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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It’s all due to the increase in CO2!
Brian says:
June 12, 2013 at 4:59 pm
” I guess WUWT viewers don’t have facebook accounts.”
I can only speak for myself: you won’t find me within a million miles of Facetwit.
Many, many thanks to Christopher Monckton and Anthony.
Often the claims that everything – particularly if bad – is caused by climate change have been correctly ridiculed on these pages. But one thing is clearly true: climate change can drive many people mad.
Christopher and Anthony, and many others, have been working tirelessly to bring back sanity to the world and to restore the integrity of science. In time they will prevail, and the global warming scam will be widely seen as the evil and destructive cult that it is. But, sadly, as I’m a pensioner I’m not sure I’ll live to see that day.
Chris
@ur momisugly TheEngineer says:
June 13, 2013 at 1:00 am
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
That is one of the delightful intangibles that keeps me returning, too.
Participating since Day one.
Back then John Daly (who just passed away a few years before the birth of WUWT) and Climate Audit were the only islands of sanity in the ocean of warmist hysteria.
Anthony, a regular poster on Climate Audit, decided then to throw his own gauntlet with WUWT and I must admit that I was fairly skeptical about his chance to survive in this extremely hostile environment.
Well I have been proven spectacularly wrong and it is one of those rare cases when one is happy to be proven wrong.
I would also like to give credit for the whole skeptical world to Steve McIntyre – in those extremely difficult years of the beginning of the 21st century, his blog gave safe haven and expression opportunity to a large number of skeptics or even lukewarmers who then successfully created their own blogs later.
A.Watts, J.Curry, Lucia.L, S.Mosher are just a few names I remember as simple posters at Climate Audit before they joined the frey with their own blogs.
So glory for Anthony and respect to Steve who was a kind of ancestor of us all.
For you Anthony :
Care for your health. Even if your work already became far bigger than you, it is still extremely important that you stay at the helm because you happen to be the right man for that.
I would like to read you and see you keeping this island of sanity here for a very long time . Health, success and hapiness is what I wish you because you deserve it.
REPLY: Thanks Tom for the kind words about my health, someday I hope to take an actual honest vacation. Since starting this blog in 2006, there have been only short periods where I have not attended to it. Finances and circumstances keep conspiring against this goal though. – Anthony
I chime in now and again and appreciate all that is said and debated here. Thank you Anthony.
Southern Girl.
WUWT isn’t (just) a blog, it is an anchor point for reason and sanity… and an international community.
Long may it flourish.
Thanks.
Ditto John B @ur momisugly 5.30AM
Facebook & Twitter are shallow and juvenile, IMO. Thoughtful posts & resulting comments on a blog provide far more insight.
Sea level rise accelerating? Nope.
Global temperature rise accelerating? Nope.
WUWT viewership rise accelerating? YUP!
See? Not all hockeysticks are invalid.
P.S. No twitter and no Facebook and (John B says: June 13, 2013 at 5:30 am) what he said.
Kudos to Anthony and the Mods.
Your success is well deserved, Anthony. The trip from being a lonely voice in the wilderness to being widely recognized (and sometimes reviled) as a major source of truth and light is a testament to your and your moderators’ personal endurance, tenacity and commitment to “scientific truth for its own sake”. Well done!
It’s a wonderful blog Anthony and I really appreciate the work that goes into it.
I don’t have twitter or facebook; life’s too short to bother with them!
Congrats to Anthony and the WUWT team.
Hits = how idiots track success
Only saying 😉
On the other side it would be more interesting to see the visit numbers and trend from Google Analytics.
A hit is a server call and thus I could put 1.000 Pokemon pictures on a page a get a hit for each time each picture is loaded, assuming that by “hit” you do mean hit, and not in reality “page views”.
And then again page views or hits on a blog, says very little about poparity, since obviously it is often a one page view visit, since all content is on one page. Thus visits is a far more accurate representation of popularity.
Best regards
The digital analyst
I must agree with Monckton and add a big, huge, “thank you” for this site and the incredible amount of information shared with us all.
Perhaps after a seven year stretch of rigorous analysis, it might be time for WUWT to try and synthesise some constructive policy programmes, taking into account what is affordable both short-term and long-term??
Ditto. Esp. the parts above in bold.
(Have used Facebook for useful purposes under a half-dozen times. Twitter, ‘following’ a particular newshound on a specific story more so.)
Kudos to Anthony, Mods, and Christopher Monckton of Brenchley for their tireless effort.
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Congrats to Anthony “The Rev” Watts, and his band of “screeching mercury monkeys” and their insistence on flinging “alternative explanations”, i.e. actual science into a debate the Warmistas tried desperately (and still do) to shut down. WUWT has been a boon to mankind, and a bane to the CAGW doctrine, and its followers.
Margaret Hardman says:
June 12, 2013 at 11:17 pm
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….
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You are correct.
I have been a member of the National Speleological Society for 44 years. You haven’t lived until you have been in a cave when an earthquake hits and watched the limestone bedding planes move… a love of geology and caving sort of go together. Geologists and those who read up in geology take the long view of climate and laugh at the likes of Hansen and Mann.
On “Trap-Speed”, ACC and the SNR by William McClenney shows why All thee wailing and gnashing of teeth over a couple of tenth of a degree rise in temperature is so laughable.
TheEngineer says:
June 13, 2013 at 1:00 am
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.
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Yes, WUWT renewed my interest and delight in science that I had lost after working as a lab manager for decades. So again Thanks Anthony and crew.
I would add one more strength of WUWT: It has much higher quality comments than any other site I visit. If an article is posted that contains questionable data, assumptions, or conclusions, I can almost always rely upon the comment section to sort matters out. And the “sorting out” is done with quite a high degree of politeness, and professional respect, something that is quite unusual in today’s anonymous internet world where taking potshots at one another comes at such a low cost.
I’m not quite sure how you’ve managed to do it, Anthony, but somehow you’ve built a comment section that’s usually as worthwhile a read as the original posts.
REPLY: it’s that iron fist site policy 😉 – Anthony
Congratulations to you and your moderation team, Anthony, for this astoundin achievement.
You guys rock and are the best.
150 million hits? Does that include the NSA hits?
Brian says:
June 12, 2013 at 4:59 pm
“I find it strange that wattsupwiththat is so popular, but the facebook page only has 7,000 likes. I guess WUWT viewers don’t have facebook accounts.”
Brian, I think the average WUWT reader is somewhat older than the average “Facebook” reader.
I tried facebook but soon quit. I realized the facebook community are the product not the customer. I got out before they gave me up to the NSA
Thanks Anthony, I’ve enjoyed the site for several years now. I even now understand most of the technical discussions – When I could understand most of Dr Salby’s lecture I felt a sense of enlightenment…. Wouldn’t have gotten there without your blog…
Have FB account, but haven’t visited for a month or more. Cut down friends and links beyond the bare minimum. There aren’t enough hours in the day/week/month/year/lifetime to use it sanely and also keep up with WUWT etc. So it had to go.