WordPress.com generated this report for me automatically for viewing on my dashboard – I’m sharing it because you the readers deserve credit.
Crunchy numbers
8 million people saw The Hobbit on its opening weekend. This blog was viewed about 36,000,000 times in 2012. If every person who saw The Hobbit visited this blog, it would take 5 years for them all to read it.
In 2012, there were 1,929 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 8,297 posts.
The busiest day of the year was January 31st with 229,775 views. The most popular post that day was Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views in 2012.
- Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes 380 comments January 2012
- New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial 1085 comments July 2012
- Mann has filed suit against NRO (now the laughing begins) 937 comments October 2012
- IPCC AR5 draft leaked, contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing – as well as a lack of warming to match model projections, and reversal on ‘extreme weather’ 503 comments December 2012
How did they find you?
The top referring sites in 2012 were:
Who were they?
Your most commented on post in 2012 was A Matter of Some Gravity
These were your 5 most active commenters:
- Gail Combs 2909 comments
- Leif Svalgaard 1916 comments
- DirkH 1756 comments
- richardscourtney 1434 comments
- Brian H 1280 comments
I’ll just lurk.
Thank you Anthony and all the help, while I seldom comment online I read your posts every day and have been able to sharpen my response to the constant flow of AGW BS that I encounter daily.
Thank-you to the moderators. The comments in this site are respectful, with little off topic bickering or name calling.
Thank-you Anthony and the many important contributors to your blog, who have help to made this the number one climate blog in the world.
I wish you all the best for 2013.
Kind regards,
William
Congratulations Anthony and Admins for the achievements. More thanks to all the regular posters and commentators for challenging me to become more informed, inquisitive and discerning.
A special thanks to Willis Eschenbach not only for great analysis but specifically for stories of your experiences, that to me, have such a warm, human element to them. I appreciate Anthony taking the chance to give that aspect of you interests a platform.
To an even better 2013 for all of us!
Congratulations to the Bolivians, Turkmenistanis, Madagascarites and a few others for standing against the anti-science obstructionism embodied in this website. They have obviously chosen the correct sources (e.g. SkS, RC, Whitehouse.gov) for honest information on global climate disruption.
Die Zauberflotist,
I didn’t know you were a fool. But then you commented…
Well, here we are at the end of 2012 by a day.
Wow, what a year. I too provide sincere thanks to Anthony and the moderators. You have once again provided a first class platform to understand and discuss our world openly and with confidence.
Anthony, your making WUWT TV happen was a great thing. I hope we can see more of it.
Cheers to all of you bloggers out there that participate in this forum. You make it a fun and educational place to visit and you are to be commended for what you do.
I thought I would share the year in review to date to boot 🙂
Make it a prosperous New Year Folks!
Die Zauberflotist
Perhaps you have not considered their limited access to computers? Perhaps you would like to elaborate on what “global climate disruption” is and what we could do about it.. oh wait, even after all of the endless shouting, fear mongering, name calling, failure to look at data that doesn’t support your argument, green energy policies, and government regulation, CO2 continues to rise, in fact, rising even faster than before. Perhaps you need to come to terms with reality and acknowledge that humans are relatively powerless in the greater grandeur of the climate system and there is nothing we can do about it.
Happy New year to all! Congratulations to Anthony and the moderators on such a terrific site. i add to your totals 3-4 times a day at least. The best there is for climate and science related news.
Anthony,
Long ago your work on this blog earned for you a Nobel Prize in Letters, a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, and many other prestigious awards. Daily I am amazed at the quality of this blog and the quantity of your output. You are a true American Phenomenon. You are a true American original, a Frank Lloyd Wright of the internet.
I would like to thank the following for their many substantive comments:
Gail Combs 2909 comments
Leif Svalgaard 1916 comments
DirkH 1756 comments
richardscourtney 1434 comments
Brian H 1280 comments
I am especially grateful to Richard S. Courtney for his challenging posts. Of course there are many others who I wish to thank. I will mention just David M. Hoffer for his excellent analytic abilities.
May God continue to shower His Grace upon Anthony Watts and WUWT.
OssQss says:
December 30, 2012 at 6:17 pm
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Nice comment, I raise you:
Special thanks to the heroic Willis Eschenbach for leading a heroic life and for all the wonderful scientific and literary essays that he publishes on WUWT. Every age needs someone who is capable of embracing life heroically. In this age, that person is you, Willis.
