UPDATE 6/14/17: Michael E. Mann just can’t stand this, see below.
Hello everyone,
I feel like many of you are family, you’ve been with me and this endeavor so long. I started in November of 2006, and I’m approaching my 11th year. In all that time, WUWT has been providing a daily service to readers with original research, commentary, and humor where appropriate.
During this time, we’ve witnessed many great things together: Climategate started here in 2009, and the implosion of the Copenhagen conference as a result. The unmasking of the IPCC, showing that many of the “voodoo science” claims against skeptics made by IPCC chairman Pachauri, were based on fake data, shockingly bad science, and even grey literature. Now the tables are turned, and he’s out in disgrace. Then there was the time that I proved without a doubt that both Al Gore and Bill Nye were not just incompetent, but liars too, faking a science experiment. That finding by me was later backed up by a peer reviewed paper in the American Journal of Physics. Then there was the leaking of the IPCC AR5 documents here, showing how corrupted their thinking is, and how the final product was sanitized. Then there’s the Paris Agreement, watching it unfold, shaking our heads at the inanity of it. Even Dr. James Hansen called it a “fraud”. Then, just two weeks ago, watching President Trump remove the U.S. from it. It was truly a great day, with the bonus of watching all those heads explode.
Some people say that WUWT was a force or a catalyst in contributing to these things happening, but I don’t know. I just did what seemed like the right thing. Dig for the truth behind the headlines, and never, ever, give up.
It’s been a great ride. But, to be honest, I’m facing burnout. I need a break, so that I can continue another 10 years. I have not taken a real vacation from WUWT during the entire time. Ric Werme, who tracks WUWT, I think once said it’s been about 7 years since WUWT went a day without at least one story, and often there are five or six. It’s a lot of work. The ride has personally and professionally had it’s fallout for me. I’ve had clients cancel on me because of my views, and I’ve been through a personal hell too.
But, I continued, and I want to keep contributing, but I need a break to do it. I think I deserve one. Steve McIntyre of ClimateAudit once told me in a face to face conversation that “You and I both have done the work of ten men. I think we’ve given them a good run” (he was referring to the “Hockey Team et al”). Steve has essentially retired [from] blogging, because he has other pursuits. He feels like he’s done his fair share. I’d say his contribution was monumental.
I still have more stories to tell, I still have more research to do, I still have more to contribute.
One of the great things about WUWT is that we’ve had so many guest authors. This keeps it fresh. But I still have to administer it all. I do it from my phone, my laptop, and my home and office PC. I’ve never really been out of touch from it
Here’s the stats over the past 10+ years.
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- 49 reference pages (some of which sorely need work)
There’s no other website that focuses on Climate Science that can even come close to that track record. That’s not a boast, but a simple fact of numbers. Many people said I’d fail, that I’d be undone, and there’s been a lot of pressure and outright hatred and smearing directed at me personally to make me quit. I even had an offer once to “buy me out” as a way to get me to stop. I told them to shove it.
I had help getting here, from readers like you, guest authors, and many many scientists who have advised me from behind the scenes. I’m greatly appreciative to all of you for bearing those slings and arrows with me.
What convinced me that I really need a break was a really stupid error I made yesterday. I posted a story thinking it was Wednesday (Hump Day Hilarity) when it was actually Monday (Monday Mirthiness). Readers caught it [in] comments, and I was too tired to notice until hours later. It’s a simple error that has since been corrected, but it’s a wake-up call for me. It’s a clear sign of fatigue.
Here is what I want to do: Take a month off. Disconnect. Then come back fresh.
To do that though, and keep WUWT running, requires help. It’s not without precedence. Back in 2007, Steve McIntyre took a vacation to the desert southwest USA, with a mission in mind, to gather some tree ring core samples of his own to dispute Mann’s findings (though he didn’t say that at the time). Long time readers may recall he asked me to take over ClimateAudit during that break, which I did gladly, and it continued, ready for him when he returned.
