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Mother nature will have the final vote. If an ant-climate-science biology site wins this, a year or two from now we can all point and laugh, kind of like we do about that Nobel Peace Prize.
Right now I’m seeing Pharyngula, 10,269, WUWT 12,267 with 2.5 hours to go.
nichole wrote:
why climate change denialists are stupid: same reason all denialists are stupid. prove your negative away, since that’s impossible.
Who’s denying that climate changes? It does, has been for millions of years. What hasn’t been proven is the hypothesis that the recent warming was caused by man. AGW is like seeing a pubescent girl develop breasts and insisting someone must have given her a pill to explain the “unnatural” development.
“…MLK day, the day before Inauguration Day.”
I wonder how many nods to this we’ll have to listen to on the 20th. I’m proud of him, too. It’s historic. But I wish they’d leave it at that and move on. There are other issues, now.
@Jack Simmons (17:45:04) 1/12/09: As an aside, thank you for the exposure to John Stuart Mill. Interesting fellow.
Voting closes at 5 PM EST, not 2 PM as stated above. Important to note this as otherwise votes may be lost.
REPLY: fixed, thanks
Well there you have it folks, using anger to incite the vote is one of the oldest political tricks in the book.
That’s a pretty large non sequitur. Pharyngula explains why he positively encourages uncivility in his blog and commenters, and you interpret this as inciting his readers to vote for him?
The fact that you missed his specifically stated indifference towards the awards (in both of the posts he’s made about it) smacks a little of quotemining, mate.
As of 16.31 GMT
WUWT 12312
PZ 10372
CA 4008
RC 1252
It’s getting closer. Keep voting!
::ANTI-HOLISTIC::
but not anti-liberal. anti-extremism, left of center.
and if science doesn’t work via consensus, how does it work now?
and the rest of the world is on the green bandwagon, how will being left in the dust and being forced to buy green tech when cap and trade is in effect be beneficial to future generations? creating jobs making solar panels? with unemployment 7% and rising record-breakingly fast, might not be a bad idea. certainly are a lot of customers for said panels, and america needs some damned exports. so let’s take advantage of the dumb foreigners, how can you xenophobic rightwingnuttians be against that? you love that shite.
and we built most of the country (the good bits anyways) on the coast line – wouldn’t it be prudent to not katrina the shite out of it?
the ice caps are melting faster than those “bad” predictions. if anything, they’re probably too conservative.
so maybe it’s not anthropogenic. so we should sit down and do nothing? good plan! MAKE AN F-IN EFFORT. try, and die, or not. do nothing, and die. fer sure.
Reply: Please, no more name calling. ~dbstealey, mod.
As of 16.31 GMT
WUWT 12312
PZ 10372
CA 4008
RC 1252
As of 16.40 GMT
WUWT 12349
PZ 10452
CA 4011
RC 1257
PZ up 80 in 9 mins!
WUWT up 37
CA up 3
RC up 5
Keep Voting!!
Your blog is a joke and not even worthy of being considered a science blog. Winning this silly contest doesn’t make you better, it means you got enough people to vote for you. Anyone who knows anything about the scientific method knows that this does nothing to legitimize your stupidity.
Pharyngula seems to be garnering votes over WUWT by a ratio of 5:2 with about 5 hours to go. Speculation would suggest that there is an effort by anti-WUWT forces to make this close. I’d love to see the voting patterns as a time series. One will probably show hourly rates that vary within a range; the other will probably look strangely like something familiar … like a … um, I know, a hockey stick! 😉
Nichole,
I noticed you totally ignore the difference between global warming and AGW. If you would become an open minded frequent reader of this blog you will see that most here accept climate change as part of a natural cycle but question the validity of any additional human activity produced CO2 as the driver of that change. It is clear to me that those who are stuck in that world of AGW and refuse to consider anything else are the real deniers.
Take a pill dude 😉
Anthony will “win” regardless of the results of this vote. The real win here is the extreme lack of support for RealClimate. Pharyngula is a non-issue as I mentioned before. It’s a religio-political blog, not a science blog.
