Back on March 15th, 2009, I was amazed to find that WUWT hit 10 million on the internal WordPress hit counter.
I started the WUWT blog in late November of 2006, and it took me over two years to get there
Now just six months later, I’m amazed again:
Despite the many people of the alarmism bent who dislike what we do here, WUWT continues to be popular. As always thanks to the many many readers, the guest contributors, and especially to our moderators dbs, Charles, and Evan who keep the flow of conversation going smoothly.
I’m grateful to all of you for the continued success and support. I’m especially grateful to those who spread WUWT links on other websites, helping to drive traffic here.
Now my most important question: what could WUWT do different or better?
– Anthony
The reason you have achieved such growth in your site hits is that you have provided an oasis in the desert of nonsense. And people need to drink.
Thanks and congratulations to Anthony and all the team. I’m relatively new to WUWT and I can’t tell you how valuable I have found it. It is really helpful and balanced. Apart from presenting the facts and holding others in the scientific and wider community to acocunt, you are striking a blow for real science in the face of the corrosions and corruptions that are occurring due to the politicisation of science and the growth of vested interests. There seems to be a dangerous and growing tendenacy for scientists to take the public at large for fools and sadly all too often they fall for it based upon fear and the endless propaganda of impending doom. Well done and keep it up.
Lucy, I usually agree with you as well, and I do this time too. This issue however is as tainted as the climate debate. The real science is smothered by the propaganda. The main problem I have is how do we know we have reached Peak if we have no idea what remains?
David Ball (09:22:30) :
🙂
Lucy Skywalker (12:02:30) :
David Ball (09:22:30) :
I know there’s a lot of it in Alaska. Flooding the US market with that oil would alleviate some of the economic pressure right now. 🙂
Back on topic :
I’m happy for Anthony and WUWT. I wish everyone was aware of this web site. Maybe an ad in Yahoo would cause a crash from so many hits. But that’s a good kind of crash.
Congratulations Anthony and moderators. You have achieved what so many academics have despaired over – you are bridging the divide between scientists and non-scientists and helping to re-engage non-specialists in debate over fundamental scientific issues! (Perhaps not in the way, however, that the “elites” would prefer). I’m one of the new 10,000,000 – and have been an addict ever since I first linked in about 4 months ago. Thanks for the sanity you help bring to this crazy “finished” debate. As for improving your website, I like the idea of indexing the topics, because as a science historian I think WUWT is going to be of very great interest to those who are trying to reconstruct what has happened to science in this era. Fantastic work!
Now my most important question: what could WUWT do different or better?
– Anthony
More guest posts from Bill Illis, Roy Spencer, and what about Fred Singer? I think Bill Illis has more to offer than he realizes.
Secondly—I wish WUWT would advertise at hot websites.
Oh, and thirdly, how about WUWT t-shirts and bumper stickers?
vigilantfish (18:47:23) :
My second post here but vigiliantfish’s suggestion of archiving WUWT [ plus Climate Audit plus a couple of other prominent blogs ] is an essential requirement for historians to pore over in the decades and even perhaps centuries ahead.
I assume that all of the WUWT postings are still in an electronic archive format held somewhere on the net.
The electronic medium and electronic links and systems now used may alter very substantially over the next few decades and subsequently vast amounts of today’s data and history may be permanently lost.
As WUWT now holds such a prominent position and holds increasing amounts of information and data on the moderate skeptic’s side of the Global Warming / Climate Change debate, consideration should be given to placing the entire past, current and future WUWT proceedings onto a very long lasting and totally self contained and completely independent data storage medium that will still be accessible and translatable long into the future.
That way there will always be another viewpoint and another view of the sequence of events on the Great Global Warming debate for future historians to ponder over and as an alternative viewpoint to overwhelming propaganda of the warmists.
We owe it to future generations to preserve the history of the past and present for without history the human race has no past to build the future on.
Congratulations from NW Italy!
Every 5 min I stay here, I can collect publications, links and data I need a full week to study it.
I’m learning really a lot of things about climatology, meteorology and SCIENCE.
Thanks to Antony and to all the crew here ad WUWT.
Yes, the WUWT site takes up too much of my day too. But better that than spending a bunch of money and time on a shrink to deal with my anxiety about just how wrong the warmists are. You give all of us hope, Anthony. You take care of yourself, because there are a lot of people depending on you.
Although I’m trying to wean myself a tad, the addiction just gets worse. Congratulations Anthony and the gang.
This is likely the 212th comment to this post. The 10^7 post garnered 103. That seems appropriate, though I caution applying any sort of statistical analysis to those figures!
Looking at Climate Audit today, Ric Werme, it looks to me like yiou should be able to write a book, buy a crane, do TV programs, and get a Nobel Prize with your two numbers.
I’m trying to remember, how long after the last global [warming|cooling] panic shown irrevocably to be nonsense was before the folks shut up about it?