Looking for longtime readers and Internet search wizards to help us identify our “best of category” posts for the following items:
- Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
- CO2 and Climate
- Climate Models
- Alarmist Predictions
- Sea level Rise
- Climategate
- Extreme weather
- Climate Economics
- Intermittent Wind and Solar
- 97% consensus
- Polar Bears
- Ocean Acidification
- Ocean Heat Content
- Global Temperatures
- Electric Vehicles
- Glacial Cycles
- Ice Sheets
- Coral Reef Health
Note: Some, but not all of the above, correspond to our blog categories. Others are new and combine multiple site categories.
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Ocean Heat Content
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/06/we-must-get-rid-of-the-carboniferous-warm-period/
Satire may not be everyone’s ‘cup-of-tea’, I bookmarked Brad Keyes’ brilliant essay.
Alarmist predictions.
Penguins dying out in Antarctic.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/02/remember-when-we-were-told-penguins-dont-migrate-theyre-dying-never-mind/
Calling John Cook to the stand. 😉
Please include the best URLs.
W. E. With cloud feedback hypothesis 2016/9/4 and later
CO2 and climate:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/21/the-greenhouse-effect-a-summary-of-wijngaarden-and-happer/
Ice Sheets, sure I remember something about CO2 freezing…
CO2 and climate:
Nooooo! I still haven’t recovered from that huge controversy. I was deeply involved in that dialog, it was finally put to rest with https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/results-lab-experiment-regarding-co2-snow-in-antarctica-at-113f-80-5c-not-possible/
It led to Tony Heller leaving WUWT as a frequent poster, he may still believe CO2 frost is possible.
Too bad for all of us that Tony left WUWT over that disagreement. His contributions to climate common sense are immense.
Best of WUWT or Greatest?
It was certainly one of the most significant of WUWT posts. Albeit a little thermodynamically challenged.
Methane which is already being banned in various cities around the world isn’t on the list of categories – LINK.
We are never told how much methane will run up global temperatures, but depending on which IPCC Assessment you read, we are told that it’s 63, 56, 62, 72 or 85 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat.
The Global Warming Potential numbers in the IPCC reports are a classic example of misdirection. Their only purpose is to be a scary statistic and not convey any useful information.
Denying natural gas to residential homes is an odious overstep of governmental power.
By 2100 methane’s contribution to global temperature will be essentially nothing.
Here’s a WUWT post
Methane warming exaggerated by 400%
be sure read through the comments
Here’s a good one:
Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas
I’ve been following WUWT from the very beginning and it’s taught me so much about the science of climate. Out of all the posts, my most favourite post is a recent one from Willis:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/25/wheres-the-emergency/
It is an outstanding take down of the CAGW fallacy that is full of superb visuals that a non-scientist (“bloke in the street”) can understand. It needs to be shared far and wide.
Oh, and any post ripping the pompous Mike Mann a new one is always good for a giggle. Could you perhaps make a “Michael Mann” category?
Regarding your most favorite post, and it’s a good one, be sure to read the comments.
The comments on any post are often the best bit. The amount I’ve learned from comments at WUWT is virtually immeasurable.
+1
WTF?
A CO2 and climate category, and no solar and climate category or internal variability and climate category?
It is clear that WUWT is about negating a determinant role for CO2, but not about other possible climate change drivers.
A polar bear category and no Arctic sea-ice category? Is this a climate place or an ecology place?
Dumb choice of categories in my opinion. Not much thought appears to have gone into it.
Perhaps you should just put up a link to the best of the category you do not see instead of a useless rant.
The best articles on those categories not reflected in my opinion are mine, so I am not going to propose them. The question is why contribute to WUWT if the categories I contribute are considered irrelevant and below polar bears, electric vehicles and coral reef health.
I guess I’ll just post at Climate Etc. and watch WUWT repost them.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya…
Yes, I’ll do that. The level of WUWT commenters has fallen too low for my taste.
I am surprised at you since YOU can easily post YOUR choices by article and links irrelevant to blog category.
Please post your choices to help illuminate what is important to you then the rest of us can read them.
12 Ocean Acidification
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/09/scripps-paper-ocean-acidification-fears-overhyped/
The finding that ocean pH is not constant in the first place has been very overlooked.
One of my all-time favorites. This one I always keep in my bookmarks.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/26/northeast-us-blizzard-proves-global-warming/
This is interesting, it could be the basis of an E-Book about a real discussion about Climate, or even a textbook.
7: Extreme weather
I am extremely biased on this item as several of my posts have looked at past extreme weather, sometimes showing other extreme weather around that time.
However, my very favorite of my posts, and (here’s the bias) I think one of the best posts on WUWT, is https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/10/35-years-ago-the-witch-of-november-come-stealin/ about the storm that sank the Great Lakes ore freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald and related storms in earlier years.
The comments really added to the story, and came from people who crewed ore freighters on the Great Lakes to Roy Spencer recounting his early days at the NWS office in Sault Ste. Marie during the title storm, to someone recounting his grandfather and uncles being on the Mississippi River in the storm.
