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
** Ed Murphy (01:47:02) :
Kiwi fruit (sic) will do you and yours a world of good**
I couldn’t agree more, but Anthony’s timing for getting his cold (and me getting mine) is dreadful. Northern hemisphere fruit has been in storage for 3-6 months and the southern hemisphere fruit are not quite ready for picking. Fresh fruit are always the best.
Perhaps a week or two on holiday and ignoring us parasites 🙂 would work wonders, stress does funny things.
As a minor nit, kiwis are fluffy flightless nocturnal birds. or colloquially people from New Zealand. Would you abbreviate grapefruit to grape?
Hope people take note about your comment about squabbles…. Goodness knows where I would get my info if you decided to do a Richard Dawkins and close your blog because you got fed up with the antagonism in some comments.. Hope people take note and moderate themselves in their bombast! Thanks Anthony. This blog has been a real eyeopener to em for the last 3 yrs or so… Denis
I’ve got a horrible cold too. Don’t feel like doing anything. Have a nice snooze and some hot toddies and a much deserved weekend away from the Cause.
Brilliant graphic ….
This just in: “It’s warmer today than it was yesterday!”
Have some deserved timeout, Ants. I’ve a week off-tomorrow we’re headed for Scotland’s NW Highlands and three days on the 2.3 Ga gneiss shield. Still staggers me how these areas still exist but I suppose we catch them while we can! Hats off to the Appalachians – that Caledonian Orogeny has many stories yet to unfold…
SOT, but there were recent attempts at extracting DNA from UK’s only Polar bear remains, dated 18kyo, presumed as in-wash into a cave system at Inchnadamph, NW Scotland, alas proving not possible. Just for the mix, there was lynx, and, I believe, elk, too, amongst others. Food for thought.
Even though you have a cold, enjoy your down time.
Thanks for all you efforts in making this the best climate topic site on the net !!!
Anthony you are doing an excellent job. Please keep it up after having your rest. However, I sometimes feel we are all going around in circles. We keep reading here and elsewhere lots of material against the AGW thesis, which in a court would probably prove beyond any doubt that it’s a fraud and a hoax. Yet, it keeps going, and I suspect is probably going to thrive to the point of reaching its ultimate aim – to rob us of more money via new taxes and price hikes, all in the name of saving the planet from an unproven man-made threat. I’m almost resigned to this but at least we all know the truth. By all means let’s keep up the fight as we might still win but I doubt it given the resources the governments have at their disposal, and that fact that most of the media is part of the problem. I can already here the AGW alarmists screaming out “I told you so” at every slight rise in temperatures from here on end. If they say it often enough most of the public will believe it. As Hitler found out never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie (AGW in our case) sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
Certainly a cold is no fun, it is unfortunate that you have to hush the kids and admonish them to stop squabbling, again.
Haven’t yet figured it out but will the dedicated CAGWs change the terminology for the virus infection to having a hot? or the hots?
Anthony and family – have a well-deserved break. Many (me included) owe you a huge debt for your skills as a scholar and your passion for truth.
No advice from me, just thanks,
Alexander
My advice at this time of year against colds:
Dice a pink grapefruit into half a liter of low fat yoghurt. Add two tea spoons of sesame seed. Top it up with a few drops of dark sesame oil. Stir. Consume with a double espresso.
This should load you up with mystical asian superpowers. Seems to work for me. Colleagues have been dropping like flies from cold the past three months. Not my kid and me. Sesame is the man.
Get well quickly and then take some time to kick back and do what you have to do. Running a blog like this is a lot of work and I appreciate your efforts. Hope your wife feels better soon too of course.
I find that an effective treatment for the common cold are several drams of scottish nectar, preferably the Orcadian variety, while seated in a comfortable chair with my feet up. repeat as needed. And on the odd time when this treatment does not work, it doesn’t matter.
crossopter (04:10:08) :
Lucky you visiting the NW Highlands of Scotland over what promises to be a beautiful blue skied cold and crisp weekend. When the sun shines up there it’s one of the mose beautiful places in the world.
This Scotsman is on a drilling rig in the rice paddies of western Laos.
Now that (meteorlogical) winter is finished, maybe the sniffles will go away.
Speaking of winter, here was the NOAA forecast for the lower 48: less precipitation, except for California and a southern storm tract, and warmer than normal, especially in the midwest. I grade them a gentlemen’s “C.”
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20091015_winteroutlook.html
Any other opinions?
You should arrange things with your guest authors so that you can do this *every* weekend, Anthony.
Moderator: DMI Arctic ice extent is at it’s highest level on record.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Anthony, being sick with a cold means you’re a Denier!
In all seriousness, rest up and have a good weekend.
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/hires/global.xml
Note the red dots interspersed with the shown and known blue heavy sea ice in the Baltic sea–
These red dots are perfectly correlated with the ice breaker acivity there and with the movement in that area of the large ferries and 50 other ships.
Re Steve Goddard (06:00:54) I realise you are just mocking alarmists by saying the Arctic ice extent is the “highest level on record,” while the record is just 5 years.
I believe it is better to just say sea ice continues to recover from current and wind driven lows of 2007, the lows which sparked ridiculous predictions.
The Cryosphere graph shows Arctic ice greater than existed in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and maybe it will yet be greater than 2008 and 2009.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.area.arctic.png
Everything comes to them who wait..
Seems you waited too long;-)
Relax, recoup, recline and unwind!
GB You and Yours & GWS
PS: I you’re as smart as I think you are you won’t read this until you get back. Hope feel a whole lot better now!
Well, we hope you get better soon.
Steve G. : “Moderator: DMI Arctic ice extent is at it’s highest level on record.”
Are we there yet?
” Writing in Quaternary International, scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Saxon Academy of Sciences (SAW) in Leipzig and the Russian Academy of Sciences say that a short warming event at the very end of the last interglacial period marked the final transition to the ice age.”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/haog-wsw030210.php
I agree on the hot rum or brandy (coffee is my favourite medium) or a hot chocolate mixed with a nut liqueur. Agreed with the well-earned rest. Agreed with the grammar nit-picking. Are there any of the helpful grammar police that you know well enough that you’d trust them to proof-and-edit the active posts? Usually having to actually do the work cools people’s ardour for “this needs fixing”.
Thanks for a wonderful site and the wide variety of interesting stories. Don’t burn yourself out, it’s great having your take on things.
Perhaps you caught the bug from the code?
Zinc tabs too under the tongue.