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Anthony Watts

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

2014_year_in_bloggingCrunchy numbers

About 2,500,000 people visit MoMA in New York every year. This blog was viewed about 44,000,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at MoMA, it would take about 18 years for that many people to see it.

The busiest day of the year was September 16th with 344,980 views. The most popular post that day was Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit – world leaders are staying home.

Posting Patterns

In 2014, there were 2,108 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 12,368 posts.

Longest Streak

365 days

1 January – 31 December

Best Day

Wednesday / Tuesday

with 350 posts total

How did they find you?

The top referring sites in 2014 were:

  1. drudgereport.com
  2. facebook.com
  3. twitter.com
  4. climateaudit.org
  5. climatedebatedaily.com

Where did they come from?

2014_year_map237 countries in all!

Most visitors came from The United States. U.K. & Canada were not far behind.

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2014 was A big (goose) step backwards

These were your 5 most active commenters:

  • 1 Jimbo 3429 comments
  • 2 richardscourtney 2768 comments
  • 3 Greg Goodman 2432 comments
  • 4 milodonharlani 2335 comments
  • 5 lsvalgaard 1951 comments

See you in 2015 !

 

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RoHa
December 31, 2014 5:48 pm

But we are still doomed. As Happy a New Year as you can get, under the circumstances.

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Greg
December 31, 2014 6:26 pm

Thanks Anthony and all for a very informative year, I usually lurk because I have only a little understanding of the scientific issues involved but this site explains much of the science in ways that I can understand. I’m a mainframe dinosaur programmer and the fact that most of the AGW scare is based on modelling means that the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) factor is very high on my list of suspects!
Once again thanks to all and I wish you all the very best for the new year!
Cheers, Greg Everard

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Robin.W.
December 31, 2014 7:43 pm

This is letter I sent to The Australian in response to an article about fats and diet etc and how the conventional wisdom has caused more problems than it solved.
Nick Cater’s article “The big fat misinformation diet” December 30, 2014 puts me in mind of another orthodoxy where researchers questioning the prevailing view are cut off from grants, publications etc”. Bob Carter comes to mind.
Global Warming misinformation has been mostly created in silico. 111 of 114 computer models (GCMs) covering the last 20 years forecast trends of + 0.21C per decade which is 4 times the observed reality. (Fyfe et al ). This misinformation is what a great many climate related news releases, forecasts and scientific papers are based on, not reality.
Let’s hope it doesn’t take 60 years to come to our senses on this one.

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Louis LeBlanc
Reply to  Robin.W.
December 31, 2014 8:43 pm

Not surprised, Anthony. Deeply felt thanks to you and all the serious (and funny) posters and commenters for providing my daily fix of truth, data and humor amidst the awful onslaught of “climate change crisis.” Onward and upward!

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asybot
December 31, 2014 8:39 pm

Thanks Anthony a great 2015 to you and your family ( and the “family” on this site) from me as well a thanks and best wishes to Josh who lightens up our week every time.

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Janice Moore
Reply to  asybot
December 31, 2014 10:11 pm

Hey, Sybot, your use of the powerful term “family” warmed my heart. I agree. Some of us are quiet and shy… others are bold, some are science-knowledgeable, others of us are just eager to learn. We have bossy moms and dads and fussy maiden aunts and crotchety bachelor uncles. And, LOL, we have some dysfunctional members… just like ANY normal family does, but we allies for truth of WUWT are, in a word:
“family.”
Intro. to TV show “Wonder Years” (Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends”)
pub. on youtube

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
#(:))

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eyesonu
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 1, 2015 6:50 am

Janice,
That might be your best post ever!

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 1, 2015 7:38 am

Dear Eyes on YOU,
BIG SMILE.
Your sis,
Janice
#(:))

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Eamon Butler
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 2, 2015 4:54 am

Brilliant. Happy New Year to you, Janice. I always enjoy your posts here, but this is wonderful.
I wish you all the very best for 2015. (That’s the whole year, not just a quarter past eight 😉
Eamon.

