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4 <br /> Creepy and Disturbing Tracking of <br /> Climate Activists <br /> A new wave of politically driven attacks on environmentalists and climate change advocates is <br /> emerging. It's creepy and disturbing. It resembles tracking or stalking. And it's serious. The following <br /> post was first published on Desmog. (golly Montpellier:Editor for BoomerWarrror). <br /> Il <br /> r ^ <br /> s � <br /> Creepy and Disturbing <br /> In a video posted to , respected author and climate change campaigner Bill McKibben turns for <br /> just a second or two to eyeball the person holding the camera, before turning his gaze back to the <br /> front of the room. There is no context to the video. Nothing is said. <br /> In another video taken in Australia, McKibben is shown speaking to an audience, but the context is <br /> again removed. His words are replaced with music. <br /> To most people chancing upon the videos,the two clips would seem incongruous and pointless. <br /> But the Vine channel belongs to CoreNews.org—a website that is the public facing arm of a new <br /> politically-motivated attack on environmentalists and climate change campaigners operated by well <br /> connected political advisers and researchers_ <br /> Lasting only a few seconds, the videos were an attempt to put a shot across the bows of McKibben <br /> and his supporters, of which there are many.A promise made weeks earlier by Republican Party <br /> activists to follow him around with a video camera wherever he might go—had <br /> apparently begun. <br /> The videos were taken by so-called"trackers"working for (AR2), an <br /> operation that has sprung from the new wave of attacks on climate activists that has become a <br /> mainstay of the US political machinery. <br />