As WUWT readers may recall, I am a full member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The 2019 AGU fall meeting in San Francisco is coming up. I hope to attend so that I can cover the world of climate science, while keeping tabs on the alarmist antics of people like Michael Mann, Peter Gleick, Kevin Trenberth, Katharine Hayhoe, and John Cook.
The problem? It is HUGELY expensive to attend. Just the registration alone costs $505. That may be waived if my press credentials are approved. Fingers crossed.
Add a hotel for 4 days at the typical $250-300 per night rate in SFO, plus incidentals, and the cost to attend easily tops $2000.
I can drive down to San Francisco to save money rather than take a plane like so many others.
While many attendees get the taxpayers (via their Universities) or their NGO’s via donors to pay for such things, WUWT has no such resources, and despite the tired claims from detractors, we are still waiting for that ‘big oil check’ to arrive.
So, after not attending for two years due to it being in Washington and New Orleans, which added additional travel costs, I thought I’d ask the readership if they can help out so that there will be at least one person at AGU 2019 to report on climate science that can do so from the skeptic side. I will make a number of posts for WUWT-TV about climate science, social topics, quirks, and issues, as I have done in the past.
Basically, I’m asking you to help send me into the lions den of climate alarmism. Here’s a sample of some recent press releases from AGU:
- Climate change expected to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal infection
- Europe warming faster than expected due to climate change
- Rising summer heat could soon endanger travelers on annual Muslim pilgrimage
Yes, believe it or not, that’s the sort of stuff we’ll see at this conference, and that’s why I have to attend.
Thanks for your consideration of donations, even small ones will help, and most of all thanks for reading WUWT.
Donations gratefully accepted: here
UPDATE: 9/21 7:35AM PDT The goal has been met! Thanks to everyone who helped, I am grateful and humbled by the support – Anthony
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A tiny donation mate, sorry it can’t be more.
ditto
Enjoy the meeting Anthony. Glad to help.
Climate change is not a religion that scientists choose to believe or not, it is not faith. All the presentations and posters are based in theory, data or both, and they can be correct or incorrect. Being skeptical is meaningless, as you don’t have the logical foundations to postulate your thesis, despite you probably think you do. Publish your results, share with the world instead of being a priest of science
Remarkable number of believers for something that is not a religion ..
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/264767-poll-70-percent-believe-in-climate-change
Of course you are totally wrong. The climate scare is the latest example of mass stupidity. This is cleverly being exploited by extreme leftist idealogues and will result in great suffering as all of their schemes have as history teaches us.
More stupidity for your enjoyment:
https://unbelievable-facts.com/2017/10/acts-of-mass-stupidity.html
Small donation made to say thanks for WUWT.
Hope you make AGU – you should definitely qualify for press/journalist status – hit counter shows >400,000,000!
Same here, but the Aussie/American Dollar exchange rate sucks bad. Enjoy the trip, and don’t forget to curl up into a ball and cover your head and kidneys if you need to.
Gantlet?
Gantlet would be better…unless what was meant is a glove to defend the hand from wounds. But as I have lately discovered “gauntlet” is a variation of “gantlet.”
Goode catch. I knewe the expression only as “run the gauntlet”, but now see the distinction.
I’ll add this to the list of cringeworthy missuses of language all too often seen in columns and comments.
Why was my donation automatically processed thru Paypal? I tried to avoid giving them a cut but it seems they got it somehow despite my wishes.
A small contribution done towards hydrocarbons for your car or to quench your thirst while having hand to hand debate during the event. Ask as many awkward questions as you can!
The AGU? The home of the 2009 97% consensus. Sorry, I am out of work at the moment. Many businesses in Aus, the whole country it seems, is dithering along with the Govn’t about climate change. Employment rates have dropped significantly.
Will the talks be webstreamed?
There was a EGU meeting in Austria in April – I think the talks can still be accessed.
