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.
Good luck Anthony,
my contribution is on its way.
Anthony,
A huge thank you to you and to every volunteer on your team. I never found the time to do any of the work myself, so I just had to contribute a small amount to help with publication. I cannot wait to read the paper.
Done. Thank you.
Donation sent to a worthy cause!
Keep up the good work and pass any surplus on to a worthy student of the real world.
Done!
The fine state of California hasn’t managed to take all of my money, yet. Thanks for persevering all these years.
Cheers!
Jim
Congratulations Anthony and all at surfacestations.org
Donation on it’s way.
Thank you, Anthony and congratulations!
Keep up the great work.
What wonderful news to wake up to, at the beginning of the week!
(Yeah – I’m living across the Big Pond …)
Congratulations, Anthony, and congratulations to all of you volunteers.
Mentally, I’m jumping up and down, with a huge grin on my face. And the virtual champagne is flowing, natch, for you all.
:-)))
Glad to help. Keep up the good work!
Bob B.
Aw, shucks, I was looking forward to taking more pictures this summer….
I can’t make this Paypal thing to work, but I’ve got your address & I will get a check in the mail tomorrow.
Congratulations to all! Doing something that big without governmental or commercial funding is a stellar accomplishment.
Cheers for this opportunity for folk like me over in Oz, to volunteer and assist the project. Cheers also to those who have spent long hours driving vehicles to various sites, etc, etc. Some break up the ground, others sow, and others reap … and may we all rejoice in the harvest !
regarDS
done and thanks for spearheading this! All of you who contributed in the effort – thanks to you too!
done.
With publishing being virtually free these days [in actual cost] and the peer-review done by unpaid people it is somewhat of a scandal that page charges are that high. My 2007 paper was $11,000 and then it sits behind a paywall to boot.
Done. Congratulations on the paper’s acceptance. Looking forward to reading it. Looks like the WUWT community is coming through- over 100 declared donations in 5 hours on a Sunday evening (here in the US).
Pay pal done. Thank you
Holy cow, I turn my back for twenty minutes and hit refresh….! Good job, folks!
Congats. It’s telling that non-government funded (and biased) research has a chance.
Leif Svalgaard says: May 8, 2011 at 10:17 pm
“My 2007 paper was $11,000 and ….”
Oh ….. incredible. Printed on a golden parchment?
Done.
I’ve been waiting with ‘bated breath for this paper to appear. Nonetheless, like Juan Slayton, I wouldn’t mind surveying a few more obscure sites this summer. I had fun traveling to the ones I did get to.
Guys and Gals, don’t be chintzy. If everybody gave 25 bucks, Anthony would be in the clear.
BTW, full disclosure. I have a 2% overriding royalty in a well in Texas that provides me with some mad money. So, Anthony, you’ve been tainted by some “small oil.” 😉
I was away for the weekend and didn’t get the chance to donate. Good on the ones that did though and congratulations to Anthony and everyone involved in collecting the data and getting this paper published.
If you get enough cash, consider ordering reprints of the paper and send some of them to key members of the US Congress and of the Parliments of Canada and Australia. It is very unlikely that the legislators will ever read the article from a website. They will read it if hard copy lands on their desk.
Well done!
Your paper should really mark the end of the global warming scam. It certainly has ended in the UK where after a long downward trend of global warming and upward trend of peak oil, “peak oil” now continues to exceed “global warming” (by 380 to 360 counts)
Congrats! It’s 0237 here in New Hampshire, I’ve spent the day on RGGI related stuff. I guess thank yous are in order to all the people who donated already. I can go to bed knowing I didn’t have to help save the whole world. 🙂
BTW, I’ll be on Cape Cod for a few days visiting three marine biologists. I’ll be asking them if they can show me a risen sea level in the 30 years since they were grad students there.
Thanks once again Anthony for all you have done in the name of accurate recording of temperature.
The Earth is still a beautiful place. It’s a pity our kids are being taught to feel ashamed for destroying it.
Thanks again…
John Fleming.