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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Best of luck with the family issue !!
Take care !
Wishing you the best of outcomes. Family first, as many said.
You have a great moderating team which will bridge your absences, and we shall patiently wait to see you come back on your normal schedule..
Take all the time you need Anthony.
We’ll Wait For You.
Best of luck and here’s for a speedy recovery.
Best wishes re the surgery. It’s not a pleasant prospect at the best of times. I am alive now only because of surgery, so I can see that it can end up as a big positive. I hope this one turns out well.
You have achieved so much with this website that it is really important for us others to step forward while you are otherwise engaged. I have no experience in moderating, and to be honest I’m not sure how much time I could put into it, but if you do still need moderators I am sure that I could contribute some time (the times of day are ok here in Australia). You have my email address.
Best wishes.
We will behave ourselves.
I’m very sorry to hear of the necessity pressing on you and your family and wish you all every luck and a speedy recovery. I cannot thank you enough for having been and continuing to be the light in the darkness of the modern descent into medievalism. We will all miss your presence here.
Best wishes for you and your family. And I have to say I’m impressed with how many messages of support you’ve received already. It’s certainly a new sight for me.
Kia Kaha (stand strong)
Best wishes Anthony
Anthony, what can I say but my prayers will be for you and your family to have a smooth and speedy recovery.
ctm: If you need, I’m here (my only question is my reading speed). Anthony has my more direct email, don’t hesitate to ask.
In my experience, a “pressing and very serious medical challenge” is just a manifestation of bad luck, genetic or otherwise, and complete recovery is just a matter of good luck, which you should expect as well.
anthony, not clued in enough to be a mod for you, but I and many other aussies, as above 🙂
will be praying for whomever in the family is ill, and wishing success and a speedy recovery 🙂
this site is worth beyond gold for insight truth and honesty,
may all be well with you and yours.
Wishing you, and your family the best in trying times.
Scott Finegan
The best of luck to your family!
Anthony, best wishes (and appreciation) from Holly and I to you and yours.
Best wishes Anthony,
The amazing content on this site has helped me enlighten the students at the school where I teach Maths.
The Science teacher writes me off as a ‘conspiracy theorist’, but the kids (with their naturally enquiring minds) listen to what I have to say with fascination.
If it wasn’t for this site, I’d have so few resources to show the kids. Thank you.
May the force be with you and your family. Your strength and vision will also help to guide you through this time. Many thanks for a great site and I am sure your friends will ensure that it is in safe hands whilst you deal with important issues.
Dear Anthony, I hope everything works out as well as it possibly can. Our prayers and thoughts are with you and your family.
You’re my island of sanity in a stuffed up world. I hope goes well for you and your family.
Martin G. Atkins
Thailand
Best of luck Anthony! I’ll remain at my post here in the comments section, ready to offer some humor and insight into the craziness that is climate science…
Anthony, warmest thoughts to you and yours from Melbourne, Australia. As you see, you have created a network of goodwill around the globe. This is true global warming
May the force be with you.
tryfan says:
August 31, 2010 at 2:46 am
“allanglens: All the best to you and yours, from a lurker who has learned more from this site than he ever thought possible.”
Amen to that, from another lurker!
Yet another lurker (2nd post) , I agree with all the above and wish you and yours all the very best.
Anthony,
You have always run this site with grace and class.
Your response to your current circumstance only reiterates this further.
Best wishes to you and your family for a successful outcome to the medical challenges you face.
Regards,
hunter
Prayers and best wishes for you and your family.