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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Thank you Anthony and mods for another year of erudition and entertainment – your site is a tonic.
Happy Christmas from a rather warm UK.
A different climate.
DirkH says:
December 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
[REPLY: Danke. Und Frohe Weihnachten für Sie und Ihre, wie gut. -REP]
Sorry – somebody has to play Scrooge, might as well be me…
That would be: “Sie und den Ihren” (to you and yours). “Wie gut/how well” doesn’t make sense, at least to a German…
Felix dies nativitatis!
Merry Christmas to Anthony, the Mods, Guest Posters, commenters but especially to all EVUETIPTCTHODTEOAPTs and ETILTDSAWAWTMEITUs that might be listening.
Ulrich Elkmann says:
December 24, 2011 at 5:37 pm
“DirkH says:
December 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
[REPLY: Danke. Und Frohe Weihnachten für Sie und Ihre, wie gut. -REP]
Sorry – somebody has to play Scrooge, might as well be me…
That would be: “Sie und den Ihren” (to you and yours). “Wie gut/how well” doesn’t make sense, at least to a German…”
I liked it. Sounded like Yoda.
Merry Christmas to all from Colorado Springs, CO. We have plenty of snow on the ground and on the side streets. It’s only gotten to the upper 30s the last two days, but it feels warm during the day because of the strong high-altitude sunshine. Two weeks ago, I saw a Robin in our neighborhood. Don’t know where he came from, because we’ve had some below zero weather.
Anthony will probably not read this, but I thank him for his tireless work… and for posting the Nat King Cole link, which has led to many viewings of Nat performances on his show! For those interested in this fine singer and musician, I highly recommend the recent Analogue Productions SACDs (no, of course I’m not a paid plugger – I just love these discs). These are hybrid SACD/CDs – so even if you do not have an SACD-compatible player, you can enjoy these discs with a normal CD player, and the sound is utterly amazing, having been transferred from the original 3-track studio session tapes. Hearing is believing! Merry Christmas one and all. 🙂
Merry Christmas resonances and joyous new year frequencies, in this grand new journey about our beautiful electric variable star!
“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?
Another year over, a new one just begun?”
Something I have done – a little playing around with Fourier on HadCRUT3, preferably the UEA version. (I have questions about the UKMET version showing slightly more recent warming trend and slightly less periodicity thyan the UEA version.)
One thing I can say: IIRC, UEA version of HadCRUT3 has a periodic component, even if only temporary, that held up for 2 cycles with amplitude of .217 degree C/K peak-to-peak. This has
period of 64 years, most recent peak in 2005, and most recent dip in 1973. This pattern managed to sustain from 1879 to 2005.
Furthermore: When reducing 1973-2005 “smoothed global warming” according to UEA version of HadCRUT3 by .217 degree, what is the warming rate – and how much positive feedback upon CO2 change is required to make that true?
How about something else I have done – consideration of greenhouse gases other than CO2 that had atmospheric presence increasing significantly until sometime in the 1990’s, and afterwardes largely leveling off? This can easily account for 15-20% of increrase in “GHG effect”
prior to 2005 but not in the future from 2005.
With such considerations, it appears to me that “global climate sensitivity” to change in CO2 is about 1.1-1.2 degree C/K per change by a factor of 2. The feedbacks added by nature appear to me no more thyan slighjtly positive, maybe slightly negative.
Furthermore, it appears to me that as global warming due to increase of greenhouse gases progresses, the most-negative feedback (the lapse rate one) has its magnitude increasing.
– Don
I put together a YouTube Playlist with all the clips Anthony posted as well as the contributions from the comments, save the clip about “Dear Leader”….(even the Bob River’s Twisted Tunes clip…he is back on the air btw, KJR FM Seattle)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D8787E43F1489AC&feature=edit_ok
I will try to keep updating it.
It is a bit eclectic…kinda like Watt’s Up With That!
Andrew
Christmas is a marketing gimmick and you are all suckers. The religious elements are a fiction. Look it up. It is a pagan winter festival not a christian event. It’s not in the Scriptures. It was invented as a political device to assimilate pagans into the Roman church.
Merry Christmas to Anthony and the WUWT mods and bods!
Donald L. Klipstein says:
December 24, 2011 at 6:12 pm
“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?
Another year over, a new one just begun?”
Good Call…and notice the title…
“Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84RLgnz7Rs&w=560&h=315%5D
Eric Dailey,
I bet you’re lots of fun at a party.
Merry Christmas to all !
“Watts Up” is really “down to Earth”.
Thanks for the sanity amid the lunacy.
Wishing you many more great years to come !
Ken.
To all the moderators who make this blog work. Have a relaxing and fun Christmas and new years holidays. Moderating a busy board like this is a huge amount of work and you all do a bang up job.
Many happy wishes to you and your family and friends.
[REPLY:Thanks for your understanding. Best of the season to you, too. -REP]
Merry Christmas from a knuckle-dragging, redneck, Neanderthal, Luddite, d-word flat-earther …..
It’s kinda cool being a better scientist than them.
(….. and knowing that the time will come when they have to both admit, and deal with the above).
Merry Christmas from Washington State east of the Cascade Crest!
John and Nancy
on the Naneum Fan
I don’t think I can embed an image, but I’ll try:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f103/KQ6WQ/Motivational/Oh_No.jpg
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Anthony, the Mods, and everyone.
Does anyone have URL of a map of the world to scale? I’m having a problem finding one, for example here: http://www.mapsofindia.com/worldmap/ India has an area of 1,269,210 square miles and Greenland 836,109 square miles – but on this map Greenland looks around twice as big as India…
Reply: A map of the world to scale would be about 40,000 km wide. I think what you are looking for is information on different types of map projections, ~ctm or the representation of spherical geographic information on flat surfaces.
The celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth. Have a very Merry Christmas all!
(and check out E.M. Smith’s fine review on historic calendars, seems we really should celebrate for at least a week to cover the date uncertainty 🙂 )
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/oct-nov-dec-8-9-10-tenth-eleventh-twelfth-months/
To FOIA,
May the blessings of liberty be yours for all time. You’ve done the world a tremendous service and wherever you are, best wishes go out to you. Stay safe.
With tremendous thanks,
Another grateful reader
Myrrh says:
December 24, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Does anyone have URL of a map of the world to scale?”
Copyright can be a problem.
What you want is area mapping. I’m probably sober and might be able to explain how to do it tomorrow. Either find the map or compute it from a bad map (simply a lookup or function)
If you very briefly post on an early thread on web site by my name I’ll pick it up.
(or tallbloke’s but Rog might get it first)
Smokey says:
December 24, 2011 at 6:37 pm
“Eric Dailey,
I bet you’re lots of fun at a party.”
I don’t think Eric goes to parties – those are marketing gimmicks by big business. Further, Eric doesn’t believe in fictions. However, the country in which I live does have Christians and they celebrate Christmas as the birth of Christ, despite knowing the date of birth is unknown. Yet this “fiction” drives major sectors of the world’s economy and encourages goodwill, cheer, and hope. In this way the idea of a “pagan winter festival” morphs into a world wide festival regardless of whether it is summer, winter, or whatever — location-wise. Eric will now list or calculate everything he has obtained in this life based on fictions and make proper amends.
Friends here got together for a joyful Solstice—food, music, singing – and will repeat on Christmas Day. Thus, I and others are called suckers! Well, we will live with (and also cheer) that.
Again, Merry Christmas All.