Wikio rankings for science blogs are out for July. I was concerned that time spent on my Australian tour and the reduction in posts might knock us out of the #1 slot.
This is testament to the people who kept the blog operating in my absence.
Special thanks the Charles, DBS, Tallbloke, Evan, Mike Lorrey, Steve Mosher, Steve Goddard, Willis Eschenbach, and many others for keeping the home fires burning.
And, my thanks to all the readers that spread links to other blog sites, provide tips, and provide comments. – Anthony
Congratulations to everyone that makes WUWT so popular.
The heated NASA disaster thread reminded me of a trip to the deep south. It just concerns me that it appears there’s no way to get along, guess we all just go bankrupt now.
No wonder Military Contractors keep seeing a world of business opportunities. I’ll leave it at that.
World War II produced a period of false unity. In the decades since, we are merely reverting to the historical norm.
mikelorrey says:
July 7, 2010 at 4:00 pm
The fact that we don’t have “climate” in the domain name or blog title is a negative, thats the top search term that readers of CP and RC find those sites with. Some of that page ranking has to do with the sorts of words that people link to direct people to those sites from elsewhere, as these sort of links affect search engine pagerank. For instance, if more of our readers linked to WUWT via text on their sites like “best climate blog ever” (and not in blogrolls), then WUWT search ranking when people search for “climate” would rise. (hint hint, wink wink)
Mike, the link to WUWT on my blog has “The most popular climate site on the net” as the ‘alt’ tag (visible when you hover the link. Will that work or would it be better to set that as the link itself?
I noticed Romm’s blog often gets less comments on threads than my own does! Though he puts up a lot more posts than I do.
Quantity ain’t quality though. 😉
Well done Anthony, and thanks to Charles for holding the fort while you were on the Australian tour.
Congrats Anthony! And I have a huge crush on ~ctm. I predict that you will save America and the Western World. I am not joking. Talk Radio is now reporting your blog, and I can’t blame them, You are the best!
Congratulations on being number one yet again.
There are still many people who do not know of this blogs existence yet, there are many people out there who are potential readers and how can they be reached? I tell everyone I know and urge them to visit whenever they can but I was hoping we could come up with a ‘viral ad’ type awareness strategy/shoestring advertising strategy to draw more readers and contributers.
My own idea consists of a downloadable visual, something like a badge with the website which we could spread around internet cafes etc, pretty sad I know! Perhaps others would have a better range of ideas?
Man, I really love this find and delete feature in Mozilla, conradg. FYI, racism takes many faces, and one of them is the aristocratic assumption that people of color are incapable of defending themselves against criticisms. Get over yourself.
Glad this place is so obviously influential and from the numbers successful!
I feel bad however, I can’t devour everything that is posted (including replies) even though I spend an incredible amount of time here. So much information, so little time and comments to consume. Almost wish the pace would slow down. No wonder why in your “absence” the quality and status never declined. I’m overwhelmed.
Someone more sagacious than I once said ” All it takes for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing” Thank you Anthony, you are indeed a good man.
Anthony,
The people who support you and the contributors of some of the postings are just looking for truth and correct science. You give us this by allowing the path of science to be unhindered through some of the many people who have a different views and might also have another piece to the puzzle that this planet and solar system’s highly complex systems are. Challenging the mind to areas that group science is far further than a single mind separated in individual institutions and being unbiased to one side or the other.
Opionions are welcome to challenge the science and mind further.
Thank you.
Next Monday afternoon, I have a presentation to present to a college on efficiency of turbines, centrifugal force a verified energy and density changes and storing energy in density.
5 years ago, I had no interest in science until I open my mind and followed the science’s path to it’s conclusion.
I find most of science only followed science so far, never all the way.
Occassionaly, it is difficult to imagine that there really are more sceptics on this planet than there are died in the wool, lemming fanatics. But it is still true (thank goodness). Unfortunately, the fanatics get the most press and air time because they are such wierd, colorful people, who do such amazing things with their minds and other body parts (especially their mouths on TV and fingers on keyboards via the web).
You & The Gang are so respected for your balance and fairness (no Fox pun intended). The measure of your popularity with the unwashed ‘common folk’ is the best indicator of just how fair and balanced you are. In this day and age on the web, you’re rather unique. KUTGW
Anthony, mods, Guest Posters and all who work to make this blog the success it is; Congratulations!
The No 1 position is no doubt the culmination of another year of extremely hard work, but there is far more to WUWT than mere effort. I find it a compulsive daily read as it is part open university which extends my somewhat limited science education, part village pump discussion which allows me to express myself thoughtfully, plus working from a general sensitivity to encouraging civilised utterances and behaviour.
conradg says:
“And no, the party with the elephant is way more incompetent, unfortunately, and they proved that over the last eight years.”
