I thought about writing a year end recap, but then I saw my traffic count for the month at 00 GMT (4PM PST), and thought that would do just as well at telling the story for this year. After a slight dip in October and November, WUWT has reached a new high at nearly 900,000 page views this month.
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Not bad for a 12 month growth. My hit counter, as of this writing, stands at:
6,840,995 hits
In December 2007, I hadn’t even broken 500,000.
Thanks to each and every one of you for visiting, contributing, and commenting. Thanks especially to the moderating team who keeps the temperature of this blog down whilst I think up new topics.
Here were the top 7 most popular posts in 2008, in case you missed them:
Top Posts
January 2008 – 4 sources say “globally cooler” in the past 12 months 140,090 views
A look at temperature anomalies for all 4 global metrics: Part 1 64,508 views
Where have all the sunspots gone? 59,144 views
Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid 36,543 views
UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May 35,521 views
Solar Cycle 24 has officially started 34,877 views
Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11 27,091 views
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Steve,
http://www.wunderground.com/
seems to have daily data for individual locations around the world for the last 10 years (the few that I’ve looked at). It’s not in a suitable format for automatic download and I’ve no idea if the data is reliable, but it might be a good place to start.
The more your blog grows the more the AGW guys hate it.
I’ve been declared stupid now by the ever classy tamino.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/stupid-is-as-stupid-does-geek-fight/
Good to know now cause, it would stink to go through life thinking I could learn when I clearly can’t.
Well done, Anthony. May the Power be with you to keep it up. Hold on to your hat because next year will be a hot wind year from the hot air coming in defense of AGW.
Unfortunately the soon to be new president has been hoodwinked to the bandwagon and it is going to be a rude awakening, hopefully in 2009.
A happy New Year to all and thanks for the contribution of all the intelligent participants.
Thank you much for such a blog. You have many readers from western Europe. I Hope the same trend for you in 2009.
Congrats and thanks to you Anthony. You and Joe have the AGW conspirators shaking with fear. Godspeed in 2009!
6,840,995 hits, That’s what’s up !!!
Thanks Anthony (and team) for your enormous effort in aiding and providing balanced scientific discussions relating to the recent warming of the planet.
This site has proved that climate debate is not always a case of “hot air” .
We may not be able to immediately combat Al Gore and his media driven “Urban Green Island Effect”. But we live in hope that sanity may one day prevail.
Best Wishes for a cool 2009 !
Mega Dittos on WUWT having record hits, Anthony and Team! Newcomer here, have just been on to this a few days, perhaps a couple of weeks. Fascinating stuff. And civil…so rare!
My forecast for 2009 has two parts. First, from a California perspective, is to watch for gathering storm clouds over Sacramento as CARB (California Air Resources Board) continues its mandated task of writing carbon-reduction rules for this state. Follow along at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm
They are going to prevent sea level rise and snowpack melting by command and control, and by cap and trade. Whether the place is cooling or not. And, without regard to any outside experts who point out how wrong the whole approach is. So there! Oh, and in particular without regard to how small the California contribution is to global man-made CO2 and other GHG emissions. (around 2 percent of the world’s man-made GHG on a good day.)
Second, from a U.S. of A. perspective, is to watch for thunder and lightning in Washington DC as Senators draft another version of the Climate Change bill, probably Boxer and Warner. The voice of reason may be drowned out, but at least we will make the attempt to be heard. We will see if facts carry any weight in the new administration. Very doubtful, given who the key advisors are.
I got a bunch of new sweaters for Christmas. Looks like it was just in the nick of time, too. Stay warm, yall. Throw another log on the fire. Oh wait, that is illegal now in many parts of California.
Roger E. Sowell
Marina del Rey, California
I guess this alexa.com comparison is well known but since I have’nt seen it posted here, looks like a good moment to do:
http://plazamoyua.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/wuwt-rc.jpg
Let them call the names, you will keep on growing.
Congratulations!
As a newcomer during 2008 to this blog, my congratulations and thanks to Anthony and his moderators. This blog is informative, interesting and amusing. Let us hope that 2009 reveals more about the hugely complex mechanism that is the Earth’s climate.
A Happy New Year to you all.
Peter Pond
NSW, Australia
Congrats on the success of your informative and entertaining blog Anthony. Lots more fun to come in 2009!
Dear Anthony: Congratiolations with the success of the site. The increasing traffic is for sure due to the quality of the content.
Thank you very much for all the effort to sort out the propaganda of the politically correct Global Warming Scientists.
Happy New Near from (cold and ice-scating)The Netherlands.
Excellent job both in maintaining the blog and also in keeping a calm, scientific view of things througout.
