A new month, new year, new decade, and a new record

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Layne Blanchard
January 1, 2010 5:38 pm

I’ll bet Gavin’s head is spinning like a Linda Blair/Excorcist rerun….

Maurice J Smalley
January 1, 2010 6:51 pm

Hockey results 2009
Anthony “Hockey Stick” Watts and Team beat CRUDites “Hockey Stick” Team hands down.
Stanley Cup is renamed Watts Cup.
CRUDites team continue to play on with broken sticks.
Keep on whacking them Anthony, they will have to give up one day, month, year, decade, century, millennium. Don’t stop until they are all dead and buried like the LUDDites.
Kind regards and Happy New Year from New Zealand, the only ice down here at present is in the refrigerator along with the ice cold beers.

ecph
January 1, 2010 7:09 pm

We all need to be worried. When IPCC scientists find this graph they will argue that WUWT needs to be shut down. The alarming, exponential, increase in page views will cause the Internet to break down in a few months. It will be the end of the world.

Evan Jones
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January 1, 2010 7:14 pm

Phew. Another year ends. Technically we have to wait a year till the next decade, but that has been swept aside by colloquy.
At any rate it may well be the the warm has turned.

Fluffy Clouds (Tim L)
January 1, 2010 7:34 pm

Is this hockey stick real climate reviewed?
get a mann on it!!!!!!!
to you and yours………………..
oh my my my!

Michael Larkin
January 1, 2010 7:56 pm

I’m another who has become a regular since Climategate broke. It’s almost as much fun here as having sex. Turn the proud hockey stick hit stats 90 degrees clockwise… kinda symbolic.
Looks like RC’s beginning to flag. No bad thing, as AGW’s been shafting so many for so long, but now no amount of manipulation seems to be able to raise it from what is surely an incipient and insipid decline.
Happy New Year, Anthony and all, and congratulations on a super site. You’ve taught me a lot and I’m convinced that the truth will prevail. It always does in the end.

Lord Taylor
January 1, 2010 8:56 pm

That graph at the top of this post is (un) Real Climate’s worst nightmare. Anthony and everyone else, all the very best to you in 2010.
REPLY: Thanks for the note. Perhaps it is, though this one really drives the point home. Note the Y axis is not linear.
WUWT vs RC
The Climategate spike is evident in both, but WUWT has retained more readers than RC. – A

Markus Schaer
January 1, 2010 9:00 pm

Great job – thank you very much.

Ian Cooper
January 1, 2010 9:04 pm

Congratulations to Anthony and all of his moderators. Someone earlier said that you were helping us scale a mountain. I think that you are creating a mountain, and not out of a mole hill either, but one that will eventually overshadow the opposition. Keep up the great work everyone.
Meanwhile down here in the SW corner of the big pond, a.k.a. the Pacific, this so-called mild El Nino is still ripping at the roofing irons and rattling the window panes of my 100 year old house. A new year ( but not decade) may have started but us west coasters in N.Z. are still waiting for summer to start.
2010 is shaping as a very interesting year on many fronts. The best seats in the house to watch from are right here at Watts Up With That, as nearly 4.9 million hits can testify.

JC
January 1, 2010 9:11 pm

Seriously Anthony, I thought better of you.
A new decade?
Now please. If I am to take you seriously I need a retraction.
Please tespond.

REPLY:
Oh the argument about what is the start of the new millennium, 2000 or 2001, or new decade 2010 or 2011. Purely technical says 2001/2010 Popular vote says 2000/2010. I’ll go with the popular vote here. Damned if I do/don’t either way. -A

JC
January 1, 2010 9:12 pm

oops
respond

JC
January 1, 2010 9:13 pm

funny though

JC
January 1, 2010 9:28 pm

Anthony,
How sad.
The popular vote cannot change 3 into 4. Anthony not know this?
REPLY: 3 into 4??? what then are you talking about?

JC
January 1, 2010 9:30 pm

Anthony,
No disassembale. Disassembale is wrong

REPLY:
Are you speaking in tongues or drunk? You are making absolutely no sense -A

JC
January 1, 2010 9:31 pm

Math is not about what is popular.
Ten is Ten not Nine!!!

JC
January 1, 2010 9:33 pm

If a million people thought 3 was 4 it would not change what 3 is!!
This is what we face. If you can’t see that then I need to find a new blog!!!!!!

JC
January 1, 2010 9:34 pm

The quote was meant to be funny.
It is from The movie” Short Circuit”
REPLY: alrighty then…moving on – A

JC
January 1, 2010 9:40 pm

Sorry about the spelling. it’s late and suddenly I’m of no mood.

Bulldust
January 1, 2010 9:48 pm

Well deserved Mr Watts… keep up the good work. What´s the betting that the Team try to invert this data? Oh wait, they already have on RC…

JC
January 1, 2010 10:12 pm

Mr. Watts,
Frankly, I am surprised at your response to my post. You dismiss it in a cavalier manner, not immediately surprising considering the topic but if people are to take you seriously then you must act accordingly. You cannot treat the start and end of a decade as if it had no importance. You become like the so-called scientists at HAD CRU. Math is the foundation of science. To just blithely say “ whatever “ is not science. I can take you no more seriously than I take them.
REPLY: Oh puhlleeeze! You speak in strange movie quote terms with poor spelling, admit its supposed to be humorous when it clearly falls flat, and you demand to be taken seriously? Bugger off, your argument is lame. -A

Mike Fox
January 1, 2010 10:24 pm

The numbers prove this is the place to go for good, understandable information regarding one of the most important issues of the time.
And good science, to boot!
Congratulations to Anthony and moderators.

Craigo
January 2, 2010 3:19 am

JC (22:12:02) : To just blithely say “ whatever “ is not science. I can take you no more seriously than I take them.
Perhaps JC could refer to that great bastion of scientific knowledge – yes .. wiki! Wiki has a good discussion about the millennium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenium and concepts of ordinal and cardinal time. It also refers to ISO 8601:2004 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times. http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format
So the scientific explanation of “whatever” is “in accordance with ISO 8601:2004” in line with the international reach of WUWT. I will give the mods latitude here. Not all blogs have moderators that also perform volunteer diaper service.
ps. Do try this at home – it expands the mind!

Oslo
January 2, 2010 8:16 am

Congratulations!
Watts Up seems to have reached a tipping point, leading to a runaway effect.
This, of course due to massive positive feedback.

Steve Oregon
January 2, 2010 10:48 am

People in general, along with the Team and MSM ,should consider what the collective expertise and analysis these numbers represent.
Considering these numbers and the crossover from CA and others this is by far the largest scientific analysis and discussion in the the history of mankind.
The ultimate check and balance now exists.
The level of diverse expert scrutiny now being applied to claims by our institutions has greatly constrained their ability to distort and manipulate.
What I look forward to are consequences for those who do so.
I see the unraveling of the AGW movement leading to warmers claiming they were only going with best science and practices at the time while many claim they were only following orders.
A familiar chain of excuses for participants in scandals throughout history.
And like previous events the more hardcore offenders are still engaged in widening their [ alleged…(no body is convicted, yet.) -mod] crimes.
Their futile attempt to preserve the movement by adding even more layers of phony science and alarm is only adding to their infamy.

derek
January 2, 2010 11:19 am

Looks like al gores income projections.