Hello,
It’s been awhile since I’ve made a pitch for WUWT, mainly because I’ve been busy with several projects, including the move of WUWT to a new more um, “robust” (climate science loves that word, so I figure I can use it too) web server.
One of the reasons for the move to a new server is better security. As many readers know, WUWT is hated worldwide by people who believe the Earth is going to hell in a handbasket, and WUWT just helps it go faster because we dare challenge the “97% consensus”. They’d be happy to see it shut down.
Just the other day I got this piece of hate mail from a biologist in Northern California that illustrates this point:
Name: John Dittes
Email: jcdittes@xxxxx.xxx
Website:
Message: Hello Anthony, it’s been a while. Listening to the news of record temperatures being marked weekly around the world, I’m thinking of you. Again, history will show you to be the carnival barker that you are. You are largely responsible for the Dark-Age mentality leading us to roast. I hope you have a heat stroke you obfuscating asshole.
Best regards.
John Dittes
As I note on my contact page, hate mail is fair game for publishing; he ignored the warning. Apparently Mr. Dittes has never seen this graph, from the EPA of all places:
So, you see what I’m up against, what we are all up against.
Speaking of the new web server and security, here’s one of the reasons why I’ve had to move. This screencap is from my WordPress dashboard just as I’m writing this today.
Those 10K+ malicious logins have all occurred since I put WUWT on the new server at the WordPress subsidiary “Pressable“. I get more malicious login attempts than I do spam.
This all takes time, money, and commitment to keep it going. So I’m asking for a little help.
People have bought recommended books about climate change at my suggestion in the past from Amazon.
Today is Amazon Prime Day – the biggest sale of the year.
If you are considering making a purchase on Amazon today, please follow this link or click on the picture above, and a small percentage of each purchase will go towards supporting WUWT.
It costs you nothing extra to use this link to make an Amazon purchase today, or any day.
Suggestion: If you haven’t bought this book yet, now published, which has a chapter that I authored, today is a good opportunity:
Or if you prefer, there’s the traditional route:
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As always, thanks to you – our readers, our volunteer moderators, our contributors, and yes even our detractors for making WUWT what it is: The world’s most viewed climate website. -Anthony
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Done. And thanks for your diligence and enlightening posts Anthony. Keep the rationality flowing our way.
Made a Tip Jar donation – thanks again Anthony!
I tried Amazon a couple hours ago and it was toast, I think they were melted down by traffic.
John Dittes is right, there have been a lot of weather records recently…..record cold temperatures that is. Meanwhile, the level of CO2 increases steadily with no apparent effect. I wonder if John Dittes will ever notice from inside his Warmist cocoon.
Couldn’t figure out weather (see the pun?) to give $50 to the project or $50 to the trip; so did both.
Regarding John Dittes, this is enlightening:
The quote comes from http://www.manta.com: “Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of 70000 and employs a staff of approximately 2”. Apparently the company is owned by a woman, Given the $70,000 company revenue figure, I wonder how much of an allowance she gives Johnny each week…
Hello Mr, Ditties,
I hope you can regain your sense of professionalism…if you ever had any.
A ‘C’ note on the way. I folded it into a paper airplane, hope you don’t mind. Open a window to let it in.
PS Tell idiots like John Dittes (rhymes with “Gittes”?) everything has a price. If Dittes will arrange a transfer of, say, $1M to your account, you will convert WUWT to a pro-AGW site. (Just don’t promise when exactly.)
If his name is pronounced the way you are suggesting, then it would explain a lot. He would have gotten teased mercilessly as a child. Maybe that’s where all the anger really comes from.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
If there was a problem, WUWT wouldn’t exist.
Thank God there isn’t a problem!
The hater, [email redcated] , is — surprise surprise — a contributor on a UC Berkeley project. The hate is very strong there.
Thanks Anthony. It’s well worth donating to your site just for the entertainment value.
Jim
Not quite sure which one Mr Dittes is:
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/photographer_query?where-name_full=John+Dittes&one=T
I think he’s the irregular brown mass in the foreground.
I have made a donation to Anthony on John Dittes behalf, it is people like him that makes this all possible.
is it possible to have the amazon link perma linked on the side bar ? a lot of family members shop through amazon and i can encourage them to do so through the link provided from now on.
Anthony: This is definitely a site I will always support. I don’t subscribe to much of anything on line, but I’ll gladly donate here. Keep up the wonderful work.
Done!
Anthony, just a thought of auctioning off some signed copies of that book. I would bet many of the authors would be willing to throw some ink on something that could generate significant revenue for the cause.
OT and Just for the record. After tonights home run derby for the MLB, they showed a celebrity softball game. Bill Nye struck out in softball. I am certain it was from the CO2 driven temperature what done it! Nobody strikes out in softball, nobody. LOL
Awesome work Anthony! No need to reply to John Dittes as his tirade says everything I need to know about his little mind.
I closed my PayPal account because of….politics. It doesn’t really matter what politics, it’s staying closed. I’ll try to buy something from Amazon, but I sure wish people would find an alternative to PayPal.
The chart confirms my observations. I live in Regina SK which was in the centre on the ‘dry years’ of the 1930s. The news always gives the record highs and lows and none of the past couple of weeks have broken the highs from the 1930s.
Just sent US$200 to the donation account. By selecting to have the currency converted by Visa instead of Paypal it saved about A$10.
Tried to make a small donation bypassing PayPal with my Visa, from foreign parts but the site is U.S. centric and wont accept my details.
I read somewhere that denying foreign accounts is the default setting for many systems.
You have to manually turn off that feature.
Anthony appears to be tempted by alarmist numbers when it’s convenient to be so…
My WP dashboard of a niche, low-traffic site reads “53,159 Blocked malicious login attempts”. In fact such high numbers appear on several low traffic, unimportant sites I run. It’s running the same security product I believe.
Do some research before using random statistics of a panel which might not mean what you think they mean. Ask your own trusted expert! Leave such bad habits to climate media alarmists please!
How long has your site been up?
Gave my small donation (AND bout the Kindel book 🙂 ).
And a suggestion:
Why not add a tab for hate mails. This way we could all have fun with with them.
It’s good of him to notice the LOW temps being experienced in Oz
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