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:
as they say out here in Australia – vote early and vote often!
I checked out Pharyngula and it looked pretty average to me. CA and WUWT leave it for dead, but are in danger of splitting the vote.
“TCOisbanned:
If you go by number of Ph.D. contributors, RC has you all beat by a mile.”
Who cares?
This guy D.A. who stays away from here says
“The IPCC is completely transparent. It gives press conferences when each of their ARs are released. Every one of their reports lists all of the authors of every chapter. All of them have Web sites where they publish their phone numbers and email addresses and publications, and anyone may contact them at any time to ask questions. He has never once had an IPCC scientist decline an interview when asked.”
I wondered what some here would think of that take.
Good luck, Anthony. Looking forward to more good stuff in ’09. Fortunately, no Al Franken vids like the current Pharyngula fare… Egads! Still scratching my head how that one even made the cut.
Right now, you are neck and neck with Pharyngula.
Vote Early — Vote Often . {like they do in Chicago}
WUWT is still in second place – by just 7 votes.
Momentum’s building.
Dear Anthony,
I am not surprised at all that you were nominated. You have an outstanding blog and deserve recognition. Popularity contests count too.
(My apologies if the above has the ring of an ingratiating suck up. It is sincere and, of course, correct.)
WUWT just pulled ahead.
Sorry, but I had to vote for Climate Audit, since there’s more stuff I don’t understand going on there than here 😉
Lordy.
I went to Pharyngula out of curiosity.
It’s depressing.
Didn’t stay long.
Edgy and blatantly political.
I hope this contest counts votes more efficiently than MN officials.
Voted twice today once from work once from home.
Voted for RealClimate…
Not!
For an avg Joe who is not a scientist, I really cannot stand the attitude of posters over there.
[Reply – Then I expect you not to vote tomorrow. Cheating is intolerable. ~ Evan]
On the one hand Climate Audit is a truly excellent science blog.
On the other hand WUWT is a truly excellent science blog.
How to choose…. Hm… Hmm… Hmmmm… Hmmmmmm….
You’re ahead by 85 votes!
Currently beating RC by five to one.
(Does that count as a consensus?)
Anthony gets a lot of overseas traffic from Europe and Australia (and Canadaland as well). This will help with off hours voting.
Just looked at Pharyngula and found this as the self description:
“Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal”
Didn’t even bother to read any further.
Climate Audit is beating RealClimate by 2 to 1… this blog and Climate Audit are my favorite US science blogs… Lubos Motl’s The Reference Frame is my favorite European science blog.
I wonder… if the RC guys had been nicer to the many people that they ridiculed, ignored and banned over the last year, might they have fared better?
OK I’m not saying that it’s over so keep voting every day… I’m asking my friends, neighbors and relatives to vote too. In fact I’m even helping them to do it. It’s too early for congratulations, but good job so far folks!
Mike Bryant
The anonymity of the net allows people to say and act in ways they would never do face to face. The greatest thing about this site is the civility. There are as many opinions as there are people in the world. Swearing and name calling can debase any issue. It does not exist on WUWT. I like CA as well, but I believe it is extremely important for EVERYBODY to understand as much about the science as possible. Then they can form their own opinion. The reason the pro-AGW movement is successful, is they have gone after the masses, and used a lot of really good PR people (read propaganda people). Anthony ( and I include all whose efforts go into making this blog what it is, moderators, contributors, etc.) have done more than any I am aware of , to help people understand what is really going on with regards to our planet. My wife and I both voted for your blog, Anthony. A little quote from “Gladiator” to those at RealClimate ( and their like) ” The time for honoring yourselves will soon be at an end”. I believe that the MSM will come to realize that real story worthy of print will be the deception perpetrated on the public regarding “climate change”. WUWT, kickin’ a** and takin’ down names, ……..
Just voted for wuwt….
It’s leading with 36% of the vote,
Pierre Gosselin (03:08:53) :
“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.”
http://www.mysound.uconn.edu/thameslo_wq.html
Glad to help.
Whoa Anthony! WUWT has taken a big lead over second place Pharyngula, 657 to 449 as of 12:01 AM EST 1/6/2009.
12:06 am EST and WUWT has 665 votes and in the lead by over 10%.
WUWT and CA are taking almost half the vote between them. It seems that sanity actually might prevail. Let’s fight the urge to get complacent and keep voting early and often. Wherever you see a computer, stop and vote again.
GO WUWT !
Climateaudit #2
🙂