. With Senate majority and Biden to sign the bill, fait accompli.) Article 3 §1 leaves it to Congress to set the SC size. The 9 we have now was set by act of Congress in 1869.
In Washington DC, politics always overrides reality. Just as the the climate scam has nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with politics and power, so too with all that happens there.
When the Dems were talking of packing the Supreme Court during the summer and fall, the Dem’s had visions of a Blue Wave to power big majorities in Congress too for this past election. The voters told them otherwise.
Even if Dems take the Senate, with such slim majorities in both chambers, the politics of packing the Supreme Court will prevent them from doing it. At least until such time that they have substantial majorities.
The Supreme Court should make quick work of any show trials.
That’s not how it works, CB. The Supreme Court won’t have a role. Any show trial will be in the halls of congress. Think along the lines of McCarthy’s hearings (with the only difference being that McCarthy wasn’t actually wrong, there really were communists) crossed with the house impeachment nonsense. That should give you an idea of what’s in store.
Actual prosecutions, on the other hand, would go through the courts. But I won’t hold out any hope there, either, as you can see how long it’s taken in the Mann/Steyn suit. Remember, the process is the punishment.
Considering where we’re at now, McCarthy’s problem was a lack of imagination. The Long March Through the Institutions
Pompeo is doing a McCarthy cameo today, farcical, with his “I have a list”.
It did not begin then with McCarthy, but with Truman and Churchill.
Today, Pompeo takes his strutting orders from London’s Henry Jackson Society.
Old wine in new leaking casks, I’ll say!
Look back. Think of the things that “should be the epitome of unconstitutionality” you see as milestones. Then look forward again.
The non-rhetoric questions are:
Great news Anthony.
One day, there will come an “enlightenment” point about human influences on planetary systems.
That is, a point where teachers, students, journalists, ordinary folk will not be set upon for pursuing open curiosity and enquiry about climate functions.
Hopefully, a comprehensive reference resource such as WUWT will become a go-to “body of knowledge”.
Many of us here already consider that WUWT already fulfils such a role.
For some reason I’m reminded of the arguments provided by Eric Worrall about how we should continue to play nice with the Democrats.
To arms! To arms! the liberals are coming.
Coming? They are already storming the ramparts.
Is there any milage in a `red team / blue team` format?
The UK`s `Cochrane` database is a well respected system, set up by an individual but now headed up by a solid board and obviously now with international reach and `clout`
IMO, no.
The problem is you have two teams with different methods of keeping score and declaring a winner based on the same actual outcomes (data).
Like a Worlds Series where one team says “We won because we scored the most total runs over seven games” (or “We got the most popular votes”.)
In this instance, the “Alarmists” would judge the outcome by a “Consensus of Experts” or some “democratic” poll of citizens, or by what the MSM opines; while “Realists” would be standing there yelling “But the data and observational evidence clearly shows….”
If you doubt that, just look at how even allegations of irregularities are summarily dismissed by government agencies and supposedly unbiased courts in the recent election.
We all need to bombard Congress critters with emails and whatever else we can do. We don’t have to limit ourselves to our own. If there are particularly obnoxious ones, they can have our special attention.
“Divide and rule (or Divide and conquer, from Latin Dīvide et īmpera) in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.”
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Is not WUWT being divided ??
Seems like it.
Just a question from a concerned commenter.
Divided in what way?
To paraphrase Galileo: and yet it still snows
Anthony, one thing I haven’t contacted you about is that the “NEW! Improved search capability” WUWT search function at the top of the page has been broken for some time. If I enter something and hit return, nothing happens, not even the cursor changes.
If I click on one of the five categories, then I get a search overlay that does work, I assume in that category. Is all that going to change?
Second, I did get my “Guide to WUWT” collection of oneline entries for WUWT posts by date and by category running again, you never replied to Emails about restoring that. Something isn’t updating at the moment, I haven’t looked into it, but we should talk about getting it going again on the new host.
The ENSO meter will live on….
Did you hear I’m now retired? If I spend less time on FaceBook (and Medicare, and SARS-CoV-2), I’ll have more time to help out.
