Increasingly, having left the New York Times, Andy Revkin seems less inclined to hide the fact that he's a warmist

Revealing Andrew Revkin podcast - The Death of Science Writing, and the Future of Catastrophe | Point of Inquiry

[At the 10:44 mark of this MP3, Revkin: "One reason I think the IPCC came under assault now and not when the report first came out in 2007 was the right-wing side of the blogosphere didn't exist then, at least in the way it does now.  The aggregators of all things skeptical were created late that year...Watts Up With That, the most popular blog aggregating skeptic climate stuff...didn't exist when the IPCC report rolled out..Now you have this sort of...a thousand pairs of eyes, or hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyes...when some assertion gets out there, can immediately dive into the IPCC details and find those few flaws that suit someone's agenda and then the amplifier gets turned on and it gets up into the sort of the Rush Limbaugh or George Will, that aspect is really astonishing to see."]

Twitter / Andy Revkin [with apparent approval, Revkin links to the post below about the new, more openly-partisan Revkin]

Sharp-eyed blogger Chris Dunford notices "a change in the wind" at @dotearth: http://j.mp/dotShift

Just Weird Stuff: A Change in the Wind at Dot Earth?

There's no shortage of fact-challenged climate change "skeptics" commenting at Dot Earth, but in the past Revkin has rarely engaged directly. This seems to have suddenly changed. A few examples
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In the past, such posts would rarely have merited a Revkin response. Suddenly they're everywhere. What's going on?

Well, surely the fact that he's no longer a Times reporter has something to do with it. It has to be somewhat liberating to be freed of the responsibility to provide "balanced" coverage, right?