Welcome, for the next 24 hours, WUWT will be bringing you the counterpoint to Al Gore’s claim that “dirty energy=dirty weather” which you can watch over here.
To watch WUWT-TV live see below:
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You can watch live in the window above by pressing the PLAY icon, or you can click the link to USTREAM directly: USTREAM direct link
Some notes:
1. I cannot remove the advertising, the cost to do this channel without it, given the potential number of viewer hours that could occur (along with overages) was too big of a financial risk for me. Please make do. perhaps we’ll get there for the next time, donations accepted.
2. In a few days, the source video clips will be posted on YouTube.
3. During live interviews, we will take selected questions submitted in comments below.
4. Please share this link to this post widely, on blogs, on facebook, with friends. Help get our view count up.
5. Press release on the event is here.
6. Schedule follows.
WUWT-TV Schedule November 14th & 15th
ALL TIMES BELOW are Pacific Standard Time but MAY CHANGE DURING THE LIVE BROADCAST if Presenters go short/long or we have technical difficulties.
To convert these times to your time zone, click to open this time zone converter tool.
For a mapped time zone (thx ‘aquix’) see: http://www.timezonecheck.com/
Recordings will be made available a few days after the broadcast.
Schedule:
| Senator James Inhofe (recorded intro) | 5:00 PST Nov 14 | Intro – whats next? | |
| Dr. Pat Michaels (live) | 5:10 PST Nov 14 | Lukewarmers, Hotheads & Flatliners | |
| Bob Tisdale (video) | 6PM PST Nov 14 | Sea Surface Temperatures/ENSO | |
| Chris Horner (live) | 7PM PST Nov 14 | Political angle, FOIA | |
| Dr. Ryan Maue (live) | 8PM PST Nov 14 | Hurricanes | |
| Steve Mosher & Tom Fuller (live) | 9PM PST Nov 14 | Climategate | |
| Dr. David Evans (live) | 10PM PST Nov 14 | The Skeptics Case | |
| Burt Rutan (recorded) | 11PM PST Nov 14 | Engineer’s perspective | |
| Pete Garcia (movie intro, recorded) | 12AM PST Nov 15 | Feature movie | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| The Boy who Cried Warming (movie) | … | … | |
| John Coleman, KUSI-TV (intro, recorded) | 1:30AM PST Nov 15 | ||
| John Coleman Special Pt1 (recorded) | … | TV special on AGW Pt1 | |
| John Coleman Special Pt2 (recorded) | 2:30AM PST Nov 15 | TV special on AGW Pt2 | |
| Dr. Sebastian Lüning (recorded) | 3:30AM PST Nov15 | The Sun as Climate Driver | |
| Mike Smith, CCM (recorded) | 4:30AM PST Nov15 | Extreme Weather events | |
| Marc Morano (recorded) | 5:00AM PST Nov15 | The Politics of Alarmism | |
| Dr. Ross McKittrick (recorded) | 6AM PST Nov15 | Energy. Pollution, Economics | |
| Dr. Richard Lindzen (live) | 7AM PST Nov15 | Bait and Switch Aspects of the Global Warming Issue | |
| Christopher Monckton (live) | 8AM PST Nov15 | Climate Sensitivity | |
| Andrew Montford (live) | 9AM PST Nov15 | The Hockey Stick/28Gate | |
| Dr. Roy Spencer (live) | 10AM PST Nov15 | What Causes Climate Change? | |
| Steve McIntyre (live) | 11AM PST Nov15 | The Climate Year in Review: a new focus on extremes | |
| Dr. Tim Ball (live) | 12PM PST Nov15 | Warming – A deception? | |
| Joe Bastardi (live) | 1PM PST Nov15 | Forecasting extremes | |
| Joe D’Aleo (live) | 1:30PM PST Nov15 | Extreme weather & Sandy | |
| John Kehr (live) | 2PM PST Nov15 | The Inconvenient Skeptic | |
| Harold Ambler (live) | 3PM PST Nov15 | Ignoring Weather History | |
| Maurizo Morabito (live) | 3:30PM PST Nov15 | BBC’s Twenty Eight Gate | |
| Donna Laframboise (live) | 4PM PST Nov15 | The IPCC – Unreliable & Untrustworthy | |
| Anthony Watts & Evan Jones (live) | 5PM PST Nov15 | Update on the surfacestations project and Watts et al paper. |
Congratulations for pulling this off. Well done.
Hi Anthony!
I’m going to try to stay as positive as is possible in my criticism – please take it as just that.
