Using my online platform here to have a link I can place in my main Twitter account to show who blocks me from their Twitter accounts, for what reasons. The Twitter images for each blocker date from most recent to oldest, click each to enlarge; my tweets which apparently triggered the blocks follow each each image. Combine this with my dissections of Ross Gelbspan’s ‘industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists’ accusation, and it becomes ever more obvious that supporters of the global warming issue do all they can to stifle fair, open debate.
Technically, this block is not new, I only learned about it on 10/3/24. The backstory is that after adding the 10/2/2024 PBS NewsHour interview of the man (on essentially the ludicrous idea of Clima-Change Havens™ being reduced in number by Clima-Change™) into my secondary running count of sheer journalism bias by the NewsHour, I thought I might try sending a Tweet to the man informing that his appearance was the 1,649th instance in which the NewsHour offered its viewers exactly zero points of rebuttal from the skeptic side of the issue during a direct discussion of the climate issue topic or within a significant mention of the topic. But after logging into Twitter / X and going to his account, I saw that I was already blocked. Gosh, I didn’t even recognize his name in the first place. Was it something I said somewhere? Yep, had to use the Twitter / X search feature to see if I had interacted with the man before, and upon seeing the two results from almost eight years ago, I needed to use my other Twitter / X account to see what the context was back then. Why did I try to engage with the man in the first place? I don’t remember at all, my best guess is his initial Tweet caught my attention somewhere, and slave to temptation I am, I couldn’t resist seeing what kind of a reaction I’d get. Turns out he never did, he simply pulled the juvenile “La-la-la, I can’t year you” stunt regarding anything which questions the orthodoxy of man-caused global warming. This illustrates a larger problem — it’s why guys like him, a person who is no more of a ‘climate expert’ than Greta Thunberg or Al Gore, or the late namesake of my blog, — would flee in terror if they learned they’d be facing opponent guests rebutting their assertions, and/or if they found out the interviewer would be asking particularly tough questions.
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Entertaining how the latest Twitter format makes the word “blocked” so much more prominent. Meanwhile, Christian-who? When you click on this person’s twitter account and then click on his avatar photo (screencapture, for posterity), he’s depicted as a happy reporter with a recording device, microphone, and headphones. Seems he becomes unhappy when prompted to reconsider all he knows about the global warming issue and whether the talking points he’s been fed and dutifully regurgitates are above reproach. I didn’t name him directly in my January 19, 2022 GelbspanFiles blog post, but used him as an example to illustrate how the new generation of journalists and journalism students have lost sight of how critical it is to have curiosity about authoritative assertions offered to them. Then, altruistic person that I am, I replied directly to his tweet about his article that I featured in my blog post. It was my hope that if he saw enough facts about the talking point he regurgitated — which he could independently verify for himself — it would open his eyes to how the lessons he’s being taught and the material he puts out and is being graded on looks far less like actual journalism and far more like political propaganda, which he might face career annihilation at his intended choices of news outlets if he dares to question those talking points. Rather than open his eyes, he slammed them shut. I didn’t know this until yesterday, when I emailed a pair of University of Chicago journalism students (and their student newspaper administrators) who gained overnight fame from daring to express curiosity about why certain recent political narratives in the mainstream media aren’t lining up right. I wanted to praise them for their work and compare them to Mr Elliott here, but when I logged in to Twitter to copy my tweet to him which also showed what his tweet was that I was replying to … his tweet wasn’t there anymore. Whoa! Did his whole account disappear? No, he simply blocked me from viewing anything he says. His tweet can be viewed without logging in, of course.
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What crime prompted that? Either this one…
You feel a need to trash @HeartlandInst ’s book because its chapter 1 eviscerates the 97% consensus, yes?
… or this reply to one of his supporters:
When you deliberately leave out half the science – the skeptic side – and validate this via a logical fallacy, it looks like agenda-pushing.
This was after I saw his tweet about a news story of his efforts to recycle a booklet from skeptics of man-caused global warming …. which has its first chapter thoroughly disputing the exact point he made in his tweet. Szydlowski is not especially famous, but his act of blocking me embodies one of the fatal faults crippling the Al Gore side of this issue.
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My crime? Apparently suggesting ….
Your video seems to indicate you are totally unaware of the depth of material from skeptic #climate scientists
… and/or replying to one of her supporters praising her for her communications skills …
An excellent lesson in communication failure: repeat left-wing talking points on economics and assume your audience doesn’t catch them
I’d never heard of Debbie Dooley before, she is described as a founder of the Tea Party movement. But upon learning of her pro-solar position via a far-left enviro-activist site, I was perplexed that an alleged right-wing person was apparently regurgitating an utterly misperceived psychological premise from the far-left on how to persuade right-wingers into action against global warming. Ms Dooley’s comeback of an absolutely unsupportable far-left talking point accusation prompted me to write a May 11, 2017 blog post right here. No doubt her inability to support her tweet accusation in the subsequent Twitter joust I had with her sealed the deal on her decision to block me.
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Could be this one did the trick …..
… it’s the NewsHour … fleeing from questions
… but it took quite a while to take effect. Hari Sreenivasan is currently one of the two most famous ‘celebrities’ blocking me, he is a senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and anchor of their Newshour Weekend program. Back in 2013, he admitted being a sucker to reply to me, and he later threatened to block me, but didn’t apparently follow through with that since he tweeted directly back to me a year later with this gem: “… good luck to you. Each time I engage, you make me regret it.” Between that date and December 2016, he blocked me. Notice how the climate scientist Andrew Dessler came to his defense right after me here. Dr Dessler’s name will come up again shortly below.
