{"id":276853,"date":"2010-02-04T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5052"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:40:04","slug":"twitter-trend-the-global-warming-guerrillas-by-matt-ridley-uk-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276853","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Trend: The global warming guerrillas by Matt Ridley, UK Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=419\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Front Page News&quot;\">Front Page News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=517\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Matt Ridley&quot;\">Matt Ridley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"329\" class=\"bbcode_img_left\" src=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/attachments\/ftp\/Spectator%208.jpg\" alt=\"Image Attachment\" \/><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? \u2018Climategate\u2019 proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.<\/p>\n<p>It was not Private Eye, or the BBC or the News of the World, but a retired electrical engineer in Northampton, David Holland, whose freedom-of-information requests caused the Climategate scientists to break the law, according to the Information Commissioner. By contrast, it has so far attracted little attention that the leaked emails of Climategate include messages from reporters obsequiously seeking ammunition against the sceptics. Other emails have shown reporters meekly changing headlines to suit green activists, or being threatened with ostracism for even reporting the existence of a sceptical angle: \u2018Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,\u2019 one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. \u2018I sense that you are about to experience the \u201cBig Cutoff\u201d from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Click source to read more<\/p>\n<p>Source: spectator.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5052\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXqOaKvH8Tw4_2KrJdNbk7kxw6Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXqOaKvH8Tw4_2KrJdNbk7kxw6Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXqOaKvH8Tw4_2KrJdNbk7kxw6Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXqOaKvH8Tw4_2KrJdNbk7kxw6Q\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/isIViWMLd8w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Front Page News, Matt Ridley Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}