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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Have a rockin’ Christmas everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89CjMZDQpQ
Eric Dailey 6:17:
“Christmas is a marketing gimmick…etc”
We know that, Eric, and we don’t care. Merry Christmas to you anyway, and to all at this site.
Greetings from chilly Paris
Boys up to their necks in Lego, me stunned by the new IPad, wife in the kitchen chatting with the old folks. Pagan it may be but I love it
Joyeux Noel
Merry Christmas from a wind blown Falkirk.
Thanks to everyone at WUWT.
Merry Christmas to Anthony, the Mods, and all the contributors from a mild and slightly damp West Sussex. Looking forward to Christmas day with the grandchildren, and hoping that 2012 will bring more progress towards removal of the CAGW millstone from all our grandchildren’s futures.
We clearly have the better Team here!
Merry Christmas everyone! Even Eric!
Myrrh says:
December 24, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Does anyone have URL of a map of the world to scale?
This site has all of the equal area map projections and you can zoom in on them and add overlays to some of them:
http://www.equal-area-maps.com/hammer.php
Nadoleg LLawen i pawb. Merry Christmas from a wet and windy Wales
Merry Christmas everyone and a prosperous New year.
Never Give In!!!
Well Christmas day is almost over in Melbourne, Australia We had 4 seasons in one day today, needing the beach at lunchtime and finally cooling down with hours of thunderstorms, torrential rain, huge hail and even a tornado!!
To Anthony, the mods and the wonderful contributors all, THANK YOU for providing me with sanity, fun and education! Merry Christmas/Solstice, whatever, and a Happy New Year!
Wishing Anthony and all at WUWT a very Happy Christmas. Thank you for everything you have done and are doing,
Annie, (currently enjoying Christmas in the Arabian Gulf).
Anyone with spare time on their hands is welcome over at the talkshop for the Christmas Quiz
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/christmas-quiz-tallbloke-style/
Winner gets a ‘raid at talkshop towers’ Josh Cartoons mug.
Merry Christmas!
‘Cold Moutain’ (Han Shan) reached Cold Mountain (120° 48.9′ E 29° 4.6 ‘ N) in the cold year 760.
Summer the ice doesn’t melt. He wrote poems on the rocks. A first blogger.
“I reached Cold Mountain and all cares stopped
no idle thoughts remained in my head
nothing to do I write poems on the rocks
and trust the current like an unmoored boat
I’ve always loved Friends of the Way
friends of the Way I’ve always held dear
meeting a traveler with a silent spring
or greeting a guest talking Zen.
Talking of the unseen on a moonlit night
searching for truth until dawn
when ten thousand reasons disappear
and we finally see who we are.
People ask the way to Cold Mountain
but roads don’t reach Cold Mountain
Summer the ice doesn’t melt
and the morning fog is too dense.”
(Cold Mountain)
(Songs translated by Red Pine)
Cold Moutain (Han Shan) reached Cold Mountain (120° 48.9′ E 29° 4.6 ‘ N) in the year 760 AD. A stalagmite from the Spannagel cave in the Alps confirms there were cold times, but also the Suns partner.
Thanks for the ‘rocks’, Anthony, we can write words on.
love
V.
Merry Christmas to Anthony, the Mods, and all the contributors and readers from a snowy spa in Finland. On vacation here this Christmas season with family. Can’t resist visiting WUWT on a daily basis. Wondering if FOIA is going to end up in the history books as famous as Paul Revere.
And from deepest Borneo …. where I can assure anyone worried about an extra 2 degrees of warmth not to be …. also wishing you a very merry Xmas.
You do a great job …. don’t stop …. in the end the truth is the truth !!
I haven’t seen Scots yet, so, as a Scotsman, I say;
Lang may yer lum reek!
Merry Christmas and all best wishes for the New Year to Anthony and all fellow climate realists.
Lets hope that some further light will be shone upon this issue next year, and that sanity will at long last prevail and the politicians will pull back from destroying western economies and condemning all those in developing countries to a life of hradship and poverty without the benefits of cheap and plentiful energy.
Have a wholesome and happy Xmas everyone and may the New year bring climategates galore ( hope you see this FOIA!)
Kind regards from a chilly Hong Kong
Zorro
Thanks for everything, Anthony, and a Happy Christmas to everyone.
Here is a list of Christmas presents I have sent.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/merry-xmas/
An old favourite of mine for Christmas day
My family says that I was exactly like Linus. I will admit to having carted a blanket around well past my 5th birthday…
Joyeux Noël
Happy Birthday Jesus!
No moderators! Gone till Monday!…. wooooo HOOOOO!!! ….pitter patter pitter patter… (*runs to one side of the website — knocking fonts over*) …trample, rumble, *BANG!*… (*jumps off of banner diving into the sea where a Christmas tree grows inexplicably on the sea shore — OBVIOUSLY a sign from Gaia warning mankind against it’s follies, kicks over social media thumbnails on his way out*) …”yeah!… occupy WUWT!” … ~-~♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ …(*blast of horn//penny whistle blares!*)… `~-♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ ° Tooot — Toooot!.
(Other websites were disturbed by the noises coming from WUWT, grinning only because somewhere down deep in these other webpages, they thought WUWT deserved what was coming to it for being so obstinate against the narrative of AGW. As these larger sites slumbered off into there groggy dreams of federally funded — tax payer lined coffers — to support their inane ramblings [~like this one~] and research of the beaked leopard mint canyon smelt and the affects of a years worth of a Yugo’s exhaust directly pointed to its face … you could hear a chorus arise…)
[… louder, and louder…]
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas,
Come this way!
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas,
Christmas Day.
Welcome, Welcome
Fah who rah-moose
Welcome, Welcome
Dah who dah-moose
Christmas day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas
Bring your cheer
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome all Who’s
Far and near
Welcome Christmas, fah who rah-moose
Welcome Christmas, dah who dah-moose
Christmas day will always be
Just so long as we have we
Fah who for-aze
Dah who dor-aze
Welcome Christmas
Bring your light
(Bridge (about 65 sec))
Welcome Christmas
Fah who rah-moose!
Welcome Christmas
Dah who dah-moose!
Welcome Christmas
While we stand
Heart to heart
And hand in hand
Fah who for-aze
Dah who dor-aze
Welcome welcome
Christmas
Christmas
Day
[MODERATOR’S STERN WARNING: We ARE here, and if you don’t gather up those fonts you knocked over and put them back the way they were, there will be no Christmas Pudding for you! -REP]
North-East of US is frontline in war on Climate Change, Skepticism is dead because Muller is a skeptic and he said so, W Mass inhabitants stop Climate Change by eating stuff that grows in their area. Written by a professor. (You might reconsider sending your kids to Westfield State University)
http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/12/viewpoint_northeast_holds_fron.html
Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone. And a special thanks to Lance who posted very early–Thanks for your service and your son’s. I have been the family waiting at home, too. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” I pray every day for the safe return of service men and women overseas and away from their families.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Anthony!