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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We need to find the conversations on WUWT that show how cows are carbon dioxide neutral and how farmers ought to be subsidized to raise more cows.
I’ll second Javier’s observation that there is a ‘CO2 and climate category’, but no ‘solar and climate category’ or ‘internal variability and climate’ category. My personal opinion is that CO2 might represent as much as a third of recent warming, but that other climate change drivers larger in their overall combined effect are certainly present.
Other missing categories large enough to be their own separate category would be ‘Energy Public Policy’ and ‘Energy Technology’, both of which happen to be my own personal areas of AGW debate topical interest.
A category I would dearly love to see is the ‘The Hydrological Cycle’ and its climate influence.
It is a subject which, I believe, has been deliberately omitted from the computer programs by the IPCC and has been systematically removed from mention in the mainstream media; so deserves a thoroughly good airing.
My own investigations into this cycle reveals that it is VERY INCONVENIENT for the CAGW MESSAGE. which explains much.
One way to sort posts would be by number of quality comments.Start with total number, then discount the obvious troll subthreads. The more quality comments, the better the likely post quality/interest. Judith used to do something similar for her Climate Etc ‘year in review’ summaries.
Charles, I would like to suggest an additional category: ‘The trouble with….’
It would incorporate the climate instrumentation difficulties. Examples would include the surface stations project, sparse global surface stations, ARGO, Satellite sea level altimetry, homogenization and UHI, tide gauges and vertical land motion, the CFL constraint on climate models forcing parameterization, error compounding in iterative climate models, and such. Much has been written at WUWT on the inadequacies of climate ‘instrumentation’ that is unknown generally because ignored by the ‘climate scientists’.
97% – Doran Zimmerman analysis / takedown
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/about-that-overwhelming-98-number-of-scientists-consensus/
Also, I recall something 2012-ish about “warming would cause a new ice age” but so far I can’t find it again.
The Good, the Bad and the Null HypothesisBy David Middleton
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/17/the-good-the-bad-and-the-null-hypothesis/
The Total Myth of Ocean AcidificationBy David Middleton
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/05/the-total-myth-of-ocean-acidification/
The 1970s Global Cooling Consensus was not a MythBy Angus McFarlanehttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/19/the-1970s-global-cooling-consensus-was-not-a-myth/
For me, WUWT’s best thread so far doesn’t fit into any of the categories listed. It was Willis’s response to Judith Curry, here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/25/judith-i-love-ya-but-youre-way-wrong/
The problems Willis identified back then are even worse now. But that post may have helped to spur Judith into a more objective view.
Neil Lock 10:23
Many thanks for reminding me of that. A fine discussion.
Agree w/that — Willis stated & questioned in a plain-spoken, thorough way something we all wanted to say, even tho Judith is perhaps one of the “good guys”. But if she’s the good guy……..
I have been reading WUWT daily since August 2008 when I tried to figure out why the sky looked like late September in August and my potatoes where not setting a 3rd flush. I found all of the post regarding the relationship between solar variation and climate fascinating and informative. Especially the posts during the early debate over regarding the relationship between solar minimum increases in cosmic radiation and cloud formation and cooling…..2009-2013, Joe Bastardi’s long range winter prediction for 2011-2013. Any of the solar posts with long debates with Leif Svalgaard on the relationship between solar variation and climate… and cosmic radiation variation and climate. I didn’t know enough to have an opinion…. but it has been fascinating as a layman to watch the progression of science in in WUWT especially regarding the understanding the relationship between solar variation and the earth’s climate.
This one might be overlooked as 97 is not in the title:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/about-that-overwhelming-98-number-of-scientists-consensus/
my favourite wind upset (so to speak):
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/19/wind-turbine-infrasound-as-a-weapon/
dissing CAGW:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/24/water-vapour-the-big-wet-elephant-in-the-room/ and
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/10/the-diminishing-influence-of-increasing-carbon-dioxide-on-temperature/
Larry’s best on Alarmist Predictions
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/15/the-noble-corruption-of-climate-science/
Good luck, you’re welcome!
Not sure how these two fit in but …
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/13/weather-cows/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/17/explosives-may-be-used-to-dislodge-frozen-cows/
Caribou move? Who knew?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/24/caribou-supposedly-roasted-by-global-warming-found-unharmed/
My favourites: (sorry Canadian);
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/23/climate-change-alarmism-as-a-class-war/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/21/the-latest-co2-fantasy/
One of my favorites:
Africa from space Record heat, same area on ground, No data.. h/t Tony Heller
Another Gem.
Study: 99% of Coral Will Bleach Every Year Within a Century…Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Coral survived the Cretaceous / Paleogene extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs, when a 6 mile wide Asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago. Coral survived the Permian–Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago, when the Siberian Traps were formed, a colossal series of volcanic eruptions which covered almost three million square miles in lava, contaminating the entire world with toxic fumes and volcanic ash. But apparently its all going to come to an end, if we add a few hundred ppm more CO2 to the atmosphere.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/06/study-99-of-coral-will-bleach-every-year-within-a-century/
James’ all of global warming…as it would look plotted on a thermometer
https://suyts.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/what-global-warming-looks-like-on-an-alcohol-thermometer/
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This one is almost 10 years old:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/23/earth-day-2012-top-10-positive-climate-developments/
so there may be newer ones that make the same point. Which is that a Warmer World Is a Better World. Perhaps WUWT needs an update on that topic, and even a Category.
The entire CAGW myth is built on the erroneous assumption that somehow a warmer world would be disastrous. Arguments regarding the factors that might lead to warming aside, the lockstep mainstream paranoia about the alleged “problems” of warming is baseless. A warmer Earth is nothing to fear but rather to be welcomed.
Defuse the paranoia and the alarmists will be disarmed.
When I saw this post on best-of WUWT my immediate reaction was, at least one or two of Dr. Robert Browns (aka: rgb@duke) frequent contributions must be included somewhere in here. It was very enjoyable to go back and reread a number of his posts and comments. They are all worthy of consideration, imo, but I’ll suggest this comment elevated by Anthony to a post almost 10 years ago for consideration in the first, CAGW category.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/02/why-cagw-theory-is-not-settled-science/
I think in category 10, 97% consensus, maybe Kenji should be there (whether or not he is a part of the 97% of the 3%):
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/07/friday-funny-the-newest-member-of-the-union-of-concerned-scientists/
For intermittent wind and solar and why too much of it’s a problem.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/13/grid-stability-basics/
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