After a year of mostly being on hiatus, I’m coming back to regular daily operations. As previously mentioned, 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.
The biggest change is a new initiative with new partners, which I hope to be able to announce any day now. Just waiting on paperwork.
One change will affect our readers, and make for a better reading and commenting experience overall, and it will be starting this coming week.
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.
This coming week, WUWT will no longer be an open commenting system, it will require registration to comment. I’ll give 24 hours notice, and it will likely be next Monday. 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 I know you do too.
And there will be other changes, including better search, better commenting tools, and an expanded reference section drawing from the WUWT archives setup as a separate but complimentary website.
The new initiative with new partners will give us a big boost, plus help other climate skeptic websites too. The separate climate reference website in the works, so you don’t have to wade through the over 20,000 articles here.
The plan is simple: A rising tide lifts all boats, where the “boats” is climate skepticism worldwide. To that end, invite a friend to visit WUWT, and learn.
Now, a request.
During the last year, Charles Rotter aka Charles the Moderator, has been mostly keeping WUWT running with the help of guest authors, such as Eric Worrall, David Archibald, Bob Tisdale, Willis Eschenbach, David Middleton, Kip Hansen, and others. Charles did this so that I could get my own life and business back together, after several years of loss followed by the CampFire and all the mess that entailed.
I’d like to reward him, since he’s done this without any remuneration at all (despite persistent false claims we have “big oil” backing) and so I’d like to ask our readers to consider making a donation to WUWT, on his behalf for his year of solid work.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Thank you, all of you. My sincerest best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year!
-Anthony
I welcome these changes. WUWT is one of several influential sceptical sites but is almost certainly the one with the greatest reach. As a visitor since the very early days, I have had the privilege to have an awareness of the human side of Anthony and Charles and this really has become a family of like minded people with regard and respect for each other.
As the UK faces relentless propaganda from the BBC, mounting pressure from ER and an exploited schoolgirl, and threats from officials such as the Governor of the Bank of England, then we need all the firepower we can get. WUWT provides much of the evidence with which to respond and this is key. We need as much support as we can get.
Anthony allows both points of view. He clearly dislikes bull from either side. The site has respect and integrity which has been earned over many years. Keep it up.
Looking forward to that. In the meantime, now that you are back full time, I assume you also are back in Paradise. How is the situation there after last year’s forest fires?
Happy New Year !
Thanks guys for all your efforts.
One hundred USD donated now.
To comment I use ‘vukcevic’ here and ‘Vuk’ elsewhere but with the same email, when I come here afterwards without clearing my browser (Opera), which I sometime forget to do (or shutting down the pc) I get ‘logged’ in automatically with ‘Vuk’. Apparently it was OK since I’m reasonably well known here and AFAIK I had not been ticked off for it, I offer my apology anyway.
Well done to Charles the Moderator for all the hard work; there is $50 for you…
FD
Hi Anthony, thanks for the work and we look forward to hearing from you. A suggestion if I may. You might recall the bushfires of February 2009, the Russian Government offered our (Labor) Australian government, two large firefighting aircraft, five times the maximum water carrying capacity of the US ”Elvis” skycrane helicopters. But this offer from the highest level of Russian Government was rejected, according to the Russian embassy in Canberra in 2009. It seems that in this case, there is no difference between Labor and Liberal, both could do more in assisting firefighting. Instead, it is political, both sides of politics constantly demonize Russia, or China, or Iran or Syria. Imagine these large aircraft today, flying over the fires currently burning, and those that are likely in these next weeks. These giant Ilyushin-76 jets can drop in a single pass 42,000 litres of water or retardant on a fire – almost five times the maximum capacity of the ”Elvis” skycrane helicopters. The world’s biggest and most advanced waterbombers, the IL-76 waterbombers, were “developed to fight wildfires in remote areas of Russia such as Siberia, but have been used to fight major fires in Greece, Portugal and Yugoslavia.”
