On this traditional day of reflection and thanks, it is only fitting that I give thanks to the many many people who have made WUWT what it is today, and helped me personally.
From memory (which is of course imperfect, so I have likely missed dozens if not hundreds) I offer my thanks to these people.
Charles Rotter aka CTM or Charles the Moderator Charles gets a special place all by himself at the top, for reasons to numerous to mention, but also because he has kept WUWT going over the last year after I went into survival mode after the disastrous camp fire in Paradise. I’m about to come out of that, read on.
Mark Steyn, Melissa Howe, Andrew Lawton, Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Richard Lindzen, Willis Eschenbach, Christopher Monckton, Roger Pielke Sr., Roy Spencer, John Christy, Patrick Moore, Judith Curry, Evan Jones, Eric Worrall, Harold Ambler, David Middleton, Bob Tisdale, Chris Horner, Joseph Bast, Sterling Burnett, Robert E. Phelan (REP) (deceased), Thomas P., Mike L., Mike J., Andy C., Verity J., Lee K., Robert C., Keith B., James Taylor, Jim Lakely, Keely Drukala, Andrew Singer, Nikki Comerford, Frank Lasee, Malon W., Kennneth P., Jennifer Marohasy, Peter Ridd, Andrew Bolt, Jo Nova, David Archibald, Malcolm Roberts, Andrew Montford, Josh Gifford, Benny Peiser, Marc Morano, Pierre Gosselin, Ryan Maue, Paul Matthews, Tom Nelson, Chris Martz, Mike Smith, Marcel Crok, Mike Bastasch, Barry Woods, Richard Drake, Nic Lewis, David Rose, John Coleman (deceased), Joe D’Aleo, Chris Bortz, Mike Jonas, Jimmy Haigh, David Little, Mike Wolcott, Dino Corbin, and Rick Anderson.
I’m sure I’ve missed several people. Apologies.
Last, and most certainly least, is Michael Mann, who has done more to create readers and climate skeptics than anyone I know.
Now, the news:
After a year of mostly being on Hiatus, I’m coming back to regular daily operations in January 2020. There will be an announcement forthcoming related to that and to the larger news that enables me to spend much more time at WUWT than ever before. This will include some plans for expansion, as well as some significant changes about how we operate.
One change will affect our readers, and make for a better reading and commenting experience overall.
One of the biggest problems we’ve had is with trolls that use fake names, fake emails, and fake connections (proxys) to threadbomb. One in particular in Oregon has bragged about it, one in Canada made threats, and I called the police on him.
And, it keeps happening; some people who are narcissistic mann-equins think they are entitled to do it, because they are holier-than-thou defenders of the planet or something. Some of these same people also impersonate other commenters here. We’ve stopped them all (at least we think we have). But, we need better tools to detect and stop this.
So, around the first of the year, WUWT will no longer be an open commenting system, it will require registration to comment. Many, many, websites that allow comments require this, and it has become clear to me, that we need to go that direction too. Doing so will help keep the quality of conversation elevated, and will only require a one-time registration that will take about two minutes to complete. It will stop the trolls, the impersonators, and the drive-bys and give us a tool for enforcing our commenting policy. It will also ease moderation duties. Reading content will still be publicly available as I abhor paywalls.
And there will be other changes, including better search, better commenting tools, and an expanded reference section drawing from the WUWT archives that will be suitable for sharing.
The plan is simple: A rising tide lifts all boats, where the “boats” is climate skepticism worldwide.
Thank you, all of you. My sincerest best wishes.
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And thank you Anthony! You have done World Class!
I’m glad for a registration system. Everything I post currently gets stuck in a 24 hour spam filter, or something, and i have no idea why, never having posted anything to deserve that. So, thanks for the new system in advance!
I don’t mind that. Anthony has done a wonderful job creating this resource. And having been the victim of an impersonator faking my name on posts, I am 100% in favour of a registration system, even if we have to submit photo ids to get enrolled! As bad as getting impersonated was, I also have a bad feeling that I reacted angrily to other people here, when the posts I was reacting to might themselves have been fakes of that other poster. I’ll never know whether those people deserved my irritation.
My only remaining question: Why hasn’t Anthony been given some sort of medal of honour?
