WUWT readers may recall last week that the “Our Climate” iPhone app was released and announced here. It has quickly become a best seller on the iTunes store.
It has also quickly become a target.
John Cook, a generally reasonable Aussie who runs a blog oddly titled “skepticalscience” (odd, since it isn’t skeptical, but pushes the consensus) also has an iPhone app. Knowing that he wouldn’t get enough traffic on his blog to effectively smack down this new informational threat, he turned to the Guardian, and was immediately offered a guest essay there.
The title? Climate change denial? There’s an app for that.
How sad that Cook and the Guardian had to resort to such a cheap shot.
Problem is, that essay appears to have backfired as “Our Climate” continues to grow. Right after that Guardian piece by Cook, downloads surged. So much in fact, Apple itself is even promoting it on the iTunes (installed Mac and PC application) front page now!
Have a look:
I hate it when that happens.
There are more than 230,000 Apps in the App store – Only 40 Apps are featured in this front page category at any time, so this is a singular achievement and opportunity for the truly skeptical side of the story to be heard.
Get the app for yourself: http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8
Don’t have an iPhone? Tell a friend who does.
And for the record, I don’t make a dime from this. I have no ownership or revenue sharing in it whatsoever.
As an aside, I wonder if Cook has seen the latest Gallup poll on Global Warming in Australia?
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There is quite a discussion in the comments part of the Guardian article linked in the story above regarding the sales ranking. Cook was touting a wonderful UK overall ranking of 584 last week for his app. Unfortunately, the most recent ranking had it “too low to rank.” Meanwhile, Our Climate continues to gain a strong following.
I went to the Skepticalscience site and they claim there is an app for Adroid and Nokia. I don’t know if it is the same information.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
“SkepticalScience” is honesty-challenged from the get-go: the name of Cook’s blog is a lie, isn’t it?
Every scientist understands that skepticism is at the heart of the Scientific Method, and every honest scientist is a skeptic first, last and always.
John Cook is merely another climate alarmist spreading his subsidized scare propaganda. Like others on the take, he does not have a skeptical bone in his body. He is selling pseudo-science.
The great thing about WUWT is the fact that this site reaches millions of people, while Cook mopes in the corner sucking his thumb and wishing more people would buy into his climate alarmist propaganda. On the bright side, at least he isn’t the venomous Soros lap dog Joe Romm, even if they do both get the same funding.
If blogs like the Guardian, RealClimate, climate progress and others would tolerate different points of view like WUWT does, their traffic numbers would greatly improve. But they can not allow the truth to be told; it would defeat their whole purpose of keeping the $billions flowing into the pockets of those corrupt scientists who have jettisoned the Scientific Method for taxpayer loot, and helping to pass bogus, anti-taxpayer legislation like Cap & Trade. and selling out our sovereignty to the totally corrupt UN, with its scheme for a “World Tax.”
WUWT’s 50 million hits in only 3 years shows that honesty is more than its own reward. John Cook should try it for a change. [Romm, OTOH, is a hopeless Soros hand puppet. And Michael Mann’s RealClimate? Pf-f-f-f-t]
I see several requests for this app to be ported to Android.
Just thought I would mention those of us with Blackberries would be interested too.
Keep up the good work.
Interesting view of take-up in various parts of the world here:
http://www.appannie.com/matrix/weather
Karma’s a beyotch! Congratulations on the app, glad you guys are out there!
Here is one proven theory.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Next they fight you.
Then you win.
Congratulations Anthony.
Paul Clark says…
John Cook, author of that article, has an iPhone app based on his skeptical science website in support of AGW (which is free by the way).
How do get the Our Climate app without an iPhone?
Paul, even if they did had an app, it’s probably buried waaay in the back. WUWT’s app is on the front page, as you saw. Is theirs?
Also, you can go and purchase the app on I-Tunes.
-Snowlover123
Snigger, no really, Bwahahaha!
Is it any wonder the thermogedonists dodge any form of debate when a little balance is offered to us cattle we grab it with both hands?
I prefer HTC for my handset, but it has full internet access and my favourite sites saved so an “app”, revolting term, is not necessary.
For the righteous, ( you know who you are, Anu, Gates and clan ), can I suggest you teach your representatives are taught point the gun away from their feet. ROTFL
Lubos… I see you are very popular at The Guardian (i.e. two censored posts). Did you blaspheme by pointing out the facts in the debate?
I like how the Gallup poll includes the qualification that it was “Asked of Australian adults who are aware of climate change“. Fair enough. So why does the poll show that 2 percent of the adults polled (in 2010) responded that they “have not heard of climate change“? How can someone be aware of something they’ve never heard of?