Quote: Two large water tanks are filled in 10 to 12 minutes and can be dumped in a single burst, producing a downpour akin to heavy rain over an area 550 metres long by 100 metres wide. If the tanks are emptied sequentially, the saturated area extends to 900 metres by 65 metres.
In a letter submitted to the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission last week, the Russian ambassador to Australia, Alexander Blokhin, said experts from the Russian Ministry of Emergencies estimated that two such aircraft ”would have been enough to cope with the firefighting task near Melbourne in February 2009”.
He also stated that a smaller, Russian-built firefighting jet, the amphibian Beriev BE-200, which can scoop 9000 litres of water from the sea – even with waves of up to 1.5 metres running – could have stopped the East Kilmore fire ”in one or two hours if the firefighting operation started in due time”.
The East Kilmore fire eventually consumed Kinglake.
The Russian ambassador’s comments were contained in a submission to the royal commission from a member of the Australian-Russia Business Council, Luke Fraser, who submitted that the commission and Australian firefighting authorities should consider more advanced firefighting technologies. End quote.
David, it’s amazing to me….places in Australia, California, etc…have these massive wild fires every year…and yet, every year they act like they are surprised to get them
Just the damage they could prevent alone would pay for an entire fleet of water bombers….
and none of them have any!
Unfortunately, known firebugs are still free to roam the bush and start fires. This year in New South Wales at least, over 80% of the fires were started by arsonists. IIRC, in Western Australia in 2009, known arsonists were “warned”. That’s not a good enough IMO.
Patrick, between 2001 – 2007 the Australian Productivity Commission analysis of bush fires Australia wide, concluded that we had an average of 54,000 bushfires per year at that time. These fires were suspicious 37%, accidental 35% and deliberate 13%. That is staggering, and yes though we do in fact have our own water bombing craft, and have received loan craft from other countries we obviously need to invest in some of the bigger ones as well. Remembering too that these fires cover vast areas, some with little in the way of roads, or large bodies of water, making them more difficult to contain. That the greens and leftists reduced backburning in the name of the environment is criminal.
France has a fleet of 12 Canada ir CL415 water bombers which are used several times every year. Most fires are put out pretty quickly. I haven’t seen any evidence of this type of aircraft operating in Australia on the footage I have seen, are there any bei g used?
Having lived in California for 35 years I too was frustrated by the state’s refusal to acquire a fleet of aerial firefighting platforms. The excuse started out as “the fire season is too short and variable to justify ownership”. So, the state would lease aerial assets principally from Canadian companies for 4 or 5 months at a time. As the length of the fire season grew the state insisted that simply extending the lease terms was enough. The state assiduously fought every attempt to force the acquisition. IIRC when super water/retardant dropping aircraft such as the DC-10 and 747 became available, the state said that they couldn’t be used until the US Forest Service could certify the airworthiness of these planes.
Finally, a few years ago the state started buying some small fixed wing aircraft for fighting wildfires. Not sure how many are in the fleet at this point.
I would be curious to have someone “follow the money” related to the decades long delay in acquiring these essential assets.
David,
Here in the USA Pacific NW there is an outfit which has converted a Boeing 747 into a fire suppression water ‘bomber’. This plane can unload VERY large quantities of fire suppression material very quickly. They have had the usual tiffs with the bureaucracies here in getting approval to fight some of the major fires in California but are now – finally – approved by the US Forest Service. It seems that, since your fire season is offset from ours by 6 months, it would be useful to inquire about the availability of this service, for hire, as soon as practical.
I would like comment rating by votes bought back.
I find it makes reading the comments much more interesting and informative.
If your website views has reduced maybe that is part of the reason.
Good idea to have registration to fight trolls and fakes.
Happy New Year WUWT and all that frequent here. CTM must be on steroids for all the hard work he has been doing the last year. Keep it up at least until Trump is reelected because I think a lot of people that even arrive here by accident will never vote democrat after visiting this site for a few weeks. Donation forthcoming.