I think I can do that here, I’m sure many of our guest authors will step up and our moderators can keep the comments flowing, albeit perhaps not as speedily since we have fewer moderators than we used to have.
I’m asking for two things: help with content/moderating, and some donations, so that I can choose a place to go disconnect, and not worry. I don’t want a staycation, and if that darned Koch Brothers check that many Mann-like people seem to think I’m getting would just show up in the mailbox, I’d not have to ask. There’s another reason too. I have an idea for a temperature data study, along the lines of some of the UHI studies I’ve done in the past, but I’ll need to purchase some equipment to run the experiment. And, when I return (assuming I can get help to keep WUWT running) I want to migrate WUWT to a new web platform. The last overhaul was in September of 2014, and since then things that I keep asking for from wordpress.com keep getting ignored (such as comment editing by end users to fix simple mistakes). I’ve been asking for almost as long as WUWT has been on wordpress, and it’s become clear to me that wordpress.com just doesn’t care because they keep adding social media enhancements rather than real meat and potatoes features. Time to move on to something that works better and requires less time to administer.
In other news, I just finished a new book chapter, it’s at the proof stage at the printers, and it will be available soon. I’ll let you know when it is available.
So, dear readers and contributors, here is what I need:
- Volunteers: for moderating, for guest author content, and for scheduling publishing of the kind of stories and press releases we normally carry. Use the About》Contact form from the drop down menu under the header.
- Donations: for recharge, and for new ventures to be designed and published
- Patience: while I figure out how to do all this.
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For those that wish to donate towards a break and a new setup and experiment, here’s the link and button. Anything is welcome, no matter how small.
I’m going to leave this post up for a couple of days as the top head post, to make sure casual readers and regulars alike see it.
Thanks, sincerely, to all of you. -Anthony Watts
UPDATE: Mann and the usual suspects have had a twitterstorm over this.
It’s driving them all batshit crazy that:
1. I’ve survived 10 years, even though I’m apparently too stupid to have accomplished anything in that time.
2. People actually like me and want to help.
3. More people read WUWT than all of their blogs combined.
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I’m new to this site and find it very informative. As a working stiff that has been personally educating myself on sciences since my early teen’s when it was global cooling, my studies have been limited to whatever was available in local libraries until my first home computer in 1998. Since then I’ve learned more, faster than those previous years. I don’t have the formal education many on here have, but I understand what is being said by those, where I think in layman’s terms and see correlations with other sciences causes and effects that those with extensive knowledge in a single field may not see. So I hope whomever takes up this offer in your sabbatical absence is up to the task. Anthony, Good luck in your time away. You deserve it.
Thank you Anthony
20.00 on the way
I can’t help much with Climate expertise so at the moment I have submitted a small contribution. Thanks Anthony for all the work is exhausting just reading what have been done. You need a break or fall over. I can do some graphics. Advice – do not take Janice with you Anthony.
Don’t worry, Lil’ Fella. lol
This is one of the sites I visit almost every day. Just sent a donation via Paypal. Take some time off and recharge! The work you do and what is presented on this site is valuable beyond description. Thank you Anthony and to all the contributors and moderators that make this site one of the best on the internet! Let me not forget the people who post comments. I get as much out of the discussion as I do the articles.
A donation will be on the way next check (fixed social security income).
As you will be moving off WordPress servers, I would suggest Ramnode. I used them for many years before I semi-retired from online activities. They are fast and reliable. All the online HD storage is solid state drives.
A site this size would need a plan from the Massive category.
Donation sent. You are a warrior Anthony. Thank you for your service.
Anthony, thank you for your dedication and thoughtful articles. You have been my go-to site for 8 years now. My donation is on the way. Sending money is so impersonal and I wish I could do more as I feel indebted to you for your years of service.
Dear Mr Watts, Contributed to your fantastic website. Thanks for all your very hard work. Wet Coast Rob
Years ago, I pondered why we democrats supported public housing, when it seems like such a bad atmosphere. Actually harmful to your safety, health, and well-being.
I decided I could retain my “democrat” views, but would personally have the attitude that I will only support ideas demonstrated to work – to achieve stated goals.
