Voting closed TODAY Jan 13 at 5PM Eastern, 2PM Pacific time.
Preliminary ending numbers are available here
Thanks to everyone who participated. The results won’t be final until reviewed by the judges/operators. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. – Anthony
Congratulations Anthony and crew.
It looks like the good guys prevailed for a “change”.
Hurrah, WUWT! My favorite blog wins!
The Rev.
CONGRATS
I hope WUWT: congrats exceeds 39,000
nichole,
Did I used to be married to you?
congratulations from Toronto (its going down to negative 20 C tonight and tomorrow). Lets hope there are no hanging chads out there.
Yes! A year late, but YES!
Congratulations on a more than deserved win.
Congratulations from this side of the world (NZ) on your excellent and very deserved win. It’s a pity you couldn’t share it with CA, the two sites are compulsory reading for me every day. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations seem to be in order. Hopefully the votes aren’t tallied in Minnesota.
Congratulations Anthony, moderators, and commenters – a most awesome site. Somehow I missed a day and only voted 6 times.
OT, a hard freeze (28F) tonight in San Antonio. Time to drip the faucets and drag in the plants (Hard Freeze PPP – Pets, Plants and Pipes).
“I’m an atheist, and I think that Pharyngula is an embarrassment. I sincerely hope that WUWT has won.”
As another atheist have to agree that Pharyngula is an acute embarrassment.
It seems to exist so as to make creationists look reasonable.
Brute… you are so lucky… LOL
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Congrats on making it to the end! It’s finally over!
Now all we need is to get the official results Thursday morning.
There’s been a positive result from this vote. Total hits at WUWT are way up. Check out the latest from Quantcast:
http://www.quantcast.com/profile/traffic-compare?domain0=realclimate.org&domain1=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&domain2=wattsupwiththat.com&domain3=climatecrisis.net&domain4=
Figures from Alexa aren’t in yet; they only go to 7 Jan. End of month numbers from WordPress should be impressive.
Now we may find more regular readers taking part in the quest.
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Anthony et al.,
I’ve voted for you 3 or 4 times now.
Good luck, and keep up the great work. It’s important to our future, and the future of climate science.
@bwanajohn
Ah yes, that pesky water vapor. Thankfully air masses become saturated and it rains. But you already knew that.
I am very curious, if it is all some great energy control conspiracy, what is the end game? What do these folks want to gain? I was talking to one of my students who was sure that it was a conspiracy as well.
“What is the agenda of the conspirators and what do they hope to gain?” I asked. He had no answer.
Perhaps you have an answer for me?
@Bob D
Neither Jack Barret nor the “Scientific Alliance” carries a lot of clout in my book, sorry. His paper that you cite makes some pretty significant assumptions, was not peer-reviewed, and quite frankly, does not really stand up to any scrutiny. I can put some fun equations in a paper, with some neato-graphs, but it does not make it science.
A side-note to all. All fossil fuels, all uranium, and every other non-renewable source of energy is just that…non-renewable. I think it is in all of our interest to be working on alternatives because one day we wont have a choice. Thank goodness for global warming in the Mesozoic because that has done wonders for our cheap energy now. But that cheap energy is running out, and we need to be prepared. Global warming, global cooling, or otherwise I think we can all agree we need to develop renewable energy.
Ben
Congratulations Anthony,
WUWT is a voice for truth!!!
This is a “well” deserved award you and support team’s efforts, in search of the truth.
I too am an atheist. I think Pharyngula gives people a bad impression of atheists.
@Phil (15:53:38) :
Oops, teach me to not look up the name (I did look up Fujita). Thanks for the correction.
I attended a lecture by Fujita once. He gave a fascinating talk on how he came to develop his microburst theory. For proof he took small planes up and photographed destruction in areas that were supposedly gust fronts or tornadoes and found circular patterns (microbursts). Turned out nobody had bothered to do that kind of research!
Richard M (15:46:32)
Commentors like you have helped make Watts Up With That the gold standard for science blogs.
Your reasoned, polite invitation to Nichole (with an ‘h’) to stay a while, kick back and explore Anthony’s offerings in the diverse company of scientists and laymen was elegant.
That’s what separates this blog from the pack. It’s a treasure trove of information – honestly presented, and friendly good-natured discourse.
Kudos to Anthony, his WUWT team and all you great participants.
Congratulations, Anthony.
368 comments on this thread – is that a record?
I share many people’s dislike of many aspects of popularity polls such as this, but voted any way. It’s interesting the attention WUWT got just for being in the lead. I assume the late increase in Pharyngula was more from opponents trying to block WUWT from winning than Pharyngula supporters scrounging more voters.
Ah well, sore losers will give up, AGW zealots will settle down a bit. Ultimately, I have no idea if winning this popularity contest means anything, but congratulations on your apparent victory.
Time to get back to business. The Friday high here near Concord NH will be about 6F (-15C). After the fact I’ll see how close that is to the coldest high since I set up my weather station. It’s anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but still deserves attention.
Interesting link, Leon B! (@16:46:57) It will be even more interesting when today’s numbers are added up and posted.
Note to RealClimate: Climate Audit won last year, and WUWT won this year. Now that’s a consensus!
Congratulations Anthony. It’s always nice to see hard work and honesty rewarded.
Keep up the good work.
Well deserved! Congratz!
Well done Anthony, a well deserved reward for many years of hard work.
Congratulations Anthony.
Best Science Blog on the Net! And there must be thousands or tens of thousands of them.