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.
Congratulations, I hope the peer review feedback was legitimate and helped to improve the paper.
This is simply hard work to promote “science” in a world that is getting more and more “totally” politizied.
By doing so you have and are helping the the world to build politics on science instead of building science on politics.
Great effort. Sure does present a contrast to how the others go about it.
Am late for the charge, and I see you have alreadyreached the target. However, please feel free to use my donation for any purpose. I am quite sure that, unlike the tax funds I hose at successive governments and their idiot advisers, it will be well spent and will get value for money.
Bill K
@Martin
I’m almost as interested to see how the peer review process panned out as I am to see the paper (as much as can be released anyway)
Congrats, Anthony and all volunteers. This must seem like the summit of a very steep and rock-strewn journey. Proper science without ‘models all the way down!”
This went up whilst I was asleep-I’m from the UK- so missed the chance to contribute to this interesting project. Look forward to another opportunity -perhaps on a version two- and am intrigued to see the results whatever it tells us.
Tonyb
It is deeply depressing how Academia keeps outsiders outside and these Journals are their attack dogs. They charge the the authors, they charge the amateurs, nice little earner this knowledge business.
Have they not heard of the Internet? High handed ownership of intellectual property has already clipped the wings of the music business and the newspapers are spiralling down after them.
Academics tend to feel they are very intelligent because they are knowledgeable, but memory and problem-solving are different skills. If Academia was more open to discussing problems with amateurs, then I’m sure non-academic experience would trigger a raft of advances.
I really hope the paper “makes waves” – especially as it won’t affect mean sea level.
My small donation makes me, as a passenger for the last two years, feel part of this important project.
Don’t act like Exxon Mobile, BP or Shell isn’t picking up the check 😉
Excellent news.
Big oil money, told ya so 😉
I woke up in sunny England to find that you’ve already reached the target. However, I donated $50 anyway so you can get the beers in.
Enjoy!! and many thanks for the work you (all) put in.
Congratulations Anthony! Well deserved and a fitting answer to the many astroturfers who have belittled the effort all through.
Was going to chip in a bit with my Visa card but have currently misplaced my PayPal account details. Still, glad to see that the total was reached before I had a chance to get at it. Using Visa is a lot more straightforward for me unless there are some unknown site-specific reasons which prevent me from doing so.
Really looking forward to reading the paper.
Effective with any manuscript submitted
after 31 December 2010, AGU is eliminating
color charges in all formats. At the
same time that we eliminate color charges,
we are simplifying publication fees. Articles
published in Journal of Geophysical
Research; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems;
and Radio Science will each have a
flat fee of $1000, and Geophysical Research
Letters (GRL) articles will each have a flat
fee of $500.
[Reply] Just to be clear, Anthony’s surfacestations paper was submitted well before this date. TB-mod
REPLY: Yes that’s correct, we had hoped for an exemption, but it was submitted in October 2010, and even though we asked, the request was denied. – Anthony
Very well done, Anthony. Missed the opportunity to contribute as I’m in the UK and slept through it all.
Congrats to Anthony and the authors, will be interesting to read and see what criticisms appear.
Thanks TB- did not know that…
Congratulations Anthony and other authors (Oops, I almost said “Team”). Like most other ventures, I suspect the quality will be inversely proportional to the amount the government paid for it. Bravo!
Wow! That was fast! You guys (and by “YOU” I mean Anthony, and all his volunteers AND the supporters here) are a model for a civil volunteer society. I’m proud to be even tangentially associated with you. You rock. 🙂
Also, congratulations, Anthony.
Important and necessary work. Well done Anthony.
A lot of congratulations! I look forward to reading the paper. I’m glad that now I can cite your work with no difficulties.
Just saw your request this AM in Chicago and the update that you reached your goal. Use my small donation where you see fit. I hope additional donations will continue to roll in to support the invaluable work you and your collegues are doing for the rest of us.
Thanks!!!!
You’re a good man Charlie Brown. Work well done I’m sure.
Mike Hodges
Anthony and all,
I volunteered some money for you.
Thanks for your co-authors and your citizen science efforts plus all your supporting volunteers.
John