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
I see you have already met your goal, but I must say it warms my heart to be able to provide a small contribution for your trip.
ralfellis says:
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Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed “America”, deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci’s first name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Welcome to England, Anthony. Enjoy your visit.
For the life of me, as much as I try, I cannot think which, of many questions rattling round my brain, I would ask Cook or Mann. If I did manage to get to ask a question it would have to be one that I thought would get an answer, not an evasion.
When you’ve been and gone I hope you will share with us the questions you wanted to ask; the one(s) you did; and the answer(s) you got – or hoped to get.
BTW: Keep a count of how many times you get accused of being funded by ‘fossil-fuel’: You can counter with the sure and certain knowledge that your (donating) readers must all be ‘big oil’ apologists.
To avoid confusion my contribution comes via Paypal as from “buildart”. Enjoy your trip!
$100 done -good luck and I hope other well-known UK sceptics attend. I took my maths degree at Bristol (many years ago) and always reckoned it was one of the best in the UK, but recently their alumni magazine has had too much green and carbon footprint rubbish in it, so I’m becoming ashamed of it.
Still, I remember lots of good evenings at the Victoria rooms, so please help to make this event a memorable one.
Some extra in the pot for you Anthony.
Three points regarding the posting by NikfromNYC:
Firstly, the book, “Against the Grain” is a work of fiction. There never existed a Doctor of Theology, Révérend Père Rouard de Card and there never existed a brochure entitled:-”Of the Falsification of the Sacramental Substances,” except in that same work of fiction. (Look them up on the internet.)
Secondly, what is the point of posting such a quotation from this work of fiction on this website?
Thirdly, I note that NikfromNYC has posted the same quotation on the RealScience website.
Done. Welcome to the UK Anthony. Sorry I can not make it to give you support. I hope there will be many others who can,
Very pleased to know that you’ll be able to come to Bristol. I would really welcome the possibility of a gathering of people who really think about climate somewhere in the UK. Bristol? (people will be there already) London? Birmingham (central)? Manchester? Stratford or indeed anywhere. For me the date would have to be 21st Sept or later.
Incase nobody has mentioned, Christopher Booker, a journalist for the DT is a sceptic. Maybe worth getting in touch with. He wrote “The Real Global Warming Disaster”, published 2009 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Global_Warming_Disaster
Good luck on your visit to these shores.
Anthony, you are our eyes and ears (and in many cases, brains!).
Go forth and conquer!
Anthony,
Do not suffer in silence – literally – without assistance in hearing. Get one of your UK contacts – James Delingpole or Lord Monckton, to work with the “Action On Hearing Loss” organization that used to be called the Royal Institute for the Deaf. They have T-Coil loop systems for hire that use microphones near the speaker and a loop near you.
Do not expect fulsome help from Bristol University.
I just kicked in $100 to help you stay longer in the UK and enjoy more of your many friends there. Alice and I enjoyed meeting you and attending your panel at the Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas, and I’m sure our British cousins would enjoy a bit of the same from you. Cheers.
I’m happy to have finally met you in Vegas Anthony and thankful for all you do to seek truth. May I suggest that you do PayPal for all your trips? Every little bit helps and you do so much to help us that it’s only fair. Just think…… you, in Paris next year for the IPCC, reprogramming the Kool-Aid drinkers! Heck , I bet that’s considered a charitable activity and you could even set it up as a 501c3 so our donations are tax deductible!
$100 USD. Please have a pint on me and if it’s Irish then even better!
Done @ur momisugly $50 bucks.
To make honest people out of your detractors, I send about 10% of my revenue from oil production last month. Hope the $50 helps.
I can, unfortunately, only continue my usual monthly donation to you and CO2 Science.
Perhaps more in September when work resumes.
Some guidance on questions:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/80f43fb9d93061156f4988c07a326edc/tumblr_mtfs04Wfam1r54qfqo1_1280.jpg
Oh no, I just realized. Anthony needs FIRST CLASS. Otherwise, with Cahoona’s as big as he’s got, coach would just be too small for him. Good luck Anthony!
It should be amusing to watch what Lysenko spawned in action.
“>> vukcevic says:
July 17, 2014 at 10:56 am
ralfellis says:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci”
A good summary of the John Ameryck connection to America;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/americaname_01.shtml
I can never trust wikipedia while Connolley lives.
I guess if you are going to Bristol you could go take a visit to the ‘Somerset Levels’ which was the site of major flooding this winter past and is therefore the epicentre of what caused it (i.e. global warming vs lack of dredging vs lack of pumping vs lack of water-absorbing sinks at the watersheds etc etc). It’s about 1hr down the Interstate 5 (we call it the M5 over here) from Bristol. It certainly had some devastating effects for some farmers.
My donation IS ‘little oil’ a portion of the monthly overriding oil / gas royalty payments I receive because my father’s uncle had the foresight to purchase the rights as a small part of the Elk Basin Unit, Montana and Wyoming.
Nic says:
July 17, 2014 at 9:47 pm
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Wikipedia did not exist when I was told it as a fact at school decades ago. I wonder what the Americans were told at their schools?
Amerigo Vespucci was cartographer and travelled to the new world several times.
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
In 1507 a humanist, Martin Waldseemüller, reprinted at Saint-Dié in Lorraine the “Quattuor Americi navigationes” (“Four Voyages of Amerigo”), preceded by a pamphlet of his own entitled “Cosmographiae introductio,” and he suggested that the newly discovered world be named “ab Americo Inventore…quasi Americi terram sive Americam” (“from Amerigo the discovereras if it were the land of Americus or America”).
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/626894/Amerigo-Vespucci
Propaganda did not start with wikipedia; Spanish, British and French practiced and employed it for centuries to claim primate to their colonies.