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.
Anthony, your achievement at WUWT is immense. I have been a regular (almost daily) visitor for several years. I knew the warmist ideology and secular religion was built on sand. When I found WUWT I was able to acquire the detailed knowledge and ideas to combat the warmists. Trouble is that warmist believers fall back on authority and propaganda and never seem interetsed or able to debate the facts and science. Please, please keep going and be encouraged. When the going got tough Winston Churchill urged everyone to KBO (keep buggering on)…
Once people learn the truth by reading blogs like WUWT, they can’t listen to the CAGW lies without bursting out into very angry laughter at the fraudulent bias of the rest of the Media.
Anthony
heartfelt thanks from a longtime reader here, yes, at least twice daily except the times I needed a break so badly that the only thing stopped me was my telephone provider going crazy.
The only reason you’re not seeing so many posts from me is because I’m working hard on a wiki for us all to create. Now I do have my own point of view which is quite strong in certain directions, but my passion is to create a wiki that everyone else will eventually literally push me out of… because it’s fired everyone up and the whole skeptics community is busy making it their own.
But for that to happen, as I see things, the “release” wiki needs to reach a level where the potential is sufficiently manifest.
One big reason for doing this wiki is to develop a moving-on point from WUWT, as we all grow wise, scientifically informed, politically aware, stronger, and still passionate to right the current science iniquity. Insofar as “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” I often think of WUWT when looking for conveying the right spirit in this wiki – it is not Wikipedia after all.
Anyone who would like to help it in its current alpha/beta stage, drop me an email. It’s still firmly under wraps but the plan is to work towards “barnraising” release. Wikimedia techies especially welcome.
Happy as a hobo with a sandwich: I am with WUWT.
Keep up the terrific work Anthony!
WUWT = (Sanity + Reason)^3 + (Humor + Style)^2 – (POV censorship) = Entertaining Truth
Thanks so much!
Anthony, my comment can not add to what has been posted before, except to add to the chorus of appreciation. Thank you for your dedication. I will add, spend some time with the family. Regarding children, you’ve heard they grow up faster than you can imagine. Until they are grown, you have no idea. Take whatever you imagine fast to be, and you still will have no idea. And by the time you do, well, it’s too late.
Gary Murphy
Love you Anthony. Visit you everyday! Take care of yourself!!
I always tell people this is my favourite website. It’s nice to see new people joining the discussion, and interesting to see when they first started reading. Ally wrote what so many of us think. I’m making another donation in gratitude to you and your team of moderators and contributors. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, Anthony!
Take a break Anthony, as a daily lurker and occassional commenter, I love what you and your helpers do here, from Canada I have just flung some funds, please use for rest and relaxation. I suspect you have already won the CAWG battle its just the huge festering organism will have deaththros to match. THANKYOU.
Anthony – I have appreciated your efforts for defending the search for truth and maintaining a forum for learning for many years. For a long time, I have encouraged others to “search out the facts,” and referenced WUWT as an optimum source for such facts. Since inviting you to speak to our relatively small group, I have been overwhelmed by the deluge of events that have swept you beyond the effort you daily exert to inform us all. With sincerest appeciation – thank you!
Anthony, if you don’t hear it as often as you should, we, your blog readers, very much appreciate both the blog, and all the work you put into it. The attitudes here, the honest questioning, as compared to the stifling hubris at RealClimate and SkepticalScience, DotEarth, BadAstronomy, to mention only a few, can be edifying and inspiring. And you always link to the important warmists, but most of them DON’T link back to you.
If you need to take breaks, take them as often as you need. If you haven’t got your health…
I came across the WUWT blog awhile before Climategate, and frankly enjoyed the random learnings and musings (a laymans point of view) from AT and I miss that. WUWT since then has grown exponentially into an anti-global warming alternative that is sadly needed. I applaud Anthony and the many others here taking up the cause. I too like Ally have woken up to the world and the politics of government control and in my own small way have joined as a Preciecnt chairman/committieman. Here locally I am part of a TEA party group to stop our City (Arlington, Texas) from subscribing to Agenda21, it is unbelievably difficult to get out the entrenched climate fanatics, but we all must slog and be persistent to rid us of this cancer. Again cheers to all the people here at WUWT.