A. Point of Origin Side
1. Make certain that the machine responsible for delivering content to USTREAM is a dedicated machine for that purpose. If it has to run a second or third application – make certain it is a 2-4 processor or core machine.
Otherwise starting an stopping second apps is all that is take to create point of origin jitter.
2. If that machine has to receive other peoples content – give it a second NIC. Primary NIC is output to USTREAM – secondary NIC receives from others in the studio or remote contributory sites.
Reason, same as reason for #1.
3. If possible, give the primary NIC a dedicated DSL circuit that is used only for delivery to USTREAM. (I.e., that DSL circuit does not host anything…I know this is a lot to ask, but even an el-cheapo 1500/768 SBC Yahoo line can do the job.
Reason, see 1 & 2.
B. Yourself and Feed Contributors
1. Join an existing USTREAM channel beforehand – listen to the USTREAM commericials. Note the audio output level – do a test broadcast and have each person including yourself tune your audio to roughly the same or close too it. Then, do not touch.
2. Move yourself a little closer to the camera – about the same as the others did.
3. Too many of the feed folks were sitting for all effective purposes in dungeons. Folks really need to crank that lighting up. I mean big time.
– Poor lighting has A HUGE IMPACT ON VIDEO QUALITY EVEN FOR QUALITY WEB CAMS.
– Poor lighting activates a default cut-out on some web cams. I.e., it cuts to a solid black tile.
In other words, the person is still there on picture – it’s just that their webcam is giving you a solid black tile.
C. Content
1. I appreciate content – I love data and numbers and details. Really I do…but for a broadcast please keep the visuals simple – let the presenter cover the devil in the details with audio.
2. Let the “Did You Know” slides show for a few seconds more each. I found it hard to keep up because when it came time to process what I was reading – BAM – slide is gone.
3. Reduce the wording in the slides, or if absolutely necessary – accompany each slide with audio.
D. What You Folks Did Absolutely Right
1. Cover pregnant pauses.
– “Did You Know” slides are perfect for that.
– The dog.
– Talking to the dog.
– The dog looking at us all like a bunch of idiots. =8-)
2. Push for forward progress in a presentation.
Us technical people – especially though of us who are hard of hearing like myself – have a tendency to explain the same detail 3-4 times over in a different way AND oftentimes will go back and do it again later down the road. This really undermines the presentation and tires the audience. It is a very hard habit to deal with – I’ll be honest – it’s a horribly bad habit of mine.
You however dealt with the habit a long time ago – and are very good at gently prodding others to do the same without coming across as confrontational or due. KUDOS!!! You are very professional in that regard.
E. My Grading
– Content = A+
– Presentation = C
Plenty of room for improvement. If you have memory, hardware, spare computer needs, let me know. I’ll see what I can dig up for you.
You have my email…
=8-)
Well done, Anthony. Watched part of it and enjoyed it like reading a book read many times :).
It was great seeing live and listening to people whom I knew only from references. It was like a real conference.
I hope newbies watched it, because talks were measured, not strident and informative, and it will have been an ‘aha!’ moment for some of them.
Well done Anthony and many thanks for your efforts. Kudos.
Thanx, I look forward to seeing the parts I missed on youtube!
Great presentations! Loved the David Evans and Roy Spencer presentations.
I’ve always admired Anthony for many things. As an aside to the content of the broadcast, watching him calmly troubleshoot the live broadcast was wonderful. I enjoyed seeing his patience and problem solving in real time!
Thanks for everything you and the presenters have been doing to educate and inspire us to keep asking questions.
Dave Aschim
The point that Evans made about increasing albedo of Stevenson screens as they age causing warmer temperatures inside the screen was very telling.
We may in the end find that that the world spent north of a trillion dollars because people didn’t bother to paint the screens regularly.
Correction: Decreasing albedo
“The point that Evans made about decreasing albedo of Stevenson screens as they age causing warmer temperatures inside the screen was very telling.”
Back in the 1960 s when I considered installing a Met Office Standard recording station at home I recall that one of the parameters which put me off was that they insisted on periodic repainting to a thoroughly specified standard so as to keep the thermal characteristics of the Screen itself as stable as possible.
Their own standards do not seem to have been complied with by the professionals themselves.
Someone should dig up a copy of the specifications for compliant sites at that time and have a look at how well (or not) they were actually applied.
I suspect that the maintenance of site standards since then has been abysmal.
mrrabbit says:
November 15, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Agree wholeheartedly. Content A+, presentation C+. Well said, Rabbitman.
