…for the light postings the last couple of days. I’ve been traveling and in meetings with climate scientists about some upcoming important work.
I’ll have more on that later. Some very interesting news to report.
In the meantime, if you haven’t voted for WUWT in the bloggies awards, (see upper right of the sidebar) now’s the time to do so. I came back to discover that I had been slimed by paid political blogger Joe Romm at Climate Progress, who wasn’t nominated, so a sour grapes anti-vote is now afoot.
Here’s the details on the bloggies awards.
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[snip lets not go there with the labels, Romm does well enough on his own – Anthony]
I have just offered him some grapes…of the sour variety.
Anthony, absolutely no apologies are ever necessary. You do God’s work in getting us the facts we need when we “discuss” climate change with our more liberal brethren.
Dirty tactics.. What would you expect! Anyway, I voted!
I kind of like to reduced posting schedule, it’s far easier to find time to read things properly when there aren’t 5 or 6 things piled up.
The firehose hasn’t been at full pressure? I hadn’t noticed. It’s so hard, having a life and tracking WUWT comment streams. ;( 😉
They should perhaps draw a lesson from Egypt.
You just can’t shut people up or drown them out forever.
In the end, the attempt at suppression attracts more attention than ignoring would have.
Apologies?
No problem and no need for an apology. Slightly fewer postings give some of us a chance to catch up. 🙂
And yeah, I did vote. Can we give multiple votes to the same blog?
Apparently Technorati has put Romm’s Climate Progress blog under the ‘Green’ category. I wonder why? ;O)
Let me add my ‘no apologies required’. You’re doing work essential to fighting the warmmongers, and you (and your cob blogers) are much appreciated.
A note for Climate Progress:
The evidence is incontrovertible: WUWT is occurring. If people continue to read and enjoy this science blog, long term trends of detailed analysis, laughter, and alternative hypotheses are very likely to continue. We urge action by sending the check for $20.11 to Anthony Watts and awarding him the best blog award immediately. The 60,000,000 visits are settled, and the Surfacestations Project is historic.
Apologies not needed, Anthony. We know how busy your life is, with family, business, this blog, Cub Scouts etc.! Travel safely.
Reduced posting schedule? Hmmmm? Never noticed as I am always behind and try to follow each posting at least 90%, including the comments. Can’t imagine what your effort must be to manage this whole enterprise. Perhaps I can finally get to the top. Welcome relief. Think it is important for you to get out there and attend the meeting and see what is going on and represent this “small voice” which is trying to be hushed. Stop the guilt trip Anthony, you are in my estimation performing way above your pay grade.
I voted last week. Looking forward to hearing about developments on the science front Anthony. There’s been too much politics lately.
I’m always fascinated by the spewers of vitriol. They seem to have lost self-control and perspective to a gripping fear of some kind. The poor souls just don’t see how silly they look to the disinterested observer. Maybe their over-inflated sense of self gets in the way. And the asymmetry of passion between the so-called “haters” and the “hated” is telling as well. Although it is necessary to refute lies and guard against maliciousness, giving them attention is a pointless waste of effort.
Voted too last week.
I voted and then realized a week later I never saw the confirmation email. I found it in my spam folder and clicked the link to make my vote actually register. Be sure to follow up with that last click if you haven’t already.
Apologize? You? We are the ones who should be apologizing for not giving you more support for your heroic efforts. As for being slimed, well good. If you are not taking flack you are not over the target. All the best and many thanks.
Romm complaining about WUWT being number 1 is like liberal radio complaining about Rush being number 1….
Neither one of them would even be on the air if it wasn’t for the government giving them our money to keep them on the air……………
I posted a comment on Joe’s article suggesting he was suffering from a case of sour grapes!
I’m sure my comment won’t get past the moderators, but at least Joe and his friends might have to read my comment. I just couldn’t resist having a pop at Joe 🙂
BTW: Never feel you have to apologise Anthony. Your work is outstanding – I know I wouldn’t be able to do it.
[thanks]
“Gary says
I’m always fascinated by the spewers of vitriol. They seem to have lost self-control and perspective to a gripping fear of some kind”
We are between II) and III)
There are five stages in the Kübler-Ross model of grief and tragedy:
I) Denial—”We have a consensus and 99% of all scientist agree with us”
II) Anger—”You amateur keyboard warriors are hacking bastards who couldn’t understand a statistical model if it fell on you”
III) Bargaining—”Just let have a few more billion dollars and we will prove that Gaia is sick”
IV) Depression—”These attacks on science make me want to leave the field”
V) Acceptance—”Who could have known that the climate was so variable and that the models were unreliable. Gives us more money and we will find out where it when wrong; after all, we are the only people who unstand what happened”
Mark says: “I voted and then realized a week later I never saw the confirmation email. I found it in my spam folder and clicked the link to make my vote actually register. Be sure to follow up with that last click if you haven’t already.”
Thanks. I didn’t get a confirming note, so I had to go to the website and leave a message for the moderator. He sent me a note and let me know that he’d manually tallied my ballot.
I’ve sometimes wondered what would happen if a viper accidentally bit it self. Yeah, I’m sure I could find the answer on Wikipedia, but it so much more fun to imagine Joe Romm accidentally biting himself in his frenzy, bloating up and turning puplish greem.
You got my vote last week 🙂
Rgds.