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I have a new paper out with Joe D’Aleo.

First I want to say that without E.M. Smith, aka “Chiefio” and his astounding work with GISS process analysis, this paper would be far less interesting and insightful. We owe him a huge debt of gratitude. I ask WUWT readers to visit his blog “Musings from the Chiefio” and click the widget in the right sidebar that says “buy me a beer”. Trust me when I say he can really use a few hits in the tip jar more than he needs beer.

The report is over 100 pages, so if you are on a slow connection, it may take awhile.

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Not much to say, except “thanks”. The graph tells the story.

Happy New Year to all!

September 25th, 2009 WUWT hit the 20 million mark. I was shocked then, because we’d gone from 10 million just six months prior. I wrote then in Another small milestone for WUWT:

Back on March 15th, 2009,  I was amazed to find that WUWT hit 10 million on the internal WordPress hit counter.

I started the WUWT blog in late November of 2006, and it took me over two years to get there

Now just six months later, I’m amazed again.

Now, just three months later, I’m gobsmacked at hitting 30 million.

WUWT sidebar counter 8AM 12/29/09

Longtime reader and surfacestations volunteer Gary Boden sent me an interesting email a few days ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: James Marusek

And for our readers worldwide: Read the rest of this entry »

American Morning is aired live every weekday morning from 6 to 9 am EST on CNN.

At 7:30 AM EST Friday 12/11 Steve McIntyre will appear at the invitation of John Roberts. Be sure to watch.

If some of you have noticed I’ve been a bit absent from WUWT it is because I’ve been working the last two weeks with Mr. Pete and JohnA to get the climateaudit.org server migrated to a new home.

We wanted off a single server box and onto wordpress.com where they have a distributed cloud computing system, gobs of optical pipe bandwidth, automated backup, automated code updates, and 24/7 support. I wish to personally thank Nick and Lloyd of WordPress VIP support who went above an beyond to manage the huge migration of files that spanned all the way back to 2004. WordPress.com has a great staff and a great product.

When Climategate broke, so did the climateaudit single box server. It was more traffic than any one server could bear. The datapipe to the box at our CoLo was also not sufficient to handle the load. I setup camirror.wordpress.com for Steve to use in the interim while the CA IT team figured out how to make this migration happen. There were lots of hitches. Some are still unresolved but the bulk of it is there.

Today, about 5PM PST 90% of the migration has been completed. Steve McIntyre made this announcement: Read the rest of this entry »

From Tips and Notes to WUWT this comment

Daphne (20:11:58)

The CA server has been overwhelmed. The kinds of load it is getting is difficult for a single server unit to deal with. So “cloud servers” like we have at wordpress.com that are scalable and multihomed work much better for the current situation.

I’m pleased to announce that a mirror on wordpress.com has been setup, and Steve McIntyre is posting new content there.

Steve’s post on receiving an FOI denial letter on November 18th is particularly interesting, because it lends credence to the theory that this may have been a whistle-blower, rather than a hacker. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it is that time of year again. Blog awards. Time to honor your favorites in many categories.

The way it works is that we start with nominations. The blogs that get the most nominations wins a spot in the voting contest. From then on it’s a horse race to see how many blog readers can vote once each day to determine the winner.

Last year, WUWT won “Best Science Blog”. I certainly didn’t expect it. Neither did many others. It made a few people angry. It was funny to watch.

This year, I’m feeling that Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit is more deserving of that award than WUWT for two reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

This contest from DARPA caught my eye because it involves weather balloons, the Internet, and social networking. WUWT is poised to help due to our reach, and because we have lots of keen eyed surfacestations.org volunteers with GPS and cameras.

This prize would be enough money to put a full page ad about climate in a major media outlet. Or, all balloon locators could equally split the winnings with me as facilitator. All you have to do is locate the weather balloons and get the lat/lon to me. The idea of this contest is to use social networking to locate them and win. Once the balloons are launched on December 5th, we have 9 days to find them. I think there’s a good chance WUWT readers can pull this off pretty quickly.

The way to do this (without tipping off competitors) is to post a notice in comments, saying you have a located one, and leave an email address where you can be contacted.

If WUWT readers think this is a good idea, I’ll register the website and we’ll give it a go. I also welcome strategies. My only question (which doesn’t seem to be delineated in the announcement) is how is DARPA going to label real balloons from regular red ones commonly available and used for promotions? I’ve sent them a query.

Here are the details: Read the rest of this entry »

During the summer, numbers held steady. This month saw some significant growth. According to the stats, the hit counter reached 2 million about 10:18AM on the morning of October 31st.

Here’s the graph from the internal WordPress stats system. Raw data, not adjusted, directly measured.

WUWT statistics, visits by month, ending Oct 31st 2009 - click for larger image

As always, I think of this as a joint success. The readers, moderators, and contributors make this site what it is. I couldn’t do it alone.

You all have my sincere thanks for being an active part of this success. Because of that shared success, I always like to share good news.

- Anthony

You won’t want to miss Lord Christopher Monckton (Former advisor to UK Prime Minister Thatcher) on Glenn Beck  – Today Friday, October 30th!

Monckton as many WUWT readers know, is a prominent skeptic and has been making presentations around the USA at college campuses, similar to what Al Gore does. Monckton recently criticized the Copenhagen Treaty and the potential for President Obama to sign it as possibly ceding US sovereignty to the UN on the issue.

Times below:

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I’ve been thinking about this for months, and finally put it together today. This experimental free sidebar widget for blogs uses the UAH temperature data as well as the Mauna Loa CO2 data combined with SWPC solar information.

Above: Demo image – don’t use this one

Read on for how to get the widget for your blog or website. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently there’s a lot of interest in inverted proxy cum hockey stick data. WUWT’s post…

IQ Test: Which of these is not upside down?

…placed second overall on WordPress blogs worldwide, even beating CNN. The only post higher rated with traffic was WordPress own internal announcement post about Twitter (which every blogger sees when they login).

Citation: http://www.webcitation.org/5kckhZ0qi

In WordPress perspective, as they list on their main page: Read the rest of this entry »