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
Where is the much greater Medieval interest period? – has it been deleted by the IPCC?
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Congratulations Anthony!. Have you checked what kind of posts are more visited?. I think those more controversial (sun & climate,etc.) and you would get a real hockey stick by selecting them.
joletaxi (07:10:40) :
Bravo!
cent fois bravo!
Dommage qu’il n’existe pas de site de ce genre de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique.Dommage également que votre gouvernement actuel se laisse entraîné dans cette mouvance. Pour nous Européens, du moins, pour une frange significative, les USA restent,restaient,le dernier rempart contre ce collectivisme rampant qui sévit depuis trop longtemps ici, et qui a retrouvé une nouvelle vie du fait de la crise économique. Vous êtes lu ici aussi,et je ne manque jamais de diriger le plus de monde possible sur votre site
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A rough translation of joletaxi above is:
Cheers! a hundred times cheers!
It’s a pity that a site of this kind does not exist on this side of the Atlantic. Shame also that your current government gets itself involved in this nonsense. For us Europeans, at least, for a significant fringe, the USA remains the last bastion against this crawling collectivism which has prevailed for too a long here, and which found a new life because of economic crisis. You are read here also, and I never fail to direct the most possible traffic onto your site.
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Go for a hockey stick
I quote this site and share the links. Gladly I might add.
A bastion of integrity is always worth a visit.
I know this comment will be considered anecdotal, but I’d like to inform people of this globull warming hogwash from a farmer’s perspective. We raise corn and soybeans in eastern Iowa. April through June was cool and wet, causing problems with planting; we had our coldest july ON RECORD this summer and August was also cooler than “normal”. Corn matures according to the heat units received and our ag specialist told us that the corn was generally 2 months behind schedule, because of the cool, wet summer. We are harvesting corn that is 26% moisture right now–sure takes a LOT of LP to dry that down to 14 % for proper storage. The soybean harvest has been a mess, because we have rain every 3-4 days, so it’s hard to get into (and out of) the fields, in addition to harvesting the beans at their best moisture content for storage. Last week, Iowa and Illinois farmers had harvested only 16% of the beans, down from a “normal” 76% rate…more evidence of the cool, wet conditions. When people tell me that the globe is warming, I want to drag their silly butts to my corner of the world and show them what’s really happening. Next year, we will be planting more short season corn and beans, just so we can have a longer harvest season. The yields will be lower, but it’s better than leaving the crops in the fields to rot.
Your website is a breath of fresh air for people who see the globull warming crowd for what they really are–people who want to tax and spend our dollars and will use any ruse to get there. Please keep up the good work, Anthony, and all you scientists and science oriented people keep fighting the good fight!
Anthony,
Congratulations and Thank You for hosting this blog that is a source of truth amidst a sea of misinformation.
Anthony,
Eventually you’ll just have to wait for global population growth to expand. Congrats on the huge success.
Cheers.
Christopher Booker points the way to this blog on a regular basis, and I followed the pointing finger about six months ago. Do you realise (note British spelling) how many late nights you have subjected me to? The quality of your contributors and most commenters together with the sensible and fair moderation make WUWT unmissable as far as I am concerned. Congratulations on such well-deserved success.
Makes sense to me. It’s getting colder and people are more likely to be inside where the computers are located instead of outside enjoying warm weather.
Cold = bad (except for WUWT)
Warm = good
I would like to add my congratulations for a job well done by Anthony and all the contributors that make this site worth reading. It has become one of my must read sites every day. When I first sign on the computer, I first check the local weather broad cast, then a quick look at the national and world news head lines, then directly here to find out the important events of the day. The depth of coverage on this site is beginning to rival the major news outlets in many respects, and the thoughtful and sometimes energetic debates are always entertaining and informative. There are a great many issues I learned here that I would be totally ignorant of if I only went to the major news organizations.
Thanks to all who come here and participate.
I also direct as many people as I can to this site if they show even the slightest interest in being intellectually curious.
Larry
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/faq/
There is no information on the meaning of “views”. It is not clear whether it is total hits (showing a page and an image is 2 hits), page views (one person viewing main page and one article is 2 views), or visits (one person viewing main page and several articles in a short period is 1 visit).
You could do something special.
Use the IP address and try and identify the 20 millionth visitor and everyone else give them 1 dollar.
If it was me that would be swell.
Once again, congratulations.
Meanwhile, the lamestream media is still trying to figure out what it’s doing wrong as its figures keep dropping. Now that’s an interesting compare-and-contrast example for you.
If you are on Twitter retweet the WUWT tweets on new items so the information reaches even more people. Do the same with new WUWT posts on Facebook. Harness the power of social media to spread the word!
Well done Anthony and thanks for all the hard work you and your helpers have put into providing this forum. Without these places much of the evidence that the hypothesis of AGW is completely wrong would go unnoticed and the dark forces who run the warmist media hype would go unopposed.
Real science is about the facts – not the theories. Current climate science suffers from have poor quality data of insufficient granularity and I find this is a good place to find some gems of real information – the debate is not over yet.
Please keep up the good work – the truth always wins out in the end.
Nice work, Anthony, moderators, and contributors. I enjoy reading this several times each week. Wish I had the time to read it all.
Thanks for providing a forum that, although allowing either side of the opinion-spectrum to post, attracts so many who have positive environmental aspirations coupled with common-sense and attention to the Scientific method that puts objectivity above transient passion!
I feel sorry for the many talented individuals on the other side of the debate who have found themselves supporting less and less credible colleagues. Gavin and Tamino, we need blokes with your intellect, to take us all forward to make for a better future.
There seems to be a lot of positive feedback in this tread… I expect the graph will spike even further… it is certainly better than we thought.
Anthony,
Thank you for your site. We can only hope some sense of scientific sanity can be brought to this field. It’s so sad that too many scientists look the other way because they do not want to get political blow-back on their grants. Eisenhower was a smarter guy than many gave him credit for being. Where is the leader we need now who can call the question seriously enough and publicly enough to make a difference. Richard Feynman, where are you when we need you?
Until then, this site has to be the beacon. Keep it shining!
Keep on being a beacon of sanity in an era of Political Science,like Galileo’s
era -even down to “indulgences”-and all we get is an engine overhaul on
Algore’s Gufstream-not the Sistine Chapel…
Congrats dude, this is an excellent website!
Remarkable!! Well done.
I believe the tipping point may have been Gore’s AIT, which backfired badly, as it caused people to actually start looking at the evidence, if nothing else than to answer the question “how scared should I be”? But there was also the claim that “the debate is over”. In 2007 I wasn’t aware of any debate whatsoever. Oh, there were a few Letters to the Editor by a few people who had to be nothing more than politically-motivated cranks, or so I thought. So, I decided to see what this supposed “debate” that I had apparently completely missed somehow was all about, and to confirm that yes, we really do need to be scared. The funny thing was, the more I learned, the more skeptical I became.
This site has become such a huge success for 2 reasons: Excellence, of course, but also an increasingly skeptical public, in part fueled by – you guessed it, this excellent site, with all of the good qualities mentioned by so many.
Keep up the good work, Anthony, and much- deserved congratulations on your continued, and increasing success.