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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50 000 000 hits in 18 months! Do you own the blog or does the blog own you, Anthony? Over this time there has been a sea-change in society’s willingness to take Climate Alarmism at face value. Correlation is not necessarily causation, but there must be an effect from you, the Bish, Dellers and Jo Nova, Joe Bastardi, Tallman, Lucy, S&S and all the others you bloggers give a voice to who question the Faith. The debt owed to you all by Humanity is incalculable, even though there are Billions who will never know of you and your work. I shall throw my groat into the tip jar as an infinitesimal acknowledgement of your effort.
I dont have WUWT bookmarked. I do a Google search for it every time I come here just to make their server record the event.
Always a great read… particularly the Willis material. Entertaining and enlightening.
However, there is one article that I have been trying to find. It discussed a rear wind field in an front that was refered to as a “stinger”. I just can’t remember the rest of the terms used to name it. Hints please? (or a link)
Thanks!
I think the main thing is that this site is more realistic, honest and rational about the uncertainties. Uncertainty is where most governments and social movements fall down, people prefer to know something than suspend judgement.
Related to this is variety. Because some things in science are uncertain, it is good in such cases to allow a greater variety of thought, within reason. This has the advantage of picking up unusual ideas that turn out to be true.
I see the same thing at the local DVD store, the section on the BBC/ABC (taxpayer funded-government) dvds are generally ok and accurate but have less variety than the free market section, which has more variety but also more crap. But over time, the free market section makes the money and ultimately props up the taxpayer funded one, and tends to find the better and truer ideas more efficiently.
Congratulations, AW … WUWT has been my fountain of climate entertainment and endless joy !
Having looked around on the net, I have decided to take up speleology as a hobby. Others here seem to have also decided to choose that hobby since there are plenty of toenails in evidence.
By the way, can Lord Monckton write prose because I see so many lists?
I can’t remember how I discovered WUWT, but it was while you were whitewashing Stevenson screens. This was the first honest-to-gosh hands-on non-computer-model science I ever saw relevant to the climate debate. I now know there was more (but not much at the time), and appropriately enough I found out about those efforts through WUWT. So needless to say, since then I’ve visited at least once a day.
So thank you, Anthony. You gave me hope when things seemed hopeless, and helped sustain it through many rough times.
And thanks to your moderators, who must not — NOT! — be forgotten.
Your dedication has resulted in an important institution (this blog) for promoting truth and opposing falsehood and deceit. I applaud your commitment to continue to carry this torch forward. You are amazing!
If you have scrolled thru all the comments above, and are still reading.
You might be a skeptic (not that there is anything wrong with that).
“It is transparently, persistently, meticulously honest. Mistakes are admitted and corrected swiftly.”
As a layman, the above is the reason I keep returning to WUWT. Anthony Watts has earned my highest respect, and the respect of many other people I know who have visited this remarkable site.
“…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…”
The main problem is, the “opposite side” doesn’t like to post where they don’t control the moderation. Also, they would find it hard to tell their “followers” to come over and read their latest entry at WUWT (and add to the 150 million count).
” Jason H wrote:
June 12, 2013 at 5:12 pm
I view Facebook and Twitter as a massive waste of human time and effort.”
You do realise that you have just set up the framework for the next Cook & Lewandowsky diatribe, errr, sorry paper.
On March 13, WUWT announced that Climategate 3.0 had occurred.
What happened to it?
Streetcred says:
June 12, 2013 at 11:15 pm
Congratulations, AW … WUWT has been my fountain of climate entertainment and endless joy !
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And it will continue to be, more the joy.
Well done to Anthony and your family for all the work that goes into this I have learnt so much from what I have seen here. The biggest lesson is not to drink tea and read some of the posts and comments or the computer suffers greatly and I have a mess to clean up!
And I don’t do Twitface either.
James Bull
Thank you Antony and all the other contributors to this site. It has been a source of much learning to me, along with being a counter to the endless drivel put out by politicians and their pseudo scientific apparatchiks. All this praise is much deserved.
Thank God for WUWT… a truly marvelous site!
I have two Facebook accounts…but have never thought to connect this august site with such frivolities. However, I now will do so in the interest of making you even better known.
Congratulations on yet another milestone.
I came to WUWT for the climate chat, noticed the bucketsful of data and the general good humour and haven’t tired of it yet. Keep going like this and the millions will come, no problem.
As for “Bitchbook” and the like, there’s far too much pointless froth on the interweb already, without forgoing yet more of your private life to generate more. Don’t need it.
May I suggest in this place and since the subject has been introduced that there are security problems with Facebook and Twitter according to “Krebs on Security” qv.
(personal online security from criminal exploitation of your identity and so on)
And Monckton didn’t even mention the most important reason which keeps me coming back; a simple schoolboy joie de vivre about science and our universe that shines throughout WUWT.
Congrats
150,000,000 – that’s really awesome. Congratulations on this milestone. The Drudge of climate news. WUWT is the place to go to find out latest. We’re all looking forward to the 1B mark!
150,000,000 – that’s really awesome. Congratulations on this milestone. The Drudge of climate news. WUWT is the place to go to find out latest. We’re all looking forward to the 1B mark!
I believe one of the earliest articles on WUWT had to do with the sun going quiet… and that was when I found this site. 2006? Anyway, been here ever since.
Now would be a Grand time to see a comparison chart, WUWT vs surrealClimate, S(u)KS, and whatever other non-entities there might be out there… the names they go by are just SO not memorable.
I put “stinger” in the search box and two threads came up. They can be clicked on here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=stinger
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]
That is excellent. I do not know why I was “snipped” last time. I try to be polite.