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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aye. thank you. you’ve done well and good.

Yes, Anthony, thanks for all your good work – lang may yer lum reek.

You are not alone Mr Watt

Your blog is a great resource. As a geologist it provides invaluable links to new, peer reviewed papers that saves me incredible amounts of time. These papers often raise interesting and different perspectives with relation to climate science and other earth science related issues.
All of the other typical AGW papers are easy to find but become the same old, same old. An example of a very interesting paper is Woodworth, et al, 2009.
The information is top notch with the occasional `nut bar comment’ thrown in from both sides of the debate.
Keep up the great job.

Well done!
Just think how many comments have been generated by those 5000 posts and even that does not give the full picture of the interest stimulated by this site.
Thanks Anthony.

The success of this enterprise is a great testimony to you, Anthony. You deserve every bit of that success, and all of us thank you for the time and thought you devote to this. You have made a great difference.
I have been devoting energy to the cause for about 15 years myself. To me, it seemed for many of those years to be a never-ending situation of cutting off yet another head of the hydra, but it is starting to look as if they are growing back less rapidly. I’m looking forward to the next 5,000 posts here, and hope that by that time it is clear we have finally managed to drive the wooden stake into the heart of this beast.

We are full of admiration at your achievement and your manner of reaching it.

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I know from my work, that there are 10 different viewpoints on binary,
those who love it
those who just dont get it
EO

Anthony writes:
“I find myself running the most visited climate related website in the world. I never set out to do that, it just happened to turn out that way. WUWT has been a part of climate history, partly by skill, partly by persistence, partly by luck.”
In light of this, what can one say? You are the most modest and humble human being I have encountered. The following are a few things you are too modest to mention:
1. Organizational skills. You have the best organized website in existence. Organization includes not just formal matters but the day to day efforts to freshen up things. This site is fresh every day. Unbelievable.
2. A gift for organizing information in a way that makes reading not just a pleasure but a real treat. My favorite example is the Sea Ice page. It is like a masterfully written book on sea ice phenomena that contains bits and snippets of a world traveling Naturalist’s photos, drawings, and stories. Of course, surfacestations.org is a down home masterpiece along the same lines.
3. An excellent eye for important new articles and newsworthy developments. The information provided on this site is far superior to the information that can be found on all the other sites. Your comments are extremely helpful when it comes to putting things into perspective.
4. Superb archives. Not just the site archives, but the archives found in the specialty pages.
5. An updated, relatively cumulative critique of climate science and climate policy. Where else can one find that?
6. This site is the best tool for teaching and learning about climate science that has been created. It is a model for what education should be.
I could list many other items. Maybe someday I will, but the Day Job continues to beckon. In summary, you deserve a Nobel Prize for Letters and a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism and some more things along those lines. Of course, we all know that modern civilization is greatly indebted to you for its defense in the face of battalions of religious fanatics. Thank You, Sir.

Clever title.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

“partly by luck”
No Anthony, we are the lucky ones.
There’s very few people that can do what you do, and even fewer that can do it so well.
Thank you

Know that you have made a difference, Anthony. That’s a part of your legacy that can never be taken from you. Thank you for your persistence. I will be forever grateful.

“partly by skill,”
Absolutely.
“partly by persistence,”
Definitely.
“partly by luck.”
I don’t think so. No luck involved. Just hard work on your part!

Best on the web and I enjoy every minute I spend here expanding my education from all your reports and respondents- even the trolls.
My big number-$ 14 trillion dollars-almost the federal debt, and from a book that’s out of date. “If Columbus, from the minute he stepped ashore in the “new world”, started borrowing money at $20,000 dollars a minute , would have by the year 2000 , only spent less than half our national debt.” Now that is a big scary number!

Well Anthony,
One can only hope that the new smart meter will not catch fire like some of them CFL’s.
If you don’t exceed the mandated input to your home by running the AC in the summer, you should be fine.
California in the future h/t Sleeper (FF to 7:40)

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That’s “Congratulations!” in binary, by the way. Well, ASCII characters expressed in binary… but I digest.
Great work.