For the 97% consensus:
Shredding the “climate consensus” myth: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore
I’m not sure into which category this falls, but it’s epic:
Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”
A couple more of my bookmarked “97% consensus” articles.
What else did the ‘97% of scientists’ say?
The madness of 97% 98% consensus herds
Another good one from 7 years ago:
The temperature forecasting track record of the IPCC
Glacial Cycle: https://judithcurry.com/2016/10/24/nature-unbound-i-the-glacial-cycle/
19: Solar effects [N.B. – missing category!]
Early on in WUWT’s history, Anthony reported on a long running study of weakening magnetic fields in our sun’s spots and that would lead to their invisibility. This might have been what happened during the Maunder Minimum. The weakening tailed off a couple years later, though I suspect we’ve missed a number of weak spots. Since then Leif Svalgaard kept us updated when solar activity had enough data to comment upon.
While the hypothesis didn’t pan out, this was one of the best examples of new, good science that wasn’t being reported in most other sources we read.
The best post is https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/18/suns-magnetics-remain-in-a-funk-sunspots-may-be-on-their-way-out/ . The original post is https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/02/livingston-and-penn-paper-sunspots-may-vanish-by-2015/
20: Miscellaneous [another additional category!]
This likely doesn’t warrant being put on a pedestal, but here’s a post about today’s “Chemistry Sets” with no chemicals. It didn’t take long before commenters, including me, posted on the days back when childhood chemistry was fun and entertaining (i.e. explosive) and how common sense was expected when it came to keeping all your fingers intact.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/29/friday-funny-science-safety-run-amok/
Which category covers daft conspiracy theories?
“I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory
As WUWT readers know, we’ve had the Josh 2013 Skeptic Calendar done independently in the UK via Bishop Hill, and of course we gauged interest here at WUWT. Josh sent over the artwork via email which I turned into the USA version. (Note: Dr. Mann probably doesn’t realize that Josh is a professional illustrator in the UK who gives his climate caricature services to skeptics free each week, just for fun.) Last week I sent out a few free copies to some folks that I thought could really use some Christmas cheer: Dr. Mike Mann, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dr. Peter Gleick, and Dana Nuccitelli.
Never beyond my wildest dreams did I think it would turn into a #Kochmachine conspiracy theory issue. But then again, there’s this strange pervading idea that skeptics are well funded and well organized. Here’s what Dr. Mann Tweeted today:
Where did #AnthonyWatts (#WUWT) get
funds for widely distributed #climatechange
#denier calendar? on.fb.me/12H62WI
#KochMachine.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/22/too-funny-i-send-mike-mann-a-free-wuwt-calendar-as-a-christmas-gift-and-he-goes-full-conspiracy-theory/
There should be a humorous category too.
2: CO2 and Climate
One page I’ve shared frequently (including here!) is Willis Eschenbach’s wonderful explanation about how the Mauna Loa CO2 sampling is done and how they exclude contamination from CO2 emitted by Hawaii’s volcanoes. Everyone who reads WUWT should read https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/04/under-the-volcano-over-the-volcano/ . Everyone who has read it should share as necessary to reduce the amount of misinformation on the WWW.
Thank you Willis.
Most welcome.
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I posted a portion of a WUWT article with the link
It has been moderated and disappeared.
What does that say about WUWT articles???
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/22/too-funny-i-send-mike-mann-a-free-wuwt-calendar-as-a-christmas-gift-and-he-goes-full-conspiracy-theory/
When you have your moderation sorted out let me know.
You censored your own output
Bizarre.
And now it’s back.
I won’t pretend to understand what is going on. I don’t.
The WordPress automatic filters seem to be inscrutable, the mods do a pretty good job of rescuing useful comments.
I suspect WordPress also sometimes completely looses a comment, I suspect it may be a “race condition” if two people comment on a post at exactly the same time and they’re handled by two different servers.
Ultimately, you aren’t the only one who doesn’t completely understand what is going on. 🙂
Ric, I’ve seen the WordPress code. Used to run a self-hosted blog with it.
It’s kinda surprising it works at all…
6 Climategate
I think the best post is the first post, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/
I used to track WUWT posts and the number of comments, but that program breaks every time there’s a big change in the blog, and I haven’t gotten back to it since the last break in 2019.
That post had 1,616 comments, I believe that’s the most comments to <b>any</b> WUWT post by far.
That post kept me up until 3 AM that night. I got into work late that morning….
See also:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/
The WUWT reference page on Climategate.
https://wermenh.com/climate/HARRY_READ_ME.txt
The infamous Harry readme. Any software engineer or scientific programmer here should read it.
Anything Jim Steele wrote.
Climate warming /alarmism/crisis/ and of course healing, to me is all condensed in the scientist at large: Bill Nye: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/30/bill-nye-we-want-to-engage-everybody-by-declaring-economic-war-on-climate-skeptics/
My choice would be any one of Willis’ tales of the South Pacific – eg http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/16/the-missing-cashbox-and-the-nguru-patrol/
I liked his tour of the UK. Wild cows and medieval clocks.
Mr. Stokes: I second your choice. (Wasn’t as hard to agree as I anticipated).