Above is the raw, unadjusted numbers from WordPress for Watts Up With That? for the month of June 2008 reflecting the total page views.
I routinely find WUWT in the Top 4 WP blogs now according to WP’s ranking system. According to the wordpress.com home page, there are: 3,461,995 blogs with 140,221 new posts today as of this writing.
So I feel pretty good about that. You should too, as without our community of readers, it would be just another datapoint in the sea of 3.4 million blogs.
As well as being a great site, which I check out every day, is it also possible that the greater number of hits might reveal a trend towards more “scepticism” amongst the blogging public ?
Scepticism is, after all the only true scientific concensus.
Hmm, looks like a step function to me. Have you been irrigating the site? 😉
REPLY: Thanks, that made me LOL
Looking at the exponential rise in views (I’m a new viewer too), have you compared it to the global temperature? The views chart looks like a hockey stick! I could be causing worldwide web warming by viewing!
/sarcasm off
Couldn’t resist, sorry.
Anthony,
Every one of your posts is a must read. AND, the commenters bring me back multiple time per day to get their insights. Great work!
Man-made CO2 emissions continue to rise at alarming levels. Mr. Watts’ readership is increasing rapidly, showing the direct effects of excessive CO2 emissions on the blogosphere.
Congrats – even though you are, according to Hansen, helping to destroy the world! 🙂
I agree this is a great site, but some of the uptick (perhaps as much as 50% or more?) during the past month may be due to a poll you have been running (i.e., a singular event). So to the extent voters descended on your site en masse from other sites, they’ve all done your site a favor.
Thats how i found you through the WUWT top reads, and I’m glad i did as well. Have enjoyed your posts for the short time i have been reading them. Admitally a lot of it goes over my head but nonetheless keep up the good work.
So many numbers makes my head numb.
Solar cycles are suspiciously similar to planetary cycles;
Weather cycles are suspiciously similar to solar cycles;
Cooling as WOWT blog numbers heat up;
… but the only proofs are for global warming as no alternative mechanism exists to number twiddling by Hansen et al.
Seriously, I think it is both a testament to increased scepticism and Anthony’s work. Especially the most important, the weatherstation survey.
Hmm, looks like we need to ferret out the reasons for readership changes, it might help document the demise of AGW as a perceived threat. Peak readership might correlate with highest rate of public opinion change. Maybe mass media editorial stance too.
I wonder how much of the June increase was related to Hansen’s addresses at Washington and followup like the poll. It seems unlikely that the barycenter discussion would be that big a draw….
I for one, am proud to be a datapoint.
REPLY: The question is; what kind of datapoint are you? Fixed or floating point?
I confess, I’m partly to blame. I stop by several times a day to see what’s new.
Or is that Watt’s New ?
(I think I’m a null datapoint…)
Unadjusted numbers?
If you get Hansen to help, you will be able to cool the past and warm the present in order to prove that the exhalations of your visitors are over heating your servers.
I confess, I’m partly to blame. I stop by several times a day to see what’s new.
Huh? Who doesn’t?
Rev it UP!
Congratulations!
I find myself popping by several times a day.
There’s always something interesting going on here.
Now here’s my idea for a new feature at your site. How about:
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist”
We’d all love to see how the eco-high priests live and go about saving the planet. Some of us have seen Al Gore’s house, Madonna’s, DiCaprio, Kennedy’s, Travolta’s, Laurie David’s etc.
Maybe a little tabloid-like – but sure would be fun!
I take all the credit.~jeez
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist” Pierre Gosselin
This is a great idea! Americans understand hypocrisy well enough.
It might make it clearer, that in many cases, the alarmists want to save the planet only for themselves . Though I suspect many of them are just dupes and tools.
Here’s the deal:
1) You post great insights into the debate everyday
2) You allow people on both sides of the debate to comment freely
3) You allow people of all walks of life (non-scientists like me included) to read and learn, question and contribute in an open an informative way
and …. it becomes hugely popular!
Now why can’t our polticians behave like that instead of telling us the debate is over?
I remember being taught to keep an open mind – ‘it will stand you in good stead boy!’ – it still rings in my (now rather old) ears.
Antony – I do believe you have created something very special that might just help a few in the world of government understand that they still work to serve us.
Does WordPress measure only the number of people who actually visit your site or those who are subscribed? What about those of us who read about your posts in RSS readers, (BlogLines, NewsGator, etc.) but never actually visit the site?
REPLY: It measures any page view, RSS or otherwise. I even see hits from Google Reader.
Well, thank you to you, to have opened my eyes about the AGW scam !
K.
Oh, I do not consider it to be a scam. I think most of the proponents believe most sincerely. I merely think they are in error. I would rather win them over to our side than merely pillory them for the benefit of a crowd.
Thank you, Anthony. I visit your site often. I think what makes your site a good one is that it is both informative and entertaining. You write well for the non-scientist without sacrificing quality. That is hard to come by. And your site’s visual appeal is nothing to sneeze at either. I like your use of graphics, the font, and general look. It’s inviting. And then you learn something useful concerning global warming: Is it real? Is it human caused? Are there other explanations that work better to explain the phenomena that is getting media attention? What are we not being told? And can you really believe science is conducted this way?
An open question,
Is there a way to see how much traffic TWC’s (the weather channel) Forecast Earth blog gets?
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist” is a great idea.
David Suzuki – two fancy homes.
http://stevejanke.com/archives/227584.php
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Alarmist”
I hope you don’t get too carried away with that, even though it might seem fun for a while. The unique thing here is the science and hard facts, things that make us think.
Tabloids, on the other hand, are everywhere.
I feel blog envy. . .
Congratulations!
I visit your site frequently. I am not a scientist and there are times I don’t understand all of the data and its interpretation. However, what I do understand is invaluable.
Thank you!
Anthony, thanks to you. Congratulations. Your work is important for all of us.