Two days ago, I left a comment on The Huffington Post website about the article titled "ClimateGate: The 6 Most Dubious Claims About The Supposed "Global Warming Hoax." My comment basically consisted of a single sentence referring to a post I wrote on this subject a week ago:
 
Global Warming: A 'figure' is worth 1,000 words

Soon after I posted my comment, another HP reader left a comment for me saying nice things about my post and giving a link to the original report where I'd gotten some of my information.

As expected, my (simple) comment attracted a lot of attention. That's always a good thing, especially when it comes to these kinds of topics, except that when I looked for my comment three hours later, it was gone. So was the one in reply to it with the link to the report.

Apparently, for people who think global warming is a hoax, polite comments linking to official research on the subject is considered website abuse. Interestingly, all the rest of the comments were still untouched.

If you're interested, you can try to track down the comment I posted:

• There were 3 replies to your comment on ClimateGate: The 7 Biggest Lies About The Supposed "Global Warming Hoax".  Read them here:
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/climategate-the-7-biggest_n_371223.html?show_comment_id=35540467#comment_35540467

When did polite discussion of an important topic such as climate change become abusive?

Does it warrant censorship?

Have we as a society fallen so low that we can't even have debates anymore?

In short, this was pretty pathetic.