Then, as a young married man, my wife asked what we would do if we got pregnant without planning it. I felt abortion would be bad, myself. This set me on a path of pondering why I felt it would be bad, and as I figured that out, I then had to ponder why the democrat party was so enamored of abortion.
I became free to ponder anything I wanted to, and realized I had better be critical of the various ideas and causes my compatriots were endorsing.
Across years and years, I think I have developed a sense of how to evaluate arguments and data and motives, and how to smell a fish and see the wool getting pulled over my eyes.
Then, I (purposefully) had my first kid, and the time for immunizations came up. At that point I faced the immunization-autism issue for real. I knew I could dig up some data and figure out the immunization-autism thing myself. I was reassured by decent data, and the kids have been immunized on schedule.
Having achieved that, I soon after pondered whether I could figure out, on my own, whether the Manmade Global Warming story was genuine, or more propaganda.
I began poking around the web looking for information, and found the SurfaceStations site. WOW!!!
I now know I have been along for the ride, as a reader and volunteer color commenter for WUWT for most of its tenure. Time flies!
In my reading, the “progressives” are playing out a huge agenda and AGW is simply a cover story, a scam, for their ulterior motives. Frankly, I believe all of the “overpopulation” and medical establishment enthusiasm for government-funded birth control/”reproductive justice,” from vending machines, in public schools, by telemedicine, in all nations, etc., merely is part of their ulterior motive.
I appreciate AW and the Mods tolerating my comments in this area of population politics, tangential but not quite off-track.
Having been on this adventure across these recent several years, I now see God’s truth, as presented in the Judeo-Christian Bible, as reified more and more; I know this is a point of disagreement amongst loyal readers, but I really do appreciate being tolerated in this crowd when I have made occasional Christian-based comments, where many have quite differing views on the nature of the universe. A great thanks to commenters and mods who have been civil while voicing disagreement. I am not the only one who is thankful for this opportunity to express views arising from a logical, coherent, complete view of this physical and moral universe of ours.
I don’t donate too often, but have made yet another donation. In these Orwellian times, it is great to hear a bit of unexpergated truth amidst all of the propaganda.
I must note that, yet again, I will fail in my late-summer plans to kayak to the North Pole – the REAL North Pole, since my donation has put a cramp in my plans to fund that trip. Oh, well – there is sure to hardly be any Arctic Ice next year, so the trip will just be that much easier if I delay yet another year.
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AW, Have a great sabbatical!
Thanks for taking time for this thoughtful post. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone approached decision-making as you have. If you are still a Democrat, I hope you have been able to sway others toward the idea of civil disagreement.
Louis, frankly nearly all liberals have fallen into this Virtue-Cult. They have Special Knowledge about how capitalism is bad, and America is a terrible place. They convince themselves they are tolerant and rational.
This is all a snow job to make them adhere to this Marxist line of thinking, while being unaware they are un-American.
A Cult is a view of the world that is appealing because you get to be informed and be virtuous, while the rest of the world is either ignorant or evil. The problem is that the Cult world view does not hold up to simple examination.
So, cognitive kill switches are needed to protect the cult members. So, when certain criticisms of the cult view arise, the members have knee-jerk automatic reactions – these are almost always name-calling, or changing-the-goalposts. For example, capitalism has provided the world with many things, and is the greatest force ever for lifting people out of a hand-to-earth miserable existence, and the flaws of Communism are all over history. If you bring any of this up, the “left” have automatic responses, instead of thinking things through or tolerantly listening.
This Virtue-Cult is what has destroyed the holidays of so many families – regular people with regular, time-honored beliefs and values get called out by the Social Justice Warriors over Turkey and Stuffing at Thanksgiving, and they gloat about how they have either evangelized you or demonized you.
I have been pointing things out issue by issue, plus pointing out the “world view” issue a lot – some can tolerate hearing that.
And Christianity isn’t a Virtue Cult?
Where blatant irony meets blind hypocrisy.
Please. Just try to get real.
