I used to visit the RC site fairly frequently back in 2006. It was uncomfortable to witness the unsettling psych of the AGW ilk.
Then, one foolish day, RC decided to post something which tried to show that the sun played no significant part in the earth’s temperature variables overtime. Doing so they crossed an invisible threshold that separated them from being a site of supposed scientific debate to one of unbalanced and clearly irrational cult like worship of AGW theory.
Anthony, the numbers show opinions are being swayed on the basis of logic and reason, a pleasant affirmation that people are able to differentiate between illusion and reality, and that they take their own initiative to study the subject matter to draw their own conclusions. What is most pleasing to me is the distinction of us being the denialists has in fact turned the other way. The AGW cultists are clearly the ones in denial!
Praise you and others who have made the web sites that took the bold steps away from what we were being told and demanded of to believe.
retired engineer
June 7, 2008 1:30 pm
Careful there. Spread too much truth and Congress will reimpose the Unfairness Doctrine to keep al-Gore from crying. His tears might evaporate and increase global cooling. Can’t have any more of that.
Slightly more seriously, Well Done. The truth shall set ye free.
Steamboat Jack
June 7, 2008 1:46 pm
Anthony,
Re your comment on Irena Sendler.
You have more integrity than Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, or Yasser Arafat, or all three put together.
We who are not blind salute you.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
Leon Brozyna
June 7, 2008 2:24 pm
Once again, congrats are in order. Or, as I noted when you leapt to the top of the WordPress heap, “Congratulations. When you have a good product, it sells. You’ve got just the right mix of science, math, and narrative to make it palatable to the normal layman.”
I just took a quick peek at RC. It’s like walking into a temple and listening in on high priests who will not admit to the possibility of any conclusion other than that which they’ve decided is preordained.
May your hockey stick trump their hocky stick every time.
Flowers4Stalin
June 7, 2008 2:35 pm
Time to get a cherry picker and put Al Gore on it to point out the alarming rise on that hockey stick; it appears that “Watts Up With That?” has reached the tipping point and a point of runaway postings!!!!!
Fred
June 7, 2008 2:45 pm
It is amazing how often Gavin visits his own site.
Must be really burning up his “enter” key.
Hasse@Norway
June 7, 2008 2:45 pm
I’m looking forward to RCs adjustments to those hits.
Nice job, Anthony. You are one of my outlets since the Junk Science blog was taken down. Can you tell us whether the denial of service attacks, etc. track with the increase in webhits. REPLY: I don’t know about DOS, I’m well protected against such things due to my being hosted on WordPress.com. I think JS will be back, just a temporary hiatus for holiday.
Congratulations Anthony!
I can see that our little country of 5 million people has 10.1% of your users. Not bad compared to the UK with some ~60 million people and 12.9% users. I have linked to your site from online newspaper discussion boards over here, so maybe that explains some of it 🙂
Thank you for the excellent blog. I particularly enjoy the good science, and less so the politics.
Henry wrote: “Looks really bad when a single weatherman gets more hits to his blog than a room full of climate scientists…”
Alleged “climate scientist,” Henry. Alleged!
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project http://www.climateclinic.com
You’re welcome, Anthony! 😉
Keep up the great work in exposing The Great Goreacle’s Glow Bull Worming Ponzi Scheme™ for the fraud that it is.
Rico
June 7, 2008 4:57 pm
It looks like talking about energy issues, rather than just climate change science, is paying off, huh?
Beano
June 7, 2008 5:04 pm
It must be the lack of sunspots causing this.
Those who go crazy during a full moon are called lunatics (Lune = moon)
What is the corresponding term for lack of sunspots? REPLY: Heliotics.
Carolyn
June 7, 2008 5:18 pm
Great news. I’ve emailed and posted links to you on the web. First found your glorious site when the hottest year in history goof was trotted out into the sunshine.
On the cherry picker note above, though isn’t a cherry picker riding on a cherry picker rather redundant?
Hockey sticks forever!
old con struction worker
June 7, 2008 6:06 pm
Congratulation
I would like to thank you as well as your team (friends & family) for bring us the facts about global warming.
