WUWT – 2014 in review

Wonderful site!! I visit every day. I rarely comment, but I feel compelled to add my 2 cents today. I love the detailed science and I particularly enjoy Viscount Monckton’s regular posts (most especially the Parrot Sketch commentary about the “death of climate science”).
The only entreaty that I would add from my perspective (that seems to be shared by many), is that the principal goal of those who abuse the “climate change” meme is to establish and consolidate political power with all its attendant advantages for them. Of course, that comes with significant or severe disadvantages for the rest of us. The principal advantage (but certainly not the only one!), is the use of taxpayer dollars (ours) to consolidate power and profit. SO, their goal is not to “win” the debate, which doesn’t matter that much to them. It is simply to place enough doubt in the minds of the taxpayers (and others who are being fleeced) so that their “policies” (tyranny) can continue. So unfortunately, our task is not only to “win the debate” about the science, but it is also to reverse the political control, taxation and favoritism that is so rampant today in the western world. That really means arresting the spread of “Statism” that is so endemic in the world. A difficult goal indeed!!
However, if anyone or anything can do it, WUWT can!!
Ian Wylie, Coquitlam BC

Congratulations Anthony, thank you so much for WUWT, and thank you to all the wonderful people who share their wisdom and news with the world every day on this site. Recent posts at WUWT by Steve Goddard made me look at the list of delegates who attended the recent COP 20 beanfest in Lima, Peru.
I was astonished to find that South Africa had no less than 80 official delegates at this 12 day talk-shop! Twelve days of meetings, plus travel time, plus some touring and shopping – beats working for a couple of weeks, doesn’t it?
WTF? From a country that has serious problems of poverty, unemployment and hunger?
For most of these jam-stealers, it was a free overseas holiday in Peru, paid for by South African taxpayers who are faced with rising energy costs and a burgeoning ‘green’ movement that has seen the local wind turbine population soar from seven to 400 in two years, with plenty more to come! And these same international tourists want to introduce a Carbon Tax here in 2016!
It is encouraging that your map shows South Africa in a somewhat bluish tint, which means that WUWT has readers in this part of the Dark Continent. I hope their numbers will grow strongly in 2015 and that they will make their voices heard to counter the state-sponsored scam that continues to foment climate alarmism in a country that can least afford to do so.
Happy New Year to the WUWT family. Especially to Willis – your posts make waves and shake minds. Please keep them coming!
Strength to all of you in 2015.
John Ledger