In fact, I would be happy to pay good money for a Professional version of WUWT, perhaps a site that offers an introductory accredited course on meteorology and links to other various climate education learning centres. If I had my life to do over again, I think I would have taken a degree course in meteorology or some climate related subject with a focus on meteorology/weather and climate. I have always been fascinated by science in general and meteorology/climate is one of my favourite subjects to read up on. I know I have learnt a lot about a lot of things here, and I think I have improved my writing skills some since being able to contribute any ideas to the mix here. I don’t know how many words I have written here, but it is the most writing by a country mile I have ever done in my life.
Perhaps real scientific papers could be submitted and published by scientists and lay people alike, providing they met some minimum standard at a professional version. I recall the difficulty that Pat Frank had just getting published and I believe it was published here first where we could all take a good kick at the cat. Maybe some kid submits a future paper here that is a game changer for science and the world. Maybe a part of the website that is kid friendly, and meant for kids to learn both sides of the debate on climate related matters is in order just because the war on climate is being waged against the kids, scaring them to death with tall tales of doom. Wouldn’t it be great to see a web site that was a counter to the brain washing going on by the alarmists and using kids like Greta to spread misinformation and panic.
These are just ideas and opinions floating around in my head so just kicking stuff around. A professional version would keep the trolls at bay, since they would be too cheap to enrol in a paid site. Maybe…Truth be told, I think a lot of us here over the years have already learnt a lot from a lot of other people here, and most of it already is very professional. One of the things that I appreciate about this current site, is that it doesn’t really look much different from 10-12 years ago. There is something to say for consistency. So in a way, it will be sad to see changes coming, but then it will also be exciting to see a new and improved WUWT. Keep up the hard work everyone…at the end of the day it is the volume of people who frequent here and contribute with comments to a better understanding of what we are dealing with in climate and other interesting and pertinent affairs. If science is meant to self correcting as its total raison d’être, then I believe this site is doing justice to that principal. Science is never settled and should always be available for debate. This is why current climate science is failing, and why there is such an appetite for sites like WUWT.
TKS Neil,
Your thankful comment narrows the guilty numbers by one. It was annoying, but soon passed, no damage done.
Charles The Moderator was superb and most deserving of what readers here shall hit the tin with.
Geoff S
Anthony, I am fairly new to this site and it has been invaluable to me. I am not a scientist of any kind, in fact I didn’t even finish high school. I still feel like an imposter at times and wonder if maybe I shouldn’t making comments at all. Having said that, I have worked out who many of the ‘scientists’ are and some of them have responded respectfully and even kindly when I’ve had something to say.
I am something of an ‘oxymoron’ (I’ve left myself open there:), in that I am a right of centre artist. My friends were, leftists. I say were, because when I recently tried to have a conversation with them regarding their stance on CCC armed with facts refuting their fantasy, they all turned their backs on me! Seriously, grown adults, some of them teachers, some of them I had known for decades. I needed to talk about this. Whatever the climate is doing, good or bad, extra CO2 from ‘us’ is not causing it! What arrogance! The Great Barrier Reef is alive and well, the oceans are fine and if you build a city on a reclaimed swamp or foreshore then at some point it’s going to sink!
The ‘ordinary people’ who believe all this CAGW rubbish are simply to lazy to do any research on their own! They are happy to hide behind the ‘science is settled’ mantra without even knowing what those words mean. Simple common sense should tell you in many cases that this is all complete nonsense. I swear they all just love being miserable.
What is it with leftists and the whole ‘chicken little’ and ‘let’s worship a sixteen year old girl’ thing. And that’s just the ‘non (fake) scientists’! Their followers are even worse. How can they follow a so called scientist because their opinions align? A scientist without skepticism, is not a scientist. Whatever happened to truth and facts?
