"(William)
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used
information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia.
Starting
in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band
members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia
site.
He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on
the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the
urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling.
On
Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval
Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick
graph.
He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band.
Richard
Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate
scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the
band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the
Medieval Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles.
His
control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he
obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to
act with virtual impunity.
When Connolley didn’t like the
subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of
various descriptions disappeared at his hand.
When he
disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them
barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found
themselves blocked from making further contributions.
Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings.
In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement."
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