Anthony is hereby nominated for that medal! Now let’s figure out what it is.
In Australia I’d say he should get an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia). What’s the equivalent in the US?
24 hrs!? Mine almost w/o exception get posted within an hour. Have no idea why yours would take so long. I do put stars in any words I think might otherwise be scrutinized, like d*niers.
Let me be the first to thank YOU, your “staff” and all the readers and commenters, and I look forward to the future.
We will need more of WUWT (and the like) in the future, as the hysterics will only get louder when they realize how badly they are missing the (scientific) point.
Looking forward to Your increased involvement in your own super-duper website, and really many thanks. Around the world, it is difficult to get anything this magnitude going.
Registration is a good thing. As far as I remember, WUWT used to have registration just a few years ago, before vandals crushed the site.
Since I live on a boat I’m for a rising g tide, registration, sign me up
It is I who must thank you.
for all the excellent information and actual reserarch poisted here, with real-world observations and statictics to back them up, that reflect accurately where our world is, and presents a solid baseline for where we might go, rather than the crazy-wild armwaves and fantasy models without basis in reality being used to scare us into abandoning modern society and all its achievements
Looking forward to 2020!
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your team, and all readers!
It is the world that owes a debt of gratitude to you and to all that have saved and are saving the world from disastrous public policies. Electricity more than anything else is what has improved everybody’s lives. The climate catastrophists seek to make electricity scarce and expensive, effectively. My best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving.
Phil’s comment says everything that I could wish to say better than I could ever say.
I just finished watching you in the video from Mark Stein’s cruise and all I can say is, “Thank you for all that you do for all of us!”
“The climate catastrophists seek to make electricity scarce and expensive” …
while at the same time are forcing almost all new builds in Europe to be heated by electricity, as the currently ubiquitous gas will be disallowed from 2025.
Long live fusion!
Thanks for the best skeptic site eavah !
No probs with registrating, hope it helps to preserve the high standard
Anthony, have a great Turkey Day, Christmas, and New Years, etc, while we all wait for new format and increased attention from yourself. Wattsupwiththat.com is a great meeting point for rational people tired of the fake news and the sky is falling nonsense. Give yourself 5 stars and press on.
An oasis of sanity in an otherwise crazy world, well done!
Thanks a lot for your enduring work, Anthony, I use the site every day. It provides inspiration and a lot of new knowledge. We are so priveledged to have you around.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone
Thank you Anthony for all you have done. You are an asset to this beleaguered world!
Good stuff Anthony
“And there will be other changes, including better search ….”
One quick-fix (especially helpful for visiting journalists and newbies) would be to move the boxes for Archives and Categories up under the Search box at the top. They logically belong together, and they two I mentioned are in effect hidden—and anyway hard to locate, which they shouldn’t be. They don’t displace much space.
Roger Knights
November 28, 2019 at 10:50 am
Thanks to you Anthony for such a great site for all these years…a great source of ammunition and sanity in this strange world…a lot of work, especially with so much going on in your life in recent years but very much appreciated by us all. We would be lost without it.
Just a thought if you’re revamping the resources…a reference page on sea level would be most useful I think…links to PSMSL, SONEL, notes on GIA procedures/scams, graphs, Willie Soon videos, etc. perhaps as a starting point. Easy for me to suggest as I don’t have to do any of the work setting it up and maintaining it but it would be a useful addition I think.
The search box is very important for me too…could it perhaps display results with newest posts at the top.
Special thanks also to CTM and also Dave Middleton who has contributed such a wealth of information and posts especially in recent times.
I’ve been following up WUWT almost daily for the last 10+ years. Never regretted visiting the site even one day. Thanks Anthony for being.
I think that’s a great idea. It’ll be more efficient to comment if I’m logged in, vs entering my name and email address every time.
Looking forward to the changes, certainly have no problem with having to register. Happy thanksgiving to all.
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
Great job Anthony, Charles and all.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.
Best, Allan
Good idea Anthony, regarding registration – to weed out the more toxic trolls.
To be perfectly clear, I post under the name Allan MacRae, which may or may not be my real name.
🙂
“Good idea Anthony, regarding registration – to weed out the more toxic trolls.”
