From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator:
Climategate is closing down
I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down.
It started out as a minor little “hour a day” hobby last December after I purchased the domain name, and it turned into a monster of a site, causing me to work on it every spare hour of my day, every day. I just could no longer justify the time spent with literally pennies to a few dollars in ad revenue coming in a day. I do very much appreciate the generous donations some people made along the way, which helped with the expensive dedicated server the huge traffic required.
I spent many hours the last two weeks trying to find a solution to keeping the site going, either putting it on autopilot somehow or making a decent revenue stream off of it. I just could not do it. Believe me, I really tried.
It wasn’t fair to my family that I had my face buried in my computer all day and night. It felt like I was on a treadmill and could not get off. And I also owed it to my family to earn some income somewhere instead of just working on “the cause” all the time.
So, that’s what happened. Again, I’m really sorry.
Thank you all for everything.”
“This domain name had a web site with 570 posts, 6000 comments, a PR4 rating and Alexa rank of about 70,000, when I parked it on 3/11/10. I started the site in December 09. Just got burned out with such a popular site and had to move on to other things. The entire WordPress site is still on my server and will be saved for a buyer if they are interested.
First $100,000 takes it.
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Heh. He doesn’t know the meaning of hard work.
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Notice that Cryosphere Today is showing global sea ice extent anomaly at zero.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
Nothing really unusual about that, except we are apparently just past the peak of a moderately strong El Nino:
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf
While warmests will likely use the satellite record, which does reflect the El Nino warming:
(http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_Feb_10.jpg)
as an indication of AGW, at least they can not point to the current sea ice as an indicator. Even the big drop in the North Polar ice a few years ago is becoming more of a problem for them as it continues to recover.
As the El Nino fades, satellite temperatures drop and the Northern ice fades more slowly this spring, what in the world will they have to talk about?
“The sites been running for 120 days, from his description he’s been putting in a lot of time and effort so lets assume its 4 hours a day 7 days a week (he has to also earn money from a proper job). That means he put in 3360 hours of effort into the si”
Duh? 120 days x 4 = 480 hours. Your 3,000 or so hours was a x 7 error. Been taking lessons from Keith, Michael, Phil, Jim, Joe, Al and Rajendra…?
From here:
…and going down.
Of course, at least +/-25% error bar has to be attached to that.
P.S. WUWT according to them is 193k and going up. 🙂
Too bad. One less site posting articles almost exclusively from Alex Jones. This is probably better for the skeptics position.
Hate to bring this guy bad news, but the site isn’t worth $100k with stats like that. Maybe $20k, but mostly because of the strong URL.
@Archonix Rackspace Cloud, Media Temple for starters
Ref – Richard Gilbert (11:43:58) :
RE:TerryS
“Assuming you are right about 4 hours a day over 120 days, that equals 480 hours, not 3360.”
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Sorry, it depends on what it “FEELS” like –
3360 days at 480 hours a day and 120 days without eating.
Don’t knock til ya tried it!
The owner states he purchased the domain name. Is it known how much he paid for it? If he paid anything for it he’s out the money.
If he gives me the domain I’ll invite him to my birthday party on Friday. Last bid.
I am disappointed that such an interesting site has closed. I looked at it quite often and was impressed with the content. But family life (and earning a living) must come first. Best wishes
Taylor
Here is another BIG OIL Site;
No, I dont think so. I have a feeling its the little guy again, doing their part for mankind;
Lots of nice videos! Enjoy!
http://climateclips.com/about
From that site;
Lao Tzu from the 6th century BCE said:
“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge”.
hehe.
Never visited it, but nudges me to hit the WUWT tip jar when next I’m able.
1DandyTroll (07:54:44) :
I can’t stop laughing, but I have to say this, who asks for 100K for a site the seller him self says only makes bread crumbs and spare change?
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I kinda took that as a joke, myself! As in “I’ll be happy to sell you my 1995 Pontiac Grand Am for a million smackers!”
First offer of $1 million US gets it.
Tell you what, I’ll take over management of the site and split revenues with you. I’ll bet I can make it generate a lot more revenue. Any site with mere google adsense running on it should be able to make $60 per 100k hits. I’ve gotten that rate with sites with very low Alexa rankings and only 150k hits per month.
$100,000. That just the labor on a engine change on Al Gore’s GulfStream.
Right = Cash. See, Al gore was ‘right’ and you guys are out of business!
(the truth however, is priceless and unbuyable)
Best wishes.
From the financials and activity levels presented, I think the valuation model should be studied for what a realistic valuation should be.
I was not aware of the site, but it sounds like it was an interesting startup.
all the best,
GORE LIED (11:21:41) :
Agree. I started a skeptic site 7 years ago and ran it for a few years with the hopes of attracting some of you scientists out there to speak up, even if anonymously. What I discovered was that most of you were too chickens**** to oppose the so-called “consensus” at the time, so I shut it down. Maybe that just makes me a loudmouth, but at least I had the cojones to stand up to this nonsense.
“Doesn’t know the meaning of hard work”? And you know this…..how? Whoever this guy is, at least give him some credit for trying. I know how it is with family & kids, there’s only so many hours in a day. There was really no need for this post.
@AEGeneral ‘Maybe that just makes me a loudmouth, but at least I had the cojones to stand up to this nonsense.’
H8 to break it to ya, but you’re either just a normal person that didn’t have anything to loose, or one crazy mofo that got really lucky. :-()
Kidding aside a lot of people actually depend on income pretty much as long as they go along with the whole charade. And it doesn’t seem to matter to the climate communists that everyone knows it’s a charade, just look at Jones and Mann, outwardly besides the cracks they’re still acting like they’re on top of things…. who like uses 60’s defensive argumentation techniques today any way when people readily have the all the information at a clicks notice? lol they’re their own undoing, and it’s so hilarious because they’re all Dr doom and gloom and chaos or other evil self appointed so called rocket scientist and what not.
“GORE LIED (11:21:41) :
[…]
Anthony, I think your comments are arrogant, inappropriate, and ”
Some people are a little short in the humor department it seems… i took Anthony’s comment as tongue-in-cheek…
Do the people attacking here think, just, maybe the 100 grand thing was a joke….
“Katabasis (11:01:26) :
On the plus side, James “Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic” Lovelock appears to have reversed his views on Global Warming:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/162506/How-carbon-gases-have-saved-us-from-a-new-ice-age-
”
That was really painful to read. I guess Lovelock would describe a thermostat as “effectively alive”. What a nutty nutcase of a nutter. He makes Ehrlich look sane.
Shows how important it is to keep clicking on those adverts on the sites you like. Make it a regular habit.
$100,000 for your site!!!! What about the cause? You are greedy and half-hearted about what you intended to achieve.
Re: Pascvaks (12:33:54) :
How the hell did I get that so wrong!!!!
Anthony and Mod Team,
Thanks for the reassurance that WUWT is doing well. That is how I took your words at the end of the post about WUWT performance compared to Climategate.com.
I did not see any arrogance in the words, just kind reassurance to your readers.
Live Long And Prosper.
John