“WUWT has been a part of climate history, partly by skill, partly by persistence, partly by luck.”
Partly by just. . . attitude to the question. WUWT has never been afraid of publishing thoughtful opinions from any pov on the question. In fact, often you’ve sought out men and women like Walt Meier and Judith Curry to come here and tell some of us why we don’t quite have it right after all.
If you think it isn’t noticed by the audience, it very certainly is. It’s a sizeable part of the success WUWT has enjoyed. While I would never suggest that anyone *ought* to only have one site bookmarked on any important question they have an interest in, the fact is that if WUWT *is* the only site that one has bookmarked on the Climate question, you can do quite nicely from the articles, links and references that appear here.
I can’t think of another site I’d be willing to say that about. No disrespect intended to any of them, but true nonetheless.

lapogus says:
May 10, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Yes, Anthony, thanks for all your good work – lang may yer lum reek.
Luckily this reek causes global enlightenment rather than dimming.

I am sure that there are blog with many more posts. But few of them rely so much on one key person, and way fewer have said as many sensible things as WUWT, and I can’t imagine any of them has a more dedicated person as the head of it. We are all in your debt.

ANthony, as a relative newcomer to all of this, all I can say is that you provide the seed of service which will lead to a harvest of disseminated ideas. Exposing the nuts and bolts of the Vaudeville Act that is CAGW, or whatever the heck it will be called after the Durban Derby, goes further towards “saving the planet” than those climate jockeys could ever hope to.
Keep up the good fight, and thank you for your diligence.

Don’t worry about your kids. Kids who participate in Daddy’s job are MUCH better off than kids who just see Daddy’s paycheck. You’re doing EXACTLY the right thing.

Since the post is sort of open, I would like to bring attention to another piece of fraud from the warmist community:
This graph from Skeptikalscience:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/SLR_models_obs.gif
Pretends that sea level rise is following the worst-case-scenario of the IPCC prediction.
And it seems sort of right at first glance, but watch closely:
The worst-case scenario of the IPCC is 6 centimeters per decade.
The figure also shows 6 centimeters rise, pretending that it follows the IPCC worst-case.
But take a closer look!
The 6 centimeters rise in the figure is not for 10 years, it is for 20!

Thanks for the well-run, content-rich website. I’m a long-time lurker who has not always found the time to explore everything, but has found everything explored very useful, helpful, and rational as rebuttals to those who have continued to expand the intellectual fad that is the Deep Certainty over man-made global warming.
Thanks from another person inspired by your efforts. And if the intellectual fad passes, you will have helped facilitate that event.
And please take a vacation — your fans need you in top shape. :^)

Anthony –
Merely inspirational you are. That’s all. Just an obvious and awesome commitment to excellence. You have also demonstrated how ethics matter in our day-to-day lives.
Big stuff. Thanks for that.

