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Bully
Well, Jim Steele is doing his best to prove he's a bully. He's got a response at WUWT to my blog article about his denial of the climate link to the recent Russian anthrax outbreak. Not content with that, he's got my picture and a link to my Facebook homepage in the comments at WUWT, along with information from my LinkedIn profile.
The man is beneath contempt.
The man is beneath contempt.
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Reading his article I can't help but notice that it's all "me, me, me". That's Jim Steele all over. He claims to not seek honour and glory, but his articles are all about him. And the only way he thinks he can make himself look good is to defame everyone of any note. It doesn't work. He just comes across as a sleazy little man trying to bignote himself. Typical Dunning-Kruger - or worse.
(After reading and researching his articles in the past, I haven't yet found one where Jim doesn't misrepresent scientific papers and scientists.)
The only consolation i can offer is that you got under his skin - which is a good thing. You can stand tall. And you might even get some WUWT lurkers reading your blog, which would also be a good thing.
BTW - I noticed he pulled me into it, too. Goodness knows why. I'd love to take some credit - it was a great piece, but I had nothing to do with your article.
He's been increasingly nasty to me on LinkedIn. I just blocked and reported him there.
I've been insulted by professionals, so my first impulse was to let him rage. But cyber bullying is on the rise, and it should be responded to.
Anyway, I'll have to come up with another blog post (climate-related, but with a different focus) just to prove I can...
Here are some more ammunition if needed:
Papers on micro-organisms in permafrost
https://agwobserver.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/papers-on-micro-organisms-in-permafrost/
keep up the good work dcpetterson, your VOX articles on the Monkton "no warming" meme were brilliant
really well written and easy to understand
I think Sou is right. You've probably got under Watts's skin, which means that he thinks he's entitled to do things that most reasonable people would regard as pretty appalling. Of course, he doesn't need much of excuse.
I will instead thank you Whoppers for the support and encouragement.
It was amusing how Steele claimed Sou helped me with the anthrax article. I view that as high praise. I'm sure the piece would have been far better with her collaboration.
One unexpected and delightful result I see in the Wordpress stats is that I've gotten a sizable number of readers who came to my blog recently directly from WUWT. No evidence they read or understood anything, but it's still amusing.
Why should it concern them that he used them as a badge of authority, as though all he's ever done anything of substance for them besides being caretaker of their Sierra Mtn field campus where he could take college cuties on nice nature walks and do a little bird watching for science.
And if I might add a resource full of examples of Jim Steele's debate by slander style and his utter inability to rationally and constructive engage in a debate.
http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/p/landscapesandcycles.html
Fraud is as fraud does.
I worry ( <-too strong a word, but I don't have a better one) that we give JS too much attention. He's just a sorry little man after all, of no account, a legend in his own mind. A walk through the ocean of his soul would scarcely get one's toenails wet.
His odd notions are worth debunking, for they show how fluffy is the weight of contrarian ideas. He may be the best deniers have to offer, which is where the humor comes in. Maybe we can invent a character ("Sham Steal"?), put Jim's arguments into his mouth, and let Poe's Law have its way.
A] he was a camp director and care taker that's done precious little real science and that of the most basic level. (He was a bird watcher of some local renown back in the day.)
B] He's a malicious slanderer of honorable productive serious scientists, who he consistently misrepresents, both their words and their work. That needs to be objected to. It's rolling over to these villains for the past four decades that has gotten us into this global predicament.
His bulling has really screwed with some scientists for not legitimate reasons, PR victim, I know this from first hand correspondences. It's malicious and no one of any authority seems to have the gumption or integrity to say enough.
Can't have that.
jolly good, full speed ahead, now be a good laddie and stop the fretting.