Yesterday, it was discovered that both John Cook and Michael Mann are headed to the Stephan Lewandowsky’s current place of trough feeding academic residence at the University of Bristol to give talks on Sept. 19th and 23rd. Since the talks are both free and open to the public, a number of people have already registered to attend. Yours truly is one of those people. If you have not already registered, you can do so here at this WUWT story: Calling all UK Skeptics – Free Talk with 97% Bias – plus the ability to ask questions.
Some people wondered why I’d bother to make such a trip, especially since both Cook and Mann aren’t likely to talk about anything of substance, but simply their own brand of science and consensus as they interpret it, plus Mann’s usual book plugs. It has some of the people over at “wackadoodle central” in a tizzy that I’m attending, and they want to know why I’m going. Well, that’s for me to know and them to find out.
In the meantime, I did the planning, I’ve reserved a flight to London, and I’ll make my way up to Bristol from there. The cost of the RT flight, accommodations, food, sundries, and rubber chicken props needed for attending these talks looks to easily top $2700.00.
So, I’m asking for some help to make this trip.
The silver lining here is that while I have met with climate skeptics at many conferences, and even did a speaking tour in Australia in 2010, I’ve never met any of the UK skeptics save Monckton, Delingpole, and briefly some in Brussels as Climategate was breaking, which caused me to spend much of that time locked in my room on the Internet working out what to do about it all and speaking to nobody about it. With the exception of a short layover at Heathrow in 2009, I haven’t been to the UK since I spent time doing some consulting for television weather presentation back in 1989 with the international company Weathernews, when I spent some time in London and also in Aberdeen. So, it is long overdue for me to visit, and this seemed as good a time as any.
This time, there will be time for a skeptics gathering in the UK, and I aim to help that happen while I’m there, as has been suggested on yesterday’s thread. Plus I will come fully equipped to make a presentation or two, should the opportunity present itself.
For me, this is a working trip, and I have a couple of goals to meet while I’m there. I’ll be in touch with some of your privately. Of course I’ll bring my video camera and post items of relevance here at WUWT along the way.
So, if you kind folks can pitch in to help defray travel expenses, because sadly, Exxon, B.P. and the Koch brothers STILL have not stepped up (though I keep hearing they have been sending scads of money my way, but for some reason I never see those checks in the mail), I can make this trip and accomplish a few things, have our own meeting, and see some people that I’m long overdue to meet and discuss business with.
Here’s the PayPal button- 
UPDATE: Goal reached! THANK YOU EVERYONE!
You know what to do. Just a bunch of small donations is all that is needed to add up. For example if I got 100 people to give $30.00, that would do it. I wish I didn’t have to beg, but either all those claims about money I’m getting from big oil are bogus, or my postman is redirecting those checks in the mail elsewhere.
Thanks for your consideration, and as always, thanks for reading WUWT and standing up for climate reality.
Anthony
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UK Skeptic, I’ll make my donation just as soon as I wake up my paypal account after years of inactivity.
$20 is just over £10 so a very easy donation to make.
Done.
I hope you are contacting the Global Warming Policy Foundation and hopefully using the support of Lord Lawson to arrange a presentation in a committee room of the House of Lords. I believe that the use of such a room is free if it is booked by a Lord or a Memebr of Parliament. I am sure that you would get a good attendance for an evening meeting.
Whilst you’re so close take the chance and visit the city of Bath, which is only 10 miles from Bristol. And good luck!
Done.
And if you are anywhere near Newcastle during the week or London at the weekend it would be my pleasure to treat you to dinner.
It would not surprise me if ticket holding recognized non-members of the CAGW Industry were denied entrance to the show.
