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| The site also receives guest posts from ], Dr. David W. Schnare, and ].{{cn}} | The site also receives guest posts from ], Dr. David W. Schnare, and ].{{cn}} | ||
| One of the articles posted on the site about how local weather stations were affected by their surroundings<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/14/christy-and-mckittrick-in-the-uk-times-doubts-on-station-data/ |title= Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data}}</ref> led to an article in '']'' with the headline "UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html |title=UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings}}</ref> | One of the articles posted on the site about how local weather stations were affected by their surroundings<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/14/christy-and-mckittrick-in-the-uk-times-doubts-on-station-data/ |title= Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data}}</ref> led to{{syn}} an article in '']'' with the headline "UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html |title=UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings}}</ref>{failed verification}} | ||
| In '']'' Jeet Heer wrote of WUWT and the blog Climate Audit (which takes a similarly circumspect view on the subject of ]): "The sites' rising popularity, and the growing influence they appear to wield in shaping public debate, is deeply worrying to the scientific community".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climategates-guerrilla-warriors-pesky-foes-or-careful-watchdogs/article1474924/ |title =Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?}}</ref> | In '']'' Jeet Heer wrote of WUWT and the blog Climate Audit (which takes a similarly circumspect view on the subject of ]): "The sites' rising popularity, and the growing influence they appear to wield in shaping public debate, is deeply worrying to the scientific community".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climategates-guerrilla-warriors-pesky-foes-or-careful-watchdogs/article1474924/ |title =Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?}}</ref> | ||
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| According to ] of '']'' newspaper,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/feb/24/climate-change-debate | title=Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate}}</ref> Judith Curry has referred to Watts as a "climate auditor". She also claimed that "the largest public audience is wattsupwiththat.com, led by weatherman Anthony Watts, with over 2 million unique visitors each month".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics/2010/02/opinion-can-scientists-rebuild.html | title =Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science?}}</ref> | According to ] of '']'' newspaper,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/feb/24/climate-change-debate | title=Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate}}</ref> Judith Curry has referred to Watts as a "climate auditor". She also claimed that "the largest public audience is wattsupwiththat.com, led by weatherman Anthony Watts, with over 2 million unique visitors each month".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics/2010/02/opinion-can-scientists-rebuild.html | title =Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science?}}</ref> | ||
| ] has said that WUWT is one of his daily reads and noted "Dedicated at first to getting people to photograph weather stations to discover how poