2012 Weblog awards – SKEPTIC CLEAN SWEEP

Fine news! Congrats, Jo!!!!

Tallbloke took Best European blog.

Excellent news.
I am sure that if they open the right category Gleick is going absolutely walk one in as well.

ClimateAudit just took Canadian Weblog award.

Let’s turn this into a sweep!

Congrats, Mr Watts!

Congratulations Anthony and crew!!!

That’s Congrats to ALL!

Wow, wow, wow, and wow!!!!!!!!! That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Congrats to Jo, Rog, Steve, and Anthony!

YES!!!

A clean sweep! Sceptical blogs rule the world!
Congratulations to one and all………………..
……and a tip of the hat to the man who invented the Internet. (:-

Congratulations!

Great to see Jo, and Tallbloke recognized.
McIntyre was a shoe-in.
WUWT, makes a statement.

Well I think, I will just go and drink a beer to you Anthony Watts; after all, is not Beer’s Law , a key piece of the theoretical science gone rong, that we discuss openly here. Your efforts, and that of the site survey field volunteers, shows how peanuts budgets can outdo megabucks grants, when the aim is to just get at the facts, where they are found. Good show Anthony, and cheers Mate to Jo Nova, and to you too Tallbloke.

Congratulations to Anthony, Joanne, and the other winners!
And thank you all for your great service to the online community in raising awareness of the sceptics’ point of view of the years.
Great job!
Paul.

Congrats to all.

Congratulations to you all! Sceptics and truth rule the web! There is hope.

Congratulations, Anthony; and thank you once again for doing all you do (and for doing it with class and integrity).

Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre, you deserve your awards. Lots of hard work, excellent judgement and sacrifice of time.
Congratulations.

Wow. Congratulations to Wattsupwiththat, Tallbloke’s talk shop, Climate Audit, and Joanne Nova!

Congratulations to Anthony, JoNova, Steve McIntyre,and Tallbloke. This is a very pleasing occasion to see all of you in the winners circle. I think it also says a lot about the power of the blog.
Truly, these awards are measures of popularity. Your articles are popular because they are truthful, and your comment sections are popular because they are inclusive, and everybody is welcome to comment. The truth is power, and blogs are the most innovative advance in publishing since the Gutenberg Press.
Keep it up, folks. You are driving the debate.

This kind of performance, despite being re-categorized into a much bigger sandbox, says a lot.
Congratulations, Anthony (and everyone else who makes this place so special)!
/dr.bill

Wonderful!
Congrats to each and every one of the winners!

YES! … now THAT’s what I’m talkin bout!
AWESOME!!! … WAY TO GO ALL!! … Most wonderful indeed! … you all deserve it!!!
Congratulations!

Congratulations to the other winners.
Tallbloke is away at the moment, out of radio contact, he is going to have a nice surprise.
Recent events between WUWT and the Talkshop are unfortunate, I watched from behind the scenes. I doubt anyone is bad so much as emotions can run high, things get out of hand. Ultimately and regardless of initial opinions and feelings the real world will speak, even if that takes many years. Isn’t this the real point, we have to discuss and talk, find out, above all the real world is supposed to be fun. As a designer of things people buy it is both scary and rewarding taking the world forwards, seeing the things people do with things you created and never imagined.
So it is with a blog. Little did we know what would come next.
tallbloke.wordpress.com
Tim
(co-moderator at Tallbloke’s)

Congrats to all the Skeptic Blogs that are making a clean sweep tonight!!!!!!!!!
An, oh yes, here is some consolation for Peter Gleick (a regular blogger at Huffington):
Best Weblog About Politics: The Huffington Post http://huffingtonpost.com/ !!!!
Sweet! Considering that Peter Gleick, the high-profile scientist, blogs only his political propaganda and absolutely nothing relating to Science!

Congratulations, Anthony, on the Lifetime Achievment Award!!!

You got the Lifetime Achievement 2 min ago!!!!
Nice job!

Lifetime achievement award as well!
Fantastic!

hurrah!

WOOT !
The Weblog Awards ‏ @Bloggies
Lifetime Achievement: Watts Up With That? wattsupwiththat.com

Wonder if Arianna would mind if I accepted on behalf of the Huffington Post.

Congratulations Anthony. Something to be proud of and also to hold up to everyone that you deserve any aide that Heartland, or any other concerned organization, bequeaths to you for your work. You have more than earned that privilege.

Holy Crap!!!!
Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Anthony
Lifetime Achievement – way to go!!

Lifetime Achievement Award!! Congratulations to Anthony and All!
You All Really deserve it…

What everybody else said times three. Congrats!

WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations Anthony, Jo, Tallbloke, Steve, Mods, and Rockers 🙂
What a pity John Daly didn’t live to see this! Let’s make a toast to you all. Iechyd da!

Well, you, Jo, Roger, and Steve worked hard, stuck with it, and have now deservedly won. Congratulations!!! Congratulations also to the mods for all they do.

Those were easy selections in each category, so it’s no surprise to me.
All richly deserve their day/year in the spotlight.
Please ignore the wailing in the AGW camp their pain will subside when the truth finally dawns on them.

a reminder the fight is far from over – a BIPARTISAN effort being assisted by WaPo:
26 Feb: Washington Post Blog: Ezra Klein: Henry Waxman’s plan to cut the deficit and stop global warming — at the same time
On Friday, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) joined former Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) to publish an op-ed arguing that we could address our most pressing fiscal and environmental problems in one fell swoop by placing a price on carbon. “The United States could raise $200 billion or more over 10 years and trillions of dollars by 2050 while cutting carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050,” they wrote. I spoke with Waxman about the idea on Friday. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows…
EK: What always worries me about climate change is that I think it is, in an important way, dissimilar from budget issues. If the deficit goes up and up and up, and interest rates begin to rise, we can make different choices an the debt can still be brought down. It’s harder, maybe, but not fundamentally different. With carbon, it goes up and up and up and then we hit a point of no return, where we can’t get that carbon back out of the atmosphere.
HW: I think we have to look at the fact that neither of these problems can be solved overnight. But if we could put in place a price on carbon and then use the sales of carbon allowances to raise revenues we could raise money and cut emissions at the same time, and we can have a transition that will be as orderly as possible. If we leave both to become much more severe then the answers will be more radical and painful.
EK: But is combining them the easiest way politically? Because from where I sit, the key change in the global warming conversation is that it’s become a cultural issue rather than a scientific one. So doesn’t this layer a culture war on top of an already difficult set of economic choices?
HW: I am amazed that the question of science and the clear consensus of opinion that we are experiencing global warming and it is caused to a great extent by people is thought of as controversial. We do have people who are science deniers and, in the House of Representatives, we’ve had party-line votes where the Republicans have voted to deny science. But I know a lot of those same Republicans know this is a problem that has to be dealt with. This last year was the highest on record. We’re seeing more bizarre climate episodes than we’ve seen before. It’s now February and the daffodils are growing. All these are signs that something is happening. We can’t deny the evidence…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/henry-waxmans-plan-to-cut-the-deficit-and-stop-global-warming–at-the-same-time/2011/08/25/gIQAV4z0bR_blog.html

My comment fave:
APACHEWHOKNOWS says:
February 26, 2012 at 7:14 pm
‘From a decendant of people who fought for our land and way of life for 400 years, good start, it is not over yet.
Cheers and good work, stand and fight.’
Let these honors cheer the honored, and sustain us for what lays ahead: Stand and Fight.

Congrats to Anthony and Team WUWT! Congrats to JoNova, Tallbloke and Climate Audit as well!

Wow!
Lifetime Achievement … I didn’t see that one coming. Looking forward to seeing that on the sidebar, along with the other kudos.

Amazing how far we can go with evil Big Oil dollars…

Congratulations are indeed in order for one and all. Keep bringing the truth into the light!

I am stunned, the defenders of the narrative really dropped the ball here. Congrats.

anthony, steve, jo and tall bloke????!!!!
Wow. You guys cleaned up!!
Here I thought I was reading some obscure musings of a pack of nerds.
:’P
I guess you are the “popular” ones now…. the mainstream…
…. All ribbing aside, well done Anthony.

What a great day for the Fantastic Four, with a bonus for the Grey Eminence (or would you prefer Silver Fox!) of bloggers himself.
Interesting to note that all four have an unbesmirched reputation for integrity and seeking the truth, wherever it leads.
The times, they are a changin’. For the better.

Congratulations Anthony and hard working team of contributors and moderators.

Congratulations to all the skeptics who won. Every one well deserved and I’m proud to have voted for every one of you. You guys and gals beat up the warmists every day with truth and integrity. If they’re truly trying to find the missing hotspot they only need to read you. That’s where they could finally find positive feedback.