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
“We have only to persevere to conquer.”
Thanks Anthony.
Thank you, Anthony Thank you to the moderators and the posters and those who contribute the educational comments so often found here. Knowledge is better than gold although I feel obligated to contribute a little bit of my gold occasionaly, the education this site provides is priceless. I suspect there are several science teachers that refer to this site often.
Yes, I love this blog and its real scientific approach to the problems of climate prediction. Thanks so much for the work you do Anthony!
Please be careful, stress can harm your health. Bill Whittle had a nice message in his thoughts on Andrew Breitbart after his passing:
You have a lot of people who care deeply about you and your work and want it to continue. You inspire us every day.
Try cutting all wheat out of your diet. Read this book and try it for two weeks:
http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Weight-Health-ebook/dp/B00571F26Y/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1332055472&sr=8-1
For me, 15 lbs lost. Rode my bike 23 miles today and felt like doing it. Lipid panels (VAP test) went from probable metabolic syndrome “yes” to “no” in 6 weeks. For my wife, immediate end to daily prilosec tablets.
Get your own lipid tests here: http://www.directlabs.com . You don’t need a friggin doctor.
WUWT is wonderful the way it ties togther the struggle against irrationality. I also visit it every day. Without WUWT, it would be so much harder to keep track of the shenaniagns of the warmistas as well as progress of the rational skeptical argument. The web is a bleak wasteland of opionated nonsense, but WUWT stands out as a shining example of how good it can be. Thanks Anthony and I hope yours spirits pick up soon. You have made a difference.
WUWT is a beacon of light in a world that has been brainwashed over the last 30 years by mainstream media and “scientists” mainly motivated in projects prolonging their own self interests. The turning point has started and we need WUWT and others to fight on our behalf to ensure that everybody is aware of our weather and the sponsored propoganda determined to maintain their stronghold. Capernicus, Galileo and others spring to mind, but the truth will eventually outshine.
Thank you and long may WUWT continue.
Thank you Anthony. You have taken on a behemoth by using simply your limited resources and the weapons of truth and reason. Your courage and tenacity is a lesson to all of us who know that there’s more to life than the spin of oligarchs. You have a good rest and come back fighting!
I found out about WUWT from being a reader of Steve Milloy’s Junkscience blog, which did all this stuff way before it became even slightly acceptable in polite company. From memory, first looked at Junkscience in 1999 or so.
Anyway, Anthony, remember the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’:
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken–
The ice was all between.
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
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Meh, sounds like just another day in the office at WUWT.
But as Sam later pointed out:
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.
The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.
That’s life. It describes the climate of Australia perfectly. It is also a reminder that getting a good night’s kip is very important to most people – hint, hint, Anthony.
I commend this, possibly the greatest narrative poem in Englsh, to all WUWT readers:
http://www.ram.org/contrib/rime_ancient_mariner.html
Should also mention that there is a recording of Richard Burton reading ‘The Rime’ which is just magnificent – sends shivers down the spine. It has him reading Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood’ on the other side.
Man up.
“constitutionalist”; seems as though you require a long ______________.
Have a nice day now.
Molon Labe says:
March 18, 2012 at 12:29 am
“Try cutting all wheat out of your diet. Read this book and try it for two weeks.”
I REALLY love gluten-free pasta. MMMMM. 🙂
I’m late to this, Anthony. I meekly add one more voice to the chorus of love and appreciation I’ve just scrolled through.
Not just the numbers, but the extraordinary quality of your supporters makes me proud. I truly can imagine what it means to you.
Like others, I’m sending along a contribution to the tip jar. I beg you to use it to play. Movies, a dinner out with family. Please be well. Please.