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:
Well, there’s a saying “it’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes”…
Ps. “Hacking Democracy” – a must see documentary @ur momisugly http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4762159260759486531
And BTW – it’s sunny (for the first time in weeks) and -25 C over here right now. The weather is so nice I’d go out for a skiing trip if I didn’t have the worst flu in a looong time…
I don’t know why that fellow Joe Romm is complaining that WUWT is not a science blog.
It seems to me that the posters to this blog are a very well informed and behaved bunch where some real scientists linger (as well as more literate lurkers) and where well argued contributions are put forward.
On some other “alleged scientific blogs” all I see are trolls and uninformed argument which are unrewarding to read or visit .
Lubos Motl,
I particularly enjoy your blog. I don’t often leave comments like I do here, but I’m a regular visitor of your blog. I particularly like your show-no-mercy, take-no-prisoners style when addressing climate charlatans. Keep it up!
What criteria should one apply to decide:
1. Which site does a person learn a lot about climate science?
Where the material is presented in an easy to grasp way.
(I vote for Watts in that respect)
2. A site with breaking new stories that challenge and rattle
the AGW alarmists? (Climate Audit)
3. Or a site that is truly open to a spectrum of scientific views?
Like RealClimate (…haha – just kidding!)
My list of favourites are:
IceCap
Motl,
Watts
McIntyre
Skeptics
Russ Steele
Marohasy
WCR
Klimakatastrophe (German)
EIKE (German)
My preference not necessarilly in the above order.
If other folks here have other recommendations, please tell me!
I’m looking for some British and french sites.
Pierre Gosselin (03:08:53) :
You may enjoy Greenie Watch as well.
http://antigreen.blogspot.com
I checked the other 8 nominations and was appalled at their inferior quality compared with WUWT and CA. Though having said “8” I want to concede RC a grudging recognition… but to give that recognition a name would get me deleted *********** hehehe.
For instance, Bad Astronomy had this:
It’s bad news because Jenny McCarthy is a walking antiscience disaster of the first order. She claims vaccines cause autism and that her son was cured of autism by changing his diet.
Now I know this is cruel, harmful rubbish – because my own Asperger (edge of autistic spectrum) condition has been healed through diet. I know the research that went into this, the evidence, the story, the scientific understanding, the untold help this has been to me and could be to others. Aspies are natural scientists BTW, Einstein was one and Newton probably another. And as to vaccines, it’s not the MMR in itself, it was the thiomersal (thimerosal to the US) preservative that was the culprit, a mercury compound that should never have been used (remember Mad Hatters syndrome) that was very very quietly phased out. Ugh!
GOOD LUCK US FOLKS!
Congratulations, well deserved.
I would like to thank myself and others who nominated WUWT as best science blog (dislocates shoulder from pating self on back). 🙂
Unfortunately, the former excellent science blog ‘Bad Astronomy’ sadly morphed into a Bush Derangement Syndrome polemic. I like WUWT because the mods work to keep left-right politics out unless directly relevant.
philw1776 (09:21:55) :Unfortunately, the former excellent science blog ‘Bad Astronomy’ sadly morphed into a Bush Derangement Syndrome polemic.
Yes, it is sad. It’s become a place with very little science and lots more opinion — a This-is-the Truth site. Instead of getting the why, you get Science-as-Religion. It’s quite a ways from Phil’s original site, which actually tried to demonstrate. I asked Phil about the change and got an effective “so what?” in response. I think he’s been lured by popularity. He’s far more interested in emulating PZ and doesn’t seem to realize his blog content and approach differs from those he complains about only in polarity. Hopefully, someday he’ll return to his original path.
The original BadAstonomy:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/index.html
I guess every blog runs the danger of self-centered hubris. Unlike BA and PZ, WUWT runs actual science discussions and eschews rants. Makes it one of the best Science blogs around — at least on par with CA.
Keep up the good work, Anthony!
Last year I took the opportunity to check out the other science blogs. I was shocked at the random obscenity sprinkled through many of them, and the out-and-out vitriol for those they didn’t like. So, imagine my surprise when I randomly chose one, saw the f-bomb, and much of the same thing. I have always been impressed by how this site keeps decorum and respect, even for those that we oppose. Keep up the good work Anthony, and good luck.
Another thought: I think the mom rule applies… if you wouldn’t want your mom or kids to see it, don’t say it online.
If you go by number of Ph.D. contributors, RC has you all beat by a mile.
TCOisbanned:
How could you possibly know that? Tell us how many PhD’s post on BogusClimate, and how many PhD’s post here. Give us your raw data and methodology, sport.
Congratulations – I enjoy reading your blog.
Newby: I believe you’re allowed to vote once a day. At their site they have a count-down clock, showing how long till voting starts. Their rules specify a 1 week voting period, 7 votes. 4 for WUWT + 3 for CA?
Compare the comments of this blog to that of Richard Black of the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/
Despite being well placed on one of the most popular news web sites on the internet and despite having the backing of a huge organisation and UK tax payers money, he only manages to get a fraction of the comments this web site gets and about half of those comments on climate are arguing directly with what he says.
WUWT is the no. 1 for me. Many thanks
7,000,845 hits!! Seven million plus. Another milestone!
If Anthony’s Army gives WUWT a voting click for best science blog, we’ve got a good shot at the title. Even coming in at #2 or #3 would be very impressive for a site that had less than a million hits only a year ago.
No matter what happens, WUWT really fills a need for polite, respectful and reasonable discourse over the wide-ranging facets of climate science, from solar activity to ocean currents to bristlecone pines.
Many of us have learned a lot about an obscure science that was below the radar only a few years ago. We owe Anthony a debt of gratitude for providing such an interesting forum for discussion, and for allowing contrary points of view — a quality that is sorely lacking in most pro-AGW sites.
A major reason for the popularity of WUWT is the tolerance of different points of view. It’s the truth that is important here, not the agenda. A vote for WUWT is a vote for sifting the truth from the incessant, self-serving propaganda over the “climate”.
This being a finalist must be having an imapct on your numbers. On 3 Jan, WUWT’s reach & rank hit an all-time high according to Alexa :
Your numbers at Alexa should be very, very good for at least a week.
REPLY: I think it is more due to the content and the holidays…more leisure time for people to scan the Internet. – Anthony
That’s great.
This is a fabulous website.
In my days as a Monty Python fan, I did not know what I was getting into,- times passed and I became older!! – then along came Big Al’ – and I thought that I was back in the Loony Bin!! You are a breathe of fresh air (and cold at that) and I know that the science is good but (folk will always doubt!). I do know one thing though,…. er….. that …….Brian…. might have a true friend!!!
Keep (ya) the goals high and the science better!!
Tom.
Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
The poll is now open:
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/
get moving fellas
voting is open now – WUWT is in number two spot with less than fifty votes – time to get moving, folks!
Well, not counting the hanging chads or including the military vote, WUWT only has 53 votes at the moment…
I hope “we” can do better!
Here’s the link to vote. Get cracking, guys. Pharyngula’s ahead
Best Science Blog