I’ll be offline anywhere from 48-72 hours. The reason?
My lovely wife has another GA surgery scheduled for tomorrow at Stanford, hopefully the last one, and while I’ll have some sporadic Internet access, I don’t plan on focusing on anything but her. We are leaving today and I’m in transit while you read this as this is an automatically scheduled posting.
Guest authors and moderators may fill the void if you wish. If not, no worries.
Please, keep it civil.
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I have never seen so many daffodils in so many places during Mrs A’s and my local tours in the past couple of weeks – fantastic. I am sure that the clue to this proliferation is something to do with the weather, but none of the media seemed to pick up on it. Shame on them. Perhaps the reason could be to do with climate change, and because flowers are involved in the equation, no-one wants to rock the boat; no-one wants to create an ugly scene.
I wish that Mrs W has a successful op, and that Mrs A, who went for yet another mammogram yesterday, both have successful outcomes.
My Best Regards,
Chris
Steve Oregon says:
April 8, 2011 at 10:27 am
“this from Paul Krugman:”
“The Republicans and those Democrats paid-off by the energy industry will do nothing to stop climate change before the planet is reduced to a cinder.”
Nobel prize winner and scientist Krugman plays the Big Oil smear game?
It looks like these days this is the expected behaviour from Nobel Laureates (i’m thinking of Pachauri and Gore here.) Maybe the Nobel prize committees check whether a scientist or person is really a lunatic before they even nominate him.
House passes Upton’s bill to halt EPA’s GHG regulations
Apr 7, 2011 Nick Snow OGJ Washington Editor
Democrat spending of almost 40% more than revenues, is dumping a crushing burden on our children and grandchildren! Then they burden small companies to further destroy the jobs needed to pay the taxes!!!
Where are the statesmen/women to restore fiscal sanity?
Dear Mrs. Watts,
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From the NYT article on biofuel-driven-food-price-rises:
“While no one is suggesting that countries abandon biofuels, …”
Uh, I have news.
Nothing controversial, just a nice, balanced opinion piece on CC by Dr John Butler from Armagh Observatory on 1 April this year.
http://star.arm.ac.uk/preprints/2010/569.pdf
I found this quote:
“A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.”
It’s an open thread, so why not ?
At the end of a very ordinary joke I received was….
” Save the planet, it’s the only one we know of that has chocolate”
Worth fighting for.
Open Thread link for your reading pleasure.
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/climatechange/story/48140/coolest-march-since-1994.asp
But of course, they stick in at the end:
Image: http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/climatechange/2011/590x189_04081403_sc_rss_compare_ts_channel_tlt_v03_3.png
From 70.0°S to 82.5°N, Land and Ocean, “Trend = 0.145 K/decade.”
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
April 8, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Love that HTML BOLD !!
All the very best wishes Mrs Watts.
Warm thoughts from Australia for you especially and your family.
Jessie
Interesting article
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/05/astronomers-may-have-witnessed-a-star-torn-apart-by-a-black-hole/
Wishing you the best possible outcome, and the best of care,
You will both be in my prayers at this time.
Robin (new Zealand)
Anthony Watts. What can I possibly say? My best wishes and prayers are with you, as they have always been. You are both amazing people and I can’t believe my good fortune to have found your site and to have “met” you through your good works. May God bless and heal you both.
Mr. and Mrs. Watts: May you live as long as you wish, and love as long as you live. Godspeed.
Mr Watts
I am so old that I seldom pray. But when I read your post I said a prayer for your lady wife, again, and you and all your family.
I hope you realise the importance and value of the work you do for us all. A light shining in the darkness.
This side of the pond, we get incessant warmist propoganda on all 4 BBC TV channels and all their radio channels. Pumped out by the BBC’s non-scientist “environment correspondents”. Which I am forced to pay for as the BBC licence fee is compulsory on pain of fine or eventual imprisonment. Your site – and sites like BishopHill over here provide balance and perspective For which much thanks.
Again – prayers for your wife and your family