2019-01-27

L'affaire David Roberts

Part n in a series of me offending "prominent" people.

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Whilst I do seem to frequently disagree with him, I wasn't expecting him to be a snowflake.

Refs


* Government Needs No Money to Curtail Pollution by Bryan Caplan
* What Should Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? by Paul Krugman

8 comments:

...and Then There's Physics said...

Maybe you're aware if this, but there was a bit of a Twitter furore (mostly generated by RPJ) because David Roberts was given a blocklist by Katharine Hayhoe that led to RPJ then being blocked by David Roberts. It's possible that you're simply on the blocklist for some reason and that he didn't block you specifically.

William M. Connolley said...

Interesting. By bizarre coincidence KH blocks me too, as intimated. But DR is responsible for his own choices.

THE CLIMATE WARS said...

If the blizzard of snowflakery has engulfed Katharine Keyhoe, we should volunteer to dig her out.

David B. Benson said...

"Blocklist" is now a technical term in advanced accounting.

THE CLIMATE WARS said...

That makes sense, David, as I have long suspected 'blocklist' to be the coinage of some blockhead at H.& R. Block

Paul Kelly said...

Hope you have time to entertain a question from the peanut gallery. Is there any connection between polar sea ice and the southward dip in the polar vortex now bringing record breaking cold to the American Midwest?

Sou said...

Would you like one of us to ask David to unblock you? It was probably unintentional (as ATTP suggested). It happens.

(No guarantees it will work but it might.)

William M. Connolley said...

> Is there any connection between polar sea ice and the southward dip in the polar vortex now bringing record breaking cold to the American Midwest?

That is probably a good question. Alas, there is so much news about "polar vortex" that I feel obliged to ignore it; like "the pause" it is a thing with more explanations than substance.

> one of us to ask David to unblock you?

I treasure my enemies :-)