“A gathering of scientific men or of artists, owning to the mere fact that they form an assemblage, will not deliver judgments of general subjects sensibly different from those rendered by a gathering of masons or grocers.” – Gustave le Bon (The Crowd, 1895)
“It is what Zola calls “triomphe de la médiocrité.” Snobs, nobodies, take the place of workers, thinkers, artists; and it isn’t even noticed. The public, yes, one part of it is dissatisfied, but material grandeur also finds applause; however, do not forget that this is merely a straw fire, and that those who applaud generally do so only because it has become the fashion. But on the day after the banquet, there will be a void – a silence and indifference after all that noise.” – Vincent van Gogh (letter to Theo van Gogh, 1882)
“Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” – Jesus of Nazareth
“A world that has been impoverished is in an instant ready to accept that this is the way it has always been. The unthinkable is taken for granted.” – Federico Fellini (I, Fellini, 2001)
“In the Dominican collection, was there not to be found a certain Doctor of Theology, Révérend Père Rouard de Card, a Preaching Brother, who in a brochure entitled:-”Of the Falsification of the Sacramental Substances,” has demonstrated beyond a doubt that the major part of Masses were null and void, by reason of the fact that the materials used in the rite were sophisticated by dealers? For years, the holy oil had been adulterated with goose-grease; the taper-wax with burnt bones; the incense with common resin and old benzoin. But worse than all, the substances indispensable for the holy sacrifice, the two things without which no oblation was possible, had likewise been falsified, – the wine by repeated dilutings and the illicit addition of Pernambuco barc, elder-berries, alcohol, alum, salicylate, litharge; the bread, that bread of the Eucarist that must be kneaded of the fine flour of wheat, by ground haricot-beans, potash and pipeclay! Nay, now they had gone further yet; they had dared to suppress the wheat altogether and shameless dealers manufactured out of potato meal nearly all the hosts! Now God declined to come down and be made flesh in potato flour.” – J. K. Huysmans (Against the Grain, 1883)
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.” – Pablo Picasso (In “Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art” by A. H. Barr, Jr., 1946)
“Do you know that it is so very, very necessary for honest people to remain in art? I do not mean to say that there are none, but you feel what I mean, and know as well as I know many painters are inveterate liars.” – Vincent van Gogh (letter to Theo van Gogh, 1882)
“Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.” – Tom Wolfe (The Painted Word, 1975)
Mr Watts, you are a powerful voice in the worldwide appeal to AGW sanity. Why not capitalise on your visit and make it a bit longer than just attending the Bristol University lecture. A quick press release on your UK visit to all the British media could well result in a few profitable interviews or TV appearances that would be good for the sceptic cause in the UK. Also, is it too late to organise a lecture in London while you are here with the audience paying a fee to attend? I would certainly travel to London for the purpose. All contributing to your exs. and making your visit worthwhile.
Done
$30 on way
Done … a pity you can’t come to Energiewende-Wonderland Germany.
Anthony
Although I have no intention of wasting any of my life pandering to the ego’s of Mann or Cook it would be a pleasure to meet you on such a rare visit so keep us informed of your itinerary and try to get a bit further North of Watford, we have some beautiful countryside ‘up North’ and a warm open hospitality.
Anthony,
Are you not afraid that my colleagues will refuse to referee your papers, will cease to co-author with you and make other undefined threats if you go over to Uni of Bristol, in the same way that Lennart Bengtsson’s former friends threatened to do to him if he went over to the GWPF?
Of course you are not, because this side of the debate had more ethics than the other.
Bon voyage.
p.s. Australia passed legislation to repeal the Carbon Tax today.
Done. Hope the trip is a huge success and lots of fun.
Done – best of luck with your trip. Hope to be able to meet you and shake your hand at the Bristol Uni presentations.
$100 duly donated … now go get ’em !
I have flung funds yesterday for your trip, Anthony. I am planning to visit Bristol en route to Europe for a conference (if my relatives agree to a brief visit) and would be arriving on the 20th. I would love the opportunity to meet other sceptics.
Done and done.
Good luck and be careful. Media could work hard to make this a circular evidence based story confirming the conspiracy wackjob bs.
Has anyone considered reaching out to Ben Pile about this?
A modest contribution has been lobbed in the pot, (all I can give at present I’m afraid) and I endorse what George Lawson (at 2:37) says, too.
$30 donated – give them hell for all of us in the UK
Done. Tally-ho!
On it’s way, and as I’m not too far from Brissel, let me know if I can help in any other way.
I wonder whether as Anthony is going to be here for a week at least whether a ‘UK Denier-Up’ might be in order?
I’d move other things around to be there…if there was the possibility of beer 😉
I’m pretty sure someone from the GWPF lurks here. Why don’t you engage Anthony to do a talk while he is over if he is agreeable?
I for one would like to see the thermometer siting study presented.
Done – see you there. Yes, do visit Bath. I am for the first time in -too long.