I have enormous respect for the people of science and others on this site who have added to my knowledge, and often with humor. I feel that at times, some of the scientists here feel that we ordinary folk are an intrusion. I have nothing but admiration for the years you have studied and researched in your efforts to achieve your goals, but you need the support of us ordinary folk in this fight against this whole CAGW scam. Just as the ‘non scientists’ have the backing of lazy fools, you will have our backing. The difference being that we will be familiar with your names, we will have at least some insight into what you are about and why it makes sense, you won’t just have our backing you’ll have our respect.
Because the MSM and most other forms of media have shut us out, it makes it so much more difficult to get the truth out there. Sky News here in Australia are just about the only network who constantly talk down CAGW. You had a post from a Sky News report about Craig Kelly (Australian MP) recently which went down well. I believe that the Sky Network is in the UK as well, maybe you need to get some positive media attention?
As I said Anthony, this site has been invaluable to me. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish yourself and the WUWT team and families a very Happy New year!
If I am eligible to be I part of WUWT under the new system, I promise to try to be a little less verbose. Sorry moderator 🙂
Your writing and reasoning skills are better than most college graduates. Keep it up and Happy New Year!
Thanks so much for your encouragement Scissor and Happy New Year to you and yours too!
Megs, I’m sure you are welcome here. I do have a science and engineering background, but on this topic I have no hesitation in stating that my knowledge of climate has been almost all gained here through the generous hearts and minds of scientists who comment and post articles. You should have no trouble getting your questions answered on this site.
I did try to get a balanced view by visiting a number of catastrophic global warming sites but asking pointed questions soon gets one banned from most of these sites.
BTW, Anthony has an open invitation to all mainstream pro-CAGW scientists to comment or even submit articles. Very, very few have even commented. Sign up!
Thanks so much Gary. I think I have learned as much as from the comments as from the posts. The links that others post are good to take you outside the site and further validate theories. It always makes me smile when a thread goes from equations to humor, though I have to admit the equations do go over my head, not surprisingly.
I am still learning who people are and retrospectively I think I may have been the subject of amusement from time to time.
I am a total newbie to all this and I’m really enjoying it. I’m not on any form of social media nor have I posted comments prior to WUWT the past few months. I am only recently overcoming my nerves.
I appreciate your encouragement Gary. Happy New Year to you and yours!
Although I’m also not a scientist but someone with a strong science background in medicine and physics, I find myself to be more on the creative side as well as right of center, like you. Personally, when I speak about this subject, I do it one on one to reduce peer backlash for the person I’m speaking with. What I’ve found is that my liberal friends are by far the most tolerant and understanding friends. As long as you completely agree with their worldview. It’s sad to lose friends over something like this, but if I do, it’s on them, not me. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me as I’m open to the fact that I’m often wrong and I need challenges to what I know or what I think I know. Friends who dump you over something like this were probably not really friends to begin with. Move on and find friends who not only challenge you but are also open to being challenged.
Thanks for your response Joz.
The thing that made it easier for me to deal with the loss of important friendships was my recent move to the country. I’d had little contact from them in six months and it coincided with my research into solar power. Our gorgeous little historic goldmine town, population 2,700 is earmarked for 1,700 hectares of solar panels. We already have 87 mw installed on 300 hectares. Installation took around ten months, panels sourced from China, overseas developers, backpackers filled most of the jobs and a handful of people run it. None of the power goes to the town and no one has a say in whether or not the remaining infrastructure goes ahead, it’s likely it will. Incidentally, our town is also soon to be declared fire prone.
I came across WUWT while I was researching solar panels. I was horrified by what I’d learnt across the internet and deeply upset. I needed to share my newfound knowledge with friends, the rejection was painful but I now felt I had nothing to lose. I need to be true to myself and when you are so personally affected it’s not like you can turn a blind eye.
I just hope that I can make a difference in some way, even if it’s to help promote some sort of fight or action against the insane ignorance.
Happy New Year Joe, to you and yours!
