Voting is now open, for anyone who wants to vote for any of the blogs below. A note about voting. Since you can vote once every 24 hours, this is a horse race. So to pick a winner, voting must be repeated until the poll closes next Tuesday at 5PM EST
I was surprised to be nominated for this. In fact I found out about it from gary Boden in an email by way of Lucia. The contest organizers didn’t notify me directly.
But still, it is rather fun.
Voting will open on Monday.
Last Year Climate Audit and Bad Astronomy tied…but is was only due to some “automated” voting that went on past poll closing time which made determining a winner nearly impossible. You can vote more than once, daily if I recall correctly, but word has it they’ve made the poll more secure this year.
Don’t get too wrapped up in this, which is really just a popularity contest. I’m just happy to be nominated. For me it’s about how to play the game, not being the winner, so in that spirit, here is the list of ALL finalists. Choose your favorite. If we (and I say we because WUWT is a community of people, it is not just about me) win, I promise I won’t get up on stage and promise to “work for world peace”. 😉
Best Science Blog
Finalists:
Most excellent!
Here’s a scenario we can sink our teeth into:
After appearing before Congress to testify about the Surface Stations project, WUWT and surfacestations.org end up in a tie for the 2009 Best Science Blog category.
Congratulations, Anthony, and good luck. Climate realist readers could also care about the Best European Blog
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-european-blog/
where one of the contestants is The Reference Frame.
http://motls.blogspot.com/search/label/climate
Thanks for your consideration (and for bookmarking the pages above), everybody. 😉
Hands down!
Still no link for voting, but here is a page for updates on the weblog awards contest.
And Lucia’s link in the article quoting Joe Romm complaining about his failure to qualify was priceless:
Heh.
Sorry, Joe, it’s the consensus.
Wha’s wrong with “whirreled peas?”
“…anti-scientific denialism.”??? ROFL
Ok Joe. You need some “quiet time”.
I’m beginning to think that some of these people must come here, and read mid-way through the comments on one article or some such, rather than spending time for 2 or 3 articles and comments.
No other explanation, other than denailis…..errrrrrrrrrr….wait! ;>)
InDenialofBeingJimB
Anthony
Your wonderful contribution to the climate debate is appreciated and recognized world wide . All the best, Anthony
Ack! We have to decide between Climate Audit and WUWT?
Congrats, Anthony. Let us know where to vote.
Real Climate a nominee?? I thought they were a political blog.
WUWT is even money going in, Climate Audit 2nd.
Dan Scoledge
We can have them both.
rgds B V
Too bad that bigoted hate monger PZ Myers and his despicable Pharyngula are on the list.
Congratulations, Anthony. We are all very proud of you.
Congrats, sir! You deserve it!
I’ll be splitting my votes between CA and WUWT – of course – and hoping you two take First and Second (in any order).
…Unless an interloper gets between ya’ll in the rankings. Then I’ll root for the underdog.
As Signorney Weaver said in Alien II, “It’s the only way to be sure.”
Meanwhile NASA will get no vote from me until they clean up their climate act. As a taxpayer, I am really getting @ur momisugly#$% off at them. Their recent behavior is obscene.
Ok, the science is better at CA, but the blog is better here.
Fell off my chair laughing at this one!
It’s the coming thing, now that AGW is getting harder to believe in – read all about Anthropogenic Continental Drift here:
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1668
Cool dadios reallll coooooolllllllll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
u can count on the wild man’s vote 🙂
What L. Nettles said…
I will have to vote for ‘Watts Up With That’ and for ‘Climate Audit.’ The thing about these two is that the exposition is reasoned and the verbal abuse is limited or not allowed at all. This makes the discussion readable and the characters likable, unlike some of the other blogs in this genre. So thank you, Anthony et al, and Steve et al. We all appreciate what you are doing and the reasonable way you are doing it. Now I need to send both of you more money, damn.
John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee
Congratulations ! The site has my vote !
Congratulations Anthony!
A fruitful New Year for everybody!
The thing about these two is that the exposition is reasoned and the verbal abuse is limited or not allowed at all. – John Andrews (18:27:18)
Absolutely. These two sites are gusts of exceedingly fresh air – and are a stunning and effective foil against the global BS from the AGW/Climate Change Alarmists. They are beginning to run scared now. Their cover-ups are getting sloppier.
-and since I have nothing constructive to add to the conversation, I will now bow out and go hit the paypal jar. It’s called putting my money where my mouth is.
I think you have provide an impotant service with this blog…..the fun stuff is here, so Steve M over at Climate Audit is now free to concentrate on what he is good at, auditing the math in climate science.
You have done a great job of providing an informal site where the fascination of science can mix with common sense, in sorting out the science of climate and weather.
Anthony says:
” If we (and I say we because WUWT is a community of people, it is not just about me) win, I promise I won’t get up on stage and promise to “work for world peace”. ;-)”
If you’re not working for world peace, I’m not voting for you!!!
8>)
Smokey: Joe who???
Anthony: You must have some English blood. It’s not the winning, it’s the taking part!
Good luck, you deserve the recognition