I’ve decided to step away from WUWT this weekend. Both my wife and I are sick with a cold. I’m very tired, and I need to do something else for awhile besides moderate squabbles; like work on my paper which keeps getting time taken away from it by the attention this blog requires.
If you have something worth posting on the front page, flag a moderator. Those that want to do guest posts are welcome to do so also. Again, flag a moderator for attention. Those that have author permission already, go for it.
I’ll resume posting if I feel up to it Sunday night.
In the meantime, talk quietly and politely amongst yourselves. Don’t make me come back here.
– Anthony
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Good for you, a well deserved break.
Have a good weekend Anthony and thanks for everything you do.
Met Office drops seasonal forecasts. By Clive Cookson, Science Editor
Burnt by bad publicity over last year’s forecast of a “barbecue summer” – and its failure to warn the public of the coldest winter for 30 years – the Met Office has dropped its much-maligned seasonal forecasts.
The national weather forecaster would typically have issued its forecast for spring by early March. On thursday, however, it posted an explanation on its website.
“In our customer research the public have told us they would like a monthly outlook,” the Met Office said. “We have therefore decided to stop issuing a UK ‘seasonal forecast’ four times a year. Instead, we will now publish a monthly outlook, updated on a weekly basis.”
John Hammond, Met Office representative, denied that the change was a direct response to poor publicity. “We have done a lot of work with the public, finding out what they find useful,” he said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87b15120-2888-11df-a0b1-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Just have a good long rest, wish you speedy recovery.
How to get rich real quick without doing anything!
http://www.france24.com/en/20100305-eus-carbon-fat-cats-get-rich-off-trading-scheme-study?quicktabs_1=0
So that’s where I picked up my bug from. You darn skeptics.
Fluids, vitamins, and rest.
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Have a well deserved break … and hope the cold gets better soon.
Best wishes Margaret
JAXA – The latest value : 14,314,375 km2 (March 5, 2010) +99,375 since yesterday
Enjoy, relax and hope you get to feeling better soon!
I know it’s Mann. Just had to toss the cookie.
Have a good break Anthony.
Not directly climate related but interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8546032.stm
Pity you have a cold,but i hope you enjoy your “time out” anyway.
thank you for your efforts and you do a wonderful job.. so you definatly need a break.. i am sure we who read and post here will look after this for you.
Its terrible to have to sort out grammatical pedants who have no concept of it’s effect on a blog author.
Well done, Anthony, and have a good break.
Take it easy, Anthony; you have developed enough momentum here for this outfit to keep rolling, driverless but to good purpose, for quite some time.
Donna Laframboise and Richard Tol have some pretty devastating criticisms of the IPCC working group 3 report.
‘……….despite vigorous protests from its own expert reviewers, in this chapter [11] only 58% of the documents cited by the IPCC were peer-reviewed.’
http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/03/almost-half-non-peer-reviewed.html
Anthony,
Refresh, and renew. And keep up the great work. Every day I watch in awe at you efforts and wonder how I can support you.
I have a PhD, but not a climate based discipline. I have sufficient passion to email the entire Australian Senate on a monthly basis. But most importantly I have children. Children that in their own innocence are capable of asking the right questions re: the role of man in climate change.
My proudest moment was when my son’s school report said “James takes particular interest in playing “Devil’s Advocate” in discussions regarding Climate Change. His insights are valued by the class”.
It may take time, but it is worth it.
Best regards,
Kiwi fruit will do you and yours a world of good, Anthony, and they taste great too. Kiwi are rich in phytochemicals, anti-oxidants, vitamins C and E and useful minerals.
Keep up the good work Anthony and have a good weekends break. Your excellent WUWT blog has always been more about quality than quantity. Oh and I promise to try and not start any squabbles with my comments on here!
Good idea, Anthony. And take no notice of the nit-picking grammarians and Scottish nationalists. This weblog is great. And a constant source of interest with so many articles coming thick and fast. Bravo!
Just dont tell the Missus you was with me in mermaid town.
Have a goodweegend as we say.
Mystic Met Office abandons long range forecasts
They’re rubbish, and they’ve run out of tea leaves
By Andrew Orlowski • TheRegister.co.uk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/mystic_met/
The Met Office has confirmed it is to abandon long range weather forecasts, finally acknowledging criticism. The most recent forecasts were so inaccurate, that even the BBC is reconsidering whether to appoint an alternative supplier, such as Accuweather, after 88 years of continuous service from the 1,700-strong MoD unit.
The Mystic Met predicted a barbecue summer for 2009, and the third washout in a row, with the wettest July since 1914, duly followed. A mild winter was then given a high probability, only for the UK to suffer its coldest winter for 30 years. Yet Met Office staff received performance-related pay bonuses worth over £12m over 5 years, it was revealed last week, in response to a Parliamentary question………………………
Take the time to get better. Don’t rush it.
Warm up the house. Keep good company. Relax.
Can I ask if anyone can recommend a site which is looking at the (possibly/probably ) flawed economic assumptions of the alarmist movement? Seems to me that the economics surrounding the proposed governmental and intergovernmental reaction to AGW and the possible balance between mitigation and adaptation are just as ripe for audit and interrogation as the science. Is anyone pulling Stern apart alongside the CRU and IPCC?
Reply: Pielke’s been working on the disaster sections. ~ ctm
Awww c’mon folks, it’s just a cold. (will they get worse with global warming?)
You have been working long and hard, thats obvious. Don’t take any advice from the wanna be naturopaths. The only thing that’ll fix your cold is to share a bottle of Bundy Rum with the missus. That fixes everything.