Sorry for the spam, but I thought you might like to see how another web site approaches climate, and any question as to their intentions. It’s from realclimate.org, when I actually think they mean realcensors.org. It’s posted under “Handbook of Denialism”. Note the rebuttals are simple to refute with a little bit of web time, especially Al gore’s ramp.
I wrote (OK Skeptic)
I think there are good reasons to be skeptical. These are as follows.
a) The cost to do anything about it is enormous, hence a high degree of certainty is required.
b) The US can’t do much about it anyway. China has taken the lead as the largest C02 producer, and as the next 1,000,000,000 Chinese get their fair share of energy, they will push that number higher.
c) Climate is complex, and I don’t think humans have a great understanding of it (recall the human gnome project promised all kinds of solutions, but it turns out it is much more complex)
d) There seems to be a huge emotional component to some AGW scientists, so I don’t trust their work (looking forward to BEST getting out their data/algorithms/code and letting others munch on it for a few years only to get the earth’s temperature right!)
[Response: I think you are unfair. Please tell us which scientific disciplines practise more openness. and try getting data/algorithms/code from those who argue that AGW is not a problem – see my attempt reported in the NewScientist. -rasmus]
e) If this is such a big deal, why aren’t the global warming people more willing to share their data/algorithms/code in a meaningful way.
[Response: Please see this commment.]
f) IPCC, greens, and others have made preposterous claims, which in the end has probably alienated people from the global warming cause.
[Response: The contents of the IPCC reports should reflect the scientific literature, and the drafting of this report should be transparent. Hence, any claim should be based on the assessment of results published in the scientific literature. This is probably different from whatever is meant by “greens”. Please provide a logical connection. You argue for transparency, but I see none behind the claims that you present. -rasmus]
With a spokesman like Al Gore “the Seas will Rise, the Pestilence, Plague, Drought, and Famine will rule the earth,” and other such old testament claptrap, you are going to find a lot of people associating that catastrophe with AGW, and thinking to themselves “Not likely.” The point is, with opportunists like that out there, leading credence to AGW could enable even more parasites to add no value (as an example of this, I live in a tiny town in California, and it took Federal money, which was 40 – 100 times the annual electric cost of its street lights, to replace them with LEDs. Please agree that is insane!)
g) As I don’t think there is much that can be done about it, I don’t see much need to get off the fence. Study the problem, observe, and let’s see how the models match up to the reality. (As Richard Muller pointed out, buying Priuses in the US isn’t going to solve the C02 problem.)
Changing to an all nuclear source of fuel might, and I wish the stimulus money had been spent on that. My skepticism goes only so far. I do agree there is some non-zero, real chance that AGW will occur if it hasn’t, though I also suspect all this doom and gloom is grossly overstated as a way for unscrupulous people to take money away from others. And I would like to take the obvious, meaningful steps, like encouraging Nuclear, perhaps making it cheaper than Coal at some point. Oh well, that’s probably not in the cards for the average warmista.
Martin Vermeer says:
OK Skeptic rambles:
I live in a tiny town in California, and it took Federal money, which was 40 – 100 times the annual electric cost of its street lights, to replace them with LEDs. Please agree that is insane!
Eh, there are other costs besides electricity. How often were those incandescent or sodium or whatever lamps replaced? How much did that cost in lamps? How much in labor?
…and how long will those LEDs last? Have you ever seen a LED burn out? I suppose they do sometimes, but have yet to see it.
SecularAnimist says:
OK Skeptic wrote: “With a spokesman like Al Gore ‘the Seas will Rise, the Pestilence, Plague, Drought, and Famine will rule the earth,’ and other such old testament claptrap …”
When you blatantly and maliciously lie, to people who know better, about what Al Gore has said, why should you expect anything in response but derision and contempt?
Rasmus demonstrates heroic patience in his responses to your copied-and-pasted litany of dishonest Ditto-Head denialist talking points. It is far better than you deserve.
Are the moderators relaxing their standards for this thread, so as to allow such offensively ignorant and stupid bunkum to be posted as examples of the “denialism” that is the subject of the book review?
Pete Dunkelberg says:
OK Skeptic,
your list of reasons is essentially versions of misdirected mistrust of science and misplaced trust of other sources and their unfounded claims.
First, “The cost to do anything about it is enormous ….”
The cost of business as usual (BAU) is far greater. The cost of climate disruption will be the enormous cost. If we continue burning carbon as you wish, atmospheric CO2 will easily go above 550 ppm. How high was sea level the last time that happened? Meanwhile we do not acknowledge the costs of carbon based energy. The pollution, environmental and health costs of coal, it faced, would make it much more expensive than its official price. Oil brings pollution, foreign dependence, and is a factor in our troubled relationship with the middle east. Chalk up some of the defense budget to oil.
Second, blame China … so all is vanity. No, the US must act and lead. Saying others must go first is the road to destruction.
Then later: buying Priuses won’t solve the problem
Future models will be plug-in optional electric. Electric cars, and decarbonizing the grid plus roof top or backyard solar power will help plenty. It is basic knowledge that a combination of 15 or so fairly large moves will be needed to do what we should do, so of course no one move is the whole solution. This is displayed nicely in a pie chart of 15 wedges somewhere.
Note that all that “all is vanity” stuff serves the interests of Big Carbon (and is a collection of bad arguments).
Then: “I don’t think humans have a great understanding of it (climate).”
Speak for yourself. Scientists understand climate quite well enough to know that continuing with BAU is folly.
Then: a misguided statement about “preposterous claims.” That’s just a slur based on not knowing science. Most commenters here at least read research papers. It is true that the denial industry uses incorrect statements (often made up by them) to push false doubt. What you may not know is the deniers make preposterous claims over and over, and little else.
Then a crack about Al Gore. I didn’t take it as meant to be a real quote. I don’t think that matters for your argument. Just saying his name refutes atmospheric science in the view of some. Learn science and your appreciation for him will grow. But if you are among those who can not reason well when his name is used, do yourself a favor and leave him out of your deliberations.
Consider that the chance that you are right and physics is wrong is nil. Then consider that if you are wrong, and your consul to do nothing is heeded, the human cost will be extreme. And consider that although there is initial cost to replacing old power plants with renewable energy, we will be better off when it is done. Can you in fairness still consul no action?
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” My kids know what an MMTS and Stevenson Screen is. They shouldn’t.”
As the daughter of an aerospace engineer, who hauled us all over the country from 1955-1969, I can say that you are mistaken. Many of my friends didn’t understand that their fathers had a life, skills and interests outside of the family. I had the honor of knowing who my father was because he shared that life with us. Being in the same school from K-12 was not important. He needlessly apologized for that. Your children have likely gained much from participating in your activities.

