I continue to marvel at the parallels between WUWT and Climate Progress. Let's examine recent comment threads from both blogs, in which the majority of commenters impugned the motives and character of their respective targets. Exhibit A is the festival of insults and accusations that Anthony Watts allows in this thread about Bill McKibben. But let me back up for a minute to the source of ire for Watts and his readers. On Thursday, McKibben published an opinion piece in the LA Times. Referring to his 350 organization, he wrote that
we recently issued a call for ideas about a campaign of civil disobedience next spring "” at power plants and coal mines but at White Houses too, if they don't turn at least a little green.
Oddly, Watts interprets this as a "threat" and then makes an unseemly insinuation after that McKibben passage about a planned civil disobedience campaign:
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