The last one is probably of interest because as far as I can see the experts aren’t panicking.
https://egu2019.eu/abstracts_and_programme/webstreaming.html
Small contribution on its way…
FD
Try the Grand Hotel in Bolinas:
Here’s from a review:”If you have your expectations clear before you arrive, you will not be disappointed. First this is neither Grand nor is it a Hotel but, like the town it sits in, it embodies the laid back seaside lifestyle in an unpretentious and warm way. The “hotel” is also two rooms on the upper floor across from one another with a shared kitchen and bathroom downstairs so, unless you can handle or like a B&B style of close unknown neighbors, this is best to visit with close friends and take both rooms. That aside, the rooms are very comfortable, the kitchen (with a few quirks) is functional and just feels right. We spent hours around the table just chatting, eating and drinking. For location, its perfect. A couple of minutes walk from the beach, downtown stores and café/restaurant. A great place to spend a relaxing, very affordable weekend. PS. The guy that runs it, also runs the shop in the other half of the house and treats the kitchen like a common thorough fare, and sort of “appears”, so be prepared for that quirk also.”
I stayed in the pub 100 yards down the road because The Grand was full.
Bolinas was recommended to me by a person at a venture capital conference. It was a great lead.
Good luck with the commute from Bolinas into SF Moscone Center in the morning. I can’t say I would recommend it.
I’d second that. You might stay in Oakland. Commute is easy via BART. If you end up in Oakland, Andrew, let me know. I’ll meet you somewhere and buy you a drink. If we still had the big old place, I’d offer to put you up, but the bungalow is a bit wee.
Dropped a few dollars in the pot. Thank you for your extraordinary hard work for all these years.
I just donated.
Just did. It’s been awhile.
$10 won’t hurt. Thanks for your inspiring work. Do your best.
Small donation. Thanks for a good and extremely important work!
Tossed a Grant into the tip jar. You might consider getting the series of shots recommended for travel to third world countries.
Endeavor to Persevere!
Chief George
in The Outlaw Josie Wales
Sent you $100 for SF. Wish I could come.
I do not know you so what I am about to say is guesses. Since you run this site, your are probably combative and will be completely surrounded. I suggest your watch some of Charisma on Command’s videos. Here are a few I found useful:
How To Avoid Embarrassing Yourself In An Argument – Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/nS9W-wlJHPA
How To Handle Toxic People: https://youtu.be/agEqp7_BCCA
How To Get Respect Without Being A Bully – Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/hsQLksbfDSo
6 Phrases That Instantly Persuade People” https://youtu.be/QqFnn_spo4c
How to be the coolest guy OR most popular guy in the room: https://youtu.be/QLnrx6mbcSo
5 Common Phrases That Kill Your Charisma: https://youtu.be/hj3j2jPcnKk
5 Steps To Influence Like Barack Obama: https://youtu.be/H3aWbte8DxU
There is a whole list of how to influence under good and bad circumstances
https://www.youtube.com/user/charismaoncommand/search?query=persuade+
Done!
Keep the b…..ds honest!
I dropped a few bucks.
Freedom and whisky!
I could have donated a bit more, but I know how much other readers appreciate the chance to demonstrate our appreciation of WUWT.
Have a good time, and don’t have too much beer. You can’t keep up with those geologists!
Most of those attending are not true geologists. They somehow forgot the climatic history of the earth.
Donation sent!
Where can I send a check?
One: Don’t bring your good shoes…
Two: Make sure you’re current an all your shots (I don’t know if there’s a vaccine for typhus, but if there is, do it)
Good luck and God bless!
NC, you’re obliquely referencing exactly the kind of “gauntlet” that immediately came to my mind when I read that the location is San Francisco.
Anthony, I added to the pot, too. Keep up the good fight. Maybe take some waders or galoshes, rubber gloves, and face mask.
Apropo cartoon….
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-what-a-trip/
Always glad to help..
“I can cover the world of climate science, while keeping tabs on the alarmist antics of people like Michael Mann, Peter Gleick, Kevin Trenberth, Katharine Hayhoe, and John Cook.”
John Cook? Nail that man to the floor. His papers are the first referenced papers at NASA’s climate change evidence page. That’s quite a joke!
Don’t forget the cost of having your shoes cleaned of human fecal matter afterwards.
Moscone’s still ok. Just stay away from the Tenderloin. That’s much harder to do during the JPMorgan healthcare biotech conference. But that’s in January, after the first rains and often cool. In September it hasn’t rained since April, except for two small events last week. Not enough to wash any sheet off the street.
Thanks for representing us in the lair of the dragon. Take care and stay safe.