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
So thank you Anthony for your help in exposing the relentless censoring attacks and hypocrisy by Connolley on Wiki.
No data for who got (snipped) the most? Without being banned… hmm, maybe…
I’m but a layman, but do my best to understand much of the scientific talk hereabouts. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Anthony, the mods, contributors and readers for making WUWT a most enjoyable blog to follow. It’s become a daily routine for me to check in here, and follow the discussions.
Congratulations, Anthony, on another successful year. Best wishes to all for a safe and prosperous 2013.
I try to study both sides of the issue and respect those that manage to offer up their knowledge and/or opinions in a respectful and thoughtful manner. I was thinking of one such contributor in Robert Phelan, a moderator (REP) of WUWT – gone but not forgotten. Happy New Year to all and look forward to learning more next year.
A Crooks says:
December 30, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Congratulations WUWT on an excellent year!
Indeed, but the best of WUWT is not the strident politics presented, but the demonstration of the demos in the democracy. Sure, democracy is not always fair to the heros (Themistocles raising a Greek fleet in the Persian wars, then getting exiled to Persia later), but people are naturally (politically) inert. While Themistocles being an activist of the time worked that time, later he became a nuisance (especially to the Spartans…). Anyhow, there is no need to activate our science, just use the tool that we were given, facts. The Demos Inertia does the rest of the work 😉
Watch the rats running the anchor line, it has already begun…
It would be fun to see how many WUWTers are like Willis E., “…fiscally conservative and socially liberal”.
Congratulations on another successful year Anthony, especially perhaps your 24 hour marathon. Best wishes for 2013 and grateful thanks for providing a context for all the nonsense in the MSM.
Thanks very much Anthony and moderators. It would be so much harder to keep track of the truth without the WUWT clearing house for things that big news won’t tell us. Long may you shine.
WUWT – climate sanity at its very best. Thank you Anthony and everyone who makes this site possible. Here’s to an even more successful 2013.
Just to add thanks and admiration to your team and contributors. Keep shining the light of science on the murky world of the propagandists.
Have a good New Year.
You can add a little contribution of around 13,000 pageviews in French from our translations of 10 WUWT articles, such as this one, for instance : http://www.contrepoints.org/2012/02/09/68401-allemagne-le-scepticisme-climatique-eolien-et-solaire-gagne-du-terrain
Every little helps, I think.
Anthony, Contributors and Mods: Thank you for your hard work, keep at it!
[Reply: We appreciate your acknowledgement. Moderating is not really hard work, but it is tedious work that takes many hours every day. Weeding out the spam is a job in itself, since spambots have increased their posts to more than the legitimate comments. — mod.]
Congratulations all and a happy new year. Gail, you go girl.
Sorry for being picky but is 231 countries correct on the graphic?
http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/numbercountries.htm
http://www.worldatlas.com/nations.htm
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/countries_of_the_world.htm
Thanks, congratulations and respect to the WUWT team for another year of good-naturedly fighting the good fight, and looking forward to more of the same in 2013.
You should send Gail Combs a free WUWT coffee mug or something for achievement – another 19 comments and she’d have averaged an amazing 8 a day over the year, and generally intelligent and perceptive comments at that. Thanks to her, too, and a Happy New Year to all.
Anthony thank you so much for representing us in this FRAUD. next year we will get up the warmers and give them something to think about . from down under
First started reading here off and on in 2007. Now I feel deprived if I can’t manage at least a scan of headlines once a day. It’s been implied before by those far more articulate, but there really is no place quite like this place anyplace else. Thanks thanks thanks.
Congratulations. I found WUWT in 2012 via the swivel-eyed ‘Wotts Up With That’ website! Keep up the good work and the measured tone – it’s a lot easier to recommend a site that makes its arguments without degenerating into the abuse and name calling that passes for debate in most of the blogosphere.
Happy New Year.
Congratulations and thanks, Anthony for WUWT; the best there is!
Thank you Anthony and mods for a resourceful, enlightening site. An oasis of science in a superstitious world.
Thanks Anthony and Mods…
Happy New Year!!
Bring on 2013….
WUWT-TV was the highlight!!!!
Gleick was the next…
And Lewandowsky, Parncutt ?? Well….
Just adding my thanks and good wishes to you and the team Anthony from the UK – and perhaps a tiny plug for your opposite number this side of the Herring Pond – Andrew Montford on his Bishop Hill blog – which I ALSO visit daily..!
I share with you my favourite quasi-Latin saying: ‘Nil Illegitemi Carborundum’ (never let the bastards grind you down…)
Anthony: Congratulations for another spectacular year. WUWT is the best source for unbiased information on CAGW. (BTW, am I the only one who knows that we are in an interglacial period during which the earth warms…until it doesn’t?) Hopefully, the wheels are coming off the IPCC cart for once and for all.
And…did you mean 4.75 weekends instead of 5 years? Or did I read the numbers wrong?
I had seen references to this site in Christopher Booker’s articles in the Telegraph (UK) and with Copenhagen looming I thought “I’ll see what all the fuss is about”. The morning (in Europe) I first logged in to WUWT I was greeted by strange reports of emails from UEA and all the discussions about had they been stolen or hacked etc. were they genuine etc. What a start!
Virtually every day since I’ve looked in at least once and all I can say is to repeat most of the comments up-thread. Thanks.
Very many thanks to Anthony, mods and commentators for keeping this wonderful blog going and have a wonderful 2013.
(Mod’s reply to Kaboom at 3.19 We know it’s not hard work in the ditch digging sense, but it’s the tedium you mention that makes it hard work and I’m sure I’m not the only one who is grateful for all your efforts.)
A Crooks says:
December 30, 2012 at 9:29 pm
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?
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Have you ever heard about cornered rats being the most dangerous. Just a bit more effort with the shovels and maybe a “rat hole” or two and this could be winnable.
All the best from south-west France for 2013 to all your readers.
Steve T
Congratulations many thanks to Anthony and all the regular posters, commenters and moderators at WUWT (Gail Combs: take a bow). Josh deserves special mention also. You have all made WUWT a truly addictive experience.
Keep up the fight for real science, respectful debate and rational policy, with a liberal seasoning of good humor.
Best wishes to everyone for the New Year. And Happy Hogmanay! May your cupboards never be empty of good single malt.
Thank you to Anthony and to the moderators. I especially appreciate the way that posters
with stridently opposed views are allowed to go at it as long as they obey site policy.
Both my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in physics, but the specialized
knowledge that a number of posters here contribute has added to my education.
I appreciate the hard-headed, skeptical hard science greatly. I even have a sneaking
fondness for the decidedly “fringe science” that a few of the posters here espouse.
Science advances by being willing to consider all potential
hypotheses; almost all of what is now “mainstream science” was once considered
someone’s addled hypothesis.
Anthony – I found your blog in 2007 (I think) as a result of a headline on Drudge concerning global temperatures—all four metrics were FALLING! What I found in reading further was SANITY, reason, common sense, and good science! DAMN – I was hooked!
Seriously, the posts and science are not only informative and entertaining, but from them and comments from those who reply, I have learned more about what true science is than I ever learned in graduate school and throughout the time I was active in science. Beyond that, I have become armed with solid facts and knowledge to set anyone claiming CAGW (etc) is real back on their heels, and getting them to think (!) perhaps for the first time.
So, as I know many others have done, thank you, thank you, thank you to you and the moderators for the incredible work you do.
At such time that the ideology of CAGW falls, it will be in large measure due directly to the information provided by this blog.
BobW in NC