Comments on: The Hockey Stick returns as web karma http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 29 May 2012 15:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Chamberlain http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-20022 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:17:53 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-20022 Hi Anthony,

I check the web activity of 4 global warming sites on a weekly basis using Alexa. You, RC, CA, and Tamino (just to make sure that no one is still reading his angst. Generally, they are not!! :-) ) Anyway, it looks like you are back down to your “standard” levels. I’m just curious as to what caused the beginning of June boost. Do you think it was the AGW bill in congress or other.

Hope you started using Alexa after my comment to you a few months ago comparing you vs. RC!!! It’s a great tool.

]]> By: Pierre Gosselin http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-18129 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:11:20 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-18129 OT
Looks like another cycle 23 sunspot…

]]> By: slr7878 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-18126 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:37:02 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-18126 Congratulations, good work

]]> By: Bill in Vigo http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-18060 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:38:13 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-18060 Yay Anthony,
It is so good to see really good work rewarded. For so long now poor method and shaky data collection and archiving have been rewarded. It is so good to see your site come of age.

Keep up the good work and keep the truth before the public.

Thanks so much,

Bill Derryberry

]]> By: henry http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17838 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:54:07 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17838 I wrote: “Looks really bad when a single weatherman gets more hits to his blog than a room full of climate scientists…”

To which McGrats replied “Alleged “climate scientist,” Henry. Alleged!”

Well, they are “self-proclaimed” climate scientists, anyway.

What do they use to get scientists to join?

“Join the Climate Scientists, where a man can become a legend in his own mind.”

Right now, I’d believe a Scientologist before I’d believe a Climate Scientist…

]]> By: sandy winder http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17814 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:26:11 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17814 I wonder if the Flat Earth society gets more hits than the Round earth society.

]]> By: Jones http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17809 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:56:52 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17809 There are parts of the MSM who plug Anthony’s blog. Christopher Booker in the English Daily Telegraph often uses this blog as a credible reference.

]]> By: steven mosher http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17786 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:03:09 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17786 opps there goes another rubber tree plant!

ANThony

]]> By: Alex Cull http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17780 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:24:41 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17780 This also may reflect a shift from the mainstream media to blogs, when looking into subjects where the mainstream media’s coverage reveals an overriding bias and an unwillingness to report anything that goes against that bias. I still look at CNN, BBC etc., but my first ports of call when catching up with everything climate-related, are blogs (such as this excellent example) which make the traditional news media appear about as informative as books written for five-year-olds.

]]> By: John A http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17776 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:52:38 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17776 If there’s another repeat of last year’s vote then I’m pretty sure PZ Myers will explode.

Congrats to Anthony. I’m sure that you’re now warming (ho ho) to your task.

Steve Mc is writing in a more technical style because its the details that really interest him.

I can’t help wondering if global warming hysteria has now reached the point that dotcoms achieved by May 2000, when the believers in ever increasing NASDAQ and DOW30 indices started to melt away as the bears/skeptics became ever more numerous.

REPLY: Every bubble bursts eventually, no matter whether it is filled with air or CO2.

As a former TV meteorologist, I present what I think will interest a broad audience, and what is in play in the public mindset at the moment. Science as a pure crucible is often hard for a broad audience to grasp. Steve is excellent at the divining the details, I like explaining them so that everyone can understand. It’s what I did for 25 years on TV.

]]> By: Dodo http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17765 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:02:44 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17765 Fantastic! And to boot: Climate Audit is also closing in on RC, despite McIntyre’s sometimes rather technical style of writing. Wattsupwiththat must be a strong contender in the Science blog of the year contest next winter. Keep it up!

]]> By: Hasse@Norway http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17760 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:33:21 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17760 Anyway. I guess Bigcitylib has some of those hits and that would in his opinion, make the count invalid….

]]> By: Demesure http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17757 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:44:41 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17757 Congratulations

]]> By: caw http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17737 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:45:13 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17737 Seems like the Hockey Team needs a newer “new statistical method.”

]]> By: Ubique http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/07/the-hockey-stick-returns-as-web-karma/#comment-17722 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:18:16 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=1335#comment-17722 Great results – and all this without the meter being relocated to the car park!

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