Rollie Williams is a comedian who has a masters degree in Climate Science and Policy. He has a YouTube channel called Climate Town. He puts out about one or two slick, very well made videos a month that are in a style like John Oliver, Steven Colbert and all the other late night hosts, Greg Gutfeld notwithstanding. He’s young, talented, glib and energetic. He also has a podcast called The Climate Denier’s Playbook with a cohost who actually worked on the Daily Show. His Twitter/X handle is @ClimateTown.
This is his latest video where he complains about oil companies financing pro fossil fuel books in children’s schools:
He is particularly incensed by the Heartland Institute. He shows a page from the 2012 Heartland document release (with no mention of who or how). It shows a $75 K entry for school materials. The really interesting thing is at twenty six minutes. He says he will personally respond to any comment that uses the words “Easter egg”. Well I would certainly like a couple of responses from him so I posted a couple comments:
@mdombroski
1 second ago Easter egg! Wow, there’s a book called Petro Pete’s Big Bad Dream about how bad things would be if oil disappeared. Is there anything in it that’s not empirically true?
@mdombroski
0 seconds ago Easter egg. You show a Heartland document page from the cache of material Peter Gleick Stole. Is this from the document that he clearly forged as shown by Steven Mosher? http://rankexploits.com/musings/2012/tell-me-whats-horrible-about-this/
I’m eagerly awaiting his responses to me or anyone else who might have some pointed questions.
Note: I copied and pasted the two comments from the tab where I made the comments. The “1 second ago” in the first one links to the video with the comment highlighted. The “0 seconds ago” links to the video with the comment nowhere in sight.
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Update 9/16/23: Rollie did make a rather generic response to my first question:
Climate Town replied: “It’s great to meet a fan! Check out my podcast for the answer to that question and more.”
He didn’t really address my point, but there are over four thousand comments and of the ones I’ve looked at, there appear to be a substantial number mentioning Easter eggs. My comment is admittedly a trolling wisecrack, but it’s interesting that someone with Rollie’s wit and glibness can’t come up with a zinger of a retort. I’d say this has to do with the substance, or more precisely, the lack of substance in his videos. He did direct me to his podcast and I have listened to a number of them. What’s notable about them is that he and his cohost are mostly extemporaneously bouncing rather lame jokes off each other. He’s actually kind of monotonous when he hasn’t been polished and edited like his videos are.
My second comment disappearing is a more substantial matter. I bring up some details about what might be called Gleickgate that Rollie’s side does not like to comment on. I suppose the comment could’ve been deleted because it contained a link — either because of a policy forbidding links or because the Climate Town channel didn’t like the link.
Climate Scepticism 
Thanks Mike, the guy seems to be blind to the other side of the problem re scared kids over climate doom.
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Mike,
Has he replied yet?
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Mark, I just added an update at the end of the post.
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Mike,
I’ve only just got around to viewing the Rollie video. I agree that it is very slick and it does a good job of highlighting the extent to which the oil industry has invested in getting their preferred message across in the schools. This is something well worth remembering when we complain about climate activists doing the same. The fact is that, as far as the climate change debate is concerned, the schoolroom is where the struggle to gain hearts and minds starts. However, what Rollie’s video also does very well is to falsely portray this as a propaganda exercise that is all one-sided. And as you say, Rollie doesn’t at any point address the fundamental argument made by the oil industry, which is to ask how exactly can the transition be achieved given the extent to which modern society has become dependent upon oil products. Just being part of the propaganda doesn’t make it any the less a valid question requiring an answer.
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Thanks for that John. I do like to keep an eye on both sides of the debate, because I don’t like being blindsided. But I must admit that I do get a bit of a cheap rush when I’m the one doing the blindsiding.
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