Since CA has third place locked, I’ve switched over to WUWT for my voting as of yesterday.
All this talk about all liberals on the side of AGW. Pure bunk. Many are coming around. I know many from progressive blogs that don’t buy the AGW line.
I would say one of the best progressive sites on the internet is Whatreallyhappened.com. The owner of that site thinks AGW is idiotic.
I can’t remember how I got to this site, but it was probably from a link that Whatreallyhappened.com sent me to. I think it probably was a link to a Russian website where soviet physicists were discussing the upcoming ice age.
I am probably far more progressive than most people who claim to be liberal. But for me, good politics, means getting the science right, if the matter in question is a scientific one.
Jackie (08:46:37) :
“Your blog is a joke and not even worthy of being considered a science blog. Winning this silly contest doesn’t make you better, it means you got enough people to vote for you. Anyone who knows anything about the scientific method knows that this does nothing to legitimize your stupidity.”
And I’m sure you will feel the same about the winner if another blog were to overhaul WUWT in the final hour.
Lol.
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Global warming threatens the future and the incoming Obama administration will take steps to address the problem, Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick to be U.S. energy secretary, told lawmakers on Tuesday.
“Climate change is a growing and pressing problem. It is now clear that if we continue on our current path, we run the risk of dramatic, disruptive changes to our climate in the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren,” Chu said at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
I think it’s funny that Myers wrote 3 top of the fold posts, all functioning to inform readers the poll was going on, all seeming to make the claim that the winning is somehow not important to him for whatever reason.
Are online polls a form of beauty contest? Yes. Does winning mean the winner has the highest quality science of any blog? No. Assuming no hacking, does winning tell us something about popularity, outreach, enthusiasm etc? Yes. Do the winners usually feel good about winning? Yes.
Does PZ Myers care about the outcome if this poll? Yes. He cares quite a bit!
VOTE, ye swabs! And be puttin’ yer backs inter it!
“Well there you have it folks, using anger to incite the vote is one of the oldest political tricks in the book.”
Confused (08:35:57) :
That’s a pretty large non sequitur. Pharyngula explains why he positively encourages uncivility in his blog and commenters, and you interpret this as inciting his readers to vote for him?
Hummm… PZ said “I want my commenters to be uncivil. There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion.”
Nice try, Confused (good name, btw). This is an obvious attack on WUWT, with its civil, and rational discussion, which he has characterized as “ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion”. Yes, of course he was trying to rile folks there, to incite them to vote for him.
The fact that you missed his specifically stated indifference towards the awards (in both of the posts he’s made about it) smacks a little of quotemining, mate.
Well, at least at this point, he’s losing, so of course he’d say he’s “indifferent”. Sour grapes.
Current voting rates:
WUWT 200/hour
PZ 450/hour
5 hours to go
WUWT currently leads by 1800 votes
It’s going to be very close. If the rate stays the same, WUWT will win by ~500 votes.
Ring your friends! Keep voting!!
Arrr.
Look guys, PZ is PZ … My uncle is an angry old Armenian man, and just because he can cuss up a storm on the freeway doesn’t make him a bad person. If you don’t like outspoken, left-leaning, atheist commentary, than Pharyngula isn’t for you … that’s ok, not everyone can handle Bob Sagets stand up material, but that’s personal preference. Not everyone is polite and reserved, even among scientists.
All this Mein Kampf stuff is pure rubbish; PZ may be hard on people whom he sees peddling trash knowledge, but he rarely compares them to Hitler. And the whole “inciting people to violence” to get votes. Ha! Really? Commenters on Pharyngula have always been a bit rude (and hilarious), and besides, I don’t think posting a snarky comment on a blog can really be considered “violence.”
What’s with the sudden influx of rude people? Ah well, if it makes them feel good to vent, I suppose…
In the meantime, I’ve voted all I can, so I’m going to shut off from it for the last few hours. May the most popular blog win (and I hope it’s WUWT).
The surge in voting for PZ is probably due to DailyKos urging its readers to vote against WUWT by casting a strategic vote for PZ.