Chimp,
“And Christianity isn’t a Virtue Cult?”
It doesn’t seem so to me . .
“Where blatant irony meets blind hypocrisy.”
Perhaps this all makes a lot of sense . . in your imagination ; )
John,
I know very few Christians who don’t consider themselves more virtuous than atheists, when in fact virtuous behavior by those who believe that there are no post-death rewards or punishments is more worthy of merit than those who fantasize about such an afterlife.
I also know those who delude themselves that they’re virtuous because they don’t drink, and must grossly misinterpret the Bible to believe that Jesus didn’t turn water into wine at the wedding in Cana (His) and that Paul didn’t urge drinking wine. My own church as a kid used grape juice for communion.
In fact, Christians have killed more people than anyone else in history, although in the past century atheist and pagan regimes have given them a run for their money, however most of the killers themselves remained ostensibly Christian, as did the opponent governments. In any case, Christians put all other religions in the shade when it comes to mass murder, despite their pretensions of virtue.
Chimp “I know very few Christians who don’t consider themselves more virtuous than atheists”
Strange that it isn’t 100 percent. I wonder how an atheist would define “virtue”? Maybe I can look it up.
“when in fact virtuous behavior by those who believe that there are no post-death rewards or punishments is more worthy of merit”
By whose schedule of merit? Yours? While I enjoy disagreeing with you, on this point you are likely to occasionally be correct. Virtuous behavior is self-motivated and might result in reward but that won’t be the motive for the virtuous behavior. The Good Samaritan is the example.
“I also know those who delude themselves that they’re virtuous because they don’t drink”
Such persons do not live very long. You can find their skeletons in the Sahara and other nasty places.
“and must grossly misinterpret the Bible to believe that Jesus didn’t turn water into wine”
A relatively harmless disbelief.
“In fact, Christians have killed more people than anyone else in history”
I am a Christian and I have killed no one (despite a military career). It seems your example is inaccurate.
The largest killing seems to be that of the (non-Christian) Mongols: “The death and destruction during the 13th century Mongol conquests have been widely noted in both the scholarly literature and popular memory. It has been calculated that approximately 5% of the world’s population were killed during Turco-Mongol invasions or in their immediate aftermath. If these calculations are accurate, this would make the events the hitherto deadliest acts of mass killings in human history.” [https]://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire
“however most of the killers themselves remained ostensibly Christian”
Seems not.
“Christians put all other religions in the shade when it comes to mass murder, despite their pretensions of virtue.”
Seems not.
Oh, you imagined some stuff . . big surprise ; )
Chimp,
“… virtuous behavior by those who believe that there are no post-death rewards or punishments is more worthy of merit than those who fantasize about such an afterlife.”
What is virtuous behavior to you? On atheism there is no such thing, that I can determine . . The male lion that kills the offspring of the previous alpha male is not doing anything morally wrong, and neither would a human be, therefore, on atheism . .
John,
I imagine nothing. Just stating the facts.
Typically for a fundamentalist Christian, you have no idea of purely rational ethics.
Why does virtuous behavior require fear of eternal damnation or some punishment in this life?
Lions, like most carnivores and all cats, lack a moral sense, as humans view things. Some other mammals, to include humans, have evolved a sense of right and wrong, in our case reinforced with reason based upon the need for civil society.
You’re even more ignorant of the philosophy of ethics than you are of the theology of your own avowed religion.
Chimp “you have no idea of purely rational ethics.”
I have an idea that such a thing cannot exist. Underlying every rational thought is an irrational motive. Rational behavior seeks an objective and is aware that other people are also seeking objectives. Ethics in this context is the negotiated social contract and has nothing to do with right and wrong in any cosmic sense, although the words will be aligned to agree-with-social-contract or conflicts-with-social-contract.
“Why does virtuous behavior require fear of eternal damnation or some punishment in this life?”
I have no idea. Perhaps I can find someone that believes this. Avoiding some kinds of wrong behavior out of fear of punishment underpins essentially all of American justice, but avoiding wrong is not by itself virtuous behavior. Doing good is virtuous; there is no penalty for not doing good (but its accompanying reward may be absent).