Sorry Joz, don’t you hate it when your device wants to think for you!
Try again, Happy New Year Joz, to you and yours!
it would be very useful to try n log the RISE I would expect in local temps due to the dark reflective surfaces on the PV cells
another vic town farmer has had a solar farm setup next to his orchards, and hes worried about that effect on his fruit trees
oh and sth aus Pt augusta solar farm uncompleted just got flogged off to another mob, who are saying they mightnt complete the PA plans but relocate parts elsewehre
I found that damned funny as the solar scam was supposed to save the town after they trashed th power plant.
Well said. I belong in the same category.
Hi Megs,
I am sorted in the same boat as you. I did finish school but not my college studies. I was recruited out. Did some Army stuff that I cannot go into – it involved a lot of math, learned my electronics and electrical engineering from the Army; did a short stint as my platoon’s NBC tech. Passed the Navy Nuclear shool entrance exam; but did not go. I have worked as a Field Engineer on scientific analytic instrumentation for 20+ years, installed lots said equipment at few a NOAA facilities around the country; worked in a couple SEM labs; on-site Engineering support for the nuclear pharmaceutical industry – means I operated and repaired cyclotrons and the buildings in which they lived.
You do not have to have a scientific or engineering degree to be literate in any of those intellectual areas. Historically planet Earth is littered with the Engineering works, robust engineering projects, from our ancient ancestors; long before a single “accredited” institution was conceived. All you have do is read and practice, or have been born with your brain wired that way. Personally I am convinced the the best engineers are not made in the crucible of classroom. They come out of the oven – womb, with their brains wired for that type of thinking.
You obviously went above and beyond Jehill, in regards to taking the opportunity to make the most of what life put in front of you. Sounds like a book in the making.
Anthony wrote: “One in particular in Oregon has bragged about it,”
Can anyone provide a link to that bragging, as I failed to save it at the time and he recently denied using multiple names.
Thanks
JK
Those WUWT followers residing in the UK will be only too well aware that we have the “honour” of hosting COP26 later this year in the Scottish capital. I predict (not difficult) that our esteemed national broadcaster will lead the rest of our msm in promulgating even more widely than usual the beliefs of the church of greencrap, probably starting early in the year.
We deplorables have fewer resources to hand, hopefully Anthony’s reorganisation (especially a reference site) will increase our armoury. It would be a very satisfying outcome if COP26 were to turn out to be an even bigger failure than its predecessors. I’m sure that we will all do our utmost to help bring that about using scientific argument, comedic ridicule and everything in between.
In the face of a well organised establishment we will probably resemble an uncoordinated rabble, but guerrilla warfare has been successful many times in the past. Happy new year, everyone.
…the Scottish capital.
An interesting assertion.
Glaswegians think they come first.
AH, my bad!
Not sure who to apologise to first, Glaswegians or Dunediners.
So, do we get gold-plated plaques to commemorate being in the first wave of people who actually have the guts to sign up [gulp!] to comment on WUWT? Ahhh, I dunno, that might be more commitment than some people can handle. (^_^) And I will still use my REAL name! Woah, living on the edge !
Megs wrote:
“I believe that the Sky Network is in the UK as well, maybe you need to get some positive media attention?”
Hi Megs, unfortunately Sky UK is at the opposite end of the political spectrum to the Oz network. If anything they are ahead of the BBC in promoting the establishment view and have veered to the extreme left on many matters including EU membership and CAGW (or as they now describe it – The Climate Emergency), unfortunately we will get no help from that direction. Our new PM has paid lip service to climate policies, but as he has promoted a few sceptics into his cabinet I hope he will take a step (or several steps) back.
Thanks for the heads up Peter, who’d have thunk it? Do the UK have any networks who promote the stance of WUWT?
Megs
None Megs. But we have lots of individuals, not least Lord Lawson and Lord Ridley, as well as the irrepressible Delingpole who writes for Breitbart. But it’s an uphill struggle as the BBC has all but banned climate sceptics from the airwaves by official pronouncement.
