{"id":7907,"date":"2018-12-06T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:45:14","slug":"where-is-ross-gelbspan-these-days-2018-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=7907","title":{"rendered":"Where is Ross Gelbspan these days? 2018 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little over two years ago on November 21, 2015, I wrote a blog post<\/a> about Ross Gelbspan’s most visible recent activity, which concerned a couple of less-than-well-ought-out Facebook comments on his part. Time for an update about this same ‘most visible’ public efforts of his, where it serves as one more example of how people always need to do more digging into the things he says.<\/p>\n

I allocate very little time glancing at\u00a0Gelbspan’s online presence. His ‘blog’ site<\/a> (which barely fits the definition<\/a>) rarely ventures beyond small efforts to reproduce entire online articles<\/a>) out of the news concerning the global warming issue, while his Facebook timeline posts<\/a> don’t feature much more than shared posts<\/a> from his “HeatIsOnline” Facebook page<\/a>, which itself is no more than copies \u2019n pastes of what appears at his blog. Both pages are often devoid of any comment replies.<\/p>\n

On rare occasions at his main Facebook page, a minor flurry of activity sometimes arises, such as his November 27, 2018 post<\/a> which initially was no more than a copy \u2019n paste of a paragraph out of a New York Times<\/em> article quoting President Trump’s response to reporters about the latest so-called ‘government’ climate assessment report. On this particular occasion, a few of his followers posted anti-Trump comments, while one other person brought up a completely off-topic question which Gelbspan directly answered. Another commenter expressed wishes that Gelbspan would use his influence to get reporters to be tougher on the climate issue (as if they aren’t already on his side to an extreme extent). Gelbspan’s reply<\/a> contained a rather odd musing about his efforts overall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I can’t believe I published my first piece on this stuff back in 1995 — and so little has happened …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No doubt his loyal Facebook Friends who praise his seminal 1997 “The Heat is On<\/a>” book (which insinuated that skeptic climate scientists operated under a sinister industry directive<\/a> to misinform the public about the certainty of man-caused global warming) may also vaguely recall him mentioning something about his prior publications. And, they might agree that humanity has done “so little<\/em>” to stop this alleged planetary catastrophe.<\/p>\n

His assorted Facebook Friends could be forgiven for not offering mild challenges to his statement. Far more worrisome is that journalists might give that pair of assertions a complete pass, when it begs for two sets of questions.<\/p>\n

“\u2026 so little has happened<\/em> \u2026”? Define “so little.” Gelbspan embarked on what has amounted to a second career after his 1992 retirement from the Boston Globe<\/em>, which included the perks of:<\/p>\n