“Lions, like most carnivores and all cats, lack a moral sense, as humans view things.”
Whereas dogs seem to have a moral sense and display guilt on having done a wrong thing.
“You’re even more ignorant of the philosophy of ethics than you are of the theology of your own avowed religion.”
Your description of a religion does not correspond to mine. Perhaps you should remove the beam from your eyes before commenting on the mote in mine.
Chimp,
“I imagine nothing. Just stating the facts.”
I don’t believe what you call “the facts”, are anything more than what you imagine to be the facts, sir. Here’s a fine example;
“… you have no idea of purely rational ethics.”
Obviously, that’s what you imagine, not what you know to be any sort of fact, right? I mean, you do understand that such an idea entering your mind is not an actual indication that it is necessarily factual truth, right?
You see, there is rarely any indication in your statements of supposed fact, that you grasp that you are not actually seeing into other people’s minds (and hearts, so to speak) . . or that you are not really traveling back in time extensively and witnessing vast numbers of people being killed by Christians, or whatever. It looks to me as though you don’t grasp that ideas can somehow get into your mind, but not be absolute truth . .
“Some other mammals, to include humans, have evolved a sense of right and wrong, in our case reinforced with reason based upon the need for civil society.”
Perhaps, but that (obviously, I feel) does not mean that all humans share the same notions of what is right and what is wrong . . On theism, there can be an ultimate Authority in that regard, but not on atheism. On atheism, the very notion of there actually being right and wrong, can be (and has been in some cases) rejected, and essentially called a primitive artifact . . a vestigial impulse that will pass away as “we” evolve further.
This is all rather basic stuff to me . . and your habit of declaring that I am uneducated or whatever, if I don’t treat this or that idea/”fact” you express, as something profound or unquestionable or whatever, is tantamount to childish tantrum throwing, to me. SJW/CAGW/etc. style intolerant absolutism, not civilized anything . .
John,
You have repeatedly shown yourself profoundly ignorant of all science and of Christian theology.
You have no basis whatsoever for asserting without a shred of evidence that Christianity isn’t a virtue cult. It clearly is, meeting every possible definition of the term.
Chimp writes “…Christianity isn’t a virtue cult. It clearly is, meeting every possible definition of the term.”
Inasmuch as you can define “virtue cult” any way you like, anything meets that definition including Swiss cheese if you wish it to be so.
Perhaps you will define “virtue cult”. Then, perhaps, define “Christianity”. We will see if they match (and whether my definitions resemble yours, which is unlikely).
I’ll take that as a ‘No’, Chimp . . ; )
Michael 2 June 16, 2017 at 3:53 pm
The Mongols were indeed world class killers, but their rampage lasted only 162 years, while Christian atrocities have endured for going at least since Roman Catholicism became the state religion of the Late Roman Empire, ie about 1700 years. The Mongols were allied with Armenian and Crusader Christians against the Muslims. One of Genghiz’ wives, arguably his principle wife, was a Nestorian Christian.
No other belief system comes close for mass murder and genocide. The Taiping Rebellion alone claimed up to 100 million, with millions more displaced, by far the greatest bloodletting of the 19th century. In the 17th century, Christianity perpetrated the Thirty Years’ War, the most sanguinary in Europe before the 20th century. In the 16th century even the oceans of blood spilt in the religious wars of Europe are a drop in the bucket compared to the massacres of American Indians on both continents from 1492 until c. 1890.
That you haven’t killed anybody is probably typical for most believers of most religions, except maybe Thugees or Chechen Muslims, whose young men needed to kill a Russian as a rite of passage.
Christianity is easily defined. You believe in the biblical one true God (originally the chief tribal god of the Hebrews), with or without assorted biblical giants, angels, principalities, etc,, anointed saints and other spirits, and that His Son came to earth in the guise of a man to die for humans and give some of them eternal life. I’m surprised you don’t know that.