They host lots of alarmists, but if a sceptic is even allowed to air their views as Lord Ridley did the other day on Radio 4, the BBC invoked the right of reply from an alarmist, but no right of reply is allowed from sceptics.
Thankfully, the groundswell of public opinion tells us that 75% of the public want the BBC Licence fee to go and our Prime Minister has made noises of support for that. If that happens the landscape should change in that respect but no one in the UK is holding their breath.
The BBC is, like the National Health Service, a sacred Cow – and riddled with the left and Common Purpose.
Speaking of UK individuals, lets not forget the very knowledgeable and interesting Lord Christopher Monckton
The ABC is in the same league as the BBC. The journalists and the content are nothing short of offensive and there is no right to reply if you are right of centre, that is if anyone right of centre can get their face or opinion on the screen. Australians pay an excess of one billion dollars every year in tax payers money, and they call it ‘your ABC’. The thing is, no one with any brains wants it! It is nothing more than a propaganda machine for left wing views.Good to here you at least have some high profile people speaking up.
Maybe Anthony might consider a conference in Sydney with high profile scientists and your knowledgeable Lords all being promoted globally by Sky News. They have quite a few journalists at Sky who are well versed in ‘skepticism’. I’m sure I’ve seen Andrew Bolt’s name mentioned on this site. I think a conference like that would attract quite a crowd. Just thinking out loud.
Unfortunately not, Megs. The BBC, Sky and Channel 4 have all taken the King’s shilling on CAGW, and ITV (our other terrestrial network) struggle to remain neutral, presumably for fear of losing advertising revenue. We have a couple of newspapers who are still very willing to publish sceptical views, but again the majority of our press fully support the climate catastrophe agenda.
The propaganda is so extensive (starting in our schools) that I am in danger of losing close friends just by talking about the subject. I suppose I have a circle of about twenty close friends, one is neutral on the subject, one other shares my views and all the others see me as some sort of heretic, so I try to avoid discussion. Despite most of them being well educated, at least to degree level and many in science subjects, the brainwashing seems to have been successful, but I continue to chip away whenever I can, especially on the subject of Attenborough who has now achieved messiah status in the UK.
Peter our circumstances regarding the leftist push is similar here in OZ. Schools and Universities are all about the leftist agenda. I’m nervous about the next election when these kids can vote. It’s compulsory here in Australia.
We do however have a strong right leaning Sky Network. I say strong because like ‘this’ site they do aim to present a ‘balanced’ view. Basically, they aim to present the truth. The Daily Telegraph has similar aims, only in print.
In regards to friendships, I discussed this a few comments up in reply to Joz Jonlin. My circumstances were very similar to yours in regards to circle of friends, I say were because I decided to have the conversations, I’ve lost almost all my friends, geographical distance helps, I am not forced to confront them.
What’s with David Attenborough? He is even contradicting his past episodes! I think my husband has watched everything he’s ever put to air. He loves everything about nature and now David has ‘sold out’.
I choose to remain optimistic, world’s end is not imminent, and at least I now know that I’m not on my own entirely.
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
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Thanks for the warning though.
Good to get rid of malicious trolls. Here in Australia, there is one in particular who put malicious stuff up on the page of a certain person he hounds in the middle of the night, then sued the page owner for the “nasty and libelous” comments he himself put up!
Our legal system is too soft on this blatant malice. Why this particular case was not thrown out immediately is beyond belief and why said malicious troll is not in jail for deliberately setting someone up is also beyond belief. Why said troll has not been forced to pay compensation other than just legal fees also beggars belief. Luckily, said troll lost this case and the serial vexatious litigant faces bankruptcy. Just have to hope that this vexatious serial litigant who is at the forefront of crushing freedom of speech in Australia does not get crowd funding to pay for him to continue crushing freedom of speech.