Another purely local bit of data for you – my own little Davis weather station in my backyard here on the east coast of Scotland showed a year average temperature of 9.3 C which is 0.4 C below the average for the past 4 years. The average annual temperature for 2004-2007 was pretty well flat at 9.7 C, so this year there has been a definite drop.
Anyone interested in more detailed data and some plots can look here. The ‘Archives’ link shows the data since mid-2003.
Thanks again, and keep up the good work.
Congratulations Anthony. Before I was referred to your site this year I, like many others, did not realize the disparity between the the facts and what the Goreites are spewing on a daily basis. I thank you for providing scientific exposure to all of the models, predictions, opinions, guesses and just plain ‘ol lies being propagated in the mainstream media. Keep up the good work and hopefully we can eventually start to see/hear you on TV and Radio on a regular basis. After all, as David posted earlier, you will soon dominate internet traffic and need to widen your avenues of communication. Happy New Year!
Congratulations and well done … and a Happy New Year.
You’ve certainly convinced this non-scientific peasant of a lot of things he suspected all along.
And I bet Christopher Booker’s support hasn’t done you any harm, either!
Thank you everyone again including all the hard-working moderators… what a presence this blog represents…
I think that AGW is going to be like snow overloading a weak roof… scientists are steadily defecting… it’s going to cave in at some point, and there are going to be a lot of cold, wet, vulnerable people around… and some will probably react aggressively.
Root corruption in Science is a new animal – even though Bjorn Lomborg’s stats show that this root corruption is endemic in environmental science altogether – and nobody knows quite how to handle it. But with such websites, one can still live in hope.
Well done Anthony.
It is a great shame that the Church of England Commissioners have not visited your site even once. From the link below, you will see that they are going to invest £150 million in Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management. If he were a religious man, he would refuse to take the money, from the widows and orphans upon which the money should be spent. As if that’s going to happen?
http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3568
Actually the site is called Religious Intelligence!! Now that’s truly a laugh.
Perry
Hmmmm,
Where are the congratulations and thanks from the AGW faithful. This website also provides a platform for David and Mary and anyone who would like to speak. I would expect to see at least a small thank you from some who represent the other side of the debate. Perhaps some of them have already commented here and I just missed it…
Ditto the “Godspeed”, Anthony. I may have learned more here about human nature than about GW, nothing wrong with that.
Congratulations! I hope the traffic continues going up and the temperature going down… Ecotretas
“Steve Carson (21:23:12) :
OFT question: I’m fascinated by real temperature across the globe, and I have been trying to find the “source” data where possible.
I found a number of sources, none so far really in the right format, but surely someone has collated “all” or a subset of “all” temperature records from ground-based temperature stations since they started recording?
I guess the ideal would be something like a database with:
– a table for the weather station – location etc, and a site ID
– a table with measurement type IDs – daily min; daily max; others?
– a much larger database with site ID, measurement ID, value
(Great if it had rainfall as well)
Anyone know if this exists, partially exists?
If not, can anyone point me towards the best sources for being able to create it?
Has anyone got an extraction program for some/all of the data sources so up to date temperature can be extracted?
Thanks, Steve”
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_monthly/ has the US data for the stations used in the climate studies. I do not know of the equivalent for world data.
However, you could do a FOIA request to NASA to get all their climate numbers if you wish. You may not wish to get it, I downloaded the data from the 19 VA weather stations which was about 24,000 monthly data points, the world wide database has got to be enormous. The data above has been corrected for station movements, and other things. Raw data would be great but would require many man years of effort to clean up. I got the raw data for a couple of sites in WA state and it was really really bad.
Happy New Year
Very amazing how you got the traffic like that.
Good on ya’. By the way, Pielke Pere is on a tear. And Tamino waxes wroth.
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Happy New Year from Slovenia, Mr Anthony, your team and all participants on this blog!
I am a retired mechanical engineer and for a long time I believed the story of AGW. OK, since many years ago I did not read the usual trash of slovenian left wing media (the legacy of the ex communist time) but I was subscribed to The Economist, New Scientist and Der Spiegel, believing their objectivity. I was even happy,expecting the climate to get milder in my home town. So far so that I even planted an olive tree in my garden!
However, after my retirenment, I decided to study this subject a little more. Now, I have colected a library of some 20 books, among them from Roy Spencer, Fred Singer, Henrik Svensmark etc. In addition, I am following related blogs in 7 languages (I very much like the blog of the Czech President Vaclav Klaus – the only intelectual and honest politician to openly speak his mind!) and so I discovered WUWT some months ago.
As a result, I became a convinced sceptic on AGW and WUWT is my dayly read.
Well, it does not look promissing about my producing olive oil at all!
This counting of traffic is all very well, Anthony, but what do the tree-rings say?
happy new year to all, let’s pray that the world has food in the future with the cold that’s coming.
best regards,
Steve