Last week, I wrote about facing burnout after running WUWT over 10 years without having any real vacation during that time. I’ll have to say, I’m overwhelmed by the response, the well wishes, and the offers for help.
It’s gratifying to know that I have friends around the world, some vocal regulars, some occasional commenters, and some silent readers. I heard from many people who were first time commenters, and many regulars too. I had suggested that I take a month off, and more than a few said that’s not enough time. Looking back, I think they are right.
I’ve received a kind offer to go to New Zealand, with offers of lodging and I’ll be taking up that offer in July. If there are readers in NZ that would like to meet up, feel free to drop a comment, or use the contact form. I may even be persuaded to give a short talk while there as I did when I toured Australia on a speaking tour back in 2010 😉
Following that, I’m headed into the mountains of the Sierra Nevada for three weeks, and then I’m going to cap off my hiatus with a visit to southern Oregon to view the total solar eclipse in August. I think it will be a fitting ending for a much needed break – to see one of the most awesome natural wonders. I’ve never seem a total solar eclipse, but I have witnessed several partial solar eclipses, and one annular eclipse.
There are so many people that deserve my thanks, and I’m awed by the outpouring of support. On an ironic note, one person in particular deserves mention, and that’s Dr. Michael Mann. Had he not tweeted this…
…I probably would not have had the outpouring of support I had. I mean wow, 698 comments.
Charles the Moderator is organizing a new moderation team (thanks to all who volunteered) and there will be new guest authors publishing during my hiatus. I’d also like to thank Ric Werme, who rebuilt the WUWT sea ice page last weekend, which had been plagued by roadblocks thrown my way by wordpress.com and by some of the providers themselves.
When I return in late August, I’ll start overhaul on other elements of WUWT, so that it keeps going strong for another 10 years. I may pop in for an occasional update, or if something catches my eye, write about it.
My sincere thanks to all and best regards – Anthony
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Fare well, Anthony, and take Mann’s drivel as a supreme compliment!
It most certainly is!!!
It’s not farewell, just hasta luego.
Ten years barking, and the carnival goes on !
hasta la vista. 😉
Mann wants to get rid of you; he probably donated a one way air ticket 🙂
Anthony is the real MAN. Please relax and have a great time. Clive from Brisbane Australia.
Enjoy your well-earned time off.
Hope you enjoy this time off to re-create. You certainly deserve it. Thanks so very much.
Good on ya Anthony! Sounds like a wonderful itinerary. Cheers
Please take as many pictures as you can!……..Have a great vacation!
Yes, and see if Willis will ghost-write your travelogue. That man could make watching paint dry interesting. Not that your trip will be boring!
+1 – Loved Willis’s description and photos of Burning Man…just for one example.
Best wishes and enjoy your holiday.
I am jealous and MM is a douche-bag of the first order;)
Tomorrow I will not be jealous but, MM will still be a douche-bag.
hattip W. Churchill
Enjoy the time off and recharge your batteries! We’ll keep the lights on… with fossil fuels, of course.
I’ll drop some beer money in the tip jar. Have a good break – you’ve bloody well earned it.
I’ll drop some beer money in the tip jar. Have a good break – you’ve bloody well earned it.
I’ll do the same.
Late to the party, donation link still works. History will be kind to you when the CAGW scam is finally laid to rest.
Oh. And MM is an arse.
Enjoy the well earned break. Certain of the consensus community will mannishly envy you both the opportunity to travel and relax that comes with being an honest and highly industrious critic of bad science, and the enormous support you have and will always have for being the voice of reason.
Anthony,
don’t miss some Rugby Union matches whilst in NZ. Now that is a proper religion there.
Mann’s petulant display is typical of an immature elitist. He has no idea that had he merely wished you well he may have garnered some respect, but that’s simply beyond his puerile temperament.
We’ll all look forward to some nice holiday snaps when you return, but please, no shorts and knobbly knees 🙂
July in New Zealand is NOT the place for shorts and knobbly knees! Yesterday we had a high of 3 degrees C. Snow in the forecast today..Would love to go to a talk though!
Scottish Postmen laugh at 3 degrees, and carry on until it’s -3 before changing their shorts for their Trews.
Kilt wearing Postmen scoff at -3 degrees and go on to -10 before adjourning, momentarily, for a cup of warming tea.
Ha!
I laugh in the face of your 3 degrees, NZ 3 degrees can’t even sing!
Nor is there a Jock on the planet with knobbly knees!
However, good luck in the test. I wish I was there, with my Kilt. 🙂
Talking about weather where you are planning to go — maybe you want to reconsider Oregon as the location of choice to watch the eclipse. A cloudy day will spoil the view. If you are talking about Eastern Oregon it might be a safe bet, but probably not near the coast. The path is maybe 2000 miles, and lots of spots where rain or clouds are not as likely. A note to eclipse watchers that I found most interesting in the last two near full eclipses: be somewhere where you can watch the effects of the light coming through trees and creating thousands of sparkling little crescents on the concrete. Totally unexpected the first time, and kind of thrilling to watch.
