Last month I was surprised to find WUWT broke the 2 million hits barrier.
This month, it’s worse than we thought:
Just another effect of Climategate.
In other news, some other websites didn’t appear to benefit from the Climategate “bump”.
From Alexa.com
As always, I say I could not have done this alone. My sincere thanks to the many contributors, and moderators Charles, DB, and Evan. Of course, let’s not forget all the readers and commenters. Truly a global village we have here.
@ur momisugly Howard Preece (02:36:09) “Today, however, the Times leads page one with a strory (sic) from SCAR about ice meltdown in the Antarctic which is supposedly a massive threat to hordes of cities all over the world.”
The SCAR press release link in the Times story does not say what the Times says it says. The SCAR release is replete with the usual “maybe” “could” “if” “or” “should”, etc. SCAR only implies what the Times printed. You wouldn’t buy a used car after this kind of pitch.
This is just manna for the Copenhagen bound masses.
Nice job, Anthony and crew!
Don’t discount the effect of Twitter, too. You joined Sept or Oct, I think.
It takes a village to control the idiots.
I’m thinking you’ll need more bandwidth to handle the increased traffic due to Climategate! I put $25 in the pot, just in case — small token of appreciation for all you do in the war against the AGW hucksters. I encourage all the villagers to do the same.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was wrong about the e-mails. I strongly believed their release might be a ploy in the first couple of days after the e-mails were released. That was not the case.
The old military mind, however, remembers the Battle of the Bulge and similar historical counterattacks and constrains us to keep our powder dry. Today, counterattacks are known as “spin”.
That ain’t no hockey stick, that’s a TSUNAMI.
Absolutely incredible work, Anthony and team.
Thanks to all the pros who comment and add so much to this site.
Thanks to all the readers like me who add to the numbers and try to understand.
Thanks to all the contributors.
I’m guessing code for that graph isn’t in Fortran?
Great work and congratulations, Anthony and colleagues. Anthony you have a genius (a scientist’s nose for) those “puzzling things in life” and you know how to attract and select both “assistants”: and topics. From being puzzled about how temperature in the U.S. is measured — how accurately sited, recorded, and raw data kept unadulterated — you have engaged the array of other sciences necessary for understanding climate. And you have pointed us to other blogs and sources for the same.
Thanks for sticking to the basic principles of the scientific method in every area and, with discipline, permitting the wide range of comments/opinions. Without either, neither science nor representative democracy can survive. Your hockey stick is for the real game.
I wish Leif Svalgaard would rejoin “you” (it feels like “us”). His expertise in solar research and his insightful commitment to the scientific method — in his every comment, no matter how droll or exasperated — added immeasureably to scienctific discussion and education.
And education, in many ways, is the core of the blog. How many readers have gained, re-learned, re-examined, and/or enhanced their knowledge of the science, and the scepticism of the scientific method, that citizens of any free society must have? Kudos and a great debt of gratitude to you, Anthony. I am delighted to subscribe (with an annual, paid quarterly, amount) to WUWT.
Hanson was interviewed by a blogger at the Houston Chronicle the other day. Good for a chuckle or 3. http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/12/james_hansen_the_interview_in_its_entirety.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fsciguy+%28SciGuy%29
Anthony,
I salute you here from Portugal. We need to keep on this great work. The number of sites opposing AGW, in Portuguese, also have a hockey stick effect. Keep on the great work!
Ecotretas
Rats! This used to be a site for a “select” few. Now we’ve got to wait in line to comment with the rest of the hoi-polloi. Kidding aside, it’s great to see your success. Especially since the intelligentsia treated you and the surfacestations project as Don Quixote.
Speaking of which surfacestations.org got mentioned on Ars Tecnnica . Snarky comment that also shows they don’t grasp the significance.
Today was a great day for all of us in Australia opposed to Labor’s “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” – the CPRS.
A grassroots revolt the likes of which the Liberal Party (the Conservatives) has never seen turned the tide at the last minute and led directly to the downfall of Liberal Party AGW true believers Opposition leader Turnbull and his media-favoured sidekick Joe Hockey.
