by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Those brave enough and open-minded enough to ask questions in the search for objective scientific truth about our influence on the climate rather than credulously swallowing and cloyingly parroting the socially-convenient, politically-expedient, financially-profitable party line will henceforth celebrate 7 January as Watts Up Day.
For it is today that Anthony’s outstanding blog welcomes its 100 millionth visitor: eight orders of denary magnitude. In the twinkling of an eye, Wattsupwiththat.com has become one of the most significant and influential news media on Earth. Rupert Murdoch, eat your heart out.
How has Anthony achieved this? First and foremost, by courageous persistence in the face of the barrage of venomous ad-hominem name-calling that is the sullen climate-extremists’ characteristically petulant – and increasingly desperate – way of treating those whose scientific and economic arguments even the IPCC-hugging hard-liners among them are beginning to suspect may be true.
To gather, edit, and publish several new postings daily; to illustrate each one with a suitable image; to recruit, manage, and motivate surely the best team of moderators on any blog; to keep a patient balance, maintain courtesy, and reject extremism even in the skeptical direction; to scour the web and the literature for facts and data and papers of interest; that is just part of what it takes to control the gentle giant that WattsUpWithThat has become.
And it is hard work, 24/7, 366 days a year. I do not suppose that the advertising revenue that Anthony now gets comes anywhere close to compensating him for the exhaustingly relentless grind that maintains the daily splendor of his exceptional blog.
Not long from now, when the absurd intellectual aberration among the world’s governing class that is “dangerous global warming” is a mere curiosity rather than a grave threat to the economic and political well-being of Man and a mortal menace to the democracy of the West, historians will write of their admiration for the small and gallant band who worked out the truth for themselves in the teeth of lavishly-funded hostility and quietly asserted it against all attempts to bully them into silence until it could no longer be denied.
Not the least among this platoon of heroes, outgunned but not outclassed, will be Anthony Watts, to whom the world has very good reason to be grateful. Long may he and his blog flourish. Let us hope that there will be no need for Anthony to keep at it until he notches up his ninth order of magnitude. Here’s to Anthony, his long-suffering family, and his hard-working team. Ad multos annos floreatis!
Congrats Anthony, screenshots on their way!
Well said, Christopher – this is a brilliant web site and Anthony Watts is to be congratulated for his stalwart efforts
Still haven’t gotten the latest installment from Big Oil? The check must be in the mail.
In last 3 or so years I had 107k + hits at my graphs, 99% from WUWT, if it wasn’t for WUWT I may have not bothered.
Need I say more?
Thanks Anthony.
p.s. Hristos se rodio & Srecan Bozic to the all those who celebrate Xmas today, according to the old Julian calendar.
I am astounded by how much one man can do with brains, sweat, passion and perseverance. Well done, Anthony. You’ve entered that great pantheon.
Congratulations Anthony!!
Up to the next order of magnitude?!
I love this blog.
Here I find the facts and serious discussions of theories, methods and predictions.
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is check out the articles on WUWT.
The reasonable, informed and polite discussions here are a good start of my day.
A dose of sanity serum before I step out into the world.
Thank you, Anthony.
And congratulations. You and your team of moderators and guests are doing a marvelous job.
You have done more for the truth, and for setting an example of intellectual honesty and scientific integrity, than all the Royal Societies and other official scientific bodies put together.
The world owes you a great debt, as it does to Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick and a handful of others who have kept calm and rigorous in the face of vitriolic personal attack and avalanches of shoddy orthodoxy.
Congratulations
Rodney Leach
Congrats^8!
Unfortunately Monckton is wrong when he says “historians will one day recognize…”
No, they won’t. Historians are stuck in the same cul-de-sac of mindless apriori theorizing as “scientists” and “journalists” and most other experts. Facts do not penetrate their armor. They may finally Memory-Hole the entire story, but they will NEVER explicitly acknowledge a victory for heretics.
And a huge thank you!
Poor Anthony, what immature reply, and to even talk about courage when you clearly don’t have any to stand up to the fact you associate yourself with Monckton.
Congratulations, and thank you for the blog. Without people like you the human kind would still be worshiping a rock for a god and be afraid of the shaman.
Thank you!!
Congratulations!
The world of science owes so much to so few. Demonstrating the daily assault on science by the AGW cabal has not yet been recognized but it definitely will be. Congrats to all involved and especially Anthony.
The good lord has said it all, more eloquently than I could manage.
Anthony along with several well known others will be remembered by history.
Recognition for this huge achievement is definitely due. If rational, objective science finally wins out in the long stuggle with the politically-correct & financially-motived CAGW crowd, it will be due in no small measure 2 the actions of, by, and on WUWT.
Cheers
Seriously?!? you deleted my comment Anthony??, talk about courage ay.
REPLY: All there, mods moved it to que for my attention. You might read this essay. I think you know what category you fall in (besides thread jacker) – Anthony
I for one hope this blog soon becomes unneccesary. As in, no longer necessary to expose the scam/fraud for what it is.
What more can I say?
Brilliant. Absolutely, brilliant!
Thanks for making my life better, Anthony.
Awesome.
Maybe the Newspapers might pick up on this ? Is there a PRESS RELEASE ?
Ian
We from EIKE Germany congratulate you and your (small) team organize and manage this very successful webpage. We learned and learn so much from the various articles and made them often (in german) available to our folks in all german speaking countries.
Many thanks for allowing us to use this splendid opportunity. Cheers and all the best for you Antony
My compliments to Anthony & crew. Plus, could we have asked for a better representative of the AGW side than the 5th commenter from the top, “major9985”, and his plea to censor Monckton.
Hide the decline, hide the critics. This has been their tactic since the late ’80s, and is one that will ultimately bring down their entire cause.
A reader for three years now and never commented till now. I too noticed the approaching milestone and want to offer my congratulations. I work in the Aerospace industry making rockets ( at Aerojet in Sacramento) and can attest that many if not most of my brillant engineering colleagues are skeptics of AGW caused only by CO2. And I have passed your site to many of my family, friends and colleagues. I love the science here. Best of luck Anthony. You’re the champ.
I am just a layman who could not believe the IPCC pronouncements of impending doom. I looked around for a more objective source and eventually hit on WUWT. Not a day have passed since without me looking at WUWT (if near a computer). My deep gratitude to Anthony Watts and his moderators for their steadfast work over the years. The hit success has certainly been earned.
I’m not so sure it is all that big of a deal.
Heck, I’m personally responsible for at least 30K of those views. 😉
That notwithstanding, Anthony you have provided a service to humanity that is in no small measure responsible for the light of truth shining on the darkness that is global warming and related cause celeb. For that , you should be commended regardless of any statistics.
Truly, I would have thought it would have been an order of magnitude higher already.