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
One of the really great attractions about this blog is the open and polite discussions one finds here.
Here is one of my favorite observations on the benefits of toleration, if you are really interested in understanding the truth about anything:
Paraphrased from the writings of John Stuart Mill:
I’m projecting the winner to be WUWT.
I would just like to express my thanks to Anthony Watts and team for maintaining this excellent blog. It has been a great refuge of truth in these times of universal deception and economic woe. I am interested in other areas of life such as politics, philosphy and religion, as well as other things, but it is so nice to come in here and see what else is going on in our physical world where the people conveying this information have no political or social agenda. Unlike Climate Audit, you do not have to have an advanced degree in Earth Science to understand what is going on, although several contributors and bloggers are real scientists who give incredibly kowlegible insight into the various systems.
Too everyone at Wattsup, from the top dogs, resident scientists and common layman offering insight and observation, thank you.
Although the Best Science blog poll has only about 30,000 total votes, all the blogs together have over 620,000 and there have been a couple of million page hits according to the site. Most of the action causing timeouts seems to be elsewhere.
Looks like the results are pretty much the same now as they were after the first or second day, percentage-wise.
I’m assuming you mean 2500 votes. Still, “only”?
Weather outlook for Inauguration day – GFS is showing a little snow moving out and temps around -6C (21F) and NW breeze.
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/18/images/gfs_ten_192m.gif
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=lwx&FcstType=text&site=LWX&map.x=259&map.y=112
will start having Inauguration Day forecasts tomorrow. For now, it says the rest of the week will be below freezing, but warming to 37F on MLK day, the day before Inauguration Day.
Just got in my final votes for this final day of voting. I see WUWT is maintaining its lead, now down to 37.3% to 29%, though Sir Anthony’s percentage is up a bit from this afternoon when it stood at an even 37%.
What the heck?
Yesterday it was 37.8% to just under 25%. Went to check out that other site. Now I feel so unclean.
1.45pm central Standard Time here in Adelaide
progress score
WUWT 11047
Pharyngula 8628
a lead for the good guys of 2419
keep voting!
My boss has been trying to get me to fly out there next week, fortunately no hotels are available at prices anyone is willing to pay.
Next year I will begin voting in the morning so I wont get caught camped on this PC late at night waiting for the 24 hour voting cycle to expire.
Regardless, congratulations Anthony looks like you will get a pretty classy, well deserved banner at the top of page.
Ric Werme (19:11:46) :
Weather outlook for Inauguration day – GFS is showing a little snow moving out and temps around -6C (21F) and NW breeze.
18z GFS model : 5040 thickness just 12 hrs before with with system digging south to the coast, heavy snow just north in NJ – tweek that output just a bit & it could be a major snowstorm for DC – with a whole lot more wind and somewhat bit colder too. The GFS tends to be a bit fast on these systems that far out IMHO so I would say we are definitely in the game for an interesting storm. Will this be another case of the algore effect – with uncanny cold & storms tracking him around from appearance to appearance ??? Of course, we know the skill in our models 180 hours out – not so good. Too early to start counting your eggs just yet, but it should be some good weather watching between now & then.
“Middle East politics will not be a topic on this blog.”
wow. see, right there is why i’m not going to subscribe to this blog.
come over to the Pharyngula comments if you want to have some fun. word to the wise – bring your brain
A little OT maybe[?]
For a different kind of vote, … $$$ that is to say,
For those of us who may be reluctant to use PayPal or credit cards online, is there a P.O. Box or street address where one might make a donation to WUWT?
pharynguloid O.M.
Middle East politics have nothing to do with science.
We sometimes get into political red/blue and opposite sides of the pond debates but it generally remains part of the climate and weather discussion in terms of policy and beliefs about such things. It took a while for me to get used to the mild liberal teasing that goes on here but I tend to be a pretty good sport about that with only the occasional, “Okay class, that’s enough!” teacherly retort. I have been involved in political and religious blogs and I find them terribly interesting, but I do tire of the strife. The lines drawn in the sand are far more obvious and impermeable in those types of blogs. And the trouble is, no one goes there to learn anything.
Weblog finalists scores at 0640 GMT
Phary…. 8987
WUWT 11389
Good luck! Let’s hope this ends up as a fair contest.
well theres more then just CLimate..
and since real climate isnt winning by far, i voted on Improbable research..
🙂
Is this site a target of a DOS attack now? I am reading here every day, but the last two days it has been very difficult to get access (Observe I am not talking about the weblog awards site, but wattsupwiththat.com) ?
I noted on Phary that the owner is quite disdainful of the “pseudoscience” of this blog.
To put a legitimate quest for a scientific answer to the causes of climate fluxuations in the same category as creationism is just a logical fallacy of the worst kind.
He was right however about Juan Cole. Juan Cole does know his stuff when it comes to what is going on in the middle east. Juan is a scholar of the first order.
rutger:
Traitor!! [Just kidding.] Last year I gave lots of votes to ClimateAudit. This year WUWT gets my votes. But if the voting gets close, I would hope that you would throw a vote WUWT’s way.
Carsten Arnholm:
I’ve had no problem accessing this site, so I’m not sure it’s a DOS problem. But I have a Mac, so it’s a perfect computer world. [/s]
Pamela Gray:
That’s the central problem with alarmist sites, isn’t it? Learning entails questioning, and sites flogging the AGW hypothesis don’t tolerate questioning.
OK people, today’s your last chance: Vote!
No appeals to “but I
And this is why I read the comments as well as the blog.
Thankees, Moderator(s)
Wow! This Pharnygula guy is really something else. He has recently posted an article COMPLAINING about polite posters coming by and leaving comments on his site. He is claiming that our use of manners and courtesy are a ploy to sell something that we know to be a lie. He is serious! Like all of us over here at WUWT got together and discussed going over there and being really polite and respectful just to get his goat.
How is it that a mean spirited troll site could even be close to in competition to this site, run by gentlemen scholars is beyond me. Guess the times are long gone when scholar and gentleman were nearly synonymous terms.
You heard the man —
Vote
WUWT is holding onto its percentage vote total {so far} of 37.3% thanks to all those votes coming in from around the world, while total votes pouring in for Pharyngula from Minnesota have lifted it in 36 hours from just below 25% to its new percentage total of 30%.
The next few hours will be critical. There are 7 hours left in the voting.
Let’s hear it from Europe. Get your vote in.
From the U.S. — it’s early here in the workday.
Vote
by the way, it looks like there’s a push for that other “science” blog going on at the polls…vote now!
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-science-blog/
Just voted last time. I only missed 1 vote, and that was because of a gig, getting home rather late, and, though I meant to vote, I was tired, and the only thing I was thinking of was getting to bed. All votes were for WUWT, of course. I never had a problem accessing the site (PC here). I see the the percentage spread with the “other” blog is now only 6.9%, and the vote difference at 2,215, so they are gaining. Though time is running out, this could be close!