One of the most acerbic, caustic, and self-absorbed climate blogs has gone AWOL, and there has been no new information seen since the middle of July. The antithetically named ‘Open Mind’ blog run by the blogger known as ‘Tamino’ aka Grant Foster from Maine, has gone silent. And, there has been no explanation for his hiatus either by announcement, or in comments, that I can find. Below is a screen cap of his last posting on July 18th, 2014.
Doing a blog is hard work; doing a blog on climate science is even harder. It requires dedication, research, tolerance, and huge amounts of effort. There have been times when I’ve just wanted to walk away from it, to get my life back so that I could spend much more time with my wife and children, who have been sorely deprived of my company at the expense of WUWT on many occasions. So, I “get” how somebody could just walk away after deciding it isn’t worth it anymore. In the case of “Open Mind” the numbers he had been getting were in a “death spiral” long before he decided to quit in mid-July of this year.
Shown above is the graph I get from my Alexa dashboard, which gives me more details than is available to non-subscribers, which doesn’t provide any data once you slip below the ranking waterline of 100,000.
Was it by choice, or is it some personal or professional crisis that forced it? Did he have an epiphany over ‘the pause’ in global temperature and the disparity between climate models and reality? Did he finally realize that climate sensitivity is lower than has been claimed, and thus not a crisis as advertised? Did he finally realize that climate skeptics are starting to be embraced rather than reviled, and thus there is no longer a place for the sort of vitriol he had peddled in the past?
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I have no idea.
But, despite us being at odds over the issues of climate science, I wish him and his family well. I hope that it is nothing more than just needing to recharge and re-invest in himself, as we all need to do sometimes. The never ending grind of this effort can take its toll, and I more than anyone know just how much of a personal impact that can become.
Whatever the outcome, I sincerely wish you good luck, Grant Foster.
It may be as simple as the world realizing that climate change, which always happens and is normal, is not the greatest threat to humankind after all and that something as simple as a bushmeat diet caused by poverty is distributing world wide a virus capable of producing the worst pandemic in human history.
Bushmeat as food and poverty as a life style are both characteristics of an alarmist designer planet where affordable fuels and reliable energy generation are withheld from societies that specifically could benefit most were that unwarranted withholding removed. Perhaps the next outreach of progressive elitist caring could be direct genocide. God forbid these asshats should allow bushmeat eaters become self-sufficient, productive, and happy.
My recommendation to the idiot in chief is to redirect all monies currently being wasted on climate issues to finding a cure for ebola and other diseases of the third world that have found their way to foreign shores. It would be more valuable than windmills and solar panels, both of which require living users to be of any benefit. More specifically I would deny any future government money to Mr. Hockey Stick as he’s wasted far too much of our anti-pandemic budget already.
Hear hear! Well said dp.
“Wormtail”? Wow, that is a high quality blog worth reading. [/sarc]
The reason these guys are not posting anymore might be because it is difficult to tell people that the planet is warming when they are freezing.