John F. Pittman
June 7, 2008 6:31 pm
Thanks for a great site. I always look at yours and SMcI’s Climate Audit, before I offer an estimate of future fuel prices, as part of my job. BTW, I also look at other “recognized” sources. NOT RC…after all, with RC, all I would have to say is that it will cost you more and more, you will be able to afford less and less, and you will owe more and more…so why bother, unless you have paid your Communist Party Dues!!! Hope you continue to answer, especially when you make a mistake. I find it so enlightening when you, or SMcI, Ross, Pielke, or Loehle admit to an error (usually small), and Hockey Team et al, ie Gavin, have such fatal errors. For those who don’t know, the correct conclusion of Wegman and North is that Mann, Gavin (because his models agree), are bad science. Sometimes you may note that Gavin, Mann like to claim that small errors by sceptics are the same as fatal errors by AGW warmists. The correct comparison is that SMcI/Ross was able to reproduce Mann by 99+ according to Wegman, but what was that the 1452??? R”^”2 step 0.02??? A 10,000 times better scientific statement!! Go figure (Gavin)!
papertiger
June 7, 2008 7:04 pm
First. I have dibs man. Way back before 1934 became the hottest year on record, I was driving that alexa dealie by my lonesome.
Ubique
June 7, 2008 7:18 pm
Great results – and all this without the meter being relocated to the car park!
Seems like the Hockey Team needs a newer “new statistical method.”
Demesure
June 8, 2008 12:44 am
Congratulations
Hasse@Norway
June 8, 2008 1:33 am
Anyway. I guess Bigcitylib has some of those hits and that would in his opinion, make the count invalid….
Dodo
June 8, 2008 2:02 am
Fantastic! And to boot: Climate Audit is also closing in on RC, despite McIntyre’s sometimes rather technical style of writing. Wattsupwiththat must be a strong contender in the Science blog of the year contest next winter. Keep it up!
If there’s another repeat of last year’s vote then I’m pretty sure PZ Myers will explode.
Congrats to Anthony. I’m sure that you’re now warming (ho ho) to your task.
Steve Mc is writing in a more technical style because its the details that really interest him.
I can’t help wondering if global warming hysteria has now reached the point that dotcoms achieved by May 2000, when the believers in ever increasing NASDAQ and DOW30 indices started to melt away as the bears/skeptics became ever more numerous. REPLY: Every bubble bursts eventually, no matter whether it is filled with air or CO2.
As a former TV meteorologist, I present what I think will interest a broad audience, and what is in play in the public mindset at the moment. Science as a pure crucible is often hard for a broad audience to grasp. Steve is excellent at the divining the details, I like explaining them so that everyone can understand. It’s what I did for 25 years on TV.
I don’t see any error bars…
I used to visit the RC site fairly frequently back in 2006. It was uncomfortable to witness the unsettling psych of the AGW ilk.
Then, one foolish day, RC decided to post something which tried to show that the sun played no significant part in the earth’s temperature variables overtime. Doing so they crossed an invisible threshold that separated them from being a site of supposed scientific debate to one of unbalanced and clearly irrational cult like worship of AGW theory.
Anthony, the numbers show opinions are being swayed on the basis of logic and reason, a pleasant affirmation that people are able to differentiate between illusion and reality, and that they take their own initiative to study the subject matter to draw their own conclusions. What is most pleasing to me is the distinction of us being the denialists has in fact turned the other way. The AGW cultists are clearly the ones in denial!
Praise you and others who have made the web sites that took the bold steps away from what we were being told and demanded of to believe.
Careful there. Spread too much truth and Congress will reimpose the Unfairness Doctrine to keep al-Gore from crying. His tears might evaporate and increase global cooling. Can’t have any more of that.
Slightly more seriously, Well Done. The truth shall set ye free.
Anthony,
Re your comment on Irena Sendler.
You have more integrity than Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, or Yasser Arafat, or all three put together.
We who are not blind salute you.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
Once again, congrats are in order. Or, as I noted when you leapt to the top of the WordPress heap, “Congratulations. When you have a good product, it sells. You’ve got just the right mix of science, math, and narrative to make it palatable to the normal layman.”
I just took a quick peek at RC. It’s like walking into a temple and listening in on high priests who will not admit to the possibility of any conclusion other than that which they’ve decided is preordained.
May your hockey stick trump their hocky stick every time.