Dear Lubos Motl, what have you written in the comments? Most of them are censured by the guardian 🙂
This iPhone App has some flaws, mainly related with the organization of the contents, but it’s a great effort to contradict the alarmist indoctrination. The guardian article is a one more poor attempt to discredit climate realists. I don’t know what was the idea of the journalist but certainly gave a nice promotion to the app.
The ingenuity and ignorance of the journalist (sorry for the harsh words), are resumed in this his own phrase “The cherrypicking nature of climate skepticism leads to an interesting phenomenon – sceptic arguments frequently contradict each other. One week, we’re told El Nino is the cause. Next week, it’s cosmic rays. No wait, we’re cooling… Hold on, it’s warming again, but this time, it’s because of CFCs. Could anyone compile the many sceptic arguments into a single app without a mess of contradictions?”
It’s clear to me that this guy does not know many of the skeptical arguments or does not have any idea of what he is talking about.
“It just goes to show that thread theory is superior to string theory. 😉 – Anthony”
Well, Anthony, if *it* has these implications, then *it* must be wrong, whatever *it* is! 😉
Thank you all for your interest in the App. We’re really touched and it has been a great week!
Based on your feedback over the past week, we are now looking at how to port the software to the Android and Blackberry platforms.
All the best
Paul
Sorry guys.I downloaded the app from Skeptial Science and it just repeats all the stuff that WUWT has been refuting for the last three years.
I don’t own an Iphone, but I hope this app makes a ton of $$$$.
Yes, all publicity is good.
Now if there can just be a wardrobe malfunction by Spears or Lohan, and an Iphone pops out with “Our Climate” running………..
Beware though – it may be just a matter of time before the Climate Bullies turn on iTunes and Apple for promoting it. They would turn from promoter to denigrator in the blink of an eye if they thought their interests were threatened.
Still, as we have seen, denigration can have the opposite-to-the-desired affect, so what am I worrying about!
It’s odd that the paper took little regard of UK’s election campaign. When the Libdems started doing OK, the right wing press ran a story implying the Libdem leader was a nazi. Far from destroying his appeal, the public were outraged.
Moral: if you trash something, be sure you’re on sure ground.
I would love to download this app but until my check from Big Oil arrives, I can’t afford an iPhone.
I don’t like John Cook. Like Anthony says, his site is supposed to be ‘skeptical’ but is anything but that. He has a habit of erasing your comments if it does not fit his ideas.
Maybe they can create an app for GISTemp…ummm…but that would mean that some poor app programmer would have to be able to decipher what it really does…ehhh, scratch that idea…
Are we blackberry owners going to be shown any love by having this app ported to our phones???
If the Earth were to be going through Climate Change caused by man, the Earth would respond by sterilizing the imperfection.
Releasing a few gigatons of C02 that already exists won’t do that.
There isn’t enough of it.
It would take deliberate action directed at forcing the weather to get at the climate.
Like Oppenheimer said, the atomic bomb formula wasn’t the secret, the secrect was that it works.
So too are operations to ‘enhance’ the weather. It works too. Climate operations (bombs) are possible.
Both suffer from unintended consequences that bode ill for civilization.
Both operate under chain-reactions. Both have no undo button.
Nuclear Winter, Climate Operation Winter.
DO NOT OPEN. Lid in non-replaceable.
Isn’t 1 Pandorra’s Box enough?
It’s an outrage! I am being discriminated against!
I am a minority with a Blackberry and there is no app for my ilk.
That PROVES it! You are against us because we have BLACKberries!
(Hey-it’s a JOKE! Lighten up!)
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
Over at http://www.huffingtonpost.com, I am actually being butchered for speaking the truth. My moniker at Huff’N’Puff is “Mogamboguru” – (No secrets to keep here).
When I posted:
“ICE BREAKER”
“Giant Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland.. Largest Chunk Since 1962″ (Citing the title of the article I am commenting on) So it happened back in 1962, already – when Carl Sagan was running about, propagating the next ice age was coming soon.
Did it happen? Nope.
What has changed since then? Nothing.
So everything still is, like it was back in 1962: From time to time, glaciers shed icebergs.
Wow. Big deal.”
– on the thread ” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/07/petermann-glacier-giant-i_n_674326.html ”
– I received the following answers:
a. “”What has changed since then? Nothing.”
Actually technology, which informs our view of such matters, has grown by leaps and bounds since 1962.”
and
b. “”What has changed since then?” Millions of tons of carbon from burning fossil fuels.”
and
c. “When did you become a right wing anti-intellectual?
It’s rather unbecoming.”
Well – educating people seems to be MUCH, MUCH more difficult than indoctrinating them, doesn’t it? Way to go, WUWT, way to go. Keep up the facts and keep up the fight!