“McClintock was up in town tonight, to speak along with Mark Meckler at a Tea Party Patriots meeting,” writes local blogger Anna Haynes on her NCFocus. “(McClintock aide Igor Berman said the only Town Hall meeting per se that McClintock’s holding this week will be down in Lincoln Friday night).
“Afterward, I was able to speak one-on-one with McClintock for, it turned out, a very brief time. I showed him & started to narrate the ‘change in average global temperature 1920-2010′ image …which he did not want to look at, jumping in with ‘But it’s been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age’ (to which, alas, I did not give the correct ‘that was the sun, and this is fossil fuels’ response, instead a less correct ‘no, we’ve been warming since we started burning fossil fuels’ (note to blogger: practice with those flash cards!)
“He countered ’50 thousand years ago there was ice all over the northern hemisphere & we’ve been warming since then’; I countered ‘actually, that’s due to the Milankovitch cycles & we were actually cooling [slightly & gradually, before the start of the Industrial Revolution].’”
Anna’s full report is here.
Thanks Anna. I have read no other accounts from this meeting.
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Earth to McClintock: See ALABAMA…Kate
Don’t think any simple facts will change the mind of a Congressman who was co-sponsor of an initiative (Prop. 23), which California voters had the good sense to defeat, funded by oil companies, which aimed to gut the California climate change and clean air legislation (AB 32).
Not covered at all by the Tea Party Gazette as of early this AM.
It’s in direct conflict to speak SCIENCE with a Republican….
(Kinda like showing a Vampire a wooden stake! They all run off.)
JeffP, thank you for the shout-out, but a small observation, something you likely haven’t considered -
When you reprint the gist of the blogpost, rather than sending readers to the original, the effect is to keep readers and the Pelline/SFR commenting community on your site, rather than exposing them to the other local blogs and growing the commenter participation there.
(Case in point: Don Pelton commented on my NCFocus post, but if readers can read the blogpost here at chez Pelline without going to NCFocus, nobody here will see his comment; which will encourage him in future to comment here, rather than there.)
So while your desire to share info with your readers is admirable & appreciated, sending them to other local blogs would better encourage these blogs’ readership and audience participation – without which, there’s less incentive to invest time in blogging.
Does that make sense? (sometimes these days from the reactions, I fear my communication skills are rusted shut…)
Anna,
Just FYI:
I hyperlinked to your blog in the first sentence of this post, and then added again that “Anna’s full report is here” (with a second hyperlink).
I’ve shouted out your blog and others many times before, such as here:
http://sierrafoothillsreport.com/2010/01/14/local-blogging-offers-scoops-unique-content/
In fact, I’m mentioned your blog about 20 times, according to a search of the site.
I think you might draw more comments to your post if you blogged more often, a point I’ve mentioned previously.
Cheers.
> I hyperlinked to your blog
Yes, I saw that, and thank you, and thanks for other shout-outs; but again, if you reprint the gist of a local post, readers have no incentive to click on that link (and so, they miss any comments left there).
> you might draw more comments to your post if you blogged more often
Likely true (though NCVoices.us is meant as an antidote to the “publish often or wither” dynamic, since new posts always pop up on top of the heap); but it also helps when other bloggers with more traffic act to encourage it.
(sorry, i’m repeating myself. will stop now.)
An FYI primarily for JeffP, our resident pro journalist – I’m seeking a judgment call(s) bearing on last night’s McClintock/Meckler Tea Party Patriot event:
What may I blog about? A journo practices & standards Q (link)
…at the bottom of which post is a list of “event happenings” that would seem blogworthy, but the appropriateness of doing so may be debatable, given the context.
Anna, you will never convince Tom that your thesis holds water, so I am not sure why you bother.
People under the age of 35, that’s where you should be spending your time. IMHO.
The US Congress has an approval rating hovering somewhere near how people feel about Charles Manson. Speaking of which, perhaps Charlie should bring his show to the US Capitol Bldg., it would help that body make a certain amount of sense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBWy2ImaRyA
Anna our Rep McCintock has an agenda and he will not deviate from that agenda regardless of the amount of scientific proof and evidence you or anyone can present to him. I don’t believe that means we should cease but we need to keep in mind the audience. I have attended McClintock’s town halls and they are no more than a “us agin them” brouhaha of far right wing ideals. Half of the constituents in the district voted for another candidate like Emery or Curtis, but Tommy refuses to acknowledge that group, and the town halls become a TP ho-down for the radical right to denounce anything that is moderate and or logical.
But keep asking Anne you always have my support.