Congratulations, Anthony, on winning the Lifetime Achievement and the Best Science or Technology Weblog awards.
Great to see Jo Nova and Tallbloke win, too!
The tide toward skeptical science is definitely turning!

Congratulations to all, well deserved awards!

Is that the sound of AGW Control Freaks heads exploding? I think it is…

Enjoy the sunshine 🙂 You deserve it!

Well Done, Anthony, all Moderators. Thanks to all Contributors for making WUWT a place often visited.
Google, take your “Global Warming” page 23+ ranking for WUWT and shove it in the bit bucket. It reflects more on Google’s business practices than anything else.

Congratulations Anthony. With all the leftists in Chico doing all they can to make our town a joke, it’s good to know you are out there helping to make us looking good by countering their junk science with the truth.
Again congratulations on winning the Webby.

Come to think of it, I have no idea about who won what at the Oscars. No interest.
These WebLog awards, I personally care about.
How many other people here have the same perspective?

Congratulations Anthony … and to all other winners like Steve. Well deserved.
Was surprised that The Suzuki Foundation did not make a showing for Best Religion or Spirituality Weblog. He probably was disallowed because of his fraudulent Christmas ad campaign. ☺
Clive

Reblogged this on contrary2belief and commented:
We are not alone.

What! No Joe Romm?? I’m shocked I tell you!
Oh wait, his blog falls under the category “hard, acerbic politics”.
There, he wins that. Baghdad Romm!

Considering the competition this really is a great thing for WattsUpWithThat.
And more people will now know about the “skeptic” sources!!
🙂

remember what we are still up against:
26 Feb: Guardian: Climate change will shake the EarthA changing climate isn’t just about floods, droughts and heatwaves. It brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic
by Bill McGuire
(Bill McGuire is professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London. Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes is published by Oxford University Press.
Hear him on the Science Weekly podcast at guardian.co.uk/scienceweekly)
The signs are that this is already happening. In the detached US state of Alaska, where climate change has propelled temperatures upwards by more than 3C in the last half century, the glaciers are melting at a staggering rate, some losing up to 1km in thickness in the last 100 years…
So what – geologically speaking – can we look forward to if we continue to pump out greenhouse gases at the current hell-for-leather rate? With resulting global average temperatures likely to be several degrees higher by this century’s end, we could almost certainly say an eventual goodbye to the Greenland ice sheet, and probably that covering West Antarctica too, committing us – ultimately – to a 10-metre or more hike in sea levels…
Across the world, as sea levels climb remorselessly, the load-related bending of the crust around the margins of the ocean basins might – in time – act to sufficiently “unclamp” coastal faults such as California’s San Andreas, allowing them to move more easily…
Unless there is a dramatic and completely unexpected turnaround in the way in which the human race manages itself and the planet, then long-term prospects for our civilisation look increasingly grim. At a time when an additional 220,000 people are lining up at the global soup kitchen each and every night; when energy, water and food resources are coming under ever-growing pressure, and when the debilitating effects of anthropogenic climate change are insinuating themselves increasingly into every nook and cranny of our world and our lives, the last thing we need is for the dozing subterranean giant to awaken.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/why-climate-change-shake-earth?newsfeed=true

REPLY: I have a story coming online on this in about 4 hours – Anthony

Nick says:
February 26, 2012 at 5:18 pm
“Intelligent, Educated, Georgous and now a Prize Winner and Australian. How can it get any better than that? 😉”
_______________________
Is she single and owns a bar?

I think that what sets this site appart from other climate related sites is the Reference Pages.
There is no comentary on the Reference Pages, the data is there for all to see.
The sources are clear, the data is clear.
No amount of spin, verbage, modeling, authority, argument or alarmisum can change the data.
The data is what it is and if you disagree with it then you are wrong, simple.
Congratulation Anthony and tem, well done, well deserved.

pat said @ February 26, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Quoting The Grauniad:

Unless there is a dramatic and completely unexpected turnaround in the way in which the human race manages itself and the planet, then long-term prospects for our civilisation look increasingly grim.

Which is true. So why don’t they stop spending our taxes on stupid bloody bird mincers, chopping down orangutan habitat for biodiesel and converting food into ethanol. Oh wait, the Git likes ethanol and grapes are food. But I refuse to stick the bloody stuff in Mrs Git’s car!

