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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.
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John Dittes said
Given the fact there are so huge number of places, and it is mid-July, I’m not quite surprised there are a couple of high readings somewhere. In order to the CAGW to be a true C-AGW, we need to see high records from globally everywhere over and over again. That is not what has happened. Rather, we have mildly warmer, especially during the cold season. I can hardly see the reason for your anger. In the end, we both want that our money is used efficiently. So what I want is that money is not being used in energy politics in manners that are totally useless from YOUR perspective. That is, I don’t want huge amounts of money being poured into solutions that can not have an effect on climate even in theory.
You know, that China, India, Africa all are in a growing need of energy and will increase emissions, both CO2 and others. You also know, that despite trying hard, Germany has not succeeded in reducing emissions. I don’t believe Russia is even trying. The US has been reducing emissions, but it’s level is still higher than in China and the EU. Nobody thinks about Brazil, may be we should.
Could you just hold your horses on attacking our host, and try to give a practical solution on how to generate energy so that people would not die, without the CO2, methane, particulates, that you are so much afraid of? I’d happily drop human emissions to half the current, if we could do that without killing people (yes, killing, in large quantities). Why is that? Because only little of the energy is used for fun. Most of it is used for good reasons. Like keeping homes and workplaces warm or cold, moving food and stuff around, keeping the society running at large (imagine what happened with a great recession – yeah, energy poverty would kill people simply by making them poor in terms of money). Note that rising the price of the energy just makes poor people lacking energy. Giving them subsidies kind of fixes *that* but then you’ve created to markets, one Venezuelan where the government decides who gets energy at which price, and the free market where well-doing people do what they want. Do you want to punish Soros for being so rich? Don’t do it that way; he will not be punished so easily. But you could kill other people by rising the price of energy.
You can bark how much you want, but it is useless bark if you don’t have a way to move into a fossil free energy without causing a world-wide deep recession in doing it.
By the way, today I will enjoy on the last hot day of the summer. Probably around +31C. Kids like it now, they will need to go to school in two three weeks. And we really enjoy it. Last summer was frigid with temperatures rising only up to +21C (about 70F). You don’t much need a pool there, as the water will be cold (oh, I could warm it by using solar power right? Funny you.) My children just won’t know what cold water feels like, eh?
Why redact this moron’s email address? Actions have consequences and some of these wonderful people need a remote learning seminar on that topic …
That could possibly open up Anthony to legal action.
Anything liberal nut-jobs like Mr. Dittes accuse others of, they do themselves. Don’t hate, they lecture. Yet, they are full of hatred. Diversity, they preach. But, they are lockstep conformists — any “diversity” is entirely superficial. They demand free speech for themselves, but don’t allow opposing speech. Everything they accuse the current POTUS of, they are accomplished experts at doing. The list goes on and on.
If there is ever a national Freedom Medal given to those who have opposed the AGW “science” and agenda, Anthony’s name would be at the top. The new platform is much better. If I have contributed one thing that has been beneficial at ending the reign of terror by the alarmist, it’s been worth it. It’s been a learning experience. Simply because AGW has constructed an elaborate scam from half truths and slogans. Deconstructing them is time consuming. AGW makes Bernie Maddoff look like a petty thief.
Sent to Wifey so she can order through her prime account, she always needs more points.
Free speech is one of our freedoms. Freedom is not free. Donation sent.
$20 for WUWT is my pleasure. I didn’t buy the book because I’d already read it.
BTW, after I read such books, I like to leave them at a local Starbucks store that has a free book exchange. I haven’t been there for a while, but I have Mark Steyn’s “A Disgrace to the Profession” to drop off on my next visit. Once on the rack, some latte-sipping, brainwashed propaganda victim has at least a tiny chance of seeing and reading it.
The Heat Wave Index Chart is meaningful to me. My uncles and father were farmers who began the move from mid continent USA dust Bowl to western USA at precisely the greatest spike of the Heat Wave Index 1936-1937. Reason: Hard times, Great Depression, Dust Bowl.
Then WW2 began. Wounded in Battle for Rome. Out of hospital. On to Battle of Apennines, Battle of Po Valley. Nazis driven from Italy. Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal.
Free speech is one of our freedoms. Freedom is not free. Second donation sent.
A small donation winging your way Anthony. I bought the Kindle edition of the book earlier this year.
This site, since your migration, is a real pleasure. I love all the extras – like voting for comments, nesting, PLUS the highlighting of unread comments following a refresh (that is a real boon) etc. It was well worth all your hard work.
Just ordered the Climate Change book through your amazon link in the article. Every little bit help… 🙂
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Hello Anthony,
I have made a donation to give you guys a hand. Thank you for printing my first posting on your site. I hope to include some new ones once things settle down around here.
Pat
Thank you for showing the heat wave graph. It reminds me of how often our record high temperatures in Fresno, California have occurs in the early 1900s, before our modern tainted recording locations.
Already bought the book, but donated again out of great gratitude for what you do! Keep up the great work!
I want to donate but don’t understand why I am being redirected somewebsite about a trip or vacation?
You probably have malware or a virus in your computer. There’s no redirection on my part.
Here is a direct link: http://www.surfacestations.org/donate.htm
…try that and please advise.
Thanks very much
Donation on the way (soon…the contingency $ for our renovations went to ensure our porch didn’t collapse…).
But I have to say Dittes is appropriately named.
“In Praise Of Carbon: Why Weve Been Misled Into Believing that Carbon Dioxide causes Climate Change.” Recently revised, and from that, stronger than ever.