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
Godspeed, Anthony. Best wishes to you and yours.
I’m sorry that medical difficulties have arisen in your family. I’m very grateful for this website and its support of real science. Please keep us up to date in general terms. I wish you and your family well and much success in meeting the coming (if not already here) challenges.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your family, Anthony. And thanks again for your efforts to protect the integrity of the Scientific Method. Prayers and blessings.
Hey Anthony
Very best of luck to you all.
Thank you so much for WUWT.
Whilst I’m not a scientist if I can be of assistance from Melb Aus I’d be grateful for the chance to help.
Once again good luck and don’t worry, us kids will muck around here until you get back.
Cheers Jack
My very best wishes to you, Anthony.
This blog and its integrity are a bright, shining light in an otherwise murky world.
Your achievements can not be diminished… no matter what the future holds.
Looking forward to having you back.
Best wishes again.
Dear Mr Watts
Dear Mr Watts and family
I found this site through Christopher Booker’s column in the Sunday Telegraph: thank you for that, Mr Booker! Like other lurkers I have visited your site on a daily basis and will ever be grateful for the science (most of which is way over my head) and the comments which usually follow; I love the considered discourse this site provides and hope it will continue at the same high standard.
My thoughts and and prayers will be with you and your family.
Antony
My prayers go out to you and your family. Having gone through a similar event some time ago, you need to be positive and never lose hope.
Anthony –
Hope everything works out as well as it possibly can, and, hurry back; you will be missed …
_Jim
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Anthony, you have my prayers and best wishes. Remain true to yourself and your family.
Anthony,
Draw strength from the fact that there are thousands of people, from all over the globe, who are hoping and praying that your present tribulations are solved satisfactorily.
WUWT and the way it is run is an inspiration to many, and all of those readers, commentators and contributors of yours are on your side.
My prayers, along with so many others, are with you and your family.
Come back when things are much, much better for you.
Re your family medical problems: Our family have been there, done that – in my husband’s family, and with me as I faced operations for cancer when my children were in their teens and another some years later. About fifteen years later, I’m still here – with those cancers gone – and I love reading your blogs and learning from them.
May your family feel the Lord’s closeness as you go through this coming battle.
God bless.
As always, Doc – Nothing but the best to you and your family.
You and they have been added to the prayer chain.
Here’s praying that you will return with all of your concerns behind you, and swiftly.
Best wishes and a speedy recovery to the former good state.
Anthony,
the blog has a life of its own now – you and your family come first.
I can manage some moderating at the time required on weekends if that is any use.
I will pray hard for you and yours, Sir. God Bless You.
Good luck with the surgery, and recovery. Just went through the same program myself. I’m confident the Watt’s Up With That community will mind the store in your absence.
Best wishes to you and yours. Here’s towards a brighter situation than it is at the moment.
My wife and I are assisting with family issues here in Australia, so Anthony, our thoughts and prayers go to you and your family to make a speedy recovery.
Best wishes to you and your family, Anthony, and a speedy recovery from the surgery.
Your Blog has been the epitome of the effect of the internet upon the dissemination of knowledge. Your cool and scientific approach has been a wonderful example of how to ‘do’ science.
Our thoughts are with you all.
Anthony,
Good luck and God bless. We will pray for you. You are a class act.
May your god or gods watch over you and yours in your time of need.
Just in case you have no such beliefs I’ll ask mine to look over you too.
best wishes for successful surgery and a speedy recovery for your family member, anthony. u will never regret taking time out to care for family.
rest assured we shall be here when u return.
My thanks along with the wish for all the best but only the best to you and your family.
Our thoughts, prayers and hopes are with you. … Jeff