WUWT readers may recall last week that the “Our Climate” iPhone app was released and announced here. It has quickly become a best seller on the iTunes store.
It has also quickly become a target.
John Cook, a generally reasonable Aussie who runs a blog oddly titled “skepticalscience” (odd, since it isn’t skeptical, but pushes the consensus) also has an iPhone app. Knowing that he wouldn’t get enough traffic on his blog to effectively smack down this new informational threat, he turned to the Guardian, and was immediately offered a guest essay there.
The title? Climate change denial? There’s an app for that.
How sad that Cook and the Guardian had to resort to such a cheap shot.
Problem is, that essay appears to have backfired as “Our Climate” continues to grow. Right after that Guardian piece by Cook, downloads surged. So much in fact, Apple itself is even promoting it on the iTunes (installed Mac and PC application) front page now!
Have a look:
I hate it when that happens.
There are more than 230,000 Apps in the App store – Only 40 Apps are featured in this front page category at any time, so this is a singular achievement and opportunity for the truly skeptical side of the story to be heard.
Get the app for yourself: http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8
Don’t have an iPhone? Tell a friend who does.
And for the record, I don’t make a dime from this. I have no ownership or revenue sharing in it whatsoever.
As an aside, I wonder if Cook has seen the latest Gallup poll on Global Warming in Australia?
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Where’s the app for the AGW alarmists? Correction. There is none. 🙂
Please give us an adroid app.
Spelling correction: Please give us an android app.
Maybe the Guardian readership was so information-starved that they were eager to find out about the skeptical viewpoint via the app.
My Godness! How much of desperate action(s) are there left…? 😉
Brgds/TJ
Fantastic! just goes to show that no matter what propaganda they spin, the truth will be heard.
The humor shouldn’t be missed that an app that merely displays climate data would be termed an app for “climate change denial” by Cook. LOL.
Anthony, you don’t get a cut of the app sales? Really? I think you should have negotiated for a share. At least some cut of revenue from downloads that originated from your site. You deserve it.
When given handed a choice between seeing for yourself versus taking someone else’s word for it…
especially when loud voices have been crying impending doom and demanding ransom money…
Oh no… I can’t look….NOT.
When will this be extended to other O/S?
Yes,please for an Android app.
I concur with the above, would like to see an app for other cell phones for those of us who have no reason to, but just do not like apple.
Dear Anthony, that’s an amusing hypothesis on causation. Do you actually believe that the title page inclusion was a consequence of John Cook’s diatribe in the Guardian blogs? I actually had the same hypothesis but it looked so crazy that I didn’t write it to Paul, especially because it would imply that I take credit for it – it was me who told John Cook about the Our Climate app and he immediately downloaded it. 😉
REPLY: It just goes to show that thread theory is superior to string theory. 😉 – Anthony
from that gallup poll link-
” The accusation that CRU was manipulating the data to inflate the case for human-caused climate change has since been refuted”
and that describes the gallup poll.
in a way it is good that they continue down this path of attempting to manipulate the course of information, because it creates a very strong reaction with people who ordinarily would not care. most people would be aware of the cru issue, and those that did not care about it that much, but now are told that what they did in fact read was in fact ‘nothing to see here’ will definitely see a problem with the so called authoritative view. a whitewash will, in the end, just create more interest in the subject meaning more exposure for sites such as this.
I’d also like to add a request for an android version. It would be handy, to say the least. 🙂
Anthony
I know you like us to play nice. But John Cook is an *rse and his site is a crock. Did either he or The Grauniad approach you for your two penn’orth?
I thought not.
But there are some really good Australian sites (as you certainly know). One that never seems to get a plug is John Ray’s http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
Whilst I don’t go there as often as I did (not enough hours in the day) he always has something of interest and at least his site does what is says on the tin.
Skeptical Science? Hooey.
I see I even get a mention in the comments section of the Guardian article…labeled as a pseudo-Scientist. While not proclaiming to be a scientist I am sure Leif will be happy. 🙂
Anthony;
I know that you are extremely busy and I greatly appreciate WUWT. Might it be possible to have the “Our Climate” people program your “Widget”. As I said before, I would happily pay $10.00 for it, especially if you got a cut.
I don’t trust their poll numbers either.
It’s a lot easier to jiggle poll numbers, than jiggle temp numbers, and we all know how easily they can do that last one.
My family is not the brightest bulbs either, and not a one of them believe any of this garbage. Don’t know any friends or other people that do either.
And them Gallup comes out with some front loaded poll, that doesn’t even give people the “BS” option.
Maybe there really is no such thing as bad publicity.
This is reminiscent of the Guardian’s Clark County Project, another scheme that backfired, to general merriment:
http://www.slate.com/id/2109217
The Guardian: Wile E. Coyote of the news business.
Thus proving there’s no such thing as bad publicity ;). Anyway, congratulations on the app’s success, and I would like to add my vote for an Android.
DOH! “an Android version“.
Sorry, my tea system is still a bit low…
Astonishing.
“that sceptics focus on small pieces of the puzzle while neglecting the full body of evidence.”
When we hear statements like “the warmest year on record,” the record upon which the statement is based is only the surface record going back to 1880. They leave out the DMI high Arctic mean temps, or the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, etc.
The writer wrote:
“10 measurable planet-wide features used to gauge global temperature changes.”
Funny thing is, not all those topics are showing the kind of record warming they talk about.
And when he ventures into the realm of “many peer-reviewed studies into past climate change,” he predictably omits the big one — the Vostock Ice Core which showed that warming predates CO2 rise by 600-800 years.
Simply astonishing.
Snowlover123 says:
John Cook, author of that article, has an iPhone app based on his skeptical science website in support of AGW (which is free by the way).
How do get the Our Climate app without an iPhone?