I’d just note that anywhere that had a high of 3 C in NZ yesterday will likely be predominately populated by those who share genes with a Scottish postie e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invercargill
Better 3 degrees than Scott Base yesterday at minus 40 actual and minus 60 with windchil!
My line decends from Lewis along with the Donald !
The “elitists” are on the ropes–and starting to get rope burn!
Been on the ropes for a long time mate. They just won’t stop kidney punching and head butting. And the ref? It seems he’s just stepped in the ring, after a long bout.
Now we get them off the ropes, and start slugging it out, in the centre of the ring, where they have nowhere to hide.
Ding, Ding………Final round.
When in NZ, if you can, do visit the Kauri museum. I found it fascinating but rather sad. Then go and see some of the surviving big trees, for which the word awesome is for once appropriate.
Enjoy your break, we all appreciate your exceptional hard work. Your’s is the first blog I visit each morning.
This suggestion that Anthony should go to a rugby match is nonsensical. The sport is enjoyable only to those who have a tribal interest in the outcome; to anyone else it’s beyond understanding and boring in the extreme. Nor is it a religion down here; apart from internationals, most games are played in half-empty stadiums.
Rugby, like cricket, is the chess of field sports.
Tribalism has nothing to do with the game, it is immensely technical, highly skilful, and violence is admirably rare considering the opportunities.
I agree, I exaggerated about the status of the game in the country, however, a small island nation has dominated the sport for generations in both the Northern and Southern hemisphere. That achievement is quite extraordinary considering the growth of the professional game in Europe over the last 20 years, and the level of competition in just the 6 Nations to which NZ has no access.
There is no more passionate a sportsman than an AB playing Rugby for his country.
the drunks get lost on the way?????:-))
Tribalism, HotScot, has everything to do with the game’s popularity . . . as it has to do with all sports. Would I get up at 5am to watch a yacht race from the other side of the world between, say, Sweden and Japan? Don’t be daft, of course I wouldn’t. Would I get up at 5am to watch a yacht race between the USA and New Zealand. Damn right I would. As will hundreds of thousands of my fellow Kiwis tomorrow morning, the vast majority of whom have never been on a sail-powered boat in their lives. Will any residents of Scotland be watching the racing from Bermuda. Maybe a handful.
All support for sport is tribal.
And rugby especially so. You reckon it’s “immensely technical, highly skilful”. Really? Have a close look at the hookers, props and locks who play the game, even at the highest level. Not an athlete among them. The only skill they have is tucking a ball under their arm and running into opposing players. And when they’re asked to pack down in a scrum, it generally takes them five minutes to complete the task, in most cases the whole sorry mess being ended by the referee’s whistle and an arbitrary free kick awarded.
New Zealand dominated world rugby because they were one of only two nations which took it seriously and the only nation where it was the game of the working classes — a cohort who have always been better at sport than the upper classes.
The truth about rugby in New Zealand is that it is dying. As mechanisation takes over agriculture and the nation becomes urbanised, country clubs are either closing or amalgamating.
Add to that the dominance in the lower grades by physically impressive Pacific Islanders, especially Samoans, and young Pakeha and Maori New Zealanders are deserting the game in droves.
Here ends the rant . . . except that I’ll add what I put in another post — Anthony is going on holiday; he will be hosted by people who know him; they’ll plan his stay. Leave the man alone.
And for God’s sake, don’t ask for him to be punished by rugby.
Thank you Anthony for one of the most important efforts of my lifetime.
The total value of your effort may not be known for many years, but I believe
that my grandchildren will be major beneficiaries.
They will certainly know your name.
Thanks, Jerry Henson
Here’s hoping you have fair winds and following seas on your time away.
Enjoy.
The complete EIKE team wish Antony you a wonderful vacation and excellent recovery. You and your team did a great Job. God bless you. Best regards Michael Limburg VP EIKE
My best wishes as an avid WUWT and EIKE reader, too.
Thanks for everything you have done and for all you do. And thanks to all those who commented and contributed to help make this break possible. It is hard to gauge the impact this blog, and a few others like it, have had on the debate. But I suspect it would be easy to understate it. Enjoy yourself.
You richly deserve a meaningful break Anthony. Enjoy it and thanks again for all of your dedicated toil. Ignore Mr Mann’s ungracious rejoined, doubtless you will, alas his spite reflects his disappointment in failing to con the world.
Have a good one Anthony. Bob Tisdale has been off for four months now. You two have done so much for truth over the years. Thank you.
Dear Antony, the whole EIKE team wish you a wonderful vacation and an excellent successful recovery. You did a wonderful job. God bless you. best regards Michael Limburg VP EIKE Germany
Bon Voyaging, Mr.W. If ever a guy needs and deserves a decent break, it’s you. I hope you have a terrific time and we all look forward to the stories of your adventures when you return.
Best regards, Eamon.
Just don’t turn left at Pismo Beach!
Bon Voyage!
Enjoy yourself!
I didn’t know there were two of us!
I’m David Middleton!
I thought I was… 😉
I’m
SpartacusDavid Middleton!I’m Ric Werme and I’m unique.
I thought only David was unique?
you get to guard the harem if you’re unique, right?