As long as I can retain my High Treason name, I am fine. Mind you, sometimes I do use my real name and my real name has been mentioned in one article, a stunt I intend to better in 2020. The essential thing is that my real identity remains anonymous. Perhaps we can have a CV type system to establish bona fides. Perhaps a points system for assorted activities. Having some of the qualifying activities up on the page will give readers ideas on how to wake others up as well as spurring readers to greater heights of creativity and effectiveness.
A resources section is something that is basically crucial. High quality downloadable key charts such as the Roy Spencer chart of predictions v reality with the certainty bars from the IPCC superimposed and the Vostok ice cores showing CO2 v temperatures with the blatant time axis being reversed. The “proof of hot spot” using a misleading colour scheme is another useful item.
Links to videos so skeptics can choose the most appropriate for a specific target. For example, I hope to make one specifically for an Extinction Rebellion hard core volunteer I had a brief chat with recently that will have a reward for watching the video. Send the 5 words ( a message in itself) embedded verbally in to the video to a gmail account or mobile and I will send you my cure for migraines and cluster headaches. The video will feature such core charts in a video with some humour to it. As 15% of the population get migraines and most people know someone who gets them badly, I can create a sense of obligation to induce this twenty something girl to watch the video and wake up. She will have to watch the video to be able to help friends who get migraines. Waking up a single hard core extinction rebel that obviously has energy ( their hard core brigade spend most Sundays in the city having a love-in) can be invaluable. The video will create a sense of obligation that once woken up, it is your duty to spread the enlightenment , in this case, in to the core of the hard core. The migraine cure video will be redone specifically for the audience of – “only 10 years, 11 months and 29 days before we all die” brigade. Hint- the cure for many migraines and cluster headaches involves a basic knowledge of the perception of pain. I can now wipe out a migraine in 10 seconds and no hangover. It was an epiphany – that moment of enlightenment, similar to what the video is hopefully going to achieve-that moment of clarity when you wake up that you have been deceived.
Done.
Happy New Year Anthony, Charles and all here on WUWT. All the very best for 2020!
I, too, wish to thank Charles the Moderator for his yeoman dedication over the past year(s). He has been diligent, but very even-handed and objective. I look forward to a great New Year for WUWT.
A new beginning, down with the doomsters 🙂
All good. But, knew was coming since I buy CtM (self outed as Charles Rotter) lunch about once a month now that he has abandoned San Fran in favor of South Florida. So, will register.
Charles,
Thanks for the many long hours and hard work. A donation is on the way. Hope you can take some time off and enjoy some calm.
Just an observation. I comment on the Fox News website quite often. That requires a full one time registration. Once I did that and chose a “name” to comment under, that name is used for all subsequent comments. That “name” is auto populated when you log in. If WUWT uses a similar registration system there is no worry about anyone’s real name being published unless you wish to use it.
Indeed. I have so many email addresses and domains, that its seldom I use anything like my real one.
I think as far as the BBC is concerned I am a black female single parent living in Milton Keynes
Might as well tick all the ‘woke’ boxes eh?
You’re just missing “disabled” and “Lesbian/LGBTQWERTY123!@ur momisugly#” to get “woke” bingo.
I have chipped in a peanut. Not nearly enough for the value I have had from WUWT. Sorry it can’t be more.
Wish I could do more. Thanks for all the great work. Happy New Year to the WUWT community!
We (Skeptics) have a friend in the States. #donald j trump
I wish Australia had a skeptic friend like Donald Trump. Maybe he could send a few regular skeptic tweets to our Scott Morrison.
Trump’s busy at the moment beating up Macron. He tweeted a pic of cars burning in Paris and asked him how the Paris accords are doing. Big Don has no time for this nonsense.
I missed that one. Thanks for the early morning laugh! You gotta love ole Trump! 🙂
I bet Trudeau is next. Rule by tweet and mockery, he has no time for environmentalists.
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