Thanks for your time and effort, sir.

About the vacation – just take it.

Coming to this site is like getting to lick the icing on the cake of life.

There should be a monument raised to those who are saving humanity from the self inflicted catastrophe of “action on climate change”. Steve McIntyre’s name would lead the roll, but “Anthony Watts” would have a prominent place of honour.

congratulations anthony –
do hope mrs watts if doing well.
both of u should take it easy whenever the opportunity arises.
this blog is an inspiration and has led tech-challenged people like me to explore a subject we had wrongly “taken for granted”.

About time you took a decent break Anthony,where the only climate concern is,
`is it a nice one?`
Don`t burn yourself out, shut the blog for a week or two,we`ll still be here.

John X and Ric Locke have recommended you relocate to the hill country of Texas. I did that last year from just down the road from you a bit in California’s gold country. My wife and I decided there was no need for us to be participants in California’s economic suicide. Give us a shout if you are ever in Austin and we will treat you to an evening at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema- the very best movie theater in the country. The owners started in the theater business in Bakersfield and gave up after a couple of years. They moved to Austin and enjoyed fantastic success due to the business friendly nature of Texas. You should be able to do the same.

Take a break, good Anthony. The sun will continue to rise. You’ll need energy closer to 2012.

“REPLY: No please, don’t send money.”
So how come Greenpeace or Al Gore never says anything like that.

A. Family
B. Business
C. Blog and related
If you think you’re not assigning enough importance to the first, consider how heavily the first weighs as one of the reasons for doing the other two.
If you can’t see how the first is a reason for doing either of the other two, why not?

Anthony, congratulations for a job well-done! 5,000 posts is a heroic effort. And, thank you again for allowing me to present a guest post from time to time and reach a far wider audience than I would otherwise.
I’ve learned much from these posts and comments and links, and look forward to learning much more as the folly of “greenhouse” gas catastrophic global warming becomes more and more evident.
At one point, some months ago, I believed I might be banned from WUWT for espousing my anti-nuclear power views. Much to your credit, you allowed me to continue to make comments and the occasional guest post.
I thank you, very much, for that, and for having WUWT be the best blog around.
Roger

Mr Watts
First of all GRACIAS, muchas Gracias.
Secondly I will appreciate you take a break, I also need a break and can not take it if the posts keep on coming. WUWT is an addictive site.
Tercero: Can we agree after all the information we have at hand, that the world is cooling and therefore start dealing with that scenario. Which would be the implications? What can we do to be prepared? Which will be the progression?
Finalmente un gran Salud en su nombre y todos los que hacen posible este hermoso sitio. Un gran salud con Carmenere chileno.
Juanse

polistra says:
May 10, 2011 at 5:19 pm

Don’t worry about your kids. Kids who participate in Daddy’s job are MUCH better off than kids who just see Daddy’s paycheck. You’re doing EXACTLY the right thing.

Polistra is right, Anthony–As a kid, I was hauled around the mountains “prospecting” with my dad, then later found geology to be my favorite science and life-long vocation. Others have said how important it is that our kids know their dads actually work for a living–something quite common with our ancestors as most were farmers/ranchers, but nowadays most kids believe milk is harvested in plastic jugs and meat is always found conveniently sliced and packaged–show them a cow and they simply can’t get the connection (or so shocked they become vegans). Oh, that we all had more professional time with our kids.
Congrats, Anthony, on my favorite blog.

+1 Internets to you, sir.

