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:
Anthony,
You are a winner!
This IS the “Best Blog”.
Congratulations
Kudos and thanks from a long time reader and first time poster. I never completely abandoned my aptitude for science but my life had other plans. This blog has re-energized my inquisitive mind and provided some great weather related material for a confirmed weather-nut. Keep up the good work!
ed
My vote’s in.
L Nettles: The science here is the same. CA is more interested in paleontologic signs of temps (tree ring ect) so it is a tad different and more complex if you have difficulty understanding complex statistics and programming. I think most meteoroligst who are really the only “climate scientists” (apart from atmospheric physicists) would agree. That is three days accurate forecasting max LOL
RE Solar 24 BTW it seems that apart from David Archibald to date everyone else was way off the mark. RE mechanisms: It seems Landsheit may have been spot on
“You may vote once every 24 hours…” it says there and which for some reason reminded me of A. Huxley:
“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”
So, vote [Snip. And bite your tongue. ~ Evan] – and make a “difference” every (!) day – enjoy the (more or less scientific) “circus” – experience “miracles” – and who knows, maybe the “mysteries” of GW gets to be solved too!
Ps. I don’t need to add “sarc off” there, do I ?
I find all this vote for me vote for me stuff embarrassing for the people who promote it.
I honestly find myself questioning the motive behind some of these sites now.
I have a free website on a totally different subject that has traffic in one day equal to a month here yet I’m not screaming for awards. Neither should I.
janama:
I encourage people to vote for WUWT so that others will see WUWT on the “awards” and come here to learn something. I highly doubt that Anthony is interested in “winning” a popularity contest, and I hope you were referring to “others”.
That said, at this writing WUWT is far and away in the lead… and I also was appalled when I took a look at some of the other “contenders”. Shameful behavior all around, both from the bloggers and their myriad commenters.
I weep for what Science has become.
Voted. Well deserved to be as far ahead as you are. Excellent blog, and thanks.
Voted, and thanks for doing what you do on the blog here.
Good luck Anthony you deserve to win this IMHO
There are two ‘skeptic’ blogs and two ‘alarmist’ blogs as well. So things are evened! But it’s interesting to see how popular de ‘skeptics’ are already, even though it’s just the beginning of the voting. Maybe because they’re not ‘skeptics’, but have scientifically more accurate arguments, and that’s what serious people want over alarmism. 😉 And I think it is very good for this voting to happen during winter, so that people are still aware how warm the weather should be according to alarmists , but is not! Summer would usually trigger the global warming alarmist inside people. Good luck for the voting! 😉
janama:
It’s about bragging rights, dude! So let’s have some fun, and kick a** on the pathetic Gorebots!
It’s the least we can do…
Janama, take a chill pill, it’s a bit of fun. It gives commenters and bloggers a chance to interact a bit. It also gives a chance for people to go visit a few new blogs.
What is sad is if people get snarky / upset about not getting nominated or not winning. A bit like this example.
Another vote for WUWT.
Well done Anthony and all contributors in creating the most accessible and polite climate forum online!
I good to see that common sense is winning over those “natural climate cycle skeptics”.
I voted WUWT because of the weather focus. I am old school when it comes to climate. Climate is geographically based and changes when geography changes (such as when the tilt of the Earth changes or landforms move), which is VERY slowly and measured in 100’s of thousands and millions of years. Weather changes relatively quickly both in the short and long term, and can change back again. This is when the Earth’s atmosphere (a highly variable combination of ocean, ozone, jet stream, cloud cover, pollution, local geography, etc interactions) interacts with the Sun (a fairly constant source compared to Earth’s atmosphere) to make us wet, sticky, dry, cold, warm, or hot. I have to laugh every time I hear someone say the climate is changing. I want to ask which continent suddenly moved? Or this, did a mountain range pop up somewhere last night?
How come a blog which is heavily anti-science like this ended up in the “science” category?
Ridiculous.
Congratulations – A daily WUWT reader from Hungary
RealClimate.org has only 207 votes at the moment, a truly inconvenient truth for the AGW crowd.
As the Earth spins, so do the AGW scientists. Global freezing is masking-out global warming, again.
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Study questions climate change
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news2/Study-questions-climate-change.4844428.jp
“This suggests that large natural variability could be masking out any global warming-related trend in storminess.”
“This new analysis will aid further work to more reliably predict the future consequences of global warming.”
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 – Anthony
Anthony (above)
Just to add, you can vote once per computer. If you have access to five computers you can vote 5 times every 24 hours..
Tuukka Simonen (07:02:51) :
How come a blog which is heavily anti-science like this ended up in the “science” category?
Ridiculous.
LOL
Thanks for the laugh 🙂
Of course, the real question is how RC, which is anti-anything-someone-doesn’t-agree-with ended up in “science”…
For the posters who have commented about the scientific credentials of this site perhaps I can give my story.
I am not a scientist.
I was concerned by the Global Warming Issue and commentary about it but had some doubts that CO2 could be the cause – so I decided to try and find out more about it.
The one really great thing that I was taught in my early life was always keep an open mind. Accept nothing at face value and challenge everything. I still believe passionately in this approach in everything in life.
I started visiting RC but found I had more questions than answers and the attitude of the moderators/experts began to leave me cold.
I would then search the wider web when I had some time in order to extend my knowledge, but I only came across WUWT when I read an article in the Sunday Telegraph (UK) which began to question the ‘consensus view’.
In the time since I have visited this site I have learned more than I could possibly imagine. Posters are convivial and some outstanding scientists visit and help us all develop our knowledge.
I am still on the very steep part of the learning curve of this enormously complex area that even the best minds struggle to understand – (how anyone can say the science is settled is beyond me) – and I enjoy reading all that is said (BTW I still visit RC to check validity on things I think I have learned).
In summary this is a site where ordinary folk can learn a great deal about science, climate and interesting and unusual weather phenomenon in a pleasant way. It is a great example of what internet blogs can do for us all and for that reason I think the blog deserves credit and recognition. Most importantly the people who put the effort in to make it happen deserve to know that their work is acknowledged.
Another example of RealClimate being so scientific. On their thread that is about this same topic we have regular poster Ray Ladbury saying “McFraudit and Watts-up-my-A** provide a very useful service of giving the tin-hat crowd the illusion of doing science.”
http://www.realclimate.org/?comments_popup=636#comment-108468
I replied quotong the above and saying “This is why you lose first time readers and until you realize this your community will remain small.”
Guess what? It got censored. I guess there was too many “atta boys” to be concerned with.