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 2, 2015 8:54 am

Eamon!
What a kind thing to say — thank you! Quarter past eight, cute ;).
And WAY TO GO, Mr. Butler, doing your part to fight the battle for truth about nuclear power which (as you well know) IS VERY SAFE. Those obnoxious Greens are hard to take (try to just flip the channel!), but, while this is not exactly a comfort, at least know that the main force behind such foolishness about nuclear power is not deeply held, widespread, pernicious, beliefs, held by an overwhelming army of “Organic-No Nukes” Cult devotees. The few true believers out there are fuddled into shouting and marching by cool-headed (likely the coal guys, heh) non-nuclear energy promoters.
Why is this a (relatively) good thing? Money follows truth, in the long run. The money guys will, thus, abandon windmills and solar before long and go with coal. Then, they will, when coal is played out, go with nuclear. Yes, they use l1es and create economic inefficiencies with their market-share-by-Gov’t-regulation (via their cronies in political office), but, in the end, economic truth outs and they face reality and change for the better. Money guys are very pragmatic. And (listen up all you socialists (ahem)) the less Government gets involved in the economy, i.e., when truly FREE MARKETS exist, the sooner truth directs resource allocation.
So, just LAUGH at those poor Greens. No, that was wrong. Have pity and pray for them — most of them are not healthy mentally (and I am not being sarcastic).
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, too!
May 2015 (and April and June and 😉 be for you full of joy,
Janice
#(:))

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Herbert.
December 31, 2014 10:19 pm

Happy New Year to all readers of WUWT.
Science and philosophy are our great institutions and the search for truth will ultimately
prevail. Einstein said-
” One thing I have learned in a long life : that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

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Nick de Cusa
December 31, 2014 10:35 pm

Congratulations and thank you so much for your world class site. Happy New Year to you and the team, may it bring you more than you wish.

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Kirk Olson
December 31, 2014 10:48 pm

Not a regular poster but a very regular reader.
Best story this year: Anthony’s hearing restored to near-normal.
Best wishes to all and Keep up the good work !

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Kirk Olson
January 1, 2015 7:39 am

+1!

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John Whitman
January 1, 2015 1:11 am

Dear antagonists and protagonists in the climate focused science dialog, my New Years thoughts go to you all for participating on this wonderful venue.
I thank Anthony & his associates for the wonderful venue.
John

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Martin A
January 1, 2015 1:12 am

Yes, congratulations Anthony.
I hope that the hearing restoration remains effective. If you wished to give an update on that question, I think that many readers would appreciate that.

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Finn
January 1, 2015 2:26 am

Mr. Watts, you truly are; “A island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.” – from the movie Ford Fairlane.

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Jimbo
January 1, 2015 2:29 am

No comment. 😉

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GeeJam
Reply to  Jimbo
January 1, 2015 3:52 am

Dang!

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Climate Researcher
January 1, 2015 2:44 am

May I suggest that 2014 was be the year when astute climate researchers came to the realisation that surface temperatures are controlled by thermodynamic processes (sensible convective heat transfers) as distinct from radiative heat transfer. This is the 21st century new paradigm shift I first wrote about late in 2012. Momentum is gathering as other climate blogs like The Hockey Schtick, Clive Best and Tallbloke get onto the effect of gravity, even though they have not correctly explained the energy transfer mechanisms which can be explained by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You only have to wonder a little about how the Venus surface warms when the Sun shines to start to realise that it’s not all about radiation absorbed by the surface.
Have a happy and relaxed New Year, everyone, comforted by the now proven fact that carbon dioxide does not warm at all because valid physics shows that all it can do is cool by a minuscule amount.

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Antonia
January 1, 2015 3:10 am

I don’t know if this is true or not: “Black powder (gunpowder) used in fireworks generates forty eight percent carbon dioxide. So the seven tonnes of fireworks used last night in the [Sydney] harbour generated about three and a half tonnes of carbon dioxide.” – but if it is, what hypocrites all those city-dwelling voters are.

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Climate Researcher
Reply to  Antonia
January 1, 2015 3:39 am

Why? You have no valid physics which can be used to prove that carbon dioxide does anything but cool by a minuscule amount. I challenge you to produce such and explain it in your own words in detail, based on the laws of physics.

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Antonia
January 1, 2015 2:21 pm

Antonia is right.
Hypocrites intentionally act against their stated beliefs.
Therefore: the AGWers who enjoyed and/or willingly allowed their tax money to pay for the fireworks are hypocrites.
Hypocrisy exists in the believer whether or not the belief being violated is true.

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markstoval
January 1, 2015 3:57 am

Most people try and stay on-topic for each thread as best they can. I like that.
There was one thread (about a year ago?) calling for suggestions to make the site better. If I remember it correctly there were many comments and suggestions. I recommend that a thread of that type be an annual event.

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Tim
January 1, 2015 6:37 am

Steven Goddard’s New Year’s message should be distributed by the MSM as a page one blockbuster story. (But don’t hold your breath.)
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/new-years-resolutions-for-climate-scientists/

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mbur
January 1, 2015 7:41 am

…another year of excellent reading.
Thanks for the interesting articles and comments

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vukcevic
January 1, 2015 10:20 am

And finally:
Solar activity in 2014 was good, SIDC (International Sunspot count) ended year just under 80 and it looks as SC24 may not be done yet.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSN.htm
On personal note, some 10 years ago I extrapolated the past SSN records (see formula), and came with SC24 max at ~ 80. I never expected to get that close (NASA’s Dr. Hathaway at the time was talking of 200 but about a year or two later Dr. S predicted 70, which looks good, though a bit on the low side).