A few days back, I commented on a “Reference Pages” thread, observing a minor glitch on the ENSO/SST page – the Sea Level graph was labeled “Salinty”. It was corrected almost immediately. Prodded by your quick work, U. of Colorado finally updated their own page. You do even more good than you know! Thanks, Anthony!
Best,
Frank

Thank you, Anthony. Your superb website has given us a lot of help in fighting a totally inappropriate wind farm. We haven’t won yet but there is a fair chance we will win in the courts. Who will be hit number 20,000?
http://www.palmerston-north.info

The other day I went back in the archives to the start of this blog, and was amazed at how, from a tentative few sparks, it has exploded into a veritable conflagration. Before I discovered WUWT, I had little interest in matters climatic, except for a layman’s intuition that the claims of the ‘global warming’ alarmists were the sheerest poppycock. These were folks who could not even begin to account for the end of the last Ice Age, not to mention how the Earth survived eons when CO2 was vastly higher. A little geological perspective is all you need, really, but this site has become a daily tutorial in the infinitely more complicated—and intriguing—nature of the Earth’s turbulent atmospheric envelope, and in a host of other related phenomena.
Somehow, Anthony, you have managed by a combination of presentation skill, complete integrity, and an enduring intellectual curiosity to become a magnet for a fine crowd of interesting people. The 5k posts are indeed an accomplishment, but the roundtable of discussions they have engendered are even more so. Too often I have to tear myself away from a thread, lest the day pass without my leaving the screen, or getting any more mundane tasks done.
So thanks, and as someone said above, take some time off—so the rest of us can, too!
/Mr Lynn

Can I just say – a heartfelt thank you.

Anthony,
I’ve lurked here for a few years, and have to comment for the first time. I visit your site every single day. I thank you for your time and dedication, and although you certainly deserve some time off, Please NO!

WUWT is a must-read that I check out several times a day. It’s an oasis of critical thought in a world that’s gone batsh*t insane. For this I thank you Anthony and everyone involved.

I wholeheartely endorse the accolades you received above. You deserve them. As you did in the posting, I also send the same accolades to all those who have contributed to this site. Anthony and all of you have been so much fun to read, to debate, and to learn from each other. Integrity shows. Thanks Anthony. Thanks all.

I am WUWT’s biggest fan.
A wild ass claim, as I know you have many fans out here.
Thanks for all the work you have done. I read you first, every day.
Forever your servant,
EJ

Thank you Anthony. Your efforts, integrity and good demeanor always make your contribution to this crucial field a pleasure to read and absorb. You have been an inspiration and an education to me, and to many others as well, I am sure.

Anthony,
You are far too modest in some of your comments.
Without you, we, your guests, would have no means of expressing our concerns.
Sit back in your chair, give your additional 30lbs a rub, and just tell yourself that “I’ve done well kid”

And I bet the big oil money/Tax funding has helped /sarc
It’s all been said before so a simple ‘well done’ and pat on the back, realise that you are liked and respected on every continent of the world and there’s not many people that can claim that even the Hollywood elite.

Anthony, when you started, your blog was an oasis in a schizophrenic wilderness populated with AGW blogs. This, as well as the Climate Audit site were really important in focusing people who could see through the misrepresentations and outside frau ds .
May you have many more enjoyable years with enormous popularity and may you continue to have the support of good and discriminating moderators.
An advice: pace yourself. Do not burn the candle both ends
anna

Thank you.

“I sometimes think that never grows so red the rose, as where some buried caesar bled” The Bard
It does seem somewhat ironic that you and WUWT have blossomed in California of all places where the implications of low carbon ecconomics are adversely affecting everyone in that state.
I am in my seventies and would have died in blisfull ignorance in matters climatic, had I not chanced on this cite.
Not only do I now question science, I question everything. The hero’s that I will take with me to my grave, have all be mentioned on WUWT and I know that very many of your visitors will be like minded.
When I was running a small business in the UK, I received what I considered to be the best advice anyone in business could obtain. “Never be seduced by your own advertising” I get the feeling that even though you might never have heard this, you understand it’s full import.
Many thanks for your inestimable contributions todate and for the continuing education.
PS
You said in your first ever blog that you did not appreciate anonymity.
On this special occasion, I feel disposed to sign off with my real name.
Regards and best wishes to you and your familly.
Peter ONeil
In your first ever

Dear Mr Watts and Team
Thank you for a very professionally run web site which educates and entertains.

