The force of growing popularity of the Aegis’ “Our Climate” iPhone app has caused some climate alarmists to circle the wagons and regroup. For example, Joe Romm at Climate Progress is calling for
“… suggestions for improving the one liners.”
…related to John Cook’s alarmist iPhone app.
I think it is telling that they are reacting so visibly and so quickly. They probably were not prepared for such popularity (of the Our Climate App) after the staged smackdown in the Guardian backfired.
See: Climate change denial? There’s an app for that.
Meanwhile the “Our Climate” app continues its surge of downloads and is featured in the Top 40 “New and Notable” Apps on the iTunes frontpage, plus the top 5 category position in many countries:
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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.
“Our Climate” is now the Number 1 Weather App in Five iTunes App Stores:
1. Malaysia
1. Uruguay
1. India
1. Hong Kong
1. Brazil
Also number 2 in:
2. Canada
2. Turkey
2. Singapore
Number 3 in:
3. UK
3. Panama
3. Pakistan
And fourth in:
4. USA
Get the app for yourself: http://itunes.apple.com/app/our-climate/id371849150?mt=8
BTW Yes, it DOES work on the iPad !
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And, if your are in an NGO or work the IPCC, be sure to get this version (thanks to reader “boudu”):
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LOL. Romm’s “one-liners” are great humor for anyone who understands logic!
Schiller Thurkettle says:
August 9, 2010 at 2:09 pm
“For instance, on Aug. 9 it was revealed that a joint NOAA/MSU climate project recorded temperatures for parts of Lake Michigan (US) at 430 F and higher. ”
That must have been a thermometer inside a pressure cooker.
Is anyone going to be watching the weather channel’s propaganda on global warming tonight? Idon’t see much hope for them, they’ve also reported that heat is the fuel for the Moscow forest fires.
Would love a Windows Mobile version.
typo . . .
should be ” . . . disturbance in the farce”
I thought it was a pretty good app… the ‘key climate theories’ section gave me a quick head’s up on papers that had passed me by… like Rachel Pinker et al. 2005 – “Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation”.
I think it’s time to hit the tip jar again. 😉
stevengoddard says:
August 9, 2010 at 1:35 pm
In Star Trek, the Borg were defeated by introducing disruptive thoughts into the collective.
It made them panic and argue among themselves.
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stevengoddard,
In Star Trek they had Data to save them from the Borg. We’ve got our own guys . . . . M & M and Anthony with his team . . . . and you . . . . and a bunch of others . . . I won’t name them . . . they know who they are : )
John
Congratulations to all who have a stake in this – basically all free thinking, freedom loving people everywhere.
Sure, as someone said earlier, a few of the downloads will be from people not realising what they’re downloading – but that applies to just about ALL downloads, so not really a factor. It’s up there with the most popular apps, and deservedly so. ALMOST makes me want to buy an iPhone! But for now I’ll struggle on with my Tesco mobile.
I wonder how long before they go thru Apple’s management to try to kill it, and substitute their own?
With Gore on the board, I should think right away…
Yeah,
My daughter wants me to go with the second decade of the 21st century and switch from Blackberry to the modern world . . . . . this App is the straw on that proverbial camel which makes me concede to her arguments. : ) [I think she is buying]
John
@ur momisugly T2000 says:
August 9, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I lived in the Far East for nigh-on thirty years. Believe you me, when you live there you want every little bit of weather info possible at certain times. I understand completely why residents in Asia want as much meteorological information as they can get which is why this App is so popular there.
The US Military weather reports from Guam are very,very popular in Hong Kong when there’s typhoon in the area; their tracking record for the South China Sea typhoons is excellent. A link to this site (which I can’t find right now) in the App would make it so much more popular in one of the most densely populated areas on the Planet.
Be sure to write a review in the iTunes store because the lemmings are already trying to discredit it.
[A link would be helpful. ~dbs, mod.]
That disingenuous list of one-liners almost made my head explode.
I am still seeing images of “WHERE TO BEGIN?” flashing before my eyes . . .
The lead off ASMRE graph from JAXA should have the numeric surface area as well as the graphical trend update.
NoMoreGore says on August 9, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Bit transparent, eh. Also, that’s why an Android version is needed.
Wonderful development. Thanks for the coverage. Mind if I point out a typo in your final sentence?
“And, if your are in an NGO or work the IPCC, be sure to get this version (thanks to reader “boudu”):”
“And, if you are…” or “And, if you’re…”
Anthony,
When will there be a version of this for my IMac desktop at home? (Not a cell phone user.)
“Our Climate” is so them, that alone must have them steamed.
“How dare you deniers call it your climate”.
stevengoddard says:
August 9, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Good point about the Borg collective. Janeway wrecked thier plans by letting them assimilate her while she carried a virus.
In this case, the app has real data links. Scary stuff.
NoMoreGore says:
August 9, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I wonder how long before they go thru Apple’s management to try to kill it, and substitute their own?
That would be a ginormous blunder, but I’m not going to say why. Let ’em try it.
Anthony Watts says:
Joe Romm at Climate Progress is calling for “… suggestions for improving the one liners.”
Those one liners on their site are horrible, and the comments and suggestions make me feel sick…
Slight O/T Anthony, but for users like myself who visit WUWT using an iPad, could you put a nav link at the top of each comments section that allows us to go to the last one? Sometimes there are so many comments that it takes a long time to get to the most recent. Oh, and the iPad is the coolest thing Evah for the Net.
Johnny Carson would have been proud.
Where is the science?
Everybody who tries to reach an educated opinion on this issue (without having enough expertise, time and literature knowledge to directly judge the data) is left with a strange bitter feeling. Very often this resembles more crusade fought with slogans than a open discussion on issues that are far for being settled. It is like if we were trying to discuss if a mutation is dangerous before discovering what DNA is; now we are also provided with a detailed list of replies helpful to convince our neighborhoods. I am a scientist working in other fields since more than 20 years now but believe me this global warming comedy is really unique in “science”. God does not play dice with the universe but these characters do play dice with the hearth.
In the interest of humanity everybody should step back from the prime time and the star system and humbly return to work to improve the evidence.