I have a few very important (and personal) announcements to share with the WUWT community because they will impact content and moderation over the next few weeks. Please take a moment to read this.
1. There is a pressing and very serious medical challenge in my family that will require surgery and rehabilitation time. I can’t and won’t go into details. This will require me to take periods of time away from WUWT over several weeks if not months. I don’t know the full time impact yet. This coming Friday and perhaps Saturday I’ll be offline.
2. That said, I welcome the help of any who wish to help with moderation or who wish to submit stories and essays. We could use the help of a moderator from midnight to 4AM PST. I know we have a few regulars that post during that time, and if you’d like to help, leave a comment please. WUWT has always had guest posts, and they will continue to be welcome. Leave a comment if you have an idea.
3. In case you missed it yesterday, the new ENSO/SST page is up and running. Be sure to bookmark it. This graphic on the sidebar is a direct link:
…plus it is also available in the header menu under Reference Pages. Other pages of reference graphics pages will be coming soon, more details here.
4. Steve Goddard told me several months ago that he would like to start his own blog, covering a wider range of scientific, social, economic and political topics than I wish to cover here at WUWT. You can see his blog at http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com
Thanks to Steve for all his contributions to WUWT over the last two years.
I’ll be continuing the Sea Ice News feature every Sunday.
5. For those of you wondering about the upcoming surfacestations project paper, let me say that it is now mostly out of my hands and will not be impacted by item 1. I have a team of co-authors with far greater skills than I working on it. I’m pleased with the current draft having survived a critical review designed to strengthen it. When I have more, I’ll pass it along and of course at the appropriate time the surfacestations main page will get an update.
Thank you all for your consideration. – Anthony
Dartmoor Resident said:
– Like many previous commentators, I have learned a lot from you and your WUWT team. It’s still an uphill job spreading the word here in the UK (given the `balanced’ reporting on the BBC and in papers such as the Independent and Guardian) but I’m grateful to you for providing such a useful and refreshing counterbalance. –
Amen to that. Like DR, I am in the UK and very grateful for the scientific illumination and dedication that you bring to CAGW and all of its works. I have a tiny role in watching the UK media, reporting in these pages on its shameful one-sided approach to global warming, and bearding the reporters and editors in their den. No point in doing one without doing the other.
Anthony, our best wishes to you and all the challenges you face. We await better tidings. And, needless to say, we will continue to keep the watch.
Best wishes from a grateful reader.
Anthony, perhaps you can see by the volume and tone of the comments wishing you the very best, but I wonder if you truly know how much we all admire and appreciate you and your work. I can only say for myself, but your work here lifted the scales from my eyes and allowed me to see the World in a whole new way.
How is it possible to thank you for such a wonderful gift? Best wishes my friend, if I may call you that. Best wishes….
Good wishes to you and family from a Scottish hillside. Enlightenment lives on.
The world needs more individuals such as Anthony Watts whose priorities are in order. Good luck, best wishes, and a speedy recovery.
Best regards, Anthony, and to those around you.
May God Grant you many years; our prayers go with you.
Anthony —
Wishing you and your family the best.
I hope all works out well for you in the end. Rehab requires persistence and patience by all affected, and I know those are among the qualities you have in abundance.
All the best.
Looking forward to your (full) return.
Add another “me too” message; It’s hard to be original after so many people have responded already.
Take care and best wishes for you and your family!
All the best to you and your family.
You have our respect and best wishes. Looking forward to your return.
Absolutely all the best AW.
Best wishes, Anthony, and thanks for all your hard work.
Best to you and yours and to a speedy recovery!!!
Many thanks Anthony and best wishes for a full recovery.
Thank you, Anthony. God (if there is such) be with you.
Best wishes to you and yours Anthony.
Many thanks for a work of wonder, wows and questions.
A complete recovery is wished to your family and you.
Your integrity shows in your response to this medical event.
Good luck to all involved.
Hi Anthony,
Maybe you need more time for yourself and your family, but your blog has initialized a movement. Your blog acts as a catalyst. And it is a breakthrough to be brave to ask inconvenient questions about the climate and politics. Your professional experience has shown us that many weather stations are still performing incorrect measurements for air temperatures and many stations have been disappeared for 20 year. You have indicated many problems which are completely ignored by mass media.
Don’t give up and keep going!
Best greeting from Germany
I could moderate between 04.00 and 08.00 GMT if you want to send me the guidelines.
I am not a scientist at all , a civil engineer in fact, but I am disciplined and I do understand the “mission statement ” here.
Best wishes to you and yours Anthony, and a speedy return.
Sandy Sinclair
Prayers go out for you and your family. Thanks for your valuable contribution to public service and the advancement of science.
Best wishes and a speedy uneventful recovery for who ever is having surgery.
Thanks for your truly wonderful site.
All the best to you and your family. Hopefully all goes well.
And many thanks for providing us all with this website, a refreshing oasis in the internet’s desert lands.