The adherents of a virtue cult imagine themselves more virtuous than adherents of any other belief system, or those with none.
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Beside which, many Mongol warriors were themselves Christian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayan_(Mongol_Prince)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_among_the_Mongols
JohnKnight June 15, 2017 at 4:43 pm
I don’t know your general level of education, but as I said, you clearly are profoundly ignorant of all sciences, Christian theology and the philosophy of ethics, at a minimum.
So your general education would seem pretty low by the standards of commenters here, although for all I know above average.
Chimp June 16, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Mods, why the ???
I responded to questions. What’s the issue?
Christianity is not only a virtue cult, but a death worshiping cannibal cult, as should be obvious.
I’ve had it with this antiscientific, creationist-promoting Web site. Its CACA advocating critics are absolutely correct that it’s against science.
Sayonara.
Chimp wrote “… as should be obvious.”
I regret that it is not obvious. Perhaps you have a blog where you can explain your theory without being completely off-topic as seems to be the case here.
“Its CACA advocating critics are absolutely correct that it’s against science.”
Well, I suppose so. “Science” has become a religion; a thing you can be FOR, a thing you can be AGAINST. When used in this manner I suppose I am indeed against it; against the misappropriation of a word, against the social and political implications of it, against those who, like you, use the word as a bludgeon on your enemies.
Science is simply a container word with no value of its own. Within the container of science are many things: Geology, astronomy, chemistry, physics (and many more). A person thus might be fond of geology, despises chemistry and have little awareness of physics. Is he for science, or against science?
What I have noticed is that people like you desperately needing a religion have substituted this thing called “science” in the place where others might have Christianity. Just as various sects of Christianity denounce each other, here you are on the pulpit of science denouncing an invention of your own mind but calling it Christianity. I suspect you know less about “science” than I know about Buddhism.
Michael,
Clearly you do not understand science. Indeed, you profoundly misunderstand it. All those disciplines you mention are fields of scientific inquiry, but they share the same method.
Science is very much a thing. It’s not a religion. It’s a process, a method which can be applied to the study of any aspect of nature, whether the universe, the elements, planet earth, the sea, the air, the rocks or living things.
Only someone with no understanding at all of the scientific method would be so deluded as to imagine that science is a religion rather than a method. It’s the most successful method of inquiry ever devised. Thanks to the scientific method, human population has grown from about 500 million in AD 1543 to pushing eight billion now, with a similar increase in general health and happiness.
The delusions and misconceptions of fundamentalists never cease to amaze me.
Science (in the modern sense) was initiated, and until very recently dominated, by Christians, Gaybro . . I see much of what you guys are doing here, as very similar to SJW type accusatory undermining of Western civilization, frankly. Divide and conquer bullshit, to me.
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Here are a few things I do that are slightly relaxing:
1. Epsom salt in my baths.
2. Vibration mode for 20 minutes on my electrical hospital bed. (Some lounge chairs have this also.)
3. One aspirin per day for heart/vascular health (slight side effect of relaxation).
Get a Swedish massage…
Thank you Anthony- $30.00 sent.
Congrats on the 10 years of fighting the fight. It always used to burn me up when folks would acccuse you of being paid by big Oil. Watching charles work for free all the years, working for free myself on the other side, I’ve always respected your passion, despite your positions. We agree on the Principles ( show your work, share your code, free your data,) but disagree on our conclusions.
Thanks Steve
You’re a very kind man, Steven.
Yeah, Steven is okay, overall.
I always thought you were a genuine good intent guy Steven, regardless of your ECS spread. You just proved me right.
How is that mining going BTW?
Yes, way down beneath all that bluster, there beats a heart…
Mining is going great. The data center in the Arctic circle is coming on line quickly.. sales are crazy good. Next gen is beyond belief. .bought a blockchain company more on that later. . Conceptualizing bringing block chain to bear on some science related issues..
Contribution sent! Thanks so much for all you do Anthony! I hope you really enjoy your time away!
I can’t write anything, and you don’t want me anywhere NEAR a computer other than reading from one, BUT donation I can – and will – do. Just a soon as I post this comment.
