During the summer, numbers held steady. This month saw some significant growth. According to the stats, the hit counter reached 2 million about 10:18AM on the morning of October 31st.
Here’s the graph from the internal WordPress stats system. Raw data, not adjusted, directly measured.
As always, I think of this as a joint success. The readers, moderators, and contributors make this site what it is. I couldn’t do it alone.
You all have my sincere thanks for being an active part of this success. Because of that shared success, I always like to share good news.
– Anthony
That graph needs a hockey stick. Perhaps the data should be sent to GISS for adjustment.
I am glad that for some of us seeking the truth is still a motivator as powerful as an interest in naked girls. There’s hope for humanity yet.
Keep up your good work, and evil forces of New Dark Ages shall be defeated!
Well done Mr. Watts.
People need the truth, they can handle the truth, and you are giving them the truth…
Thank you.
Do you have any statistics about which country those readers are from?
Well I’m not so sure I would make Alexander’s comparison, but the continued and growing success of this site does give me hope. Congratulations.
Alexander Feht, There are naked girls on the internet? Where?
If there is anything I’ve learned at WUWT is statements need to be backed up by facts, we’ll need links, lots of links……
🙂
Now, if you’d just map CO2 concentrations over the top, I think we have a correlation. Of course, you may need to Mann-ipulate the x-axis (ie, have two) so that you can stretch the CO2 data for the last 150 years over the life of the site.
Then, you can send it to the IPCC for inclusion in the next Summary for Policy Makers. I have no doubt that it will stand-up to the IPCC’s peer-review process!
Since discovering this site, I send everyone, doubters and supporters of AGW alike, here.
Good work (Even though I don’t hold up much hope our leaders are heading down the right path in all this).
Alexander Feht (00:24:41) :
I prefer a powerful interest in naked men – by girls.
the most intersting thing is that while WUWT steams ahead, Real Climate and their pro AGW sympathisers have languished and are becoming almost moribund, their readers are leaving in droves ; perhaps because the weakness in their arguments have been exposed, and their scientific credibility has been damaged by their refusal to seriously debate the science, and the slavish subservience to the pontification of the IPCC.
Congratulatons to Anthony and the moderators and particulary to the contributors who are prepared to debate all the issues and tolerate with patience obvious questions from less knowledgable readers.
And to the contributors with such irreverant wit, to make a bit of fun out of the debates, the mix makes WUWT a pleasure to read.
Theres a link on Instapundit to an AGW poll by the San Fran Examiner. The poll is slanted, almost a push poll in favor of AGW hysteria. But it asks where you get your AGW news and I imagine that a lot of folks who are “deniers” will be listing your site. Beware, the Obama administration may be giving you the “Edmonds” and “Fox news” treatments as soon as Cap and Tax hits the congress.
Just FYI
Anthony, thought I know you have 30 years of meteorology and broadcasting behind you, I never fail to be amazed with your output and consistent good quality and courtesy.
I hope that when the Climate Science plague is eventually brought under sufficient control, you’ll think further about how to put this work on a footing that doesn’t depend on your presence. I at least am aware that this new Citizens’ Science that is stumbling its way into being is going to be vital in the future (a) as a necessary counterbalance to professional science, much as Open Source balances Microsoft, and (b) it’s an amazing creative and therapeutic outlet for many to make a real contribution and feel a sense of personal connection. I suspect others think likewise.
But that’s for next year. I’ve got to take a break now.
I notice the graph is linked in direct proportion to the releases of lying propaganda from the global warming industry. This can only be considered good news, as the more hysterical the alarmists become, the more people want to know the truth.
Looks like a tipping point was reached in Dec 2007. Amazing how people stop believing in rubbish when they lose a little financial comfort.
Regards
Michael
Thank you, Anthony, for providing a forum for facts and argument on global warming . I appreciate all the effort, energy and expertise you have provided to keep intellectual debate alive and well against the forces of doctrinaire persuasion.
Well done! This blog has done more to change the terms of the debate than any other. The right mix of news, data, humour and attitude. May WUWT go from strength to strength!
Great! 30 million by Christmas?
Anthony, you are one of the voices of sanity in a word consumed by AGW madness. Long may you, and your fellow realists, defend ethical science in the face of unfettered political greed.
I only come for the laughs.
Bravo, Anthony. As a Conservative Association Chairman and ex Army Officer, I am a firm believer that climate has changed without man’s efforts, will continue changing wih or without man and life will adapt anyway. I see few efforts going into studying that however the globe warms, man will benefit as a whole from several more degrees of it. Lord Lawson is clear that if the globe was warming there are 10 important things we should be doing about it and squandering money against GW is not on his list. Bjorn Lomberg also is of that view to a great extent.
I love your site and frequently share it with the guys over at NASA ! Keep up the great work and keep the church of climate scientology on its toes.
Warmism, like the communism and fascism which preceeded, it will have its brief day in the sun – but be warned these three “isms” are attempting to merge and morph into something worse.
Congratulations, Anthony! Now that you’ve cracked the 2 million hits/month mark, we are pleased to inform you that you have made a quantum leap into the next bracket of carbon emission taxes.
Not everyone realises this, but those web page hits give rise to trillions of electrons roaring around the world at the speed of light, and these are robustly believed to be responsible for the release of some kilograms of carbon dioxide, the well-known plant food and deadly killer trace gas.
As we speak, several molecules of CO2 in the troposphere at temperatures as high as -50C are unleashing a barrage of lethal infra-red radiation at the earth. Our fragile, pathetic planet, accustomed as it is to dealing only with the consequences of mild phenomena such as tropical storms and polar blizzards, is clearly unable to deal with such withering assaults in its remorseless search for equilibrium (which you ordinary mortals choose to call “weather”). Hence, you must be punished. (Nothing personal – it’s the law, or at least it will be if our pusillanimous political masters have their way in Copenhagen in a few weeks time.)
The simplest solution, if you wish to avoid imprisonment for your wanton encouragement of electron wastage, is to send a cheque for at least $100,000 to this office, whence it will be distributed to those worthy causes who recognise that mankind is truly evil and should be shivering in caves rather than living in plump comfort.
If you wish to contribute more directly to the deserving heroes of the near future, simply post your cheque to your favourite African dictator or ex-Enron trader.
Regards,
Bob Highland
This graph totally misses the early decedal drop in interest. The sharp upturn at the end is thrown into question.
Are these statistics based on one bloke in his pyjamas mis-hitting his keyboad in Alberta?
Were those computers located in the shade or in full sun?
Yet another “worse than expected” scenario for ‘real’ climate scientists to agonize over.