Don’t know about that, Allan, but it will certainly be welcomed by Google and all the other spooks in the world.
Got to love KEEPING the quality of conversation elevated though, LOL.
“because climate change yadayada”.
Not sure what a TOXIC TROLL is (are there good trolls?), nor a fake email. But neither can I fathom minds so dull they can’t think of an honest reason for using a pseudonym.
Happy Trails, you-all.
I am thankful that you and WUWT are here to give a voice to those of us who think for a living. All of us who visit the site regularly see that you and your team are working hard to remain true to the guiding principles of science and expressive liberty. May the new year bring more opportunities to all of WUWT staff, and readers.
Many thanks again,
Richard
(P.S. I will be registering when the opportunity presents itself, that is a great idea.)
Ulp.
After I register, will I have to use my real name to post? That will be a problem for me. You won’t lose me as a reader, however.
I’m so glad I discovered WUWT just a couple of months ago. I wish it would have been sooner!
As a slightly longer-term reader, I have similar concerns.
When people search for my full name I want them to find my LinkedIn profile and my professional reputation. I am not a professional climate sceptic. My Big Oil money has never come.
So long as my name appears just as an initial I will still feel safe to occasionally comment. But not if my full name appears.
Maybe it will be possible to register with an “username”.
I’m with Peter. I’m rather exposed to some particularly nasty SJWs. Two members of my family have been their victim. It was nasty both times.
WUWT is a gift to humanity. Words can’t express my gratitude.
Is this a MeToo moment for me too?
But, yeah, I’d have to think about posting under my real name.
On one hand…I personally don’t care any more what anyone thinks of me or my opinions, as I’ve begun to “Walk Away”, as I believe the saying goes now. As I tell those charities and groups who still want my money and time after they’ve drank the SJW Kool-Aid: “I don’t go where I”m not welcome, and my money and time don’t go where I’m not welcome”.
And I’m certainly welcome here.
However…when I first started posting using my real name back in the 1990s on UseNet, my ex (with whom I was fighting a child-custody battle with) started getting phone calls from some of my “debating” partners.
Ever try to explain what UseNet is to someone who didn’t have a home computer (see: 1990s)?
Now trying doing that to a roomful of lawyers…
Thanks commieBob.
Immediately losing my job would be one outcome of posting my real name. (And there’s probably less than a dozen people in North America that share my surname.)
I was thinking a new email address and a “nom de guerre” might suffice?
Hopefully. I’d hate to miss the opportunity to throw my 2 cents’ worth in once in awhile. In any case, I’m absolutely in awe of what Anthony and contributors have done to make WUWT what it is today. Including me, tens of thousands of people check it every day, and the counter seems to be speeding up. I do everything I can to get the word out. Amazing courage, tenacity, and honesty. WUWT Forever.
You are the original Climate Change Proponent that saw scientific flaws that turned you into a Climate Change Skeptic. Just like in the beginning, we now flock around you in your / our quest to get the science right.
All your suggestions and changes are wise and well considered. Thank you for surviving the last few years. You are the Climate equivalent to Brandon Straka, who finally woke up to the fact that most media are lying to us, and invited us to #walkaway. You are the scientist who migrated from proponent to skeptic, and decided to create your own group under the clever use of your name in your web page.
Thank you for starting this revolution! Wounded Warrior, welcome home to the loving embrace of you fellow climate skeptic sisters and brothers! You are much loved here!
A big ‘thank you’ to yourself and all your contributors, Anthony – an island of sanity amidst all the hysterical and fraudulent nonsense propagated under the banner of supposed dangerous man-made global warming, now rebranded as climate change’.
It’s not ‘climate change’ that bothers me – it’s the unimaginably colossal sums of taxpayer’s money that’s being wasted – money that would be better spent on the things essential to any civilised society – medical care and research, social care, policing , community projects and much more.
The greatest pseudo-scientific con-trick in history – and the politicians and media have fallen for it through their own ineptitude and laziness in checking the claims of the second-rate scientists behind it all for
themselves.
I often wonder what’s really going on – for example, a 16-year old schoolgirl gets to preach to the United Nations assembly – how was this made possible?
Do you mean one with a medal for truancy?