1. Two years later & still blaming Bush.
2. Democrats had control of congress for the last two of those 8 years.
3. The only real mistakes made by the GOP were when they were whimps and did not fight the Democrat policies effectively or were turn-coats and supported the left-wing in vain attempts to buy votes or suck up to the liberal media.
4. The Democrats have been wrong for about the last 40 years about almost everything:
– unilateral disamament & “star wars” and the Soviet Union
– the Vietnam War & getting us in in the first place and then lacking the will to win
-the surge in Iraq
-forcing banks to give mortgage loans to people who could not afford them & creating quasi-government agencies to buy the bad loans which encouraged the banks to do even more and worse bad loans.
– Great Society welfare programs which destroyed a generation or two and and most of our inner cities.
The list goes on and on. The GOP has been wrong at least 60% of the time while the Democrats have a much more consistent record of wrongness, probably 95%. If the GOP would only give the working man and small business a fair shake, stop being such turn-coats and whimps, and clean up the theft on Wall Street they could improve their status immensely. It is too late for the Democrats as they no longer even exist and have become, in effect, the US Communist Party with the willing help of the mass media.
Michael says:
July 7, 2010 at 1:13 pm . . .
Yup, I saw her live and I just groaned at her naivety. Prince Chuck could be expected to endorse this BS but I always thought better of Betty.
ACGW is the yoke the UN wishes to put on us all, her subjects too.
“How is Obama anti-science, what is the evidence?”
He ignored the advice of a science panel with regard to a moratorium on deep water drilling and then issued a press release falsely claiming he acted in accord with the scientific advice. A member of the panel blew the whistle to set the record straight. This indicates that the President bows to pressure from advocacy groups more than he values objective scientific advice. One could fairly characterize that as anti-science, I think.
Congratulations to Anthony and the entire crew for the rankings. Good work and dedication pays off.
For those who think WUWT isn’t showing up so well in Google, here’s a Google Trends view of WUWT Vs. CP
REPLY: Thanks, but your link is bad. CP is a .org not a .com The real link is here -A
Congratulations to the entire WUWT team. This is my favorite site for news, solar and climate science.
mikelorrey says: “…most [CP] readers (85%) get turned off by what they read…and tend to not come back to his site again. Wonder why…”
It’s the spittle. Poor Joe spends too much time reading his own stuff.
You know, if this were a politics blog, I’d have a lot of fun answering all these arguments thrown my way, but as I acknowledged already this isn’t the purpose of this thread or this blog, and I don’t want to turn this into a political debate, so blessed be the peacemakers.
One should note that it was not the skeptics who introduced politics to the Global Warming issue in the first place.
Nor is it the skeptics who avoid debate, either scientific or political (they, in fact, embrace it).
It wasn’t the skeptics who connived to silence those with whom they disagreed.
The AGW advocates have sown the wind, and now complain about what they reap.
And, yes, I confess I have found the last three years more pleasurable than I can possibly describe.
conradg says:
July 8, 2010 at 4:26 pm
“You know, if this were a politics blog, I’d have a lot of fun answering all these arguments thrown my way, but as I acknowledged already this isn’t the purpose of this thread or this blog, and I don’t want to turn this into a political debate, so blessed be the peacemakers.”
One always gets these types of answers when the lefties have no response to factual information.
As for peacemakers, they were made by Colt and are, indeed, a blessed invention ensuring the equality of all who have one.
“Beat you swords into plowshares and you will plow for those who do not.”
Thomas Jefferson
JimG,
Meet me out back and I’ll give you a peacemaker of my mind. But I made a promise earlier not to play into this s9rt of thing here, so I won’t. If you can’t respect that, you’re probably not worth my time anyway.
Conradg,
Would not want a peacemaker of your mind, too small. I should have learned long ago that religous fervor cannot be changed with facts. Trying is a waste of time. I welcome any factual type of response to the specific points I raised regarding the past errors of the Democrats/left from anyone of any viewpoint.
JimG,
If you’re that determined to show me your “cocked” peacemaker, why don’t you suggest a neutral site/forum where we can take this? I’m very curious as to how children come to possess firearms.
REPLY: Yes, you are both done with this discussion. Take it elsewhere. -Anthony
BTW, Anthony, there’s a blog post by Matt Yglesias over at ThinkProgress that has a very strange graph of the modern temperature record. Could you take a look at it and see if you can figure out why the temp anomoly is so high? I know these guys are connected to Joe Romm and gang, but this seems a bit exaggerated even for them. It attributes the graph to NCDC/NESDIS/NOAA but I’ve never seen anything like it:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/the-jim-manzi-era/#comments
Maybe this even deserves a blog post?