Hey, Ric,
Just a shout-out (nearly 2 hours after you posted above) to say that I recall your attempting to continue your many years of first class technical support months ago.
So, you never did hear back…..
Perhaps, you are not lukewarm enough…..
You deserve better. And I wanted you to know that someone here realizes that.
Your ally for data-driven science,
Janice
P.S. Congratulations on your retirement!
P.P.S. You are not alone in being dissed. My 10th Anniversary 10-year “condensed version” of WUWT is referred to and linked to nowhere. Too many non-lukewarm articles and comments cited probably.
What makes you think you have a right to be so obnoxious and speak so disrespectfully to our host?
Anthony Watts is WUWT, not you or any other irrelevant commenter or contributor. Participation here is a privilege generously granted by him. You’re entitled to exactly nothing.
You’re like a drunken bum crashing a fancy party and complaining indignantly that the host ran out of your favorite hors d’oeuvres and exhorting the invited guests to trash the place as a result.
Outrageous! And also so foolish to incite disputes with those who are natural allies if not ideologically pure in your blinkered opinion.
In defense of drunken bums everywhere, your word salad of a comment did nothing for me.
@ur momisugly(Rich Davis).
Aw, James. Thank you 😊
I simply told the truth.
As you see it.
And as I see it.
Rich, the 10th anniversary post Janice refers to was an amazing effort by Janice to pull together many of the most meaningful posts on WUWT at the time. I don’t know how much time she spent on it, I’d guess 100 hours or so. IIRC, I said I’d include it in my (sadly neglected) Guide to WUWT, but haven’t yet gotten to it yet. Obviously I have not forgotten it yet.
WUWT is not Anthony. It was, but success comes with demands for moderation, assistance in writing posts, and keeping little things working that most people don’t give a second thought.
WUWT is a public forum – anyone can join in. Only when someone has proven they are a disruptive and damaging influence is action taken against them. The list of people kicked out of WUWT is short, and some of them require more time to keep from joining under a new alias.
My guide had to be taken off the right-side nav bar because it linked to an http address. I spent a lot of time updating the scraping code and getting things on a https site Anthony set up. I should have pestered him more, but I got busy with stuff at work, and my divorce may have in that time frame too. At least my work to get some of the images only available on other http sites and with variable URLs (e.g. a date stamp) is in place, though I have access to update the reference pages and it didn’t require follow-up action by Anthony.
At any rate, give Janice a break, her presence here is welcome and useful per many people. Please don’t be so quick to leap to conclusions.
Dear Ric,
Thank you.
Gratefully,
Janice
Anthony, as you and Charles pull together the new related site ‘Climate Wiki’, if you spot any information gaps or holes I volunteer to research and write the needed plug articles. Have done so recently at Charles request for ARGO, Jason3, Sentinel6, and grid stability. For example, could redo the older True Cost of Wind over at Judiths. Could contribute from ebook Blowing Smoke a refreshed grid battery analysis. Whatever you need, have Charles just ask.
Maybe it is time to start publishing those many, many temperature charts from many parts of the world that show that there are no warming trends. And find ways to get the basic charts into the “media” – difficult of course , but there must be people who know how to make this happen.
“Maybe it is time to start publishing those many, many temperature charts from many parts of the world that show that there are no warming trends.”
Excellent idea. The more, the better.
WUWT ought to keep a page dedicated to unmodified, regional surface temperature charts from around the globe, to show everyone that it was just as warm in the Early Twentieth Century as it is today, which means CO2 is not the control knob of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Whenever some alarmists refers to “unprecedented warming” we can just refer them to the regional surface temperature chart page to set them straight about the real, benign temperaure profile of the Earth.
I agree. I don’t have time now. Do you?
Thank you for all your hard work on this website!! It is one of the few places I can turn to for good information!
It is a travesty that all the people who want to silence disagreement in science are unaware that dialog (rather than the lack of it) is what moves science forward.
‘I’m Spartacus!’
