Apparently there’s a lot of interest in inverted proxy cum hockey stick data. WUWT’s post…
IQ Test: Which of these is not upside down?
…placed second overall on WordPress blogs worldwide, even beating CNN. The only post higher rated with traffic was WordPress own internal announcement post about Twitter (which every blogger sees when they login).
Citation: http://www.webcitation.org/5kckhZ0qi
In WordPress perspective, as they list on their main page:
The best of 244,660 bloggers, 177,719 new posts, 218,847 comments, & 45,327,262 words today on WordPress.com.
WUWT came in at #11 for blogs overall seen here: http://botd.wordpress.com/ Most of the other contenders are fluff or entertainment news. Though I confess I do like Hack-A-Day and read it on occasion.
For all my critics and their disparaging words, I must be doing something right, because WUWT is the only blog with science content to be in the top 20 of WordPress.
Congratulations Anthony, I have read this site every day for at least 2 years. This is the best site on the internet. I appreciate the decorum, and the scientific debates that happen here from time to time. Nobody is snipped except for ad hominems, and abusive language. I learn alot about subjects that I didn’t even know existed. To become wise, one must first learn how much he doesn’t know.
Slightly OT … but this may be worthy of a post in itself, along the lines of the FOI’d US Treasury ETS impact assessment on US households.
The Australian newspaper is running a blog on the upcoming release of a working paper on Australian Government FOI’d modelling of the Aussie ETS (CPRS) impact. The blog is here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26226982-33435,00.html
Presumably the working paper will show up here some time today:
https://www.tai.org.au/
Ironically both the anti-AGW politicians and the Greens are likely to be unhappy about the findings, which Labor (the party in power) will take as meaning they got the political balancing act of the ETS right…
Some points of interest (from the blog summary):
“Using graphs taken from Treasury spreadsheets of the CPRS modelling, Denniss argues that when the CPRS comes in there is a slight reduction in the amount of electricity generated from black coal between 2010 and 2020 and virtually no reduction in brown coal electricity — the dirtiest form of electricity generation — over the same period. ”
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“After 2020, says Denniss, emissions from black coal-fired power stations are actually forecast to rise slightly before stabilising until about 2033.”
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“This is because the CPRS has no effect on the competitiveness of coal-fired power stations.
The projected carbon price of around $20-$25 per tonne is significantly less than the cost difference between renewable electricity and coal-fired electricity. While the introduction of a carbon price will reduce the profits of the coal-fired power stations, it will not reduce the amount of electricity they generate.”
Remind me why we were introducing this legislation again?
Robert Wykoff (18:10:37) :
Congratulations Anthony, I have read this site every day for at least 2 years. This is the best site on the internet. I appreciate the decorum, and the scientific debates that happen here from time to time. Nobody is snipped except for ad hominems, and abusive language. I learn alot about subjects that I didn’t even know existed. To become wise, one must first learn how much he doesn’t know.
My thoughts, perfectly stated.
(except the grammar n*zi in me would break alot into two words)
Remind me why we were introducing this legislation again?
That’s because it’s not about reducing CO2 emissions. It is about creating a tax base for the United Nations to transfer wealth around the world, as it sees fit of course.
Congrats ~ a hockey stick we can believe in ~ WUWT traffic figures.
Has anyone seen real Climate’s latest headline?
The Global Cooling Myth
I guess the same thing can be said about global warming.
Brilliant work Anthony!
Pearland Aggie (17:52:59) :
Dr. Roy has a new blog post up….
IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/10/ipcc-crushes-scientific-objectivity-91-0/
Yes, it’s the AGW believers who have so intently denied the existence of natural/”internal” Climate Change, not the eeevilll sceptics. The ipcc erasing its own 1995 graph showing the MWP – hey, with “Climate Science” that’s simply not a problem!
I visit about three times a day. Always something of interest to read even if no new post.
(I have the time as a pensioner 🙂 )
Reading this blog keeps me sane. Gordon Brown is on TV right now declaring he has only 50 days to save the world !!!!!!
Richard111 00:37:28
The real Flash Gordon only had 14 hours to save the world from Ming the Merciless in the film. 50 days should plenty for our Gordon; after all, he’s already saved the world from the financial crisis, (according to him), so this should be a piece of cake.
You are number 1 on Word Press with me !!!
Keep up the great work !!
Congratulations not only to you, Anthony, but to all your readers whose minds are open to new information and who apply their expertise(s) to all the issues you present. All of us are richer as well as more humble as we learn how much we don’t know — and the more we know, the more we find we don’t know. You are more willing to pursue the unknown than most.
Most important, I think, are “all the issues you present”; this blog is unique because of your personality, your curiosity and inventive mind. You combine science and humor with civility and generosity.
I hope others commit themselves to a subscription — a regular monthly or annual payment — for WUWT. I have cancelled a number of so-called science mags and journals so that I can support real science, A heartfult thank you.
Some criticism of the methods used by wordpress to determine that WUWT had the second highest traffic count was leveled today by Dr. Michael Mann. He is quoted as stating “the usage of upside down data is bizarre”. Multivariate regression methods are sensitive to the sign of predictors. Screening, when used, employed one-sided tests only when a definite sign could be a priori reasoned on coffee grounds. Potential RC nonsystematic influences on the CNN and other blogsites proxies were discussed in the heliosphere, which showed that inverted numerical conclusions relied on their use.
To interpret: Well done, Anthony!
Anthony wrote blog
Climate alarmists fuming
‘cuz Nature bats last
You Miss MY Deadline, And You’re ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!
God, these people are insane!
You know, this “DO IT NOW!” strategy worked soooooo well for Obama on health care reform. Lets hope Brown meets with similar success.
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Congrats on second place!