WUWT recently passed the 150 million counter mark as seen of the right sidebar.
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The world’s most viewed site on global warming goes from strength to strength, and its audience grows with it. Let me be the first to congratulate Anthony and his team on 150 million hits. No one on the other side of the case even comes close. It’s no longer cool to be warmist, and they know it.
The differences between WUWT and sites such as these are interesting.
- It puts more emphasis on hard-headed assessments of what has happened than on the fanciful predictions of what might happen that are their mainstay.
- It discusses the science and economics of the climate debate, accessibly but in depth. They don’t do much science; and, when they do, their prejudices are so quaveringly intense that they distort it.
- It does not take sides. It displays a genuine interest in all sides of the debate, and allows them space. They don’t do that.
- It does not, as they do, sullenly refuse to post every comment that is critical of it. It allows both sides to be fairly heard.
- It is tolerant of all but the most persistent and malicious trolls.
- It is transparently, persistently, meticulously honest. Mistakes are admitted and corrected swiftly.
- It is up to date. It posts more items daily than some of them post in a month.
- It is on topic. Occasional departures are allowed, when something catches Anthony’s ever-interested eye, or when Willis is in story-telling mode, but otherwise you know what you are going to get.
- It isn’t subsidized. They have taxpayers’ money thrown at them to flog the long-dead horse of global warming. It gets by, but it does not reward Anthony at even a tenth the rate he deserves.
- It is beautifully polished. Running any blog is hard work. Running a seriously good blog is even harder than running a restaurant. You have to be there just about every day. You have to keep the content and the quality up.
Above all, it is a cracking good read. Long may it and its genial host flourish. On to a billion hits. Justin Dribbler, eat your heart out.
[Note: This is an unsolicited praise by Monckton, and while I appreciate the sentiments expressed, I can still do better in many areas and I will strive to do so. Monckton writes: “It displays a genuine interest in all sides of the debate, and allows them space.” That’s true, I’ll allow guest submissions that are on-topic, within site policy, and courteous, even if they may be on the opposite side of the prevailing thinking here. – Anthony]
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Ditto the congrats.
Ditto the no facebook account.
Ditto the thanks, Anthony and mods.
Congratulations Anthony, well deserved praise. Thank you.
Not on face book either.
Nah. That just a guess.
That is always on my mind and is why I’ll never have anything to do with FB or Google or any other social ghetto. They’re both blocked at my firewall because there are safer ways to communicate. I’d do this even if I didn’t work in computer security. And believe it or not life goes on and remains richly rewarding, having so many better things to do than count faceless friends.
I’ll have to say that I just don’t fully understand the warmist demonization of climate skeptics and Anthony in particular. I went over some of the earliest WUWT
posts and was amazed at what a bright guy and enthusiastic science buff he is. His high school 1 MEV cyclotron project has Michael Mann’s childhood Tic Tac Toe program beat by a mile.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/11/23/nuclear-power-in-your-basement/
When someone derides him for being just a high school graduate, I can’t help but think of his programming work for the weather channel, to say nothing the accomplishment of creating and running this blog. Back when I was in college, I remember a few of the brightest computer science students dropping out to go and work directly for industry.
I appreciate Lord Monckton’s honesty, because it is dead on.
Well, not entirely. I have a facebook account, also a twitter and linkedin accounts.
I don’t visit any of those places for in-depth information or to discuss reality for that matter.
All of the so called social sites cater to vacuous over the fence chatter and rumors. None of the social sites reinforce good communication skills or strong interpersonal relations; one could even make a very strong case that the social sites advance interpersonal skill degradation.
I do visit social sites to get an inkling what old, and sometimes long lost, friends and family members have posted. Their over-the-back-fence gossip, nah, I’m just not interested. My profile and post pages are notoriously empty. After all, if you’re a friend or close family member, you already know most things about me.
I love to visit WUWT and several other similar sites for the quality; quality of writing, argument, discourse, mathematics, science, effort, both breadth and depth of research along with many many greatly appreciated visitors, participants and commenters who I feel are friends, yet to be met.
Facebook? When you try not to show up in some tourist’s snapshot, who would want to engage in this form of self-propaganda?
Facebook makes no sense to me.
Monckton on the other hand is a great communicator like Ronald Reagan. I wrote to him a couple of times and got well reasoned responses. Over the years only Jesse Helms and Bill Clinton can match that. (Epic fail for George Bush II, Barack Obama and dozens of lesser officials).
Thank you, for bringing this milestone to our notice, Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley!
Congratulations to Anthony and his teams of volunteers!
congratulations to all. I have facebook a/c but never us it I must be to old , I find most of the young are too busy texting to worry about what is happening around them . in Sydney there is so many deaths on the roads thought texting they are starting to fine them
The tide is starting to slowly turn against CAGW’s validity and WUWT has been instrumental in bring that about.
150 million hits and growing…. You gotta love it.
Keep up the excellent work, Anthony!
In the evening my wife and I relax at our computers. She facebooks and informs me of how our children and grandchildren are doing, while I read WUWT postings and assure her that our progeny will not be fried by global warming!
Facebook? What is Facebook?
Eugene WR Gallun
tango says:
June 12, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Honestly, who would have ever imagined our bandwidth would be distilled down to 140 characters or less?????
Well deserved praise ! Keep up the good work Anthony!
William McClenney says:
June 12, 2013 at 9:10 pm
tango says:
June 12, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Honestly, who would have ever imagined our bandwidth would be distilled down to 140 characters or less?????
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Good point.
It does cut down on the reading.
Except for the readers, they just keep reading.
What is all the discussion of FaceBook here? This is time to congratulate one man — who leads many associates — who has created a phenomenon. WUWT is an alternative “institution” for the scientific method, for as many truths as we can understand and debate. Thanks for the honesty and integrity, Anthony, and for your unusual talent that serves all of us so well. I hope some of those 150 mill — yes, I know many of us return a number of times a day, it is so good — subscribe as I do (quarterly donations). That’ll keep those oil companies off your back. Thanks a hundred and fifty million.
I wonder if the sitemeter is near an ice skating rink or the polar bear exhibit at the zoo; it seems so sluggish. I’m quite sure I’ve hit this site 150,000,000 times myself.
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Hear! Hear! Lord Monckton … and congratulations to Anthony, mods and guest contributors.
It seems like only yesterday (well, OK, a year and a half ago!) that we were counting up to 100 million … and now you’re already over the half-way mark to 200 million 🙂
Fabulous!
Who would have thought we would need more than 64. I thought my C64 was a great upgrade from my VIC 20 which was better than punch cards and… Wow how things have changed.
CONGRATULATIONS, Anthony, Our Hero!
◾151,417,210 views (as of now)
WUWT is like a fine red wine. Dry but not bitter, refreshing, relaxing, gets better with age and drives your senses around the bend sometimes. The believers’ sites are like soda pop, left open, in the sun, for days … you get the point.
Cheers
Thank you Lord Monckton for so succinctly hitting the nail on the head, you are very addept at that.
I want to thank you, Anthony, for this site. As a layman from the outside looking in this is the most easily read and informative site existing. The information that I get from here is invaluable in my debates (arguments too) with the uninformed. It has turned several heads and changed quite a few minds.
Again, thanks, and all the best to your posters and commenters.
Y`all are a large part of the reason we getting the upper hand.
My two bobsworth: Congrats Anthony, other contributors and the mods. Having maintained a daily blog for some years, I know what a chore it can be.
No facebook account, or twitter. On the former:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/34760.html
persuaded me. I miss facebook like I’d miss an additional hole in my head!