Thanks for coming out

I really should do this more often, but probably won't manage it again for another five years, so...

Thank you for reading this blog. There's a long list of regular readers and commenters who have helped make the Island of Doubt a project something approaching a worthy project, including Scott Belyea, Bob Koepp, Lance, dhogaza, Chris Salmon, paulm and Hume's Ghost. Not all of you share the concerns that inform my posts, but you keep coming back. And I appreciate it.

I don't moderate comments here, and for the most part I haven't felt the need because the vast majority of the exchanges remain respectful. I hope that remains the case next year.

I also want to thank the climatologists responsible for realclimate.org, Joe Romm at Climate Progress, William "Stoat" Connelly, Tim "Deltoid" Lambert and Andy "Dot Earth" Revkin for their tireless work, work that often drew my attention to findings of significance that might have otherwise slipped past my radar.

Also on my list are all the publicists who keep sending me books to review. I have tried to find the time to read each one and share my thoughts. For those who might still be waiting, I shall do my best in the 2010 to catch up.

And finally I'd like to thank James Delingpole, a climate change pseudoskeptic writing for the Telegraph whose recent pointer to this blog generated a modest amount of new traffic and readers in the UK, some of whom no doubt discovered to their surprise that what I'd written about James Randi turned out to be the exact opposite of what Delingpole said I'd written, thus further undermining Delingpole's credibility. Two birds with one stone.