People are really ticked off about this 10:10 video, and it isn’t abating. The story is making it’s way up the news food chain. Hits are increasing on it. This afternoon, this WUWT story reached #3 on WordPress.
Not too shabby when wordpress.com says this:
The best of 341,031 bloggers, 1,527,765 new posts, 362,603 comments, & 210,061,304 words today on WordPress.com.
But there’s a fun twist in the stats, read on.
I had to laugh though, because even though traffic is soaring through the roof today, I find that I’ve been given a new nickname by a blogger in New Zealand who thinks the vile gore-packed short film of exploding skeptical children is “funny”. He goes on to say in comments:
Wow.
Mr. Gareth Renowden, founder of what is supposed to be the leading site on global warming in New Zealand, “Hot Topic” thinks it’s all about failure to have a “sense of humor”. Perhaps this is what truffle growers turned AGW proponent might think…
…but based on traffic and the sampling of opinions posted, it surely isn’t what the rest of the world thinks.
But, back to the nickname.
Gareth has coined a new one for me. It’s funny. He included it in his update on the pulling of the 10:10 video. Since he couldn’t easily explain away the 10:10 epic video gaffe being pulled, he gets personal:
“microwatts” Heh. Hey, I’ve been called far worse by Romm and Dhogaza. No worries.
For the record, I took no position on the Delingpole statement he cites, and I pointed out that because of the discovery that Delingpole made, which was important, it was a “damned if I do damned if I don’t” situation in reporting it.
Of course, Gareth misses the entire story about Bilderberg and global cooling being discussed because it does not fit into his narrative.
But here’s the really funny part. Until yesterday, when I got a linkback from Hot Topic because of his “unbelievably vile” snark, I had never visited the site.
Today I found out why. For the “leading site on global warming in New Zealand” it’s pretty much off the radar.
Alexa.com provides some valuable insight, here’s Hot Topic’s Worldwide Traffic Rank in New Zealand: (details on Alexa stats here)
And here is WUWT’s Worldwide Traffic Rank in in New Zealand:
Yes, that’s right, by a factor of 7.6, WUWT is reaching more people in New Zealand than the “leading site on global warming in New Zealand”. Perhaps if some of my New Zealand readers can spread the word around a bit, we can break the 1000 mark and make it a factor of 10. Wouldn’t that be fun?
The other number of interest between Hot Topic and WUWT is the global and US overall rankings:
Hot Topic:
WUWT:
Compared:
So please Mr. Renowden, feel free to continue to call me names in lieu of actual content. I like the results of that, and apparently New Zealanders do too.
I’d point out that the same people who seem to be so upset at Dillingpole’s Nuremburg comment seemed to have absolutely no issue when the Warmists said the exact same thing about evil “Deniers” being subjected to the same. In the grand scheme of things, I’m betting the Warmists will be responsible for more deaths and destruction than the skeptics ever will be, as with DDT.
Congrats. Anthony and keep up the great work!
Zing!
Severian says:
October 1, 2010 at 5:18 pm
“I’m betting the Warmists will be responsible for more deaths and destruction than the skeptics ever will be…”
Quite so.
It is vital that the precautionary principle be applied to the “solutions” they propose.
PS Once again congratulations to Mr (Mega) Watts for getting the truth out there.
As a generally liberal, left-leaning, libertarian type, I resent being lumped with all manner of undesirable right-wing types, just because we are both correct, based on the available information, as far as the bankruptcy of CAGW belief and rhetoric is concerned.
Facts remain facts, no matter how hard you pretend.
More like MegaWatts
I wouldn’t call labeling everyone who doesn’t agree with the One World Carbon Agenda a Right Wing Facist spin, I would call it Spun Out.
More bad news for the warmists!
Sea levels in 2010, “the hottest year ever” are… falling at a current rate of 10mm per year.
http://rarereaders.seablogger.com/2010/10/sea-levels-are-falling-current-rate-10mm-per-year/
There is no bad publicity Anthony !!!
keep up the great work !!
Say, is that a leading or lagging relationship in the traffic graph vs WUWT?