The later part of the twentieth century saw the decline of truth, honesty, integrity, common sense and logic in politics,science and our places of learning. Anthony and most people who post on this site seem to have escaped the rather unfortunate decline in manners and sensibilities. Thank you Anthony, I oft see you give people a quick lesson in manners. Science is a quest for the truth, the philosophers stone, the god particle. It is well that this endeavour to seek the truth is open and beyond the control of big brother, the internet it would seem is the final frontier, the last bastion of free thought and dissemination of ideas. Mr Watts sir, I feel you may be remembered in history as a beacon, shining a light of truth in a rather sad and dark period of science.

 Hey Anthony
As Bob Tisdale says:
May 10, 2011 at 5:11 pm
“thank you and the moderators for all of the work that goes into maintaining WUWT and keeping it a nice place to exchange information  thoughts.”
Anthony and Mods, I bring my kids here.
Thanks,   Jack

Time for you and the family to take a get-a-way. Look into this:
http://www.clubmed.us/cm/all-inclusive-family-vacations_p-115-l-US-pa-FAMILY-ALL-INCLUSIVE-VACATION-DEAL-ac-od.html
And if you are really thinking about leaving Kalifornia may I again suggest the Gulf Coast of Florida. Beautiful warm waters, wonderful weather, no state income taxes, limited supply of left wing nut jobs. Nothing to worry about except an occasional hurricane, but as a meteorologist that should intrigue you.

Anthony, you may not have set out to run the No.1 climate blog, but by keeping the mind open and the discussion polite you’ve ensured it anyhow. And do make time for that vacation – with a bit of advance notice, I’m sure the “usual suspect” guest posters could keep thinks ticking over for a while, and the rest of us can keep an eye on the “Tips and Notes” until you return. Make it a cycling holiday and you can deal with that 30 lbs at the same time! 🙂
Thank you for restoring my faith that there is science in climate.

Anthony, I check your blog almost every day.
I deeply appreciate that the discours is civil and always comes back to the facts.
The reference pages are just great.
You have enabled the interested layman – me – to get a real idea of the debate and the facts.
Thanks a lot.

I’m not a numerologist; but I occasionally hear a lunatic lady numerologist on late night radio, and she can explain and predict anything just from a few random numbers.
Would she predict the exact same events, if all the numbers were in binary; or would the whole of history be changed ??
How about heaxadecimal.
Why don’t they cut off everybody’s big toes and thumbs at birth, so that hexadecimal became our normal counting mode automatically. Hey if they can cut off other important body parts at birth; why not big toes and thumbs. Some people are all thumbs anyway, so they could benefit from losing a couple.
Well anyway Anthony, somehow by sheer random HS luck and accident; you have created a monster here, and the greens, don’t quite know how to control it. Don’t believe those who say you can only do this by hard work. You know better than I do , that isn’t so. That’s why you fall asleep in front of the T&V in the evenings; plain boredom is what does it.
In any case Anthony, now you kow that when you need to rattle the tin can for a good purpose; there’s a good supply of equally crazy people out here willing to help.
Just based on the stuff you manage to find, and post here, I can’t wait to see the paper in print. Does Joe Romm have to pay real money for all the guff he writes ?
It remains to be seen whether the Feds, finally wise up, and decide to do something to rectify the pestilence that you and your gang of volunteers have dug up, to shine a light on.
Congratulations.

“My kids know what an MMTS and Stevenson Screen is. They shouldn’t.”
—————————————————
Au contraire, Anthony. You have given them the greatest gift a parent can – you have shared your life, and passions, and knowledge, with them.
WUWT and Climate Audit have triumphed because they combine commitment to integrity with a demand for civil discourse. One or both is generally lacking in most sites (on either side) that roam over this territory.
I dips my lid to your work ethic. It is an astonishing achievement to keep this up, and keep improving, over the years. Wrangling guest authors, volunteers, your own research, plus family and business, makes your average mega-entrepreneur look like a wimp. Sustaining quality control over it all is even more impressive.
Like other posters, I implore you to look after your health and family, and maybe think about how WUWT could be reconstituted so that you don’t have to expend so much personal energy on it. People will complain about any change, but it is clearly nothing like the original enterprise.
Very best wishes to you and yours.

