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But but (from the Watts)

UPDATE: July 28th

Watts update: “Watts Up With Watts?” video checked for copyright, reposted

Climate Crock of the Week: What’s Up with Anthony Watts [take 2]

“The video has since been reviewed by a number of US copyright experts and (big surprise) there appears to be nothing that could be construed as anything but fair use.”

Thanks to Recycling Boys for alerting me to the fact that “it’s back”

How and for how long? I have no idea, although it’s k21desmog’s Channel. Watch it while you can just in case this goes bye bye too.

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Latest development on the Sinclair Watts “breakup” ;)- it’s spreading!

• Jules’ klimaatblog: The video Anthony Watts wanted to be censored
• Why are deniers afraid of debate? » Mind of Dan
• Anthony Watts’ abuse of the DMCA : Deltoid
• The video that Anthony Watts does not want you to see: The Climate Denial “Crock of the Week” « Climate Progress
  • Good companion piece Unscientific America, Part 1: From the moon-landing deniers to WattsUpWithThat
    
• Inconvenient reality strikes again The Cost of Energy
  

Some other blog reactions:

from the Denialosphere

There is a You Tube video by Peter Sinclar titled “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” which ridicules the important contribution of Anthony Watts … I will report if NCDC refutes this personal attack against a well respected colleague…” (bold in the original).

Biased Criticism of Anthony Watts For His Report “Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?”

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From Earth

Roger Pielke Sr has decided to step into the fray, with a no-holds barred statement in support of Anthony Watts, calls “a well respected colleague who has provided a much needed analysis to the climate science community”. “Well-respected …” Okay, let’s not touch that one with a ten-foot pole. But consider this phrase:

resorting to the absurd connection of climate to how the health issues of tobacco were reported

As per the title of this piece, a simple (painful) question: Should we be laughing or crying at the absurdity of (false) outrage that anyone would suggest that there is a linkage between “Thank you for Smoking” and what has happened with the political and social debate over climate change for the past 20+ years.

Roger Pielke Sr speaks on Climate Crock: Laugh or cry? and @ Daily Kos

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Notable (notorious) climate skeptic Anthony Watts has made much of looking at scientists work and seemingly showing where there problems with that work. Evidently, however, he has some concerns when he faces such a look; perhaps because that look provided a clear and accessible demonstration of the shallowness of Watts’ claims. A recent video by Peter Sinclair’s excellent “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” series (see, for example, this GESN post) highlighted how Watts’ work is fundamentally flawed.

Watt’s Up With Suppressing Honest Skepticism

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“Sorry to post off topic (although the comments are all backslapping anyway) but is there a reason you (Anthony) filed a DMCA complaint against Greenman3610’s youtube video “Watts up with Watts”?

From Youtube:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Anthony Watts Surfacestations.org”

Surely his video falls under fair use. Relying on the nanny state to attack critics or am I missing something?

REPLY: I don’t care to discuss my reasons here as they are private and unrelated to this discussion. Google agreed that complaint was valid and removed the video. – Anthony”

Sinclair vs Watts ClimateSight

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Legal actions and threats of legal action are being used with ever greater frequency by quacks, complementary medicine practitioners, cults, and corporations ^[1] to stifle scientific criticism of their claims. It’s a worrying trend.

In fact there’s a libel claim against a science writer going through the English courts right now. The British Chiropractic Association is suing the science journalist Simon Singh over an article he wrote in The Guardian ^[1]. I’m following that case with some concern – I’ve just looked at the story in my post “Simon Singh battles England’s amboguous libel laws”.

Global warming, legal chill « lightbucket

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“And despite the warped station data mythology issued by the likes of Watts, the data collection is carried out by satellites and ocean buoys. (I’m sure someone will produce a picture of an air conditioner exhausting onto a few of those eventually.)

The Galloping Beaver: Sweating one’s (fill in appropriate body part) off

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Over the last 50 years, the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) warmed at a rate 4.8 times the global average.  Earth Gauge

We give our consent every moment that we do not resist.

Denier “Challenge” aka Deathwatch Update: Day 273 … still no evidence.

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Over the last 50 years, the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) warmed at a rate 4.8 times the global average.  Earth Gauge

We give our consent every moment that we do not resist.

Denier “Challenge” aka Deathwatch Update: Day 272 … still no evidence.

Comment Policy

Comments that are not relevant to the post that they appear under or the evolving discussion will simply be deleted, as will links to Denier spam known to be scientific gibberish

• The “Mostly” Open Thread is for general climate discussion that is not relevant to a particular post. Spam and abuse rules still apply;
• The “Challenging the Core Science” Comment Thread is for comments that purport to challenge the core science of anthropogenic climate change.