After months of work, I’m pleased to announce that the paper that I have jointly written with several co-authors, including Dr. Roger Pielke Senior (who acted in the capacity as corresponding author) has run the peer review gauntlet and has been accepted.
Expect a full press release this week. I’m holding details until the University of Colorado press office has issued the official press release. As you all know, this project was done entirely by volunteers, with no budget, and there were no grants asked for nor provided.
That is something I am proud of, because it shows what citizen scientists can do that NOAA/NCDC couldn’t or wouldn’t, and taxpayers didn’t have to foot the bill. However, there is one last hurdle….
According to Dr. Pielke’s executive assistant, Dallas Staley, who is handling the submission detail with the journal, we have page charges we have to pay for because unlike many papers, this has several color photographs and plots.
The bill for the print issuance of the paper in the journal is $2247.00, which is something I can’t cover completely myself. See a snip from the charge sheet.
If you are wondering why I blurred the number, it is simply that given what has transpired, with preemptive strikes by NCDC, and the recent BEST ambush before Congress, I’m simply being cautious. We are preparing an SI, and there will be the ability to replicate the work. The data and code will be made available on the surfacestations.org website. We are also preparing a press package.
Dr. Pielke “could” divert some public funds toward paying this printing charge from his other budgets, but in doing so, it would end the ability for us to claim the project was entirely privately financed from inception to publication.
So I’m asking readers for help in this matter. But please do not feel obligated in any way. Anything you can spare will help. If need be I’ll put anything not covered on a credit card, but I hope not to go into debt.
Donations accepted: Here
[UPDATE: Goal reached! Thank you everyone! The support of the WUWT readership is most encouraging.]
Thank you all for your consideration, and I especially want to thank everyone who has done surveys and offered help in the behind the scenes capacity.
Stay tuned for the official announcement this week. There are some things we already know from posts here, and there are some surprises too. I’ll have a complete writeup as will Dr. Pielke on his blog which I’ll carry here as well.
I’m in. Keep up the good work.
Done, and Thank You!
Hi,
Could you send me a postal address at my e-mail, please. I want to send my contribution.
My e-mail is captainhigley -at – yahoo dot com.
Thanks,
Charles
Done and thanks, your weather station is working nicely and the data loggers in my greens are fantastic. Never thought that the soil temps would vary so much during the day. Warmest at 6pm at around 61F and coolest at 7am of 43F. My staff is quite impressed when we graph results. Both data loggers very similar despite greens being 200yds apart.
Donation sent. I’ve appreciated the efforts and work of the WUWT team and contributors over the last few years. Looking forward to seeing the results of your paper.
Congrats on a great effort Anthony. Happy to donate.
Always a pleasure to help out, Anthony! Congratulations & best!
Donation sent. Congratulations!
I hope when I log on tomorrow you’ll be over the top.
Done and use any surplus to continue the good work as you see fit.
Done – and thank you!
Love to help … Done!
I can’t wait to see the paper. Donation sent. This is a great web site.
MEGA-congratulations, Anthony.
Extremely well deserved and to be respected by the peers of review….and a little feared.
Grrrrr. Get em!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
A few $ on the way – proper science is a worthy cause!
Done… Great job!
Anthony:
Been reading your blog for free for several years now, and had to show how much I appreciate it. Money sent.
PR
I’m comment 104. If everyone contributed $10 or more, we are helping the skeptic cause with $1040 of your original $2247 (chincy) askit fee from the journal that charges advertisers… but never mind.
“What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song?
Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy,
And in the wither’d field where the farmer plows for bread in vain.
— William Blake
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem169.html
I’m sure Kevin Trenberth’s and Joel Shore’s contributions are “in the pipeline”.
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Sincere thanks to all the supporters of non-government citizen science, who are stepping up to the plate and helping to get the truth out. You are the real champions.
And we know it. Lots of contributors’ names here from commentators that we don’t normally see. With almost 590,000 reader comments [in only four short years], it’s easy to forget the daily WUWT readers who crave honesty in climate science, but who don’t regularly comment. Kudos to all the WUWT lurkers!
It is an honor to help see this project through to publication. Checking the stations in the beginning phase was an eye-opener, so helping at this stage is the least we can do. Thanks for your dedication to this project Anthony, and thanks so much for allowing us to be a part of it in the closing stages.
Donation on its way. More power to your publishing elbow. Many thanks for all the Warmist exposure pages you [and WUWT-ers] have provided.
Donation made and glad to help. From a retired Prof who just loves jerking a warmist’s chain.
Great result! Many thanks. Donation made
$ent and thank you for your perseverance!
Cheers
Anthony (and co-authors),
Well Done! – Modest donation made.
I sure, like many, appreciate your work – hope it helps.