Anthony is almost as popular as Glee.
Neither I nor anyone I know here in NZ has ever heard of Hot-topic. Over here, like everywhere else, the leading climate science website is WUWT!
Gareth “the truffle-hunter” is a legend in his own mind. His site is essentially a circle [snip] with heavily moderated comments.
The only reason he “rates” is because the leading warmists in the NZ media consitantly tell him he does.
Not to worry, he has called me far worse because I still am a “denier”
Dellingpole is somewhat correct. At some point, accountability will be required. Difference of opinion is one thing. Being knowingly deceptive and creating or advocating rules and laws, policies and protocols that literally destroy lives and livelihoods…… that’s quite another thing. Nuremberg trials, maybe not, accountability, most definitely. This 10/10 thing simply shows that this nonsense has long since run its course and enough is enough. After the 10/10 debacle, there isn’t much else extreme they can go to without acting upon their fantasies. It is way past the children’s bed time. Let’s put this insanity to rest and get on with issues of import.
Just in case the 10:10 video didn’t make clear what we’re dealing with, get this …
[snip – I’m sorry Dan, turning this thread into a battle between Republicans and Democrats is so far off topic that it merits a snippage ~mod]
I’m sure I’d be called left-wing by anyone who examined my life. But science isn’t a political thing. It is depressing that the rich have tried to make it so.
Bill Clinton was here in Ireland this week saying that green jobs were the way out of a depressed economy (despite early adopters like Spain having their finances going down the drain). Our former president Mary Robinson – the only politician I still had respect for – dropped the D-bomb a few months ago on TV and is now going to set up a Rockefeller-financed “climate justice” operation in Dublin.
The Rockefellers have no interest in the welfare of the poor.
I’d encourage you to devote a page to the big-business funding of the scare.
Actually, if you take µWatts as a reference to your carbon footprint, then you have actually been praised!
Interesting, I don’t remember the Warmists getting all up in arms when James Hansen wrote in the Guardian that, “CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/climatechange.carbonemissions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange
What’s wrong with Skeptics wanting some investigations and trials to help identify and hold to account those responsible for funding and propagating the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Narrative?
I just watched the video and I’m having some trouble understanding what they were trying to do. Their message seems to be “Obey or we’ll kill you.” The joke is… They say “No pressure” and then kill you? Or is the joke that they kill you by pressing a button that makes you explode, in contrast to a more common way of killing you, such as shooting or stabbing?
Perhaps I am missing some fundamental concept of humor or satire, because I cannot discern how the “No Pressure” video would be humorous to anyone other than people that actually want to kill you for disagreeing with or disobeying them. “Jokes” such as this must have been all the rage in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany.
Note: I understand that I have invoked Godwin’s Law of Reductio ad Hitlerum, but I believe it is absolutely justified by the video in question.
[snip – sorry, way over the top, feel free to tone done and resubmit ~mod]
There are now over 2800 comments in the thread for Delingpole’s article. I agree with the concept but it won’t be necessary. Natural cycles and free, angry, motivated citizens are preventing the harm the eco-fascists have sought to inflict for all these years.
Deleted youtube comments on the vile 10:10 video available here
http://climate-catastrophe.blogspot.com/2010/10/yes-warmists-are-catastrophe.html
” I resent being lumped with all manner of undesirable right-wing types”
That is an unfortunate attitude you’ve got there.
Having made a project of it, I have found that the “rightwing” stereotype is badly off.
A complete fiction .
In fact, being a life-long liberal Democrat, I have been dismissed most cruelly by the left and accepted by the right, and so I have had to recalibrate my expectations and paradigms.
I suggest you do the same .
Good work Anthony (and moderators). The more attention the 10/10 article gets, the more chance that the people responsible will be asked to account for their intentions – which seems to be a question that people on both sides of the debate are asking. Name calling by the likes of Gareth simply means they have run out of rational arguments – which applies to everyone no matter where they stand on the issue. As another Canadian on the previous thread said, hate laws have to be thought about and raised with the people that created the video. Intent is important.