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).
Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I’ve lost my subscription to email updates, through problems with Gmail, changing phone, and then getting it stolen. On this new look site, which I like, I can’t find how to subscribe again.
Look at the “Subscribe” button just left above the first comment, that should be what you ask.
I’m not sure that subscribes to the entire blog though – it seems like it’s only for comments on the article.
It was only an idea having seen the button.
On the other hand, learning by doing 😀
Trump won on the Constitutionally designated election day.
His surge in popularity was so strong it made Democrat rigging absurd and obvious.
The count is in the hands of state legislators and the Supreme Court to abide their Oath of Office.
Which is to defend and protect he Constitution.
Leaders of character will honor their oath and turn back yet another attempted coup by the Democrats.
Not to overlook their International Socialist supporters.
Democrats turning America into just another third-world-hell-hole would be an atrocity.
Conservative Treehouse was de-platformed for repeatedly breaking WordPress’ TOS by:
allowing “calls for violence against individuals or groups”. See Section 5 of Automattic Ads Terms of Service for more information.
CTH is an extreme right wing blog that thinks private companies should host content which breaks TOS because “freedom of speech”
So the answer is: don’t allow calls for violence or misinformation that might naturally lead to violent confrontation and WUWT should be fine.
I’m not convinced that the problem is facts. I think the problem is lack of good people. One of the facts is that whether something like climate change is true or not, doing anything about it without using nuclear power (and even with) will do enormous damage to the economy and drive down the standard of living of millions of citizens of whatever country tries. That is as cold and as hard as facts get. Bad people don’t care. Bad people like destroying things and they like making people suffer. Climate changers are bad people.
I get it being thrown into this new website format is part of this picture, yet, maybe it could be (please) ameliorated by reducing the thickness of the red top ribbon, perhaps try just one notch smaller and some abbreviating (FAIL FILES, REF PAGES, TIPS N’NOTES) would make it shrink to at least just one row. Glad you darkened the comments text!
Anthony, sorry I didn’t respond sooner. This new website is much better. Actually very good. More “modern” to use, a perhaps, not quite right, term. More like other websites in “look and feel” and so much easier to navigate. I like it!