I’m going to be “on hiatus” perhaps a couple of weeks or more to catch up on my business, which needs some significant attention right now. Blogging, as most of you know, is a loss. Between my wife’s illness last fall, getting the surfacestations paper out this spring, and other time-sucking issues, I have a lot of catch-up to do. Blogging, while at times exciting and rewarding, doesn’t pay the bills. Ever since Amazon killed affiliate programs in California due to tax insanity, now blogging pays even less. Ad clicks and a few kind souls who drop into the tip jar are about it, yet I find myself spending 6 hours a day (or more) on some days. A good example was last Saturday, when I spent about 5 hours chasing Turtles down a rabbit hole in Australia.
This coming November, I will have been at this job for five years straight, with only a couple of short breaks. What started out as a interesting diversion for my local newspaper has turned into a global monster that needs daily feeding. So, time for a diet.
I’ll have one, maybe two, small posts on weekdays, maybe more on weekends, the rest can be filled in by regular contributors and those that use the “submit story” feature in the header. It may turn out that “less is more”.
About submitting stories, many of the “submit story” offerings these days are simply reposts of articles on newspaper or magazine websites, which I’ll generally reject due to copyright issues and other reasons. The best way to submit a story like that is to paraphrase and excerpt it.
See Tips and Notes for those that don’t want to submit a small story.
WUWT has a life of its own now, and I don’t need to be as attentive as I have been. Climate Audit goes days without posts, and Steve still manages to maintain a pretty good traffic rank because people are always looking for the next post. I know people will step in to fill the void here.
Once I get caught up, I’ll spend more time here again. In the meantime, carry on.
Thanks for your consideration.
Anthony
Anthony, you have the best, most informative site on the web.
I am embarrased to say that I did not know there was a tip jar and have failed to show my appreciation that way. Sorry that a pittance is all I can manage right now [only half my crop planted this year and more than a third drowned out last.] I hope others will also take note of this avenue of showing thanks and make a special effort to do so.
Take care of your family. Take care of your business. Go shoot some skeet! We’ll wait.
Best,
Frank
Anthony,
You have created a very special site. You and the people your site attracts are great. Thanks for your efforts. Best wishes to you and your wife.
Saludos, Anthony. May your time away from WUWT be highly profitable – in the financial/business sense. Be assured that the time you have spent at WUWT has also been spent very profitably – in the educational sense. I do fully understand the need to do both, and thanks immensely for the knowledge and insights I have gained as a direct result of your own work and your loyal and productive associates who are also instrumental in making WUWT a daily must-visit web site. I am certain that this will continue in your absence but look forward to your return in any case.
I’m embarrassed that it has taken so long, but I finally did hit your tip jar. There’s a c-note coming your way with my deepest thanks.
Anthony Great Blog its the first thing I read in the morning and the last thing I read at night. I have being reading your blog for at least 3 years but have never posted. I suspect that may change with whats happening in AUS. I have also hit your tip jar keep up the good work.
Have a great break look forward to your return
Do what you must Anthony. Us and the real science will be here.
At least you have the dignity of not being paid with your fellow citizen’s tax dollars to blog disinformation, policized pseudo-science and fear, like Gavin Schmidt does at the un-RC blog.
I would suggest the only time you concern yourself in the next little while with melting ice is when contemplating a gin and tonic on the deck.
Anthony – regardless of our scuffles, I do very much appreciate this site and the great effort you have put into building it up to what it is now, inspired by your dedication. I wish I could give more, if I ever win the lottery..
Is there any way you can produce some books out of the discussions here? I particularly enjoy the exchanges in science subjects I know little or nothing about, but also there’s so much material to the background in the AGW scam – as in the current ‘give this lady an Order of Australia medal and previous discussions about the EPA and California – and how these affect the people directly. I’d really like to see such going to a wider audience. Not heavy tomes, perhaps something lightened up by Josh..? Magazine format maybe.
Anyway, do enjoy a break with your family, and as always, I’ll look forward to the next item you and your guest posters have found of interest for us.
Do back away, ensure business success and personal life.
You’ve posted many articles recently, spending time digging is too much.
Best wishes.
I think I should pull myself together and push that “Submit Story” button soon. I have a fascinating story (more like a review article) in the making, for quite some time now. It is about sea level budget. If you add up all the widely advertised scary contributions (like melting glaciers & ice sheets, ground water depletion and the like, with plenty of peer reviewed references from prestigious [AGW] journals), it turns out ocean volume below 700 m is contracting and it is contracting fast. It means ocean heat content is not increasing, but decreasing, that is, there is cooling, not warming in the pipeline. Either that or some scary “consensus” papers are crap. No model is needed, just a bit of simple physics.
Thank you for your dedication. I wish you well and hope you enjoy the rest.
Where else on this planet can you get the equivalent of a university education for an occasional $20 in the tip jar. I stand in awe of you, sir. Well done.