Before everyone squares off and wants to knock the chip off my block I need to declare upfront that even content is a factor in this post, the real question that I am posing is about process, the rewriting, or de-writing of history.

So I have watched JT, Rick, Gug try to converse about JT's most recent post about the eco-warriors and the size of their carbon footprint.  I was staying out of it because I wanted to observe how Rick's conversation model worked.  But I decided last night that I would post a couple of questions for JT and others about this latest blog item.  Here are the questions I was planning to post:

JT, since you are rather firmly on the record that global warming is not anthropogenic, not primarily caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases related to the burning of fossil fuels, why would it matter to you and why would you bother to post about the carbon footprint of Gore or anyone?  

If your position on global warming is intellectually honest, and you really believe that global warming is caused by things that are causing the ice caps on Mars to melt, what difference does it make how much fossil fuel or greenhouse gas is emitted or attributed to anyone?

If your argument and position regarding is intellectually honest why would you post this latest item?  

My sense on that is that your argument and position is primarily political and pragmatic, not scientific or intellectually honest.  

and that of course, leads to the question for Rick and others in the "conversation" camp: do you think a conversation is going to move or illuminate things for folks whose commitment is so brutally efficient, politically pragmatic, and bereft of consistency and intellectual honesty?

But I look around today and I see that JT's most recent post appears to have disappeared. This happened earlier with Olycop's bit of brilliant science tracking global warming to environmentalists and catalytic converters.  This bit of pragmatic, political quackery has disappeared and I think that is wrong. 

I believe the record here should be cached, with ability to be referenced. Once an item is posted and broadcast, I think an argument of intellectual property is out the window.  And the current model that apparently allows a person to delete items essentially changes the historical record.  I think that was one of Orwell's points, who controls the past, controls the future. 

Any thoughts about process?