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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Mr. Watts and WUWT contributors and on behalf of my father (we’ll call him swright, long time lurker) Wish you and all contributors to this history making endeavor ] and your family(s)—-
A very Merry Christmas and God Bless you all.
dwright
Mike Weatherford says:
….from Colorado Springs, where we’re both tracking Santa (NORAD) and enjoying a white Christmas.
What evil propaganda is this? I have it on good authority that Santa has crashed
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
A very Happy Christmas to you and yours, Anthony!
The same to all you mods – I hope you’re well provided with mince pies and gluhwein.
And the same to all you posters!
Eat, drink and be merry, because we’ll all die: either because it is too hot, or because it’s too cold, or too wet, too dry, or too stormy, as it is in good old Blighty right now.
It is of course our own fault, no matter what (and the watermelons will ,of course, never die of anything ..) – so we might as well have a good time!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All. From Northern Minnesota.
God rest Þe merry :o)
And a very Christmas to everyone
Just to round out the Season’s Greetings, and to slip further down the imaginary axis . . .
Vulcan: kunli-Christmas
Klingon: QISmaS DatIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ DatIvjaj and QISmaS botIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ botIvjaj
Elvish: Ná merye i turuhalmeri
And, stealing shamelessly from User Friendly this morning, is a geeks rendition of Oh Holy Night
Oh Modem lights
I love to see you shining
every night as I surf
across the earth.
Apart was the world
Then came IP assigning
We shook our hands
And we all could share our mirth.
Though broadband arrived
And the waiting world rejoices
I’ll always respect
9600 baud
Fall on your knees
And hear the negotiation!
Oh lights divine, Oh lights,
You blink and warn.
Oh lights divine.
Oh lights. Oh lights divine!
From our friends at the CPA, a Christmas message and a lesson in climatology and geology, could have been spoken by Bob Brown and his lackeys in the Labor Party.
Dear Comrades, Guardian readers, supporters and friends,
2011 witnessed an increase in class struggle all over the world and the people’s fight back for democratic rights, jobs and peace. We also witnessed the speeding up of the climate crisis with the devastating floods in Queensland and earthquakes in NZ and Japan. Climate change highlights that the world can no longer support imperialism with its profit-driven nature and wars. more …
I used to know a little Italian. Here goes:
Buon Natale e tanti auguri a tutti voi per l’anno nuovo.
Merry Christmas from Utah.
♫ Merry Christmas everybody! ♫
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Andrew
Its the right time for Christmas Tales… this might be the reason why “Le Monde”, one of the main french newspapers, is putting out a paper glorifying Michael Mann and the great Hockey stick curve… for french fluent readers, a nice example of first class propaganda :
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2011/12/23/le-climatologue-a-la-crosse-de-hockey_1621693_3244.html#ens_id=1622654
Best to all, and : Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to all men of good faith.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays (whichever you celebrate) to all. I am simply glad that sunset today here on the sunny, warm west central coast of Florida is 17:42, tomorrow it is 17:43 and the next day 17:44. Spring is on the way! Celebrating today with a nice cookout (barbie for those down under) at the beach. Thank goodness for global warming!!!!!!!!!!
A little late for christmas, but nevertheless:
Best wishes to all of you from Franconia! (part of Bavaria, Germany)
Keep up with the good work!
Merry Christmas to you, too, Anthony! Luboš
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Hello. I have a question that someone may be able answer.
Imagine that we have somewhere in the world a small region/area/nation
(call it what you will) that consists of three suburbs jammed together in a
row to form an “urban area”, each being 5×5 km. Along the back of these is
a small range of hills and then a 15×15 km hinterland.
In the middle of each of these four areas is a temperature station, and in
each case the remps are recorded every 15 minutes. Let’s assume for the
sake of this exercise that the temps in each are representative of the area
in which the station is found. Clearly, with quarter-hour readings, it is
possible to produce a daily mean for each station.
Suppose that on Day 1 the four means are 10, 10, 10, 10, and on Day 2 the
means for the 3 ‘urban’ and one ‘rural’ station are 10.5, 10.5, 10.5, 9.5.
My question is: when these data are examined by climate scientists, do they
conclude that there has been a 0.25 increase in mean temperature, or do they
conclude that there has been a decrease of 0.25 deg per hectare?
Thanks
Merry Christmas and sincere appreciation to Anthony and the moderators for their incomparable work, and my warmest Christmas wishes to Smokey, our indefatigueable troll-slayer (whom I would also like to thank for making me aware of Maggie’s Farm some time ago).
/dr.bill
Thanks Roman
For all the fans of washington crossing the deleware
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57348174/more-accurate-view-of-washington-crossing-debuts/
So, could it be that Prof. Mann had been working on a graph of his improved grant money results and he just used that data for the hockey stick graph itself.
The gasp of “He Came!!” from the rug rats this morning said it all!!
Merry Christmas to all.
Cheers
And a special thanks to Anthony & the Mods!!
U don’t suppose the Mayan calender was predicting the fall of global warming hysterics do u? If so, hear hear to its ignoble demise.
Rex;
My question is: when these data are examined by climate scientists, do they
conclude that there has been a 0.25 increase in mean temperature, or do they
conclude that there has been a decrease of 0.25 deg per hectare?>>>
Oh, if only there were a simple answer to that!
What they do is divide the world into “grid cells”. The grid cells range in size based on which version of which temperature record you are looking at. The grid cells are defined by latitude and longitude. Most common are 1×1 degrees, 2×2 degrees and 5×5 degrees. That of course means that the area of a grid cell close to the poles is smaller than that of a grid cell at the equator. Then you have the matter of what area the weather station is presumed to be valid for. GISS for example gives their results based on both 250 km and 1200 km radius. Here’s a link where you can look at their data graphicaly based on either one. If you compare the 250 km radius to the 1200 km radius, you’ll see that there’s a lot more blank cells in the former because they don’t have enough valid data to assign a temperature to that grid cell.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps_v3/
How they average over lapping weather stations is beyond me.
may your God go with you
may all your days be happy days
another free trip around the sun
and I pray the fleas of a thousand camels, do not infest Manns bum hole