Congratulations Anthony and team. Keep up the good work of keeping climate science honest. It’s not easy, I’m sure. Eventually, nature will show us how climate works. Right now we have, at best, a bunch of guesses, but hardly any “theory” that gives us the proof of the pudding — the ability to clearly explain past circumstances and the ability to predict future ones. Sadly, climate scientists are, for the most part, wasting all too much time and energy on the CO2 issue while ignoring many other tantalizing ideas. I hope I live to see the current madness completely extinguished. And, given the hints from the many skeptics about the next ~20 years, there’s a chance….
Keeping WUWT together over a prolonged time is excellent, something is right. Been some hairy moments.
2000 comments? Who are these people, I’d be lucky to make 20.
tchannon says:
December 30, 2012 at 6:59 pm
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Great to hear from ya.
I’ll shut up now.
I only discovered WUWT this year after becoming a convert through reading James Delingpole’s excellent book, “Watermelons…”. I am stunned by what I have learned this year and have become a daily follower of the developments via WUWT in the largely unknown debate that thankfully still persists. Thank you to Anthony and many others who are altruistically keeping a small but bright spotlight on this important issue.
Die Zauberflotist says:
December 30, 2012 at 6:03 pm
“Congratulations to the Bolivians, Turkmenistanis, Madagascarites and a few others for standing against the anti-science obstructionism embodied in this website. They have obviously chosen the correct sources (e.g. SkS, RC, Whitehouse.gov) for honest information on global climate disruption.”
Especially considering that Bolivia has no thermometer.
Anthony, congratulations and thanks to all. You have created a resource that could be referenced as WUWT University! Inquiring minds just can’t get enough.
There is just so much here; the leading posts, guest posts, contributions by commenters, informative links, etc. Serious discussion, humor, and of course Willis’ adventures.
I would have to agree with Theo Goodwin in his comment above: “… You are a true American Phenomenon. You are a true American original …”
“Commentary on puzzling things about life, nature, science, nature, climate change,technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts.” That about says it all! At 135 million views to date sums it up.
This is such a great site that I think I myself have viewed it 36,000,000 times the past year. Thanks to all who comment, even the trolls.
Very soon viewer numbers on WUWT will exceed those of the Misleading Slimy Media , or does MSM mean main stream media?.
Funny how truth, a willingness to consider alternatives and provide access to source information, is so much more successful than telling people what they shall think.
From this oasis of honest skepticism, I foresee the future of science, the journals are crumbling, print media has lost its way and authoritative assertions of certainty only produce snorts of derision.
Science through the scientific method lives on, at WUWT.
Thanks for saving my sanity, I thought in 2008-2009 that madness was sweeping the globe, thanks to WUWT and friends I found out its only sweeping government agencies and the compliant media.
Neither of those groups being necessary for a civic society I now have hope for our future.
Happy New Year. Buy popcorn, I believe the collapse is accelerating.
Thanks again, Anthony, moderators,
And a Happy New Year!
Super educational site, and not just about climate! Thanks all, including commenters and a happy New Year to all! P.S. Don’t forget the Black Eyed peas (the vegetable) for 2013 luck & health!
Congratulations WUWT on an excellent year!
If I may add my own perspective, as a sceptical scientist who only wants to see the scientific proof one way or another, I am astonished that again a whole year has passed, a vast amount of money has been spent on the science, and yet the scientific argument for anthropologically induced global warming gets weaker and weaker – rather than stronger and stronger – every year.
What astonishes me even more though is that, as the science collapses, the politics becomes more and more strident! You ( we?) may be winning the debate but we seem further than ever from winning the war. Clearly sound data and sound science does not trump ideology.
Maybe this whole thing is no longer about science and is more about psychology of crowds and cults and there is a need for a new cast of bloggers to provide some insights into this. Perhaps Lord Monckton is right to be considering “rat holes” to try and break through to the other side?
Anthony: I cannot give enough thanks to thank you and the brilliant bloggers on this site for helping me keep my sanity about truth in science. I am honored and privileged to be able to get responses from the brilliant minds who gravitate here. I need to learn to be kinder and more patient with my responses to people who feel strongly that we must save the planet – because they feel that way due to misinformation from the MSM. With more information and understanding, I feel better armed to help open others’ minds to what’s real and true.
Congratulations!
Mario
I read that Wikipedia received $25 million during their latest effort to raise money… I wonder how much comes from the usual suspects that fund most of it anyway. As for me as long as William M. Connolley is allowed grave digging privileges, Wikipedia has no credibility. None.