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Category: climate communication
Posted on: December 23, 2009 5:57 PM, by William M. Connolley
The latest is http://connelleywatch.blogspot.com/. I'd be slightly more honoured if my watcher was watching closely enough to spell my name.
[Update: they have (silently) taken my comment to heart and moved it to http://connolleywatch.blogspot.com/]
[Late update: thanks to JG for the pic: 
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At least whoever it is is taking your advice. They've moved it to ConnolleyWatch.blogspot.com
[Ho ho. So they have. Thanks -W]
Posted by: silence | December 23, 2009 6:27 PM
Hmmm, I wonder if Google has a policy on stalkers using their Blogger system?
Posted by: Hank Roberts | December 23, 2009 8:08 PM
Hey I'm jealous now!
There's collnonenoelelywatch, that unused blog for rejected comments on RC and tamino....why is no-one stalking me?
[You spend too long talking about boring old science, not political fluff. Anyway, now you believe cl sens is 2 oC, you're a skeptic posterboy :-) -W]
Posted by: James Annan | December 23, 2009 9:23 PM
Well least it wasn't named ConnelleyAudit.
Posted by: Bill O'Slatter | December 24, 2009 12:10 AM
Well, you have a damn hard name to spell -- you'd know if you tried spelling two syllable names instead of just using initials. You can't expect someone to learn something about wikipedia AND spell full names correctly.
Posted by: Steve L | December 24, 2009 12:26 AM
"Hey I'm cool now since I'm POPULAR."
You pursued power for ignoble purpose.
Now the party is over.
Posted by: NikFromNYC | December 24, 2009 1:45 AM
now they do :)
http://connolleywatch.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Magnus W | December 24, 2009 3:12 AM
That's incredible...
Posted by: Crazy Bill | December 24, 2009 3:26 AM
Could be as simple as you having delusions of grandeur!
Posted by: twawki | December 24, 2009 4:14 AM
"Could be as simple as you having delusions of grandeur!"
spoken like a true stalker.
I really think the sceptics are loosing it. First theft, then stalking, what's next?
Posted by: Peter Hearnden | December 24, 2009 4:27 AM
"I wonder if Google has a policy on stalkers using their Blogger system"
I doubt it. See Bloggerheads (www.bloggerheads.com) passim for just how little Google cares what people post on their blogsites.
Posted by: Adam | December 24, 2009 4:45 AM
When you find a horse's head in your bed it's time to worry that these stalkers are getting serious.
Posted by: Thomas | December 24, 2009 5:49 AM
I would be quite concerned if I was you...I think you got at the most 4 weeks more before you are sued etc so I would get out ASAP
Posted by: Stephan | December 24, 2009 7:30 AM
Do they even know you don't work in the climatology arena any more?
BUt certaintly it shows the expected pattern of harrassment of any scientist who dares to actually speak out on the issue. Rather, you should be in your lab producing stuff, never mind what impact it may have on the outside world.
Wait a minute, havn't they been on at scientists for years for hiding in their ivory towers and not doing enough interaction with the public?
Yet when you do, you get harassed and hounded?
Let us know when you get your first death threat.
Posted by: guthrie | December 24, 2009 7:33 AM
As someone ideally placed to "watch" you, I'm thinking of starting my own version: "Today, WMC wrote some code and went to lunch. Blah Al Gore blah socialism warmist wibble spong."
[Don't forget, I've turned into the man of the snows and don't write any code any more, you're clearly not watching very carefully :-) -W]
Posted by: Paul Wright | December 24, 2009 7:45 AM
I bet he puts ketchup and a slice of ripe, red tomato on his somewhat pink-in-the-middle burger, and washes it down with a Red Hook Ale. Sure signs of socialism ...
Posted by: dhogaza | December 24, 2009 8:10 AM
Eli has the real Connolley Watch
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/belette/68700660/ -W]
Posted by: Eli Rabett | December 24, 2009 9:55 AM
You've received a badge of honor, William. Not as good as Lubos Motl (apparently) writing a wiki attack article about you, but still not bad.
Posted by: Brian Schmidt | December 27, 2009 6:15 PM
13 Stephan,
Really? Sued? By whom? On what grounds? And get out of where?
Posted by: TrueSceptic | December 28, 2009 2:09 PM
don't write any code any more
A sad day?
Posted by: Nick Barnes | December 29, 2009 8:09 AM
Lawrence Solomon strikes again.
