So much has been going on this week, and today especially, that I almost forgot that Willis Eschenbach has a very special birthday today.
Since Willis contributes a great deal here, I want to give him my thanks and well wishes, and hope that you will also.
I wish you a very happy birthday Willis!
Willis’ post at “February 18, 2012 at 1:30 am” should be used by anyone taking on the zealots to explain to them why they are handicapped and cannot compete or win.
The zealots’ contrasting effort to avoid, stifle and manipulate conversation will be their undoing.
Willis,
65 isn’t old if you are an oak tree.
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose,
May an elephant caress you with its toes . . .
: )
John
Happy Birthday old man!!!!!!
You remind me of the fisherman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX60S8r1FQw&feature=player_embedded
Willis ages?
WUWT?
Just remember, there is no “EPIC” in “sk…EP…t…IC: — oh wait, yes there is! It’s Willis, with his many EPIC posts here on WUWT! Happy birthday, Willis!
Happy birthday Willis and best wishes for many more. I look forward to each of your posts and always enjoy them. Please know that your hard work and good writing are making a positive contribution to truth and understanding. Thank you.
Damn! Late to the party again! And the cake’s all gone ([SNIP: Another parenthetical expression! And R. Gates would NEVER do a thing like that. -REP])
Many happy returns, Master Eschenbach.
Here is a wish for many more happy birthdays and many more mentally challenging problems for you to try and wrap your mind around. That’s what keeps you young so never stop!
Cheers
Willis, as you might have guessed (and that’s assuming I’ve even registered on your radar screen), there is much we disagree about and I am not the world’s greatest fan of your style.
But I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your contributions regarding the N&Z hypothesis, because I think many of your criticisms of it have merit, and I think that without their timely arrival at all of our computers, we might really be up a creek right now in this awful battle of wits that rages on.
I haven’t commented anywhere on the issue of N&Z thus far, because my own thinking is different from both sides of the debate, and is way too much to try to inject into the middle of that debate. But I am glad that you were there and in a position to take issue with the hypothesis and have been willing to stick with it. This is the sort of issue that is, at the same time, so potentially hazardous to AGW skeptics, and yet so difficult for some of us who are GW and GH skeptics to criticize for fear of making enemies of people we would like on our side. So, for me anyway, you have filled an important niche despite our scientific differences of opinion.
Happy birthday from a bit-player in this rather curious drama.
RTF
Happy birthday Willis, and wishing you many more.
Steve (aged 60.76)
Add my Happy B-Day! Hope there’s many, many more.
Happy Birthday Willis! Your posts are always interesting and fun to read.
Greg Olsen
This is not Willis’ birthday – it is actually a classic case of “Data Smoothing and Spurious Correlation” !
OK… OK… OK… just a minute… on second thought…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIS !!!!!!!!!
Best regards, Allan 🙂
Happy Birthday, Willis!
It’s fate that you will always be an old fart compared to a young guy like me!☺ [I’m only 63… for the next 2 months, anyway.]
Wishing you many more happy B-days, too!
Happy B-Day, Willis! Yours are some of the most interesting posts on WUWT. Thanks for your hard work!
(Actually, this is Willis’ “Anniversary Birthday”–the 36th anniversary of his 29th birthday!)
Happy Birthday, Willis. Stay young in body and mind.
So had you stayed at one job your entire working life instead of a whole slew of variety, reckon would you have stayed so young looking?
I hope you have some idea of the enormous contribution you have made to helping stem the flood of nonsense emanating from the disease known as “noble cause corruption.”
Happy birthday, w.
Happy birthday Willis. May your average diurnal age never exceed 29.
Happy Birthday Whippersnapper Willis. Having tasted 9 decades, what would I give to be 65 again! I hope you intend to write a book on climate science and then on the adventures of being Willis Eschenbach.
Happy Birthday, Willis, and may there be many more! I’m not that far behind you in that growing old business, so I need a good role model.
Your posts are always a good read. Many thanks.
Happy Birthday Willis!!!
Thanks for all the insightful effort!!!
Happy (2 * pi * n) Solar Rotations!
So what is “n” anyway?
Oops, I see above that n = 65.
Here’s hoping you live another 65!