I would only add this: Haven’t seen Gore’s mega-production yet (tried, but it was overwhelmed and I was underwhelmed by that). However I think he will be very short on substance and very long on emotive video and deceiving graphics. But it will be SLICK. Now, as a juxtaposition, WUWT broadcast will be full of boring, dreary scientists underwhelmingly delivering the same old tried and tested absolute hypothesis annulment. Which needs a little Sizzle, n’est pas?
Big ups for sticking it to them. Donation in the pipe.
suffering from Kenji withdrawal:-(
Good job Anthony. The annoying ads didn’t detract from the presentation too much. I only saw a few items, but what I did watch was well worth the time.
Jim
Anthony. Don’t usually send replies but for you, I make an exception. The effort that went into the whole affair was justified by the result. Wonderful job! I thank you.
Thank you Anthony for this great project!
I watched as much as I could (time differenced) and almost all of it was informative and understandable. Not even the technological glitches spoiled the fun.
It left me with a feeling of “More”.
May I suggest you consider making short video blog posts as well as the written ones and upload them to YouTube or on your server (I know many people do this already).
You certainly have what it takes and seeing all those people we only read about really make a difference.
Well done!
Eyal.
Stephen Wilde says:
November 15, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Back in the 1960 s when I considered installing a Met Office Standard recording station at home I recall that one of the parameters which put me off was that they insisted on periodic repainting to a thoroughly specified standard so as to keep the thermal characteristics of the Screen itself as stable as possible.
Then they were clearly aware of the problem well before the whole AGW bandwagon got rolling. Which makes it even more unforgiveable that they didn’t properly deal with it.
This is the first time I ever heard this (decreasing albedo of older screens). Yet it is obvious when pointed out. I recall seeing at least one Stevenson screen with peeling paint.
So when is the next broadcast?
Thanks for another great effort! The graphs and presentations will be very usefull in the coming months, if not years. Thank you so much for all your time and persistence.
Overall excellent, Anthony. You sequenced the presenters well, giving a very nice rhythm to the show. And it was good to see faces to these great names — and not just faces, but enthusiastic faces of these people explaining the work they do and love. It shone.
Yes, there were glitches, but I suspect they’ll bother you more than they bothered us. Most of the glitches were at our end anyway — the vagaries of location, our own machines, and so on. At best it was great, and I’m in that camp. But at worst it was a great teaser for the upcoming You Tube version. Now that’s not too shabby, is it?
Now a stock market tip to fund your next production: buy shares in Kleenex! Thousands of people will be sending boxes of Kleenex to Monckton. There’s gold in that thar nose!
Where’s Kenji gone?
I haven’t anybody to bark at this morning….
I’ll just have to bone up on boring old ‘climate change’ again, I suppose
I watched most of the working day here in the UK and apart from the odd drop in connection I thought the broadcast was brilliant. What was especially good was that the outstanding speakers had lots of time to talk instead of the usual 30 second soundbites. Thank you Anthony!
Well done to all…a great success.
Anthony you made great anchor man, cool under pressure with useful questions always while driving the teknics at the same time. We’re they hosing you down during the breaks… I never saw a bead of sweat or hair out of place…
An amazing achievement …we’ll done…
Excellent content, Anthony. I had a problem with intermittent sound, but that’s probably my old PC.
re the headphones – I believe you can still get them – but years ago, when I was young, I helped build a radio studio and did some dj type stuff and the best headphones we found were Sennheiser lights – very light and easy to wear for a long time.
re the whole TV effort – very well done, and I hope you have managed to have a good sleep/rest! Thanks and appreciation are due to ALL who helped and participated, but of course, mostly to Anthony, for his obvious drive to put it out there.
We need the proper videos on youtube asap to get the message spread via the social networks!
“Then they were clearly aware of the problem well before the whole AGW bandwagon got rolling. Which makes it even more unforgiveable that they didn’t properly deal with it.”
I agree, and the specification went further.
They designated maximum grass length below the screen and a minimum distance from it for any non grass surface. Also maximum heights AND distances for nearby vegetation with the distance having to be greater for a greater height.
It would be good to see a copy again and compare with current sites.
From what I have seen the site maintenance standards were abandoned long ago and might never have been adequately complied with outside UK.
I know it was throroughly impractical for me at the time but I never thought it was impractical for the climatologists too !!
I watched for most of the day and night here in the UK. What your broadcast lacked in fancy effects it more than made up for with facts I am reminded of the motto over the door to the factory of David Kirkcaldy in Southwark London “Facts not opinions”
Facts always trump glossy “presentations”
Well done to Anthony and all the presenters