UPDATE: Anyone who can get the screencap showing the counter at 100,000,000 on the right sidebar will get a free 100 million coffee cup with a special cartoon from Josh – Anthony
Hilary Ostrov writes via email:
Not sure where else to post this so that you will see it, but as I write, your blogstats are sitting at 99,965,942 views … so your blog is rapidly approaching a very significant milestone – which I anticipate will probably be reached within the next day or so (if not sooner!)
May I suggest that you start a Countup thread, so that lurkers and fans may express their thoughts as this milestone approaches … This will build excitement and traffic – and confound the “powers that wannabe”, I’m sure 😉
On one hand it thought to myself “it’s just a number, no big deal” on the other hand I thought “this only comes once, and a number of people have emailed me about it, so there must be some excitement going on”.
So, who am I to argue with the lady? Sound off below.
Many congratulations Anthony and your team. Undoubtedly a very different team to “The Team.”
100million here, a 100million there, pretty soon you’ll have a really big number!
I bet RC and some other blogs look very green today, but not in the manner they would wish!
Anthony,
The blogs set up to push the CAGW agenda have forgotten that the way to convert the world to their point of view is one head at a time. Being smart-alec, being rude, being holier than thou does not work. Encouraging the little jackels who scavenge round the bigs beasts and sneer at anyone who disagrees with The Cause doesn’t cut it either.
Thank you for keeping your temper (almost!) all the time, thank you for trying to meet halfway people who have no intention of giving an inch.
And thank you for publishing mixed metaphors….
JF
For isolated people the world over, who at one time feared that they might be irrational for thinking that AGW could be a scam, this blog has been a beacon of light. From BC Canada, “That’ll do Anthony, that’ll do”.
err… jackals… 8.30 Sat morning, lie in day.
JF
Congrats on an excellent site Anthony! Maybe you should have a sign that says ” Over 100 million served”?
3:40am in Southern Ontario, where we are Appreciating a mild winter after being slammed three years in a row. Natural Variation is FAR stronger than CO2- and the warmist KNOW it.
Blog Stats
99,975,249 views
A milestone indeed and a stumbling block for AGW
congratulations to all the makers, shakers and readers.
It’ll probably occur in 7/8 hours…
Congratulations Anthony, in advance,
Ecotretas
Gee, 100 million and not a wrinkle or a dent. Congrats, Anthony!
BTW, shouldn’t the 100m be 100M or 100MM? 100m is 100 meters to me, so the headline confused me. But WUWT reaching such a milestone is a huge accomplishment.
There should be a Gold Record or something for websites.
You, your contributors and your moderators, but especially YOU, Anthony, must be doing something (or some things) right! Perhaps it’s your honesty … 😉
[Reply: Agree 100%. ~ dbs, mod.]
In the time I have been coming here I have watched the site become much more accepted in the wider community as a solid source of unbiased information.
The Pro AGW mob in the early days would attack a poster like rabid dogs for refernecing anything from here. They tried and failed to demean its posters and laugh off its content as the ravings of mentally defective know nothings.
Oh how things have changed, the quality and breadth of content laid these lies to rest and now large numbers of individuals view the site as the fountainhead of Propoganda free science content. Also it is a site where alternative views can be freely expressed without censorship , this assumes the poster can handle the heat of the wide and varied readers of course.
Keep up the good work and on to the next Milestone 🙂
Just checked in two different computers and the number is the same: 99976143
That must mean that wordpress only calculates that once every minutes. So eventually no one will see the 100 M mark. Or maybe, several of us will…
Ecotretas
Oh one improvement would be an edit function, so one could correct daft typos after submission, when posting prior to morning coffee infusion 🙂
I’m not spotting where you have your public data, but then I don’t care how many visitors you have as long as the information continues to be good.
Way to go….! Do the numbers reflect the ratio of disbelievers to druids?
One interesting thing to note, several people get the exact same page view count. Either it is broken or the number is not updated when the page is reloaded but just at certain time intervals.
During 15 minutes the number was the same, see below.
Roy UK says:
January 6, 2012 at 11:28 pm
99,972,663 views here in the UK at 07.27.
Richard111 says:
January 6, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Anyone started a book on this?
99,972,663 views when I opened the page.
Bill K says:
January 6, 2012 at 11:43 pm
99,972,663 – San Jose, CA
I was wondering if someone would think of this. Congratulations; this IS a big deal!
Woot! Congrats! 99,976,143 views at 4am EST
99,976,143 views and all is well. Congrats to Anthony and the rest of the WUWT team, its been an honor to work with you all.
99,976,143 here’s my contribution from a reader but rarely a contributor,
99,976,143 views as I write from Pattaya in Thailand. The current time is 16:02hrs on Saturday afternoon.
That’s 5911 views since i lastposted 2.5 hours ago. By my reckoning the 100 million will happen about 4 hours form now at 20:00hrs Saturday evening local time. I shall be in a bar raising a glass to Anthony and the WUWT community.
[Reply: You lucky devil! I was stationed in Thailand [Udorn Thani] during the Vietnam conflict. It was Heaven in a war that was hell. I loved the Thai people. ~dbs, mod.]
Amazing milestone. Great idea Hilary to celebrate it.
The Web only becomes a power for good through sites like this.
The fourth IPCC report says on page 3,875 that when the amount of denial surpasses 100 million, the Greenland ice will instantly melt, sea level will rise 7 meters, the Gulf Stream will stop, and temperatures on the Northern Hemisphere will drop by 40 degrees Celsius. Unless the rich countries will pay ten trillion dollars per year to the IPCC and to the third world for the next 180 years.
Anthony, congratulations on such an (imminent) huge milestone! As a newbie I’ve been finding WUWT to be incredibly valuable…..
100,000,000 today, and 1,000,000,000 before you know it!!
Let’s hope that long before you reach the 1B mark there is more widespread sanity in discussing these issues….
O.M.G. It’s worse than they thought…..can this be the dreaded tipping point?
Seriously Anthony, thank you for our daily dose of sanity, clarity and integrity. From Belfast, Northern Ireland
DR