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
Good example of “Internet Panhandling”
Can we have full disclosure on the finances of WUWT? You ask for money a lot and from what you write, there should be no reason why we cannot see a full accounting.
After all, backing up claims with evidence is what WUWT is all about!
I’d prefer that Anthony keep busy with the mission. The finances are trivial and not worth collecting. Besides, he gives me 10% of of his income from big oil. Rather generous, I only asked for 5%. 🙂 (Hint: it’s the same number of dollars.)
BTW, if you read form 990s for entertainment, The Nature Conservancy’s report totally amazed me. I got the sense that Audubon et al were trying to become little Nature Conservancies, the 990 made it all clear! Lotsa assets (i.e. lotsa land).
https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/form-990-tax-return-fy18.pdf
Greenpeace is fun too, but you have to get data for the different national groups to get a decent understanding.
Hi Matt
Are you asking for an accounting of the money you have donated?
I do not need to have Anthony of anyone associated with WUWT account for the few dollars I have freely given.
Why would you think anyine would owe YOU and accounting?
Mick
WTF is running things at the AGU? You’d need to be an idiot to decide to have your conference in San Francisco these days. Not only is it unnecessarily expensive, but the attendees get to deal with excrement, needle, and junkie covered sidewalks which puts them at unnecessary risk. Not only are there dozens of cities in CA that would be a better choice, but it would apparently detract from the “grandeur” of the AGU to hold the conference further than 10 miles from a coastline.
Enjoy yourself and watch yourself, as the crime index of SF is about double that of the nation.
Mr. Turner:
Why lie about things that are easy to fact-check?
1. “Unnecessarily” expensive? The expensive element is Real Estate. Thank you, supply and demand. Lots and lots of demand.
2. San Francisco sidewalks are not “covered” with”excrement, needles and junkies.” Yes, ANY amount of excrement is offensive. But the problem is DOG SCHNIT, which is not picked up by dog owners, who are a sorry, conscienceless lot. It is almost as bad as the streets of Paris, which–like SF–remains popular with tourists.
3. According to the FBI, among the 100 largest US cities, these have violent crime rates higher than San Francisco:
Mobile, AL; Anchorage, AK; Phoenix, AZ; Tucson, AZ; LA, CA; Oakland, CA; San Bernardino, CA; Stockton, CA; Washington, DC; Miami, FL; Orlando, FL; Atlanta; Chicago; Indianapolis; Wichita; Baton Rouge; New Orleans; Baltimore; Detroit; Minneapolis; Kansas City; St. Louis; Newark; Vegas; Albuquerque; Buffalo; Cincinati; Cleveland; Oklahoma City; Tulsa; Philly; Memphis; Dallas; Houston and Milwaukee.
There are many things to criticize SF about, and I do it often. But the crime rate ain’t one of them.
Dropped some $ in your hat. I have not been to an AGU meeting in decades. Quit my AGU membership (and also AAAS) long time ago. And this year I dropped my IEEE membership, not because of AGW, but because The Institute is spreading propaganda about the EU, an institution I detest.
Have a fun time in SF.
Looking forward to reading your reports.
Done!
I look forward to seeing your reports from the 2019 AGU meeting.
Anthony,
Bon Voyage! Glad I could help a little.
When will you qualify for the “retired” rate?….
Donation on the way via PP. Keep up the good work.
Can I donate without signing up with PayPal? do you accept checks?
Done! Thanks Anthony!
Done. Try to enjoy the meeting despite. As already mentioned, make sure your shots are up to date.
Good luck Anthony. Added a to the pot.
Don’t forget your galoshes!
Anthony,
A small thank you for your excellent website; I have learnt a lot from this site over many years.
We are struggling in the UK to get any lightly skeptical scientific information across to the media. How we proceed I do not know but we must try. I can understand why some of the public are panicking about AGW. The media including the once trusted BBC and many others, continuously spouts false of fake ‘climate news’, day in day out. Extinction Rebellion and climate protectors could easily become the new Nazi party of the 21st century, along with the help of ‘save our planet’ media.
Unfortunately it’s a case of ‘Control the media control the masses’.
Wait a second. Are you telling me that this type of expense isn’t already covered by big oil and/or big coal?
Made a donation.
I assume that gives me an inside track to all your nefariouslyness.
Oh wait, you’re just going as an observer.
My bad, we’ll await reports from the front.
Anthony ==> Good luck! Have a blast….
They make you pay to listen to their drivel?
Is possible for Anthony or anyone else in the sceptic community to attend one of those UN COP jamborees, and tell us what they actually do for 2 weeks? Maybe ask the Guineans if they could have got by with only 405 instead of 406 delegates? There’s so much I’d like to know about these events.
Checkout Friends of Science and The Rebel, one of them has sent people to the events.
Glad to help. Have a good meeting.
Donated as well. You’ll exceed your funding target in no time.
Looking forward to hearing the reports.
I, too, have put a bit into the pot.
Enjoy – take care – and report in due course!
Auto, hugely impressed with WUWT.
my pleasure to assist
Yes, you can donate without signing up to pay pal. Just use the link and pay by credit card not pay pal and don’t ‘save details’ which is another sign up option.
Go Anthony!!
Covered a night, frankly Im amazed you found places at those prices.
I just kicked in $100. I’ve been subscribed for several weeks, looking for ways to deprogram others (especially my grandchildren) who are targets for the CO2-caused climate catastrophe hype. I’m not a professional scientist, but I am an environmentalist who had basic chemistry, biology and geology in college, and thanks to Judith Curry I came to understand the woeful inadequacy of the IPCC climate models. James Corbett (Corbett Report) interviewed Curry, and I recommend his website as a resource on many topics. My California grandchildren will be receiving a copy of Jim Steele’s book, “Landscapes and Cycles,” which I have found to be not only a well-organized argument against climate hysteria, but an engrossing description of how the process of unbiased real-world scientific inquiry and evaluation should work.
May I also suggest the comprehensive, scientifically rigorous textbook which convinced me that CAGW was thoroughly false? “The Resilient Earth.”
I live in Oakland and have an empty bedroom and full bath. BARTing over the bridge isn’t too hard.