UPDATE: 3/17/12 Thanks to everyone for all the support, kind words, and well wishes. Today I found myself taking another long nap, and I awoke feeling much better than yesterday. Stress is an insidious thing, and until it catches up with you, you don’t realize what impact it has. – Anthony
It has been an exhausting month since Fakegate hit the scene, and tonight when I came home from work, I crashed hard, taking a nap. I even missed dinner. My children tried to wake me up apparently to no avail. At the moment I feel like I have a hangover.
Behind the scenes, I’m dealing with a lot of things related to WUWT and the legal fight building with the Pacific Institute and Gleick, plus other things. Today for example I’m wrestling with starting the blog all over again on another platform because my wordpress.com free hosting keeps messing under the hood with the production code and they’d broken something yet again (some readers can’t comment any more thanks to a new security feature) just after we got the mess with adwords fixed last week. So yeah, I’m pretty toasted all in all at the moment. Then I read this comment from a reader on the DeSmog Blog headed back to obscurity thread.
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Ally E. says:
I found WUWT barely a month before Fakegate happened. Prior to finding this site, I was a head-in-the-sand kind of person. I knew the whole fry-and-die alarmism was wrong, the claims were getting very stupid, as was the panic.
Getting fed up with ever increasing nonsense scare tactics, I pushed back from news outlets. I didn’t want to hear anymore. I also felt very alone. It was Ian Plimer’s “How to get expelled from school” that opened my eyes to the growing fight back to rational thinking. I bought the book (and there were only two left on the shelf, so I know it’s popular) and read it in a day.
Encouraged, I got online and found WUWT and others. I cannot express how wonderful it felt to learn that REAL scientists out there are practicing REAL science and presenting it properly.
Point is, for those years I had my head in the sand, I didn’t know just what a tangled mess this had all become. I didn’t know what a horrible world was developing right under our noses.
I come here every day. This is my home page. I love the science, I love the way it is presented and I love reading the comments and thoughts from so many very intelligent people. But I also devour any news on the political front. I crave and seek out every snippet of good news, and believe me, this is good news.
Anthony, I want to see these dastards go down. I came in at a most exciting time and I want to watch every step of the alarmists fall from grace. Thank you for providing the whole picture, the wide picture, science, politics and all.
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Thanks, Ally. That made my week.
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Anthony:
A lot of us feel this way. Carry on we love yah!
Hang in there Ant’ny!
She speaks for a lot of us, Anthony. We appreciate what you do, and don’t want you to pull a Breitbart on us…so rest. 🙂
Ally, you echo the sentiments of everyone here.
Welcome. I’ve been here daily for years – one never tires of this topic or blog. You couldn’t make the stuff up if you tried.
Tom
Anthony … try to rest. Good luck with whatever changes you decide upon. You are a trooper and we all appreciate your efforts.
And hats off to Ally … well said Ally! Thanks. Although you might be dyslexic. “dastards” is spelled incorrectly. ☺
Clive
Yes, Anthony, keep your spirits up through the difficult times you are
experiencing. The are many, many people like Ally E. and me who
would be wandering in the wilderness of untruth the Warmists have
constructed, were it not for your efforts.
Thank you.
Agreed. WUWT is were I go for the Truth, or at least an honest discussion of were the truth may be found.
WattsUWT
ClimateAudit
Bishop-Hill
Joannenova.(oz lean)
Every rationalist should keep up with these sites. For me not even bookmarked my autocomplete never forgets them.
Hey Anthony, I have read your blog every day since Climategate. In fact if I’m ever waiting for a couple minutes (bus stop, doctor’s office) I pull out my iPhone and turn to WUWT. Keep up the good work.
I love the info I get here. I don’t care for the whining.
WUWT…
When U Want the Truth…
An honest home for many of us.
It’s like Ally E’s words came out of my mouth … I follow the same blogs as DavidA [8:35 pm] as well as Australian Climate Madness which has a good roll of breaking news.
To be sure (it’s Paddy’s day) I can’t get enough of the wisdom.
Ally. I have followed WUWT for years which has been the main driver for the AGW problemitas LOL, but there is also real-science by S Goddard who only shows graphs with very little comment, that are so obvious no explanations are actually needed
Anthony, I too get discouraged–not so much with the Climate Science(?) as practiced by the team because nature doesn’t listen to idiots like Michael Mann, but with the political climate as evidenced by Australia’s attempts to suppress free speech. Then I read some interesting Post, Guest Post, or Comment on your blog and I feel better. Please take care of yourself; if not for your sake, for my sake. Do something to relax–go fishing, take a hike, watch a funny movie, read a good book, play golf (well maybe you should pass on the golf). Remember, in 100 years what happens now won’t make a whit of difference to most of us.
Hey Clive,
Maybe you are dysorthographic. Nothing wrong with “dastards”. We’re out here with you, Ally!
To paraphrase Clarence Oddbody, “You see, Anthony, you’ve really had a wonderful life.”
I keep your site open at all times and visit each day. I am an IT professional and lifelong follower of the weather. Please keep up the good work. You are appreciated more than you know.
Me and Honduras feel the same way.
I will add my voice to the many. You do a great job Anthony. Your site provides information that allows us to understand. Thank you.
If she thinks this is exciting times, she missed Climategate 1. THAT was a good time. ^_^
Welcome to the side of real science, not manufactured results leading to a foregone conclusion for political gain.
Same here. Times were hard almost 10 years ago when I saw the direction the CAGW meme was taking. In 2007, when I read parts of WG1, I was totally discouraged at the poor science, and later, at the gullible public, the ignorant media and the opportunistic politicians. CAGW was almost the perfect crime. It was politically incorrect to question it (it still is but somewhat less). Finding Climate Audit and WUWT was a breath of fresh air, to say the least. Thanks for your tireless work. I know it’s not your goal but the role of WUWT will eventually be widely acknowledged.
I rarely see Anthony mention $$, so you know he is doing it for all the right reasons. The best way to say thank you is to open your wallets (to heartland too). There is tremendous power in a lot of small donations, the Tea Party has already proved that.
I believe that this site also provides a rallying point for this evolving thing that Prof. Glenn Reynolds called “An Army of Davids” in the sense of the story of David and Goliath.
http://www.amazon.com/An-Army-Davids-Technology-Government/dp/1595551131/
“How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths”
Anthony keep up the GOOD work. for myself and many others your site is TOP of my list when I get home. I’m often tired and unsure about the science in an article but after digesting the many brilliant comments I can often come back and actually understand it. That what is so great about your blog it’s information plus that I and many others treasure.
Ted.