Well, well, well,
I’m back @%@%$’s.
For an indeterminate amount of time I will be running this blog again.
For those who do not know me, here is an article about my role in Climategate, way back in the day.
That was back when I personally did most of the moderation on this blog.
I have a different style than Anthony. Some people like it. Others hate it. For example, the few months I ran the blog last year, I invited guest posts from some of our more contrarian visitors. I have not been around much of late, so I will be getting a feel for the happenings around her for a week or two.
I don’t know who the current crop of marginal actors are and with an unlikely amount of luck, that will continue.
All you guest moderators please step up as I won’t be putting the moderation hours in that Anthony does. I will also send an email to the group about this. Anyone who wants to volunteer to moderate, contact me through the tips and notes link.
I was recently interviewed about Climategate, as was Anthony and others, for the Red Pilled America Podcast. I will post about it when our episode airs.
I don’t have a whole lot more to say. I will be relearning on the job.
Every good wish and a giant thank you to Anthony, and an equally sincere thanks to CTM for his willingness to step up at this dire time.
As a regular reader of (but only rare commenter to) WUWT for over ten years, it’s a main stay of my daily reading (indeed i’m on a bus in rural Szechuan as I type this). It’s hard to overestimate the value of the contributions made here and Anthony’s concern for its continuity itself speaks volumes.
So thank you both again and to Anthony, Godspeed on getting quickly and (to the extent possible) with minimal pain to the other side of this current near-insurmountable challenge!
Welcome back.
Your work us greatly appreciated.
A debate between Joseph Postma and Dr woy would be an interesting mathematical blood bath.
Good to see you back Charles…
Good of you to step in and help when a friend is in difficulties I hope you have a good time and that we won’t wind you up to much!
As for learning n the job I think it’s the best way a bit like the apprenticeship I did many years ago much on the job learning with college to give the theory and science behind what I was doing.
Our elder son is a self taught geek (computer boffin) who has run rings around others who have done computer science at uni.
All the Best
James Bull
I’ve done this before. It’s now a matter of establishing my work flow. Doing it efficiently and setting the various priorities of time between creating posts from current events, seeking out authors, giving feedback to people asking questions. Reading comments, moderating, and a few other housekeeping tasks. There’s a lot to do. Anthony is a machine.
Welcome back ctm!!
Anthony does a superior job, yet we still missed you!
Good to see you helping out.
I’ve been a lot less active than I’d like to be, but I hope that will change in not too much time.
Actually all it would take is WUWT first, Facebook second. 🙂
Ctm, I will noodle a few new guest posts, some new takes on old topics, others new takes on newish topics, especially as the green energy debacle continues to unfold. Benn taking it easy since August 2017 given significant others health problems which unexpectedly arose then.
Relax and deal with your real life issues Rud. If you do get inspired for the helluvait, that idea I mentioned to you the other day may make for a publishable paper.
Good to see you back and I’m glad that Anthony is OK and able to help the community.
Maybe to get you started, there is an interesting post over at No Tricks Zone. It has been pointed out that Raman spectroscopy is the interaction of EM radiation with the vibrational modes of molecular bonding just like infra red. The climate boys have overlooked this in their narrow classification of what makes a greenhouse gas. It rather spoils their model when oxygen and nitrogen are shown to be greenhouse gases too.
SC,
Thanks for the No Tricks Zone alert. It is interesting, but I’m just a little dubious. Raman scattering is an inelastic scattering with the potential for adding or subtracting a small amount of energy. So, yes, N2 or O2 can have its energy state increased slightly interacting with IR, but I suspect that it is orders of magnitude below that of typical photon absorption, which is probably why it hasn’t been noticed previously.
The question to be answered is, “What is the bulk emissivity/absorptivity of the ‘non-greenhouse gases’ at IR wavelengths?”
It is equivalent in mechanism to GHG theory but with differences in vibrational modes and frequency shifts. I suspect that the author is right in supposing that it was overlooked by climate scientists. I tend to agree with you that the energies involved are probably very small compared with IR, but then the quantities of the gases, oxygen and nitrogen are absolutely gigantic compared with the trace gas, carbon dioxide. For these reasons, it deserves serious consideration.
have offered to help with mod duties in past, offer still stands.
caveat, from Dec 1 to April 15 may be suddenly unavailable, in maine and I plow lot of snow.
have experience in wordpress, disquss commenting systems. experience running centos and ubuntu based servers including csf firewall/iptables, etc etc.
have been mod on largest android site in past (can’t really say much more, was vbullettin site) and am comfortable with smf, pgpbb, invision based software.
you get the drift.
will help with backend (mod stuff) stuff if needed.
Saw you were back and now I got Back In The Saddle Again going through my head! Welcome, CTM.
Charles,
Welcome back at the moderator table. Hopefully not too much work for you if the comments remain civil as should be…
WB CtM