aka “The Bloggies” …are happening live now on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/Bloggies
First winner is Jo Nova! Congratulations to her!
It was a tough call in Australia, because we also like Simon at Australian Climate Madness too. Maybe next year.
Tallbloke stands tall!
McIntyre – Oh Canada!
Ice cube survives in hell, film at 11…
Look at the competition – these are no small potatoes:
95 minutes from now:( 5:50 PM ) we’ll know if WUWT wins Lifetime achievement. Given the major players WUWT was up against in Sci/Tech I’m happy now just the way it is.
UPDATE: 7:30PM
Speechless, I am:
Source: http://2012.bloggi.es/
Skeptic blogs win every category they were nominated in, a clean sweep.
My sincere thanks to everyone, and especially the moderation team, who works tirelessly to keep a good experience going here. – Anthony
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WOW! Congratulations JoNova, TallBloke, Steve Mcintyre, and Anthony!!!!!
Y’All ‘ran the table’ on ’em!!! Whoop! Whoop! Wahoooooo!!!
Couldn’t happen to nicer folks! I’m raising my glass to each of you! Cheers and Salud!!!
a reminder the fight is far from over – a BIPARTISAN effort being assisted by WaPo:
26 Feb: Washington Post Blog: Ezra Klein: Henry Waxman’s plan to cut the deficit and stop global warming — at the same time
On Friday, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) joined former Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) to publish an op-ed arguing that we could address our most pressing fiscal and environmental problems in one fell swoop by placing a price on carbon. “The United States could raise $200 billion or more over 10 years and trillions of dollars by 2050 while cutting carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050,” they wrote. I spoke with Waxman about the idea on Friday. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows…
EK: What always worries me about climate change is that I think it is, in an important way, dissimilar from budget issues. If the deficit goes up and up and up, and interest rates begin to rise, we can make different choices an the debt can still be brought down. It’s harder, maybe, but not fundamentally different. With carbon, it goes up and up and up and then we hit a point of no return, where we can’t get that carbon back out of the atmosphere.
HW: I think we have to look at the fact that neither of these problems can be solved overnight. But if we could put in place a price on carbon and then use the sales of carbon allowances to raise revenues we could raise money and cut emissions at the same time, and we can have a transition that will be as orderly as possible. If we leave both to become much more severe then the answers will be more radical and painful.
EK: But is combining them the easiest way politically? Because from where I sit, the key change in the global warming conversation is that it’s become a cultural issue rather than a scientific one. So doesn’t this layer a culture war on top of an already difficult set of economic choices?
HW: I am amazed that the question of science and the clear consensus of opinion that we are experiencing global warming and it is caused to a great extent by people is thought of as controversial. We do have people who are science deniers and, in the House of Representatives, we’ve had party-line votes where the Republicans have voted to deny science. But I know a lot of those same Republicans know this is a problem that has to be dealt with. This last year was the highest on record. We’re seeing more bizarre climate episodes than we’ve seen before. It’s now February and the daffodils are growing. All these are signs that something is happening. We can’t deny the evidence…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/henry-waxmans-plan-to-cut-the-deficit-and-stop-global-warming–at-the-same-time/2011/08/25/gIQAV4z0bR_blog.html
Well done Mr.Watts and co. A thoroughly deserved win.
My comment fave:
APACHEWHOKNOWS says:
February 26, 2012 at 7:14 pm
‘From a decendant of people who fought for our land and way of life for 400 years, good start, it is not over yet.
Cheers and good work, stand and fight.’
Let these honors cheer the honored, and sustain us for what lays ahead: Stand and Fight.
Fantastic news. Not totally unexpected, by me at least. Just felt it coming.
Great stuff Anthony.
Hope all the congratulatory e-mails don’t interrupt Rog’s vacation.
How many more of the climate zombies are going to go off their rockers now ?
Congrats to Anthony and Team WUWT! Congrats to JoNova, Tallbloke and Climate Audit as well!
Hi fives to all, but especially to Anthony and “The Mods”
Wow!
Lifetime Achievement … I didn’t see that one coming. Looking forward to seeing that on the sidebar, along with the other kudos.
Stunning results. My heartfelt congratulations to all!
Amazing how far we can go with evil Big Oil dollars…
I like PW, too. 🙂
Congrats all around, well deserved accolades indeed.
Superb. And thoroughly well deserved.
This is so impressive and very well deserved.
Congratulations to all winners and contributors.
Congratulations are indeed in order for one and all. Keep bringing the truth into the light!
Gotta chime in….a skeptically realistic fivesome! Outstanding! !!!!! I can’t key anything more at the moment – now, back to work! Ha!
Just amazing…watt do you know!
Congratulations to all, especially to Anthony! Well deserved.
Congratulations!
I am stunned, the defenders of the narrative really dropped the ball here. Congrats.
pat says:
February 26, 2012 at 8:15 pm
“a reminder the fight is far from over – a BIPARTISAN effort being assisted by WaPo:
26 Feb: Washington Post Blog: Ezra Klein: Henry Waxman’s plan to cut the deficit and stop global warming — at the same time
On Friday, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) joined former Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) to publish an op-ed arguing that we could address our most pressing fiscal and environmental problems in one fell swoop by placing a price on carbon. “The United States could ….”
PMc:no danger of too much rest for the weary, eh? Pat, just reading these names makes me contact MY Ohio legislators! Yes, one of my senators is Sherrod Brown but, hopefully not for long – and I’m not moving!
anthony, steve, jo and tall bloke????!!!!
Wow. You guys cleaned up!!
Here I thought I was reading some obscure musings of a pack of nerds.
:’P
I guess you are the “popular” ones now…. the mainstream…
…. All ribbing aside, well done Anthony.
I wonder if anyone has told Dr Gleick the news. Somehow schadenfreud doesn’t mix well with legitimate exaltation….. and he might be busy.
What a great day for the Fantastic Four, with a bonus for the Grey Eminence (or would you prefer Silver Fox!) of bloggers himself.
Interesting to note that all four have an unbesmirched reputation for integrity and seeking the truth, wherever it leads.
The times, they are a changin’. For the better.
Congratulations to all.
Hard work and honest, proper science triumphs world-wide.
Congratulations Anthony and hard working team of contributors and moderators.
Your award and those for Jo Nova, Tallbloke and Steve McIntyre are utterly deserved. You all provide good, truthful writing. There are too many media organisations which partially preach the religion of man-made global warming and its related fantasies; the BBC does it here and ABC does the same in Australia (we in Britain have to pay for the BBC’s propaganda with a license fee; I don’t know how ABC in Australia is paid for, but I think it involves money from taxpayers, too).
Nevertheless, the triumph of your sites proves that the voice of reason is being heard. It is blending with the voice of the man and woman in the street. When will the voice of government start to match that of the governed again?