Awww!! Anthony Watts Taking A Break, Asking For People To Send Him Vacation Money
Live links at Kos, if anybody's interested . . .
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Most recently and notably, Anthony Watts announced on Tuesday that after ten years of near-constant denier nonsense, he’s taking a month-long break from Watts Up With That (and asking for donations to fund a vacation). He has been relying on others to keep up a steady stream of content, and those guest contributors will continue posting, so the site isn’t going dark.
But the announcement is interesting as a benchmark, since Watts is one of the biggest blog names in the denier space. However, he is far from the only one we’ve noticed slowing down. Beyond Judith Curry’s retirement from Georgia Tech, Roger Pielke’s halfhearted attempts to stay away from the climate debate and the retirement of Steve McIntyre (and his ClimateAudit blog) that Watts mentions in his post, a number of blogs that were once main drivers of denial have quieted considerably.
Even before Bishop Hill’s Andrew Montford went over to GWPF, that blog (which was a big driver of Climategate, especially in the UK) had turned into little more than a repository for dumb anti-alarmist cartoons while another key Climategate node, The Air Vent, now goes months between posts. CEI’s globalwarming.org hasn’t had a post since November and the Science and Public Policy Institute’s blog page is now mainly just rehosted content from elsewhere.
Seems like only those with money on the line are still going strong. JunkScience’s Steve Milloy has been posting plenty, in part promoting his book, and Marc Morano’s Climate Depot remains a steady aggregator as he promotes CFACT’s Climate Hustle movie. Oil-funded, PR shop-run Energy in Depth continues pumping out pro-fracking and anti-Exxon Knew posts. And of course the Koch operatives at Daily Caller are still pumping out propaganda, and the same goes for the Mercers’ Breitbart.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/15/1672077/-Continuing-Trend-Watts-Takes-Break-from-Blogging-While-Paid-Posters-Continue-Apace