In a world full of chicken littles you are an oasis of common sense. Congrats Anthony!

Thank you for an Island of sanity in Bedlam.
Bedlams latest:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13335683
I would like to hear your comments on YOU TUBE “THE MAGIC OF MR ROSSI”

Thank you Anthony, mods and guests.
A short verse, in appreciation, by that well known wordsmith – anon
Work like you dont need the money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
Dance like there’s nobody watching,
Sing like there’s nobody listening, and
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.

May I suggest a schedule for blogging? Say, the first 25 days of each month, then nothing for the remainder? That would give everybody (Anthony, mods, contributors, guests, me, etc.) a common schedule and every month from 3 to 6 days of R&R–we could affectionately call it WUWT25.
Just a silly suggestion, but a common break would put us all on the same schedule and optimize our work and our “off” periods. I’m guessing we’d still get the same amount of content and discussion.

Anthony,
Thanks for all the hard work. I learnt a lot about the uncertainties in the data and analysis in this field from you and all the others on this site. WUWT has helped shed more light on this critically important issue than any other site or person has done
Anthony Watts Says:
“I’m made thousands of friends, and probably an equal number of enemies. Some days it is a sobering thought. As a result, I have had to be more diligent with my home and business security than I did before. ”
Somehow i don’t believe you made as many enemies as friends. you probably made several friends each enemy you made. That is mostly because you and the other moderators here run a very respectable and fair site

Anthony
You are a person with an extraordinary blessing in your gifts, combined with your hard work. I can witness to everything everyone has said here. I too have been captivated by the fight for integrity that you exemplify and I do what I can in my way. I too have burned the midnight oil, fallen asleep over my computer probably as often as in my bed, whooped with the successes and wept with the failures.
But please do not be seduced by success (even with us). Consider how to pass on your skills. Consider how to make yourself redundant before circumstances force. Keep checking with God, Great Spirit, your intuition, for your path. Consider what is really needed in the changing circumstances – whether you personally are called to answer that need.
Personally I believe we’ve actually won the war although nobody is conceding defeat. But I also believe we need to build for the future. One thing I believe we need for this is a Climate Science wiki, to bypass Wikipedia, which has an inbuilt limitation that was put there for the best of reasons, but works savagely against non-orthodox science – its rule of “No Original Research”.
So much important science has passed through your blog, but to my perception, this needs to be collected together, distilled, refined, and made readily accessible – like your wonderful reference pages. And we need simple primers for newcomers, that like Cook’s SS are linked to the best available references. A wiki looks like the obvious answer. Would you consider making a sideways step, reducing the blog volume in order to start developing/facilitating a wiki? This would give you a path of creative transition that leaves huge benefit for future generations. It would also, I think, leave you much more free regarding how you spend your time – because it would attract its own development team.
I started to set up just such a wiki (using MediaWiki software like WP) but I have to face the fact that Great Spirit and circumstances are calling me elsewhere. I’d still be willing to pass on my tiny humble seed for other climate skeptics to develop – or I’d be delighted if another wiki gets started – because I still passionately believe that the true skeptics’ Climate Science needs such a wiki.

“I find myself running the most visited climate related website in the world. ”
Congratulations Anthony. I am certain the a*$%!*%s at realclimate hate your guts for it because you did it without coming down to their level.

Thanks for all your effort. “Watts Up With That?” is my daily read.
My simple mind is still amused by the website name play on words.

The bottom line:
WUWT 1, RealClimate 0
Thank you Anthony

I would be remiss if I did not say thank you to your team of moderators and guest posters as well. Thank you. As a seriously interested layperson, your site is an indispensable daily source of information and ideas.

Most of my liberal acquaintences are now admitting embarrasment of their gullibility during the global warming fad. I think the fad has peaked and is falling fast, and with it much of the heated discourse. Maybe folks in California are a little late in giving it up though.
Perhaps you are somewhat battle weary, and as the fog of war clears you have more time to reflect upon it. IMHO your job is nearly done, just a matter of maintenence now. Time to move on?
…….Or time to challenge the next “progressive” fad, as yet unseen, because I doubt that they will ever quit trying something.
……Or maybe get behind some positive initiative…like putting a telescope on the moon. I know………I’m a broken record.
Best of luck to you, wherever your path may lead.