Above: Christmas trees in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
As of this post, I’m offline until late Monday PST. Moderators, don’t be shy about taking time off too.
My sincerest and most heartfelt thank you all for your support this year, for daring to ask the questions, for standing up to what you believe in, and for staying the course. As Winston Churchill said, “Never give up, never give in.”
To all, no matter which side of the debate you are on, no matter whether you love me or hate me for what WUWT does, I wish you a Merry Christmas.
I leave you with a selection of my favorite Christmas music.
Britain’s Susan Boyle has been an inspiration to many, rising from obscurity to fame, for daring to be ridiculed on stage one night so that she could show the world what she could do. Here she is at Rockefeller plaza:
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Merry Christmas all.
Kate Bush Snowflake
Merry Christmas to all from Sydney! May sanity and common sense prevail in the New Year!
Wonderful musical choices. Nat King Cole is incomparable and I couldn’t stop going from one Dean Martin number to another. Just his voice is enough to sooth the inner beast.
At last! The moderator may be away so I can finally say what I really think about this Evil Big Oil Denier site…
It is my favorite thing on the net! No end of brain candy in the articles and comments.
So all the best to everyone involved in this ongoing gift – contributors and commenters and moderators – and my sincere thanks to Anthony for wondering about the impact of latex paint on the global climate and all the wonderful things he has done since. And now you are an IPCC reviewer!!! Long way from how it all started.
[REPLY: The moderators are ALWAYS here. That was just Anthony’s subterfuge to draw out the ungodly. See if YOU ever get posted here again! Have a merry Christmas and Happy New Year. -REP]
Merry Christmas everyone from Melbourne Australia! 🙂
To stick to something I can prove… A Splendid Solstice Season to the whole world. No exceptions!
[REPLY: The moderators are ALWAYS here. That was just Anthony’s subterfuge to draw out the ungodly. See if YOU ever get posted here again! Have a merry Christmas and Happy New Year. -REP]
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ROTFLMAO
Merry Christmas to all you guys and gals………………..
[REPLY: And to you. Thanks for your contributions. -REP]
Merry Christmas to you and yours AW & Mods! Have a very, very good one.
The times they are a changin!
And you guys are instrumental in bringing about the changes, many, many thanks.
[REPLY: Our commenters are very often as effective. Thanks for your contributions and have a Merry Christmas and great New Year. -REP]
Merry christmas to one & all from a WET SE Victoria Australia. we came close to a white xmas, least it started with the same letter 😉
[REPLY: A lot of our most supportive commenters seem to come from Victoria. We’ve always envied your ability to celebrate Christmas with a barbie in the beach. Best wishes to you, our Victoria commenters, and the neighbors in New South Wales. -REP]
Merry Christmas from Canberra, Australia. It’s a beautiful sunny day here, the bubbly and prawns are chilling in the fridge, and the barbie will shortly be fired up.
Heartfelt thanks to Anthony, mods and contributors for giving us something to look forward to every day – like they used to say about the movies – ‘you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you won’t be able to take your eyes off the screen!’
Very special Season’s Greetings to FOIA, whoever and wherever they are. You have done the planet a great service, possibly the greatest of 2011.
[REPLY: Thank you Johanna. Second that about FOIA. Enjoy the holiday. Interested commenters make this worthwhile. It’s not like the mods are in this for the money… -REP]
Happy Christmas friends one and all.
[REPLY: Thank you. And to you. -REP]
http://youtu.be/ZN_TtQczgZA
God jul och gott nytt år!
[REPLY: Och en riktigt God Jul och välmående, frisk och gott nytt år till dig och din familj. (Yeah, it’s Google translate, I’m not that good, but the sentiments are heart-felt.) -REP]
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanakkuh to all!
Thank you, Anthony (and mods), for all you do. WUWT is a bastion of sanity is a sea to idiocy – and we appreciate it.
[REPLY: Thank you, Barbara, but this site thanks its readers and commenters as well. You are the people who will make things happen. Season’s Greeting and best wishes to you and yours. -REP]
Happy Christmas from Chris Huhne, soon to be ex climate change minister….
Merry Christmas or Happy Hanuka to all of the WUWT denizens.
Merry Christmas Anthony. May you and yours be blessed this season and in the coming year.
The Schwartz! Use the Schwartz, Lonestar! The ring was bupkis!
Merry Christmas Anthony!
And thanks!
Have a peace filled day and a hope filled new year. I raise my pint to all.here.
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to all that make this the best site on the Internet – contributors, mods, commenters and even lurkers. May you be blessed with every good fortune in the coming year from Colorado Springs, where we’re both tracking Santa (NORAD) and enjoying a white Christmas.
謹賀新年
My crystal ball forebodes the number of views shall reach 100 million on 14 January.
Anthony: Our best wishes for you and your family. Merry Christmas!
The consensus supports wishing a Merry Christmas to all 100 million of us!
[…too much eggnog… ☺]
May all of you enjoy a happy (insert reference of your choice). I would like to take this opportunity to claim the title of WUWT Grinch. I am both a workaholic and an addicted…uhm…Wattsupwiththatian. Even a brief respite from both results in withdrawl symptoms for me!
I’d like also like to extend a special thanks to:
“the Team”. Never have so few done so much with so little. You are both an inspiration and a dire warning of what happens when we are not vigilant in the defense of the truth.
“the Trolls”. Without you, there would be no outlet for my sarcastic wit. Who knows how backed up things would get inside my head without trolls to butt off of bridges. (I am a Grinch, Rank; Billy Goat)
“the mods”. Wow, how you guys keep up and keep the discussion civil without strangling the debate is beyond me. thankyou thankyou thankyou.
“those who made me laugh”. Serious as the matters we discuss are, the humour on this site keeps me coming back as much as the science.
“those whom I made laugh”. There is no greater satisfaction for a humourist than to know that his work has brought merriment to others. I hesitate to clutter up threads with thankyou notes when people compliment my writing, so wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who did.
“the authors”. I’ve learned SO much on this site, from SO many articles, and I know the amount of work it takes to write a good one, and that even a great article comes under fire, some justified and some not. Please keep the great work coming, and the same to those who jump into threads to share their knowledge, their experience, and their criticism. There is a PhD worth of knowledge to be had every week at WUWT thanks to your efforts.
and…
“Anthony”. I cannot thank you enough for what you have accomplished with WUWT, both as a forum that I personally enjoy participating in, and as a forum that is a major part of pulling the human race back from a descent into insanity.
Thankyou.