Rabett Run, Where You Read It Before It Happens, Unless You Forget It In the Meantime

Some recent things have shown Eli how nothing changes.  Stuff that was a farce back then remains a farce today,  It's not that history occurs first as tragedy then as comedy, it always was comedy.  Now and again, Eli points out that Rabett Run is the Onion of climate blogging, America's best news source where you read it before it happens.

To frame this discussion Eli was reading Climate of Gavin

Two reasons spring to mind.
1) They're terrible communicators & continually fail to get the point they want across.
2) They're good communicators but they keep saying things that feed an existing narrative that they (nominally) don't agree with but keep getting swept up in.

— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) April 23, 2018

Eli thought this left something important out

You are much too nice.

There is always 3) they want to feed the political narrative but leave room to retreat to the facts or at least be able to make a risible claim of doing so.

— eli rabett (@EthonRaptor) April 23, 2018

A couple of days ago the Run featured an interchange between Roger Pielke Jr and Michael Mann, no strangers they to the climate wars

Your advice please
Tweeps.

Michael E Mann, the nation’s top science communicator, is using his forum to spread outright lies about me.

I have never had any relationship with The Heartland Institute. None in any way.

Yet, the lies contiue⤵️ pic.twitter.com/sMyhL6KCcW

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) March 21, 2018

Mann has been informed of the facts.
Heartland has been notified.
Both need to stop their lies.

— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) March 21, 2018

Heartland has been notified.  Roger sorely put upon.   How dare they.  Whoo boy read the entire thing and you will need to wash the spit off.

A bit of poking in the archives and what turns up :)  Surprise, Roger played this tune before back when in 2012, big surprise to him, Heartland listed him as a Heartland Expert.  Knew nothing about it but the same lots of indignation that anybunny dare think he was a Heartland Expert (Heartland took it down too).  Even more spit.

Now some, not Eli to be sure, might think that this is a little close to 3), just enough implausible denial that you can't quite pin stuff on Roger, but strange that he didn't recall Act I.  Very strange.

Some, not Eli to be sure, might think that Roger is quite happy to cuddle in with Heartland as long as no one calls him on it, and if you do, be sure that he will react with indignation and bad words.

Gotta get back to science.  This is too depressing.