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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When I wrote that post, I had no idea it would be held up for all to see. I am so pleased my words gave Anthony a boost. I am so pleased that so many people have added their words in support of all Anthony has done and is doing. I also thank you all for your most warm welcome to me.
And yes, I feel very much at home here and have done from the start. My love to all.
Anthony, I had a similar revelation when I first stumbled onto WUWT about 5 years ago. I was amazed to meet other skeptics, and truly astounded by the knowledge and intelligence of the commentators. I have been checking WUWT at least twice a day since then. I’ve learned so much here, it’s just amazing. Also the links here, both posted by you and those posted by your commentators, have lead me to some amazing places. I’ve purchased and read dozens of books that were discussed here. In fact, I now have a (mostly full) bookcase reserved only for climate and global warming books. Your excellent website has changed my life for the better, and I really appreciate all the work you do. Thank you.
PS I second what Molon Labe says about wheat, and I also highly recommend “Wheat Belly”. Cutting out the gluten made an amazing difference in my life. Thyroid problems slowly went away, and my mood greatly improved.
Thanks for this site. As well as a welcome retreat from alarmist pap you provide the knowledge and tools to take the argument back out to them. I regularly use your resource to slap down rabid warmistas on other forums I frequent.
You do an awesome job, Anthony.
I check in morning and evening, most days. Thanks for adding a bucket full of arguments against the hysteria out there.
WUWT: For several years now: 1st on the list of ”go to” places 4 info on the CAGW – climate change – etcetera saga. Thanks 4 all U have done, and continue 2 do. Be careful not to ”extend” too far beyond your personal performance envelope limits; 1 person can only do so much; you’ve done more than your share. Hang in there; at a reasonable & prudent ”speed”.
Another lurker here, my dad showed me CA back when I was a teenager in college and I found wuwt shortly thereafter, and a love story began. I agree w/ everyone, it is like a drug I come here as much as possible, and it feels like a home where intelligent respectful people who are on the same page, trying to accept that we don’t know everything and working from there. Never arrogance. Wuwt that changed my life, changed what I want to be in life. Switched my major to geology, but I just dream of doing work like this site does.
This is exactly how I felt when I found WUWT, I no longer felt alone in a world that seemed full of mindless drones, I felt like the dark ages where approaching yet again, now I have hope because of what is being done here and on similar sites.
Astounding thread of posts. Yup, Anthony, if you feel like a nap, take one. Just put it down. It will make picking it up again most enjoyable. Yours is an Island of Reason in a boiling ocean of flippant constructs.