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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1029680)	9/5/2017 4:16:02 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1571040

Friday, August 25, 2017 Roy Spencer's latest silly conspiracy theory at WUWT. Delusions, including of grandeur Sou \| 11:28 PM Roy Spencer feels he is being attacked. It's all because he wrote an ebook in two weeks and put it up for sale on Amazon. Anthony Watts promoted his conspiracy theory at WUWT (archived here). His headline and opening sentence were: After publishing new book critical of Al Gore, climate scientist has website shut down by attacks This is the equivalent of a modem day book burning.Is poor little Roy Spencer being singled out by Al Gore for attack or has Roy found a novel way to get people to buy his little ebook? I'm sceptical. However, let's look at his claim that was echoed and amplified by climate conspiracy theorist Anthony Watts. I've mixed up the facts with Roy and Anthony's hypothesis, which demonstrates (again) the foolishness of deniers. It also demonstrates their delusions of grandeur and their paranoia. Roy wrote a silly book that nobody except deniers took any notice of. His book was picking nits with Al Gore's bookaccompanying his new film "An Inconvenient Sequel"Roy's website went down for a couple of hours. Al Gore is a director of Apple, Inc.Roy Spencer's website is hosted on Dreamhost.com - nothing to do with Apple as far as I know.Dreamhost.com was down for a couple of hours. It suffered a distributed denial of service attack, as reported on ZDNet. (This was not reported by Anthony Watts or Roy Spencer.)Al Gore must have arranged the recent shutdown of Dreamhost.com and all its customers, all to get back at one single website, that of Roy Spencer. (This is the WUWT conspiracy theory.) Yep, it takes a special kind of person to build a conspiracy out of those unconnected facts. The kind of special person who might be referred to a specialist :) There's more. Anthony Watts implies that Al Gore stopped Wordpress advertisements back in 2009. He reckons it happened because Anthony wrote about some stolen emails. He claimed, wrongly, that Al Gore was a director of Google. He wasn't. In 2001 he was appointed a Senior Advisor to Google, before it incorporated. I don't think he still is and I don't know if he was still in the role in 2009. Regardless, I doubt he had such a huge amount of influence over Adwords (if any) that he'd get someone to stop a revenue stream. What's interesting is the idea that Anthony Watts is paying for Adwords. Who knew. (I doubt this. I think it's more likely that Anthony doesn't understand Google and/or Wordpress advertising. He's not too clued up when it comes to the internet.) I'm still not in a position to write in-depth articles and I've not bothered to read Roy's book to pull it apart. Just thought you might like to know that nothing has changed in deniersville. They continue to conspiracy theorise like crazy, are stuck in the "algore is fat" mode, and bend over backwards to play the persecuted victim/hero. blog.hotwhopper.com