Climate skeptic: ‘Big Brother watched me’
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”
This slogan appeared on posters of the Party leader in the dystopian society of George Orwell’s 1984.
In Orwell’s book, Winston Smith, a Ministry of Truth “history re-writer,” quietly rebelled against this oppression, secretly starting a diary expressing forbidden thoughts...
As head of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), I have been feeling a bit like Smith these days.
In December, 2015 while in Paris attending counter conferences to the United Nations’ climate meetings,
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| Paris 2015: is that a check in Tom's hand ? - ICSC received $45,000 from the Heartland Institute in 2007 alone |
I learned the environmental organization Ecojustice had registered a complaint with the Competition Bureau on behalf of six prominent Canadians against ICSC, Friends of Science, and the Heartland Institute.
WUWT seems a mighty odd place to denounce Big Brother -- Watts' staff of permanent censors have long suppressed comments by climate scientists, and Big Brother Watts' Ministry of Truthiness introduced a climate blogging first four years ago:
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James 'It's not my job to sit down and read peer reviewed papers' Delingpole finds the bellyfeel of Wattsspeak doubleplus good--
"Then, of course, there is the great Anthony Watts – founder of the most widely read and important sceptical website of the lot... I owe Wattsy an enormous amount...
Ultimately, it seems to me, that the war we're fighting concerns the battle between openness, honesty, truth, liberty and freedom of expression on the one hand, and corrupt, dishonest, bullying authoritarianism on the other. What's particularly valuable about Watts Up With That? is ... Anyone is welcome to contribute to the debate," Daily Telegraph 11 April 2013
AS A FRIEND OF SCIENCE , TOM REALLY OUGHT TO ASK DELINGPOLE WHY HE'S FOLLOWED WATTS' ORWELLIAN LEAD IN BANNING SCIENTISTS COMMENTS ON HIS BREITBART COLUMNS
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