It seems no matter where you look, “hockey stick” shapes pop out of data related to climate. Today, the most extraordinary day in climate science seen in quite some time, was no exception.
And, the day is not over. But honestly I’m too tired to continue. Thus I’m going to present the dataset gleaned today in raw form, but without the final endpoint. There’s no smoothing nor splicing of dissimilar datasets, but granted it is not a complete dataset. I’ll have complete data tomorrow.
Readers will recognize that even though the endpoint has not been established, the conclusion from the graph is clear. We are living in times of extraordinary data, never before seen. It’s accelerating, and worse than we thought.
UPDATE: the final number at midnight Nov 20th, 2009 was 187,988 hits.
Sometimes, there is irony.
In other news, WUWT’s post on the CRU data hack was the number one post on WordPress today, beating out CNN, People magazine, and other well known media outlet posts.
I wish to offer my sincerest thanks to the WUWT moderation team. Thanks also to readers who spread the word and participated in the largest ever thread.
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HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES!!!!
“We are living in times of extraordinary data, never before seen. It’s accelerating, and worse than we thought.”
I think the word you are looking for is “unprecedented”
Good to see what you look like Anthony!!! Very well done for creating and managing an outstanding site of great interest to many thousands of people.
A hockey stick that we can all be proud of.
Thanks for all your hard work. It’s certainly been fascinating to watch.
“. . . the largest ever thread.”
Nearly 1,200 comments and 180,000 hits in one day (and it was the 4th post of that day). At the risk of stating the obvious, I’d say you struck a nerve. (I liked the commenter that said they had run out of popcorn. A colleague was also riveted to the thread and emailed to say, “Who would have thought that a scandal would bring this house of cards down? Not bad science, not bad policy but good old fashionsed bad behaviour.”
Congratulations Anthony. This is a breakthrough for you to a new level of exposure. It proves that truth will out.
Congrats on hitting # 1 on WordPress! Hopefully as this thing unfolds you, AirVent, and Climate Audit will get some well-deserved recognition in the mainstream press. That is, if the mainstream press even bothers to cover it!
Very well done for everyone involved in bringing this to WUWT. I, as I am sure many others are too, spreading the word.
Still no MSM coverage here in Australia, just more alarming talk of high temperatures and storms here in Sydney, and flooding in the UK (Worst in 1000 years apparently).
Congratulations.
It is because WUWT provides rapid and timely topical climate news stories that point to good science or to flaws in assumptions – what we want to see – no self satisfied “so there it is bean brain” talking down to viewers. A good set of well informed commentators that can take the story further. Why be surprised ?.
woo hoo! this is so fascinating and i do wonder where it will end! thanks for all you do Anthony….
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
A most extraordinary Friday.
Great job by the mods.
Now that’s a hockey stick I can believe in. I’ll be monitoring Quantcast & Alexa to see how these figures show up. Earlier today, Quantcast had figures up through the 19th. And if RC’s been as civil as some earlier comments seem to indicate, they’ll probably have quite an uptick in their numbers as well.
Well done Anthony. That’s a hockey stick that I do like to see.
Dominic
Well, it took me 30 sec see what the data actually is. Irony just doesn’t work for me in Climate Science.
A day that has confirmed the suspicions of many inquiring minds…
A day that has opened many peoples’ eyes…
A day that should stop unfounded taxes and regulations…
A day that should help make the world a better place…
A truly momentous 24 hours…
Thank you Anthony. Thank you Moderators. Thank you Contributors.
Without you none of this would have been possible! Amazing.
Fantastic!
Goal!
The emails are on wikileaks.org now:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_emails,_data,_models,_1996-2009
Is global warming a smokescreen for the real fascist NWO agenda of controlling the world’s flow of information? After all, Al Gore is a senior advisor to Google…
Forgot to include links to Quantcast & Alexa; here they are:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com+realclimate.org+climatecrisis.net+climateprogress.org
http://www.quantcast.com/profile/traffic-compare?domain0=realclimate.org&domain1=climateprogress.org&domain2=wattsupwiththat.com&domain3=climatecrisis.net&domain4=
An amazing day. An amazing blog. Sanity’s extraordinary good fortune. And deepest thanks to (probably) the insider who was not going to sit still for any more bad behavior on the part of criminals masquerading as climate scientists. By the way, does anyone want to call him/herself a “climate scientist” anymore?
Now, what’s next? How about scientists taking back all their professional societies — deep-six those board members who voted for AGW or “global warming” or climate change”, demonized CO2, and supported the IPCC and Copenhagen without a vote of the membership. Everyone should be “purged” and new bylaws written and approved by the memberships to prevent a similar conspiracy from happening again. Almost one of the biggest frauds in history. How many billions have they squandered so far?
In the end, it is the science that wins.
An amazing day. An amazing blog. Sanity’s extraordinary good fortune. Congratulations, Anthony and moderators. Whew! What a job.
And deepest thanks to (probably) the insider who was not going to sit still another minute for more bad behavior on the part of criminals masquerading as climate scientists. By the way, does anyone want to call him/herself a “climate scientist” anymore?
Now, what’s next? How about scientists taking back all their professional societies — deep-six those board members who voted for AGW or “global warming” or climate change”, demonized CO2, and supported the IPCC and Copenhagen without a vote of the membership. Everyone should be “purged” and new bylaws written and approved by the memberships to prevent a similar conspiracy from happening again. Almost one of the biggest frauds in history. How many billions have they squandered so far?
Fine work, as always, Mr Watts.
Why, I wonder, did this theme generate so many hits? Could it be that many were waiting to find something that appeared to confirm their suspicions?
I am sure there is one thing lying behind all the opinion polls that tell us the majority simply don’t accept the AGW scare story, that thing is nothing more than “it just doesn’t smell right”.
One confirmatory reading is now marked on the “stenchometer”. It will take a few more. I am ever hopeful that they will seep out to assault our nasal passages and ever grateful that courageous people like you, Mr Watts, are here to bring them to public attention.
Anthony, please keep up this important work. I’ve no doubt that EAU/CRU will be working flat out right now to be able to explain, by Monday, how we’ve just misunderstood those e-mails.
Nothing yet from the BBC, here in the English District of the new European Empire.