No, thank you Daphne

Have to add my thanks to the list. In particular, thanks to the “behind the scenes” moderators, who must toil at all hours of the day and night to keep this site fresh and active.
Best Wishes,
John M
[REPLY – “The roadies don’t mind. So, won’t you stay just a little bit longer . . .” ~ Evan]

Messrs watts and mcintyre may never receive official recognition but your unstinting efforts to promote SCIENCE are one of the great contributions to world progress. Instead of wasting money on fighting warming we can focus on real issues. Keep it up. The battle won, not yet the war

I have been following WUWT for 18 months and I have the highest respect for Anthony and the moderators (and please allow me to include CA and Steve McIntyre in this).
You are doing the world a great service, succeeding where some “scientists” and the MSM are failing.
Thank you very much, please keep it up!

Picture of Daphne or the comment did not happen.

Ditto to all of the above . I found this site about a year ago , and have read it daily ever since ( except on rare days when I was away from a computer ) . In addition to Anthony and his crew , I would also like to thank all of the posters , and many of the commenters as well . You have all helped me immeasureably . For the last couple of years , I have told anyone who would listen – they are few and far between – that the proponents of AGW have a social and political agenda that had little to do with the environment . Not only have you helped me to prove that , you have helped me with the science behind it .
I also would like to contribute to the your work , Anthony . I emailed surfacestations.org about sending a check , as I don’t do financial stuff on line , but haven’t heard back , although I certainly understand why . Will the address in Chico work ? To whom do I make it out ? ( Just email me if you wish . ) Thanks again .

I would like to add my own “well done” and Thankyou all to make this blog possible, and as valuable as it is.
I learned first hand years ago how media and the news could be biased and manipulated to push an agenda when I worked in state government. On several occasions I had the opportunity to sit in the back of the room during a press conference and then go home and watch both the local and national news conference coverage.
It was a revelation to see how much editorial twisting of the facts or when video scenes were cut effected the tone and content of the message. Sometimes it was difficult to believe the reporters were reporting on the same news event. In many cases without the personal background of having sat in the room during the actual news conference the average viewer would have absolutely no idea that the message they were seeing was being skewed by either intentional editorial control or personal biases imposed unconsciously by certain reporters and news directors in how the story was edited.
With that background I instinctively distrusted the AGW message as I could see all the signs and symptoms of pathological spin control. Things like instantaneous adoption of the exact same “talking points” and the methodical use of the same pejorative terms like “deniers”, the continuous redirection of arguments to tangents when uncomfortable questions were asked, and the persistent resistance to actually answer the question asked but to redefine the question and give a canned answer.
I finally found WUWT a little over a year ago, and what a breath of fresh air! Even people who obviously shared the same skeptical view of the science of global warming would not let poorly reasoned or documented assertions stand from other skeptics. They consistently held each others feet to the fire of good science and honest inquiry.
I hope history will give this blog the credit it deserves (along with a handful of other major contributors ). This blog should be mandatory reading for undergraduates in the physical sciences to show them by example that good science works, and how it works. Most importantly in an increasingly disrespectful world, demonstrate that you can debate an issue with out being a jerk, and verbally abusive.
Again thank you all, Anthony, moderators and all the fine contributors that makes this web site so enjoyable to visit.
Larry

Absolutely. And thanks to McIntyre, McKitrick, Id, and everyone else who has pursued the AGW myth with rigor, pluck, and fortitude. The battle is not over, but the tide has turned. And all due credit for that goes to the friends and associates of WUWT.
Muchas gracias.
[REPLY – It’s our battle of Moscow. Stalingrad lies ahead. And Kursk after that . . . ~ Evan]

While the blogs are excellent (even though I have disagreed with one or two), it is the comment section that I am most thankful for. It is here that the common person can chew, digest, and discuss these issues and theories, and at a higher level than is afforded us in our own little worlds. I learn from posting my comments and from reading others. It is the discussion that burnishes the precious metal. So thank you for your generous spirit in allowing our debate and your light hand in keeping us civil.

enough said;
“6. What sets the earths effective radiative temperature is the atmospheric lapse rate which drives the local IR level radiated to space.
Do not buy into the AGW spin argument of 1/2 up 1/2 down. It is incredible how many people do.”
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Thank you for that.
Time and again I read that radiation is basically irrelevant within pressures of 1 bar or so and yet everybody goes right back to ignoring collision and convection.
On topic: Anthony, slow down with the posts already. Let me get some work done. And save my marriage!

“This has been the most intellectually thrilling week ever!” Reading it is fun in a von Daniken kind of way.
Kind of like prisonplanet.

Anthony
My computer time has been severely limited in the last couple weeks, and I missed this post when it first appeared, so I’d like to add my belated thanks and congratulations to you and your mods for your almost unbelievable service. I’ve been frequenting this site since the early summer of 07, when it was dedicated almost exclusively to highlighting the numerous siting problems of the surface station network and watching it grow in breadth and influence in these all too interesting times has given me hope that hard work and dedication can still be rewarded in this country. The grace and equanimity you have demonstrated in the face of the calumnies and abuse that have often been rained down on you by the alarmist crowd prove that you are a better man than me. In similar circumstances I fear I would have succumbed to a CRU like impulse to seek out the more egregious actors and pound knots on their heads. I haven’t always found all the science presented here convincing, but your open manner of dealing with comments has assured that the relative strengths and weaknesses of each post has been fairly thoroughly illuminated by the time the thread fizzles out, for all who take the time to read. It would be great if this kind of real time peer review could become the model for science going forward, but I fear the difficulty with that plan would be in finding a sufficient number of individuals who share your inherent decency to man the portals of such fora to maintain the level of integrity you’ve demonstrated. Thanks again for your invaluable work.