I never said that Mr. Souza wasn't polite.
QUOTE(Abd @ Thu 6th May 2010, 2:24pm)
Permanent link to two discussions on Talk:WMCthe first, the section FYI, shows Connolley dismissing Cla pointing out the problems with WMC (and the cabal) as an attempt to get revenge:
(belated) as I understand it, I pissed of Cla 6 years ago and he is still trying to get revenge William M. Connolley (talk) 20:47, 5 May 2010 (UTC) That discussion is interesting, because they openly give their opinion that
this complaint is some conspiracy by me and others to get WMC in trouble. WMC and his buddies don't seem to understand that there can be consequences when they treat new editors rudely on global warming talk pages. In fact, they appear to be
in denial! After my own experience a few years ago that WMC referred to, I continued monitoring the global warming pages off and on. After a few years of observing WMC and Stephan Schulz repeatedly insulting and bullying editors who tried to suggest changes to "their" articles, I finally decided that it was time to get reinvolved.
In my opinion, the fact that this group is so readily eager to justify their actions and violations of Wikipedia's policies reaffirms my opinion that these guys are fanatics. I think WMC's group receives a lot of
empathy from Wikipedia's editing and admin community because many people believe that group is looking out for the "settled" position on climate change. What Wikipedia's administrators and other participants need to understand is that WMC's group represents climate science about as much as the
John Birch Society represents American conservative libertarianism. Within the climate science community, as I understand it, there is wide variation of opinion on the nature and severity of modern climate warming. WMC and his group represents the alarmist faction, which also includes, as I've said before, Dr. Mann's RealClimate group of associated researchers, some of whom were caught in the ClimateGate emails giving each other advice on how not to release data to climate change skeptics. It is not in Wikipedia's best interest to have these guys running the global warming articles.