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vukcevic
Reply to  vukcevic
January 1, 2015 11:50 am

On the other hand the 2014 annual CET was warmest since records begun 1659 at 10.93C
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-dMm.htm
…………. Dec… Annual
2012… 4.8… 9.72
2013… 6.3… 9.56
2014… 5.2… 10.93

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Fraizer
January 1, 2015 12:03 pm

And here is all the serial wiki disinformationist can offer:
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2014/12/28/tee-hee/
Read the comments, they are a hoot.

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Stein_Gral
January 1, 2015 3:34 pm

Perhaps “the Climate Battle” is won, or soon will win in USA. However, where I live (in Europe), there is still a long way to go, I am afraid. So we all need toon the allert and prepare for the Paris Meeting in December

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Stein_Gral
January 1, 2015 4:04 pm

Dear Herr or Frau Stein,
Take heart and fear not! Where Germany goes (power-generation policy-wise), so goes the Continent and Germany is NOT BUDGING from coal (and nuclear which will hopefully even be augmented before long).
Germany is just saying, “Nein”:
“… German … Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) has abandoned the requirement of cutting 40 percent of CO2 emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2020.” {Der Spiegel here: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gabriel-beim-klimaschutz-ist-das-ziel-nicht-zu-halten-a-1003183.html}
“… Gabriel is defending vehemently coal-fired power generation.”
(Source: November, 2014 Eric Worrall article here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/17/germany-abandons-their-climate-target-as-their-chancellor-sings-to-the-crowd/)
Gutes Neues Jahr!
Your Ally for Truth,
Janice #(:))

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Stein_Gral
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 1, 2015 4:15 pm

Ich bis nicnt aus Deutchland. There are other countries in Europe where there, apparently, is concensus about Global Warming and/or Climate Changes. And no “Public” debate ! These People / countries need “help” !

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Janice Moore
Reply to  Janice Moore
January 1, 2015 5:36 pm

Dear Stein_Gral,
They most certainly do, if there is no public debate! THAT is a problem for God. Pray for liberty! (I just did)
As for their economic policies… as I said, where Germany goes, so goes Europe.
The prison-like country in which you reside can squawk all it wants, but, their imports will sit on the loading docks rotting (or rusting or what-have-you) if they price them above market due to higher costs of production (here, power). They, too, will use cheaper power, unless they are so depressed that they are suicidal… . “Cheaper power” can ONLY be coal (or hydro or natural gas), for now (given the horrendous cost that gov’t. reg. adds to nuclear power and you probably do not live where natural gas or hydropower are economically viable options — gas would be, but if it is controlled by the communists, a.k.a. Russia, then it is too unreliable a source to use for major production).
So! With an import — export imbalance such as even THEY can see they are headed for if they cling to windmills, etc…,
there will be no profits/income/sales to tax to keep their salaries going, much less, the permanently-negative-ROI-BUT-FOR-subsidies windmills .
Solar? LAUGH OUT LOUD.
Surcharges on power customers using coal-generated electricity? As if! Most of those people are getting gov’t. handouts to pay their power bills!
And all the OPM ran out…… 5 seconds ago (printing more Monopoly money doesn’t work in the long run… the guys who bought all the railroads and Boardwalk and stuff end up winning… rent, you know, heh). bbbbwwwwwwwweeeeeeppp!…rrrrrrrmmmmm…………………………
*!*!*!GAME OVER*!*!*!
Coal power is here to stay… until nuclear takes over.
Rejoice!
#(:))
Janice

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Eamon Butler
January 2, 2015 8:08 am

There has even been a mention of Nuclear, here in Ireland. At least, the minister has called for a debate on our future energy sources, and said it was not for him to advocate Nuclear or any other
form of energy, but he didn’t want to exclude any particular source. The Greens are mad with him. Their spokesman was almost in tears saying,” it’s extremely costly, it’s risky and it’s not realistic.” Though, I was disappointed with the guy promoting Nuclear. He said that the impacts of fossil fuels were catastrophic and growing.
Ok, it’s a start. I wish I had the confidence and technical knowledge to take these guys on, as it is becoming more prevalent on local T.V. I have made lots of representation of the Skeptical view, by Email, but their response has been very lacking.
Eamon.

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