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I was blocked within mere moments of tweeting this:
Case study of #HowYouKnowTheyreLosing was necessity to push ‘vast industry-corrupted skeptics’ smear 20+ yrs ago
Dr Michael Mann, the internationally recognized climate scientist, is the second-most famous person blocking me from a Twitter account. I knew of William Briggs’ “Blocked by Mann Club” about a year earlier, but wasn’t tempted to try out the instant block feature until seeing Dr Mann’s tweet about a “fossil fuel group attacking” him. One could guess that either Dr Mann employs staffers to screen out such tweets, or his Twitter account has a screening program doing that.
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Once again, pointing out a person who is unwilling to permit dissenting viewpoints is a crime:
Forbidding tough comments at your newest blog? Not to worry, here’s a screencapture.
A bigger readable version of the deleted comment I screencaptured is forever preserved at an archive version of her post that I created. (Interesting how she chose to immediately delete that one, but readily accepted the one by Lubos Motl which is still there to this day, albeit in an altered form minus the web link he long ago placed there). If my tweet about my deleted comment isn’t what prompted her to block me, this one probably caused it:
Oops, forgot to ask if you’d checked what the latest temperature in Resolute is.
The backstory here is that a Schatzie’s Earth May 2015 blog post concluded with a long list of prominent skeptics of man-caused global warming — with my name in that bunch — labeled as “murderers” of a pair of Arctic explorers. My tweet link for the nearest weather station no longer functions properly, but records show what the temperatures were in the area nearest to where the two explorers were lost during “unseasonably high temperatures.” It was below freezing. My heartfelt condolences to the families of the lost explorers, but who was actually possibly responsible for their deaths? Perhaps it was the global warming community which led these two to believe they didn’t need to pack much cold weather protection.
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There’s that name again from the above “Hari Sreenivasan” section. Dr Dessler is an atmospheric scientist, and his block of me might have came from my reply to his praise of Hari Sreenivasan and the NewsHour’s exclusion of ‘flat Earth theorists’…
You are their new spokesperson on this matter? Question remains why THEY have not publicly elaborated on this
… or my subsequent tweet about the silliness of bringing up ‘flat earthers’ in the first place….
Everybody knows the F.E.S. sells gag t-shirts. Why AGW’ers continue to refer to it as a serious society is beyond me.
Whatever the case was, when I tried to reply straight to Dr Dessler’s Twitter account (which he temporarily permitted me to follow) a short time later that same day, I encountered the block screencaptured in the tweet I have here.
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Who is this person? Perhaps the better question is what is this thing? If you go back the March 2013 timeline before and after this point, all I was doing was jousting with it over political angles of the global warming issue. Then Twitter user Maurizio Morabito (of BBC TwentyEightGate revelation fame) noted that it acted like a Twitterbot. When the other Twitter user in the conversation wondered about who the person was in its avatar photo, I did a small amount of photo image searching and then said,
Ya mmised [sic] in my 14-hr old tweet, it’s Barton “Woody” Emanuel: https://www.facebook.com/woody.emanuel… (The earlier tweet was this one)
Notice throughout those several tweets how they go to “wood757,” while the responses are coming from a “TheWoodman2”. Try clicking on any link to “wood757” in the conversation and it takes you to an account created in November 2016 having zero tweets. Not only did “wood757” swap his/its headshot photo to the pastoral scene after I said who he was, the whole thing got a new Twitter account name. While I don’t have a screencapture of the “wood757” page in its original form, I did get a screencapture from the “twtrland” site’s profile of my tweets close to that time – the avatar photo of “wood757” is the first one on the left in that screencapture. It’s identical to the one I found at the above-noted “Woody Emanuel” Facebook page. What is the significance of that? Climatologist Dr Kerry Emanuel is also shown there. Facebook pages are public domain, but while respecting a degree of privacy in not disclosing another source of family details which is otherwise easily and publicly found on the internet, I can still absolutely establish that Woody Emanuel is Dr Kerry Emanuel’s brother. One more thing: the avatar photos that come up via my Twitter archive of those old 2013 tweets to “wood757” have the identical photo to the current “TheWoodman2” account, and he or it still blocks me.
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My first ever time encountering Twitter account blockage (quicker responding screencapture of the link in that one here and the “error message I referred to here), by another internationally recognized climate scientist, Dr Katherine Hayhoe. Once more, what was my crime? Daring to suggest a scenario where she could conceivably lose a debate with a climate scientist from the skeptic side of the issue.
Is it plausible someone like Dr Lindzen would accept your debate requirement and still win it?
(One other note about Dr Hayhoe – when she implies skeptic climate scientists are ‘industry-paid crooks,’ citing Naomi Oreskes and James Hoggan, she reveals her own enslavement to an accusation ultimately coming from only one source: Ross Gelbspan.)
Who disputes blocking Twitter users for profanity or spectacularly irrelevant impolite material? That’s not the case here. While it’s funny how one person with nearly 20,000 tweets believes he advances his cause via fake utterances, the serious problem here is the appearance of a range of people from no-name environmentalists on up to prominent climate scientists and a major journalist feel compelled to block inconvenient questions and/or observations from an ordinary citizen.
The hallmark of any solid argument is its ability to be soundly defended against all criticisms and concerns. How solid is the idea of man-caused global warming, if our mind’s eye image of it is people fleeing from tough questions?
