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
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You and your family certainly have my prayers for the best of all possible outcomes.
We’ll all just have to be patient in anticipation of your return, and of the publication of the surfacestations paper!
As with all commentators, friends and followers of WUWT, you have my thoughts and hopes. All the strength and courage to you and your family. Keep strong and God bless!
Cam -Melbourne, Australia.
Our prayers are with you, your family, the caregivers, and those who provide you support.
Prayed, Anthony.
All the best to you and your family.
Anthony, I am keeping you and your family in my thoughts. You’ve reached so many people, educated them and opened their eyes, and created an atmosphere that is more conducive to solid, reasonable commentary than any blog on the webs. The tools that you have created to help people in tracking the current situations, as well as your surface station project, have repercussions beyond what you can be aware of.
I hope that everyone will also consider hitting the tip jar, since whatever situation you may find yourself in may be made a little easier with a small gesture of our appreciation. It certainly can’t hurt, and there isn’t a lot else that we can do.
Please keep us updated.
Wishing you and yours the best outcome possible.
Ross – Cairns, Australia.
Anthony, I wish you all the best.
Ron
I will pray that the one above intervenes in your family’s health situation.
Best wishes Anthony.
I think you have paved the way to pass the torch for a while. That’s the nice thing about the work you have done and the blogspher, many people have learned what you have tried to teach the and are now prepare to carry the torch.
Best wishes.
We’ll be here and thinking of you Anthony… May the surgery be uncomplicated and the recovery speedy.
Wishing you and your family the best.
Anthony:
Best wishes to you and your family.
This is sad. I hope everything will turn out to be all right for Mr. Watts and his family.
I also hope that there are enough people who can keep this important site going.
I wish I could help. Sometimes I do urgent work until 5 am Mountain time — but that means I must keep working. Posting a line or two here is one thing, moderating the site is quite another. If only I had all the time in the world on my hands, like all those manns and connoleys…
You dropped the sea ice page link from the top of the page?
What happened? The data not fit with your story anymore?
REPLY: Uh no, same place it has always been, but now part of a larger set. Perhaps you missed the announcements here and in other threads, or you are incapable of using the navigation on the menu, or pressing the link on the sidebar that is still there. But hey, you have a .edu address in AU so I’ll cut you some slack. – Anthony
Opps, apologies I don’t handle change very well 🙂
[REPLY – Well, alright, then. But this is neither the time nor the place. Besides, Anthony is a seeker of truth, not agendas. You know that. ~ Evan]
May you and yours be blessed with healing.
By the way…if the medical care is going on at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, we are here if you want local help. E-mail is name, only ones by that name in phone book.
God’s speed! A.W.
You are in my prayers Anthony.
Best wishes, Anthony. Hope all turns out well and your family is back to a semblance of normal soon enough.
Best wish for you and your family, nothing is more important then your health and your family!
I wish you and your family well, Anthony. I’ll be here waiting for the good news and continued story of your great site. Take care!
Like so many others above I will be praying for you and your family at this time.
I think you have managed something here which is getting a consensus on your site, with all the good wishes of these messages.
Thank you for helping educate me about our planet and beyond as I sought some enlightenment about the sudden AGW religion that emerged a few years back. Your surface station project was the first step for me, having just through common sense started to scratch my head about what I was hearing from every quarter and instinctively shouting “NO” in my mind! The wide-ranging articles, with links to sound SCIENTIFIC research, along with the comments on the blog, I consider to be of tremendous value to me and to the world.
I wish you and your family well. Thank you. EH
Very good luck to you, Anthony. I will remember you and your family in my prayers, and wish you well for a speedy recovery.