Congratulations, Anthony, and congrats JoAnne Nova, Steven McIntyre and Rog Tallbloke!
This is better than the Oscars :-))
Sceptics’ sites weeping the awards board on three continents shows clearly that people are hungry for clear scientific debates, for debates without ideology and group think, for debates proceeding with honesty and without personal attacks.
This shows that people hunger for the truth, and have had enough of being taken for granted by the IPCC establishment with their accretions of university and NGO groupthink.
So congrats also …. to all of us!

Congratulations, all. Well deserved.

Well done Anthony. Well deserved. Twice.

Meryl Streep ain’t got nothing on you ah Anthony?
3 Oscars, pah try the bloogies there acutally voted for by the public.

Congratulations to Anthony and The Team (no, not the one in the CRU 😉
FD

Congratulations Anthony, a well deserved recognition.

Dear Mr Watts,
Question: if you win the Best Science Award three times, do you get to keep it?
FD

CONGRATULATIONS, Anthony. Well deserved. I spread the word wide and far to all my skeptical friends and family. Kept on all their cases until they voted.

You done good, AW,
and all the other winning skeptic sites.

Superb work – well done indeed.

Well done Anthony, Jo (Come on Aussie, Come on!!!) Roger and Steven. I am stunned… and Jubilant! Well deserved everyone.

congrats to everyone !!!!!
I was one of the chosen nominees this year!!!! no idea why
But I knew who I wanted

Wow, the Warmists will have a meltdown…
Your fans here (and the other sites) know why you won – congratulations!

A hearty congratulations to Anthony and his team of mods. Much deserved.
Congratulations also to the commentors (from all sides) who help make this site what it is, a great experience, a wonderful place to learn.
Proud to be a fellow sceptic.

Congratulations Anthony on your award! Of course all the warmists ‘know’ that you have only been able to do it with extensive funding from the oil, gas, nuclear and baby seal clubbing industries 😉

Now if you were all just race horses I would have made some good loot to put back into the tip jars!
I would love to have voted a lifetime award for John Daly who carefully wove many threads together into simple logical well thought-out website and blog. Before we feel sympathy for Phil Jones and what card history shall deal him, we should remember the efforts of this man whose death Jones and the Team felt may have been a reason for their celebration!

Congratulations Anthony, your excellent work for climate science is widely recognised!

More power to your elbow!

Congratulations, Anthony and mods, well deserved!

Congrats to all!

Magnificent! Congrats to Anthony and all!

Good lord, you people don’t half love a consensus when it suits you….

Great results tonight, 4 out of 4.
Now, we just have to await the Team’s adjustments to this raw data to arrive at the real results 😉
Anthony – You are doing this, and subsequent generations a outstanding service. We owe you a debt of gratitude. Thank you.

Wow!

Congrats to Anthony Watts.
The Main Stream Media(MSM) are quietly and unknown to them being replaced by the Main Stream Internet(MSI).
WUWT is the leading MSI science site on the net. Hopefully, in years to come Anthony will get the opportunity to move deeper into the other fields of science.

Heartfelt congratulations to Anthony, Steve McIntyre, Tallbloke, and JoNova. The awards were richly deserved for all your tireless work. Thanks too to the moderators whose light touch in this “warzone”, is what makes WUWT the wonderful place that it is.
What is really gratifying is to see that truth and fairness on its own can trump the billions of dollars, the lies, the deceit, and in some cases, the outright fraud of the misanthropes. In the years to come, there will be morality tales written about this.

Fantastic, guys, well done and very well deserved.

Come the hour, come the blogs!
Terrific news. Top honours evenly distributed (nearly) to:
Australia, Britain, Canada and the USA**2
Since the sinisterly imaginative partition of the Anglosphere invented the AGW ruse from scratch (by spontaneous creation and inflation of random fluctuations in an obscure region of the intellectual vacuum) it’s fitting that the sceptically sane partition of the Anglosphere should be responsible for its total destruction. Please keep up the good work!
Now here’s a thought:
Just as the Nobel prize has the Ignoble prize at the opposite end of the spectrum, I wonder if there should be a counterpart to the prestigious Weblog awards? And what would the judging criteria be? Surely there’d be candidates aplenty …

Let me just say thanks, Anthony. I’ve been here from the beginning, and your site has been an invaluable resource for me. Here’s to another lifetime of achievement :^)
Frank K.

Congratulations to the winners. Next year maybe I’ll throw my hat in the ring and see if perhaps I can give Tallbloke a run :).