Forbes's display of cowardice winds up being pointless

Recall the item in the Tuesday Roundup below about the climate activist who concluded that the alarmist nature of the movement was completely unfounded and that he owed the world an apology for peddling falsehoods and profoundly mistaken notions?

I linked to a site called Environmental Progress at which it appeared, and it's still there. It seems it also appeared at Forbes, but it's not there anymore.

John Robson at National Post looked into why that magazine took it down. As best he could, anyway. He still can't find a substantive reason:

Their reply, which would make a seasoned politician or bureaucrat blush, read, in its entirety, “You can attribute the below statement to a Forbes spokesperson. Forbes requires its contributors to adhere to strict editorial guidelines. This story did not follow those guidelines, and was removed.”

I responded tartly: “Thanks. But obviously this statement raises fresh questions, particularly: 1. Which guidelines did it not follow? 2. In what way did it not follow them? 3. How often do you remove a story for violating those guidelines?”

Not to worry. As I say, it's still up at Environmental Progress, and generously excerpted here at LITD.  And the book from which it comes, Apocalypse Never, is Amazon's number-one best-seller in its climatology category.

So Forbes didn't get much payoff for its kowtow to the jackboots.