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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Thanks Anthony – you deserve a medal!
What’s Facebook?
Thank you Anthony for your hard work maintaining WUWT but especially for introducing me via this blog to Lord Monckton and the rest of the Mad Men. Lord Monckton has provided seemingly limitless entertainment on you tube. Without him I wouldn’t know an ad hom from an ad hoc. His understanding of debate is something everyone or rather every gentleman should master. You don’t need to stomp a man’s dignity when you demolish his argument. Let me be the first to raise a glass and say “here here”!
WUWT, so good you sop it up with a biscuit! Even the solar discussion sections are more entertaining than fight night on Mexican TV.
Hey Anthony, have you ever considered jumping ship and becoming a Democrat? What I mean is… Obama now says he’s made some mistakes and Hillary has taken full responsibility, like adults do. All the publicity you’d get, they’ll take notice and listen. You might pull them completely off this cracker head anthropogenic climate change cartoon network.
You could always jump back if it didn’t work out.
There is a mood building in some circles to stop fighting and start fixing. Like your energy bill will skyrocket. Umm, see this.
Izzere a way you can “unlike” something/body/whatever, to let them know you think they are wasting their time, and yours on the asocial networks.
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I’m not on Facebook. I don’t Twitter. I don’t even have a cell phone. But I do have a TV and a computer with an internet connection.
Are any of those things required to be able to read, observe and think?
Hi Anthony, bloody well done! Thank you so much for all you and your team and family do. Yours is the first site I visit after I settle down in the kitchen after dinner with a glass of wine (in the UK) – I then follow your links to the usual places like CA, JoNova etc. I often send several articles from WUWT to my kindle to read later. My wife invariably looks over my shoulder and asks why I’m always on your site. I have learnt so much over the past 4 years or so since visiting your site.
Every now and then I’m prompted to hit the Tip Box with relatively small amounts and today is no exception. Let me know when the Big Oil cheques arrive and I’ll stop 😉 .
Regards
John
@Gail Coombs
Thanks for the advice. I think I’ll start small and investigate some potholes first.
Most people just come here to catch the freakshow. Here’s some reality: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20130610.html
Congratulations, Anthony and mods. I hope the Presidential Medal of Freedom announcement arrives today.
Jeff says:
June 13, 2013 at 3:01 pm
And I say, Stick around, jeffy, otherwise there’s no freaks to see!
Congratulations Anthony and eh… rightfully Christopher also mentions Willis.
As for Facebook, I am a member, unwillingly, just for a few friends who use it with dedication, I keep this “friends list” as short as possible.
But then… recent developments in a country with hardly freedom of the press informed me on a more and telling personal level the experience of a friend living there I don’t think I could have been informed otherwise. Whether you like it or not, the facebook phenomenon is part of an emergent social culture and in some regimes a valuable means for information exchange for otherwise information deprived locals.
So maybe less successful still I think it makes sense Anthony is also on Facebook.
As for Twitter eh… I still prefer the sound of real birds 🙂
Goode ’nuff says:
June 13, 2013 at 12:10 pm
WUWT, so good you sop it up with a biscuit! Even the solar discussion sections are more entertaining than fight night on Mexican TV.
Hey Anthony, have you ever considered jumping ship and becoming a Democrat?
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It is about the real thing in the end, no? Goody …………
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Congrat’s Anthony!
My only question would be why is it not a Billion?
Marketing my friend,,,,,,,You could get at least 2 more hits if you advertised on SKS )SARC(
Congrats on the achievement!
I read through all the comments but forgot to post one, so here it is. This way in 5 years I can re-read it…
Facebook is for keeping in touch with a circle of friends, or in my case, pseudo friends that I need to keep my eye on but don’t actually want to ever interact with in real life. Also they have some games on there that are kinda fun. It’s also my number one source of humorous pictures of cats with witty sayings attached. And it’s a way for my ex girlfriends to contact me and remind me why I dumped them.
WUWT has made a genuine difference in the world, a change for the better, despite what its ineffective detractors have tried to claim.
Check this, 1.6+ Billion hits for one video……………. that is a B……….
We can do better than that IMHO!
I place the thought of a reward for a climate activist who can pass a lie detector test.
Would any climate activist even attempt it?
I put up, right here, $500 toward covering the cost of having a polygraph test done on any significant applicant…………..Really I do!
What do ya thing?
Jeff said @ur momisugly June 13, 2013 at 3:01 pm
There’s computer generated hyper-reality, then there’s real reality measured out in the field:
http://www.sturmsoft.com/climate/forest_grassland_limits.jpg
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.
It seems so. But blog site policy blocks guest submission from the debate.
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again and don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Bob Dylan
However. Good Job done in All.
V.
I am a theist, and have a specific, Christian view of the world, and man’s place in the world. That is relevant (to me) as I watch humankind persist in attempting to re-create, copy, and replace what God has already done. Controlling the weather? Ha.
When I bring this theistic view into a comment discussion, I know others disagree with me a little or a lot.
However, I have always been treated respectfully at this site by hosts and other commenters. That is very rare in the blogosphere, and is a great tribute to the atmosphere created and sustained here.
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Margaret Hardman says:
June 13, 2013 at 2:13 pm
@Gail Coombs
Thanks for the advice. I think I’ll start small and investigate some potholes first.
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Be sure to get your nose down in them to catch the fine details.
What is the point of Facebook if you have a job, busy family, volunteer activities, and friends?
As ever, keep up the good work, Anthony and everyone involved outside the limelight. You are doing science, truth and mankind a service as will become evident when the hysteria finally croaks.