We report the winners of the 2014 Bloggies awards and “Climate Duplicitist of the Year”.
Readers may recall the voting earlier on both contests, and now the results are in. First the Bloggies, as recorded on Twitter tonight:
Best European Weblog: Tallbloke's Talkshop http://t.co/FViazy0wv6
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Best Canadian Weblog: Small Dead Animals http://t.co/f06C8iNtVS
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Best Weblog About Politics: The Global Warming Policy Foundation http://t.co/GModnFN2ms
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Best Topical Weblog: Climate Audit http://t.co/z5O8HZoW9A
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Best Group or Community Weblog: Watts Up With That? http://t.co/lI0XOJKve7
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Lifetime Achivement: JoNova http://t.co/VZynxAYZfN
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Weblog of the Year: Watts Up With That? http://t.co/lI0XOJKve7 See you next year!
— The Weblog Awards (@Bloggies) March 31, 2014
Congratulations to all. I really had hoped Donna Laframboise would have placed first in that last category, but my sincere thanks to all who voted, just the same.
The poll for “Climate Duplicitist of the Year”, now closed, revealed a clear winner
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mann. The award to Dr. Mann will be sent next week.
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I’m sure my campaign did the trick! 😉
Gleick will never repeat his antics–he’ll just be one of a hundred in the alarmist choir henceforth. Lewandowsky will never again be half so lewdicrous. So there will never be an opportunity to name-and-shame them again. Mann, OTOH, is an Energizer bunny of marvels. He’ll be in the running from now to eternity.
So it’s a pity Mann’s candidacy wasn’t held back a year.
Another regret I have is that there wasn’t a vote for the top ten of the past ten years, followed by annual awards. Oh well.
AGW sceptic blogs and bloggers voted cream of the crop while Mikey gets the climate raspberry. I guess his lawyers are going to be very busy tracking down all the people responsible…
Congratulations to WUWT, as real triumph of sanity over stupidity! However, this has not been reported on our beloved PDRofEU totalitarian state broadcaster, the BBC. Instead, they’ve have dutifully reported that the UN IPCC has declared that Climate Change is going to be much worse than anybody ever thought! More storms, rain, drought, dryness, deforestation, hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, disasters………………….you name it, they’re calling it! Isn’t forecasting amazing? Claim enough crap is going to happen & blow me down in the next hurricane, it happens!!!!! 😉 sarc off! The only ones it seems who can’t see their foolishness are the BBC themselves, over paid, over staffed, one big jolly on the back of the taxpayer, oh how sad it is to see a once great organization fall from grace!
Poor Mr. Gore must be distressed. His notoriety is slipping.
Mann earned his award as a mathematician in 2013 for his avid support of the Marcott 2013 hockey stick he claimed vindicated his life’s work but which had no blade in any of the input data, as clear as can be:
http://s6.postimg.org/jb6qe15rl/Marcott_2013_Eye_Candy.jpg
Caleb –
u r wondering how “distressed” mr. gore might be. how about this aussie law lecturer!
31 March: Crikey: Melissa Sweet: On climate change and human survival: this is an emergency (and how health professionals might respond)
Meanwhile, I encourage you to also read this recent article by Peter Burdon, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide. He writes powerfully about the grief and emotion that many are experiencing on their own personal climate change journeys, and urges collective action:
“There is no ‘one right way’ to grieve but if you have strong networks of support the experience can be liberating and even enriching. Grieving can help us detach from our old vision and expectations for the future and adjust to a new reality. We all have capacity to readjust and in fact many of us have experienced something similar after a loved one dies or a relationship unexpectedly ends.
Following this, it is well documented that a healthy and effective response to grief is to join with others and act. Isolation is disempowering and I do not think there is anything to be gained by capitulating.
As the cellist Pablo Casals said: “The situation is hopeless; we must now take the next step.” Finding meaning in adverse circumstances is an enduring human quality and one that we need to collectively summon again….”…
To quote academic Clive Hamilton, “we need a new environmental radicalism made up of those willing to put their bodies on the line.”…
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/03/31/on-climate-change-and-human-survival-this-is-an-emergency-and-how-health-professionals-might-respond/
Congratulations Anthony!
Be carefull about sending Mann his award lest you end up in court!
Congratulations to you, and other deserved winners. Great to see skeptic blogs
so well represented .
My hearty congratulations to all the winners of Bloggies. Very impressive and a demonstration of the power of science to overcome small-p politics.
@Eyvind Dk
Thanks for pointing out that CAGW is without doubt the largest disinformation campaign in history, although there are some other government-led initiatives that give ‘climate’ a good run. I was just handed a copy of “Manufactured Crisis” by Gareth Porter ISBN 978-1-935982-33-3 which is about something else we will be invited to spend 1 or 2 trillion $ to ‘solve’.
Aluta continua.
So if Al Gore only got 140 votes (7.6%) would he view that as good or bad? Less people disliking him could be nice or would he feel trivialised?
Will 753 of us be sued for Libel by Mann:-)
If you sent Mann an invitation to attend the ceremony, he’d decline.
But he would hide the decline.
Yes Congratulations to everyone.
At least the mann won’t be suing me, after a great deal of heart-searching I decided on Lew.
Mann finally gets his “ig”Nobel prize.
Congratulations to all, well done.
Pointman
Well done to all, especially Anthony without whom I’d still be wandering (sort of) in the desert of ignorance that surrounds extended meteorology, a.k.a. climatology. WUWT was a real breath of fresh air.
As before, the Mann will undoubtedly hold up his new award as evidence of the massive amount of funding coming to Anthony from Big Oil.
Congratulations to all.
Warmists must realise that despite all their bleating about consensus, climate cranks, fossil fuel funding, smear, jail etc., scepticism is king! They will scratch their heads at the results. No need my dear Warmists, the real world looks very different to your dreams.
I hope the runner-up will be given some certificate and trinket, too. He really does deserve it.
Congratulations to Professor Mann for his outstanding work and commiserations to Professor Lewandowsky. What really pains me that with solar 24 peaking and heading down towards an expected very low if even discernable solar 25 with global temperatures to match, their outstanding efforts may become largely overlooked or even forgotten to history as the world yawns, giggles and leaves the theatre.
(sarc off)
Trenberth deserved a better showing than that. I demand a recount!
More seriously, it is fantastic to see so many of the blogs that I read up on that list. Congrats again to WUWT in particular.
Rob Dawg says:
March 30, 2014 at 8:11 pm
“Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mann. The award to Dr. Mann will be sent next week.”
I hear there’s a blank spot on his wall.
I understand there are a lot of blanks in Mann world….
Congratulations to all the winners and especially to our host for this Award Winning site!
Unfortunately, now Dr. Mann, in typical “Mann-speak”, will be able to say that he is an “award winning climate scientist” and his statement will not be able to be refuted by those of a skeptical persuasion.
To the spoiled goes the victory.