We’re behind you all the way Anthony. What happens in the USA inevitably has impacts worldwide. On my own turf, the likes of the GWPF, Paul Homewood, Tallboy’s Talkshop, Ben Pile, Guido Fawkes etc etc, who speak sense (and publish real data not just feelings) n the climate debate, will be more vulnerable to political/legal attacks that may lead to the squashing of free speech and critical thinking should the Goresque narrative assume prominence across the pond. The Age of Enlightenment seems to be dying and we appear to be entering a new Dark Age. It’s time to make a stand.
Stay strong Anthony and good luck. As we say in Britain: don’t let the bastards grind you down.
On related matters, some of your readers will be aware that tonight’s lecture at the GWPF in London was by the academic sociologist (and sceptic) Prof Frank Furedi. It was titled “Narratives of Existential Threats in the Climate and Covid Era”. I would expect the GWPF to put the film out soon.
A lot of topics were covered but a recurring theme was along the lines of “how do we fight this?”. Furedi’s view is that it all ultimately comes down to freedom. Freedom to think and challenge. Freedom to buy what cars and energy sources that we want and so on. He likes to frame the subject in that way when confronted with precisely the sort of issues you raised above, especially with regard to shutting down public debate and even persecuting heretics as was done with supposed witches back in history. It was an interesting speech putting a different perspective on subjects close to our hearts.
Ian, a phrase I have not heard in decades. At Harvard grad School , the ‘sophisicated’ pseudoLatin version of same was: ‘Illegitimi non carborundum’. Silly, but kept us going.
I am ready for the “fight”
I am using Vaclav Havels “ The Power of the Powerless” as a model for the non-violent “fight”
Remember, we are now the radicals/rebels/criminals.
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf
The key concept is to live the truth.
Other concepts include
-Make leaders live up to their own rules.
-Have general awareness of all the issues but when on the “attack”, Stick with what you know. ( example peter Ridd)
My personal situation.
I am an civil engineer based in Melbourne Australia.
I have a detailed knowledge of Melbourne hydrology and drainage systems.
Every time an alarmist states more floods and more droughts I go on the “attack”
This concept or strategy is also highlighted in Saul Alinskys “ rules for radicals”
Saul was Evil, yet very wise.
I like Rule 5:
Maybe there is room in the next WUWT for a humor section to poke at the opposition; Josh could illustrate! Any promising Jonathan Swifts out there?
(There is a lot to ridicule among Greta, Whitehouse, Markey, AOC and of course Ol’ Joe himself that would tickle the public’s funnybone and thus get their attention.)
You’re right about ridicule.
But to be most effective, it has to be kinda subtle, not the types of remarks that ‘woke’ stand-up comedians deliver these days.
I’m thinking along the lines of Ricky Gervais’ tweet about that Vancouver transgender who took some Muslim beauty salon operators to the Human Rights Commission because they refused to perform “down there” waxing on ‘her’. Ricky tweeted how he was mortified about this case because “every woman is entitled to get their big hairy balls waxed”.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpZXkG5XEAE6Ogi?format=jpg
“Remember, we are now the radicals/rebels/criminals.”
Obama says we are also the minority. I don’t know about that, since we can’t depend on the vote count for the last election to be accurate. Conservatives may or may not be the minority. But even if we are the miniority, it’s not by much, going by the vote count, so Obama shouldn’t gloat too much. That “minority” sure did manage to stifle Obama’s plans when *he* was in Office.
The trouble is, the history of the Kulaks.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/kulak
Is the link what put this comment into moderation?
The war strategy of the Khmer Vert will include an attempt to cover up and destroy historical and palaeo climate evidence that unanimously refutes the CO2 alarmist pseudo-science. As Steve MacIntyre has reported, already the custodians of Antarctica’s Law Dome C data – which most sharply contradicts the fiction of CO2 leading temperature – are choking off access to the data and will likely try to degrade it behind closed doors.
Scientific papers still available in the open literature and starting with those not paywalled, should be downloaded as widely as possible in advance of their being taken offline. Those with skills of accessing and downloading the raw data from palaeo climate repositories should do so as much as possible. We must become the distributed memory of climate truth, keeping genuine climate science out of reach of the perpetrators of the coming climate data and literature purge. It should also be backed up and stored in offline locations.