A huge vote of thanks to WUWT, Tim Blair, Andrew Bolt and a handful of conservative politicians who weren’t afraid to say the AGW Emperor has no clothes. In return they copped the full force of being branded climate change deniers and worse by Labor PM KRudd and a lazy, compliant, lickspittle media.
I dips me lid (take my hat off) to Senators Barnaby Joyce and Cory Bernardi and MPs Wilson Tuckey and Dennis Jensen ably supported by Professor Ian Plimer and Professor Bob Carter. These never-say-die champs fought a marvellous rearguard action pretty much on their own until the last week or so when Tony Abbott and the cavalry saved the day.
The next year or so will make for interesting politics – but at last the AGW doomsters who want to tax us into oblivion now have a fight on their hands.
Last sentence in thread start is clearly correct; and perhaps one of the best encapsulations of the service WUWT is providing in these ”dynamic” times; i.e.:
”Truly a global village we have here.”
While it’s not always easy to tell on 1st read, it’s clear both from context and those who self-identify that people from all over the world are making WUWT one of the central ”clearinghouses” in the struggle to have objective science win out in the struggle with a modern AGW equivalent of the Inquisition out of the the Middle Ages.
SIDEBAR: I concur with prior comment: An actual WUWT conference could be a really interesting, educational, and fun event. As someone who organized several conferences for specialized software engineers, IMO even with all the modern techie communication tools it’s still hard to beat being able to meet & greet and look people in the eye at a real conference. . . . Of course organizing and running a conference can quickly become non-trivial.
Still: It’s a tempting thought. . . .
Congrats to:
1) Anthony – this site is invaluable;
2) Admins and Mods- see above; and,
3) The Commenters who share even more information.
Ron de Haan (4:53:51) – Yesterday, I read that quote from WH spokesman Gibbs, in response to a question concerning Climategate, that the Whitehouse believes that “climate change is happening.” My initial thought was to wish for a sentient reporter to ask Mr. Gibbs: “And when throughout history does the Whitehouse believe that climate change was not happening?”
Let us drink to Reason!
A rare sight, this site.
Well done Anthony and Co. You are performing a great public service. I started looking at your site after regularly reading Christopher Booker in the Telegraph. Today it is the first site I’m visiting.
I am very angry that the mainstream media, but especially the BEEB, are not running with climategate as their main news. It seems that T. Woods esq. and his ‘accident’ are more important!? (not).
I’m a first-time commenter, but I’ve read most of the blogs here (a lot of them I’ve read twice). I just wanted to offer a heartfelt thank you. Anthony, you run this site fearlessly. In the end, that’s all most of us really want, to live and pursue our interests without fear. You allow opposing points of view, and you don’t even have to worry about the results. That’s how it goes when you’re more interested in the absolute, actual, factual truth, rather than being an agenda-driven goon, a la OwlGore.
I will donate to the cause within the next few days, as a more tangible expression of support.
You’d better copyright that graph or it might get lifted and show up in the next IPCC Report or in Michael Mann’s studies…har har.
Congrats though. This is ONE hockey stick that is actually based upon reality.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Does this mean that our emails (that is what this site is ya know) are getting more reads than “theirs”?
By the way, for those searching for their village idiot, I believe they will all be at Copenhagen in a few days?
Nice work!! A clear result of quality, fact based blogging. Keep this up and hopefully your taffic will reach zero!
No scantily clad girls. No sports heroes. No overly made-up, slick talking, horrifyingly handsome commentator. No need. Truth suffices. Here’s to truth!
Thanks for putting science before truth.
It is not a hockey stick
but a spear,
a lance!, a pike!,
a thunder!
which the dark clouds of thermaggedon will rip apart
so letting the sun light of truth to shine…
Congrats. Your own hockey stick. Who knew! This is to funny!
I think you owe Phil Jones a bottle of scotch this Christmas, Anthony. : )
Scientific American, not so “scientific”.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/12/scientific-american-answers-to.html