Sample falsehood:
"Before the hockey stick graphs began to be published about a decade ago, scientists everywhere - including those associated with the UN itself - viewed the Medieval Warm Period as much hotter than today. Rather than appearing as a modest bump compared to today's high temperatures, the Medieval Warm Period looked more like a mountain next to the molehill that is today's temperature increase."
Posted by: Deep Climate | December 29, 2009 5:43 PM
21 DC,
So, Solomon is either a liar or highly delusional.
Now, where would he claim to have seen that "mountain" pre-1998? That might be fun.
(The stupid gets harder to take by the day.)
Posted by: TrueSceptic | December 29, 2009 6:10 PM
You gotta remember, it's _pictures_ that convince these people. Lookit the size of that bump there!
http://images.google.com/images?q="medieval warm period"
[Interesting. That lead me to http://pages.science-skeptical.de/MWP/MedievalWarmPeriod.html which purports to show a global MWP but actually to my eye shows the opposite. I'll race Eli to blogging it -W]
Posted by: Hank Roberts | December 29, 2009 11:00 PM
don't write any code any more
A sad day?
Depends on what you get paid for not writing code
[Don't worry. It wasn't strictly true -W]
Posted by: Eli Rabett | December 29, 2009 11:09 PM
Oh, boy, look what kind of comment they got there! "I tend to use Conservapedia instead as it's free of liberal bias. It hasn't got as much content as wikipedia yet, but i'll take quality over quantity any day." Wish I knew Latin so I could say something pithy in it. Settling for English: If the evil scientific community doesn't agree with you, just write your own Truth. :)
[I like the bit about dinosaurs believed to be extinct, but there being good evidence that they aren't -W]
Posted by: Andy Wickert | December 30, 2009 11:31 AM
Oh, man! Conservapedia is the next best thing since Uncyclopedia! A caption from its article on Global Warming under a fire-breathing picture of Al Gore: "Al Gore's Schlockumentary under fire; An Inconvenient Truth found to be an inconvenient lie based on junk science and digitally enhanced, totally faked scenes of polar icecaps melting." Duuude, I think the just totally slammed him. Buuuurn.
Posted by: Andy Wickert | December 30, 2009 11:37 AM
25, 26 Andy,
Compare Conservapedia with STR The Freedom Blog. Poe's Law indeed.
Posted by: TrueSceptic | December 30, 2009 1:29 PM
Oh, it's even better, Andy, their next project is to product their own version of the Bible.
With all the evil liberal bits taken out.
I'm serious ...
Posted by: dhogaza | December 30, 2009 2:38 PM
28 dhogaza,
But...but...but doesn't that mean Jesus: no more Mr Nice Guy?
Posted by: TrueSceptic | December 30, 2009 3:41 PM
> no more Mr. Nice Guy?
and pictures to prove it:
http://webpages.charter.net/micah/jesus.jpg
Posted by: Hank Roberts | December 30, 2009 10:51 PM
Oh, my, the buddy jesus ... I liked that movie.
Posted by: dhogaza | December 31, 2009 12:35 AM
I personally don't think you deserve a stalker blog. Just undoing your damage to wikipedia would be enough.
[Having just checked, I see that blog isn't doing a very good job of stalking me. If you have anything of substance to say, do let me know -W]
Posted by: Sam Spade | December 31, 2009 5:18 AM
It would be nice if Sam Spade would give an example of "damage" that William Connolley supposedly has done.
Somehow I think the "damage" would be correcting false statements. Very damaging indeed...
Posted by: Marco | December 31, 2009 8:08 AM
yes, how *DARE* you try and make wikipedia into a useful resource on any topic other than pokemon and sonic the hedgehog characters. for shame.
anyway, have a good new year, and keep up the good work!
Posted by: ligne | January 1, 2010 3:47 PM
Dr Connolley, Happy New Year.
I have spent the last couple of days trying to catch up on the global warming scene and naturally popped in to see what you were saying. For what it's worth for others, if interested, I have done the rounds with Dr Annan (on probability, verification and skill, old papers but still good, and his paper on sensitivity which I found very interesting), RC (just about everything)Rabbettrun (always worth a visit) Tamino and the other lot including McI etc and others.
I read quite a bit of the stuff on the Get WMC campaign and frankly found it shocking. It struck me as significantly over the top and unnecessary. I suppose Ancient Rome was like that. I suspect that the Bard would have made a rattling good yarn out of it to rival Titus Andronicus as a video nasty.
For what it is worth, I always find your climate stuff interesting. Dont weaken.
Posted by: Eachran | January 3, 2010 12:34 PM