Time to get a cherry picker and put Al Gore on it to point out the alarming rise on that hockey stick; it appears that “Watts Up With That?” has reached the tipping point and a point of runaway postings!!!!!
It is amazing how often Gavin visits his own site.
Must be really burning up his “enter” key.
I’m looking forward to RCs adjustments to those hits.
Nice job, Anthony. You are one of my outlets since the Junk Science blog was taken down. Can you tell us whether the denial of service attacks, etc. track with the increase in webhits.
REPLY: I don’t know about DOS, I’m well protected against such things due to my being hosted on WordPress.com. I think JS will be back, just a temporary hiatus for holiday.
Congratulations Anthony!
I can see that our little country of 5 million people has 10.1% of your users. Not bad compared to the UK with some ~60 million people and 12.9% users. I have linked to your site from online newspaper discussion boards over here, so maybe that explains some of it 🙂
Thank you for the excellent blog. I particularly enjoy the good science, and less so the politics.
Eeehaw!
Henry wrote: “Looks really bad when a single weatherman gets more hits to his blog than a room full of climate scientists…”
Alleged “climate scientist,” Henry. Alleged!
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
You’re welcome, Anthony! 😉
Keep up the great work in exposing The Great Goreacle’s Glow Bull Worming Ponzi Scheme™ for the fraud that it is.
It looks like talking about energy issues, rather than just climate change science, is paying off, huh?
It must be the lack of sunspots causing this.
Those who go crazy during a full moon are called lunatics (Lune = moon)
What is the corresponding term for lack of sunspots?
REPLY: Heliotics.
Great news. I’ve emailed and posted links to you on the web. First found your glorious site when the hottest year in history goof was trotted out into the sunshine.
On the cherry picker note above, though isn’t a cherry picker riding on a cherry picker rather redundant?
Hockey sticks forever!
Congratulation
I would like to thank you as well as your team (friends & family) for bring us the facts about global warming.
Thanks for a great site. I always look at yours and SMcI’s Climate Audit, before I offer an estimate of future fuel prices, as part of my job. BTW, I also look at other “recognized” sources. NOT RC…after all, with RC, all I would have to say is that it will cost you more and more, you will be able to afford less and less, and you will owe more and more…so why bother, unless you have paid your Communist Party Dues!!! Hope you continue to answer, especially when you make a mistake. I find it so enlightening when you, or SMcI, Ross, Pielke, or Loehle admit to an error (usually small), and Hockey Team et al, ie Gavin, have such fatal errors. For those who don’t know, the correct conclusion of Wegman and North is that Mann, Gavin (because his models agree), are bad science. Sometimes you may note that Gavin, Mann like to claim that small errors by sceptics are the same as fatal errors by AGW warmists. The correct comparison is that SMcI/Ross was able to reproduce Mann by 99+ according to Wegman, but what was that the 1452??? R”^”2 step 0.02??? A 10,000 times better scientific statement!! Go figure (Gavin)!
First. I have dibs man. Way back before 1934 became the hottest year on record, I was driving that alexa dealie by my lonesome.
Great results – and all this without the meter being relocated to the car park!
Seems like the Hockey Team needs a newer “new statistical method.”
Congratulations
Anyway. I guess Bigcitylib has some of those hits and that would in his opinion, make the count invalid….
Fantastic! And to boot: Climate Audit is also closing in on RC, despite McIntyre’s sometimes rather technical style of writing. Wattsupwiththat must be a strong contender in the Science blog of the year contest next winter. Keep it up!
If there’s another repeat of last year’s vote then I’m pretty sure PZ Myers will explode.
Congrats to Anthony. I’m sure that you’re now warming (ho ho) to your task.
Steve Mc is writing in a more technical style because its the details that really interest him.
I can’t help wondering if global warming hysteria has now reached the point that dotcoms achieved by May 2000, when the believers in ever increasing NASDAQ and DOW30 indices started to melt away as the bears/skeptics became ever more numerous.
REPLY: Every bubble bursts eventually, no matter whether it is filled with air or CO2.
As a former TV meteorologist, I present what I think will interest a broad audience, and what is in play in the public mindset at the moment. Science as a pure crucible is often hard for a broad audience to grasp. Steve is excellent at the divining the details, I like explaining them so that everyone can understand. It’s what I did for 25 years on TV.