As many of you know, the Weblog Awards ended Tuesday. Today WUWT was certified as the winner in the “Best Science Blog” category. The vote totals were unchanged from 5PM EST Tuesday. I had thought perhaps the last minute surges drummed up on Daily Kos and Huffington Post might have changed the outcome, be we persevered.
I’d like to sincerely thank all of you in the WUWT community of readers, contributors, and moderators, for creating (and maintaining) an atmosphere in which this could happen. Thanks also go to many friends who run other blogs and websites whom network and share content with us.
There are two other people I’d like to thank and to congratulate. Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit, who won last year and made a strong third place showing this year. Steve has been an inspiration to me in the last year.
I’d also like to congratulate Dr. James Hansen, of NASA GISS, whom was recently awarded the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
The award states: The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal is presented by AMS to researchers making outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure or behavior of the atmosphere.
I may disagree with some of Dr. Hansen’s methods and findings, but the above is certainly true. Congratulations are in order to him.
Patrick Henry (10:14:26)
I enjoyed the comments in that first link on Revkin’s thread about Hansen.
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Congratulations Anthony. You and the regular posters have taught me much about climate science and I greatly appreciate it.
Rich D.
Trenton, MI
Um, didn’t you call for Hansen to be fired for going to the U.K. to defend, in open court, enviro-thugs (plus a host of other sound reasons)? While it may be the high road to praise Hansen for winning this award, isn’t he the one who tells us to ignore meteorologists because they aren’t climatologists? Especially when those meteos balk at man-made GW? There is absolutely no reason, imho, to waste valuable web space in congratulating the man who stokes the very worst fears to further his own agenda.
I will tell you that I’m happy you won the science category. It’s nice to see someone I voted for actually win for a change! 🙂
Congratulations from a French WUWT addict.
Congratulations!
You thoroughly deserve it.
Congratulations on the win, Anthony. The compelling mix of general interest and more esoteric topics presented in a bright and breezy package makes for a winning formula.
I especially appreciate your recognition of James Hansen’s award. That was a highly magnanimous gesture.
Anthony. As a long time reader I find your site and most of your contributors to be truly fascinating.
However, I believe that most of you are wrong about Hansen. He has made an outstanding contribution to the structure of the atmosphere. He won’t shut up long enough to stop adding to it.
Kim: “:…when will you fools finally give up Hansen?”
When will you fools finally give up your cycles?
When will we fools finally give up our cycles?
When the wind don’t blow and the grass don’t grow, and the sun don’t shine . . .
wattsupwiththat (06:11:04) :
REPLY: Thank you Joel, the goal is to be able to disagree, without being disagreeable. – Anthony
That is the essence of what, (Watt), makes this blog great!
Thank you Anthony & congratulations. I know it’s just a bit of fun, but it must give you a nice warm feeling 🙂
DaveE.
Congratulations Anthony, you deserve the award.
Also congratulations to Dr. Hansen, bless his heart.
Graciousness toward Hansen is neither deserved nor appropriate. It is not a matter of disagreement. We are dealing with an individual who crossed the line from mere advocacy to obsessiveness some time ago. His testimony on behalf of vandals in the UK alone qualifies him as dangerous to the rule of law. His call for trials for those whose companies produce CO2 moved him toward ideological alignment with terrorists who seek to destroy us because of their disagreements with our way of life. His contempt for those who disagree with him puts him squarely in the tradition of the long human history of intolerance.
No, there is a point where well intended civility is no longer a reasonable course for civilized people. Self defense is.
Congratulations, of course!
And I have to say, I’m in agreement with Noblesse Oblige on the Hansen thing.
Have you guys seen this…
Ecofascists Losing War
http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/ecofascists-losing-war/
It seems as if the Alarmists are not happy!
Gio-
Ooh the irony! An anti-science wackaloon wins the award for “Best Science Blog”.
[REPLY – Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that both sides of the argument are freely allowed and (relatively speaking) respectfully debated. Just a thought. ~ Evan.]
Yes Sman almost as ironic as non scientists coming to this blog and telling the readers, who in large numbers are real scientists, that Anthony is a an anti-science wackaloon.
I am embarassed for the AMS for their choice of the great fabricator of the GISS data. Even though he did bring huge quantities of grant money into the field, it is sad that they were willing to sell their integrity. I wonder though was the choice made by a handful of political types or the actual membership? For the kind of bucks that is being thrown at AGW I wonder how many organizations would have problems with preserving their scientific integrity. Hmm… I wonder if APS gives him an award maybe we could afford a new building or better yet we could cut the price of our journals to something a person can afford even if his school doesn’t pay the bill.
Soon we will have the rediculous fraud of cap and trade right here in the USA thanks to Mr. Waxman and his whole crew; despite a brutal current winter which follows last winter which was the coldest in a generation. I wonder how clueles can they be?
I’m sorry but James Hansen getting a Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society is like Trofim Lysenko receiving the USSR’s highest honor for his research into genetics.
If I was a member of the AMS, I’d be thoroughly embarassed.
Fantastic!
Congratulations!
We opened a bottle of MOËT & CHANDON in your honour. Félicitations!
J.K. said
I will tell you that I’m happy you won the science category. It’s nice to see someone I voted for actually win for a change! 🙂
Seconded. You received almost all my votes, though I must admit I voted for Mr McIntyre’s equally excellent site once I was sure that you were in an unbeatable position. A well-deserved win for an interesting, informative, instructive and above all civilized site. May it go from strength to strenth.
Ooh the irony! An anti-science wackaloon wins the award for “Best Science Blog”.
Actually Smantroll, if you want anti-science wackaloons you want to be over at DeSmugblinkered or any number of other pseudoscientific climate alarmist sites seething with rage now because they’re losing, and they know it. More and more people are waking up to the fact that AGW/CC is nothing but a huge fraud. This site is a testament to that fact, as well as the fact that here, unlike the alarmist sites, honest, respectful debate is welcomed, which is how science advances. But, I guess you wouldn’t know, or even care anything about that.
Congratulations Anthony and everyone here on the deserved award.
It can only be for the good of us all.
I can not agree with you regarding J Hansen though.
Surely that award is not for the good of science, or good science,
or how it will effect us all.
Which is the bigger picture surely.
An anti-science wackaloon wins the award for “Best Science Blog”.
M
Sman, I don’t think that a blog where the blogger writes about himself driving a nail through the eucharistia and throwing it in the wastebin has anything to do with the science as well. Maybe next time it should be nominated under the Atheism heading, but hardly under science as such.
They confuse AGW skepticism with creationism and flat earthers. Little do they understand that the AGW true believers are the new deniers of climate realism. It’s highly ironic.
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Congrats Anthony albeit late!
May your work be an inspiration to spawn more real science blogs next year, as Steve Mac’s was to you this year. After having surveyed all the runners-up, I’m awfully aware we need more real science!
An anti-science wackaloon Sman, if you are a scientist yourself I would expect you to start from the material to hand, to comment on the evidence. To me, your own words do not sound like a scientist’s observations. My observations show me that the scientific attitude is like Brighton rock: it goes right through the whole personality, wherever you cut it.