And THANK YOU Anthony for everything you do.. Thanks to the guest writers and the mods, too. Have a good vacation.
$75.00 winging its way to you, Anthony.
$100 on its way. You’ve provided a great service, and great, well documented information. Been following your blog site almost daily for well over 10 years.
And BTW, I am retired. My degree was in physics, so I am not too easily misled. I would enjoy helping with moderating, or any other way I can be of service. It may help me figure out why all my comments go to moderation!
Enjoy your vacation!
Done from Italy. Thank you for your work!
Franco
Just another citizen where most of this stuff goes over my head, but I appreciate the work you and your “inner circle” do. You take the time you need, recharge, relax; we’ll be here when you get back.
Done. Just be sure to get back before catastrophic warming overtakes us!
Just sent $50 Anthony. Thank GOD there are people like you who seek the truth and don’t just blindly follow the group like typical liberals do who just can’t seem to accept facts and logic. One of our friends has a sister who is a climate scientist at the university of Delaware and they think I’m a “denier” and they bullied me on facebook. They never even gave me the chance to explain my stance which is that I’m with John Christy, Judith Curry, Roy Spencer, and others who have a sane view of what’s going on. These 3 scientists have way more credentials than my friend’s sister — she hasn’t received any metals or testified before congress or can she be credited with inventing the satellite temperature record and actually writing code to implement the computer models like John Christy does. I have a big appreciation of that because I write software for a living.
When I went to explain my view to my friend I paused for a moment and she just talked over me before I could even say anything. I figured it wasn’t worth my time. Best of luck with your time off and I hope you come back recharged and ready to keep things going. I think w/in the next 5 or 10 years we may finally get the breakthrough that is needed to put the warmists in their place. Cheers.
“I think w/in the next 5 or 10 years we may finally get the breakthrough that is needed to put the warmists in their place.”
My hope is that there may be a breakthrough this year with the publication of Monckton’s dry lapse rate paper and “Watts 2012.”
Eric Malkowski, 6/13, 7:15: your friend’s sister who is a climate scientist at U. of Delaware and calls you a “denier” must be a colleague of Dr. David Legates, a tenured Professor of Climatology there, who is prominent in research, writing, and speaking about his conclusions skeptical of CAGW, endangerment of polar bears, accelerated sea level rise, droughts, etc. He has testified before Congress, including telling them about intimidation of those who do not follow the AGW party line. He was Delaware State Climatologist and was told by Governor Ruth Dinner in 2007 that his conclusions were at odds with her political views, so he should not use his state title on any of his academic work. He resigned as State Climatologist in 2011. Several state climatologists have been forced out because their views did not conform to the CAGW political agenda. Legates has been harassed by Greenpeace and by Democrat congressmen during the Obama years. I think that may stop now committees are chaired by Republicans. It would be interesting to ask your friend’s sister to refute or rebut Dr. Legate’s science.
Anthony —
The check is in the mail — err — i mean I used the donate button.
Eugene WR Gallun
Anthony, your work is a Pillar of Truth in a sea of misinformation. The Earth’s climate has too many degrees of freedom for meaningful predictive modeling. I run groundwater models for a living, very simple compared to GCMs, but I constantly run into the limits of data availability, distribution, period of record and data quality over time, heterogeneity of properties, grid resolution issues, etc. And GCMs ignore clouds. Really! The Earth is complicated. Nature is a Mother. The closing of Panama Straits between 4.2 and 2.62 Ma caused climate change, CO2 not so much! 30 clams headed your way, thank you for your hard work, and please enjoy your break. More than a month! Salud!
“Nature is a Mother.”
Here’s the epigraph from You Sane Men:
First time commenting, but have read this site for several years. My very best to you and enjoy your break. $100 from the HillBilly in the WV
100 bucks and a most sincere thank you, Anthony.
I honestly don’t know how you’ve been keeping things going as brilliantly as you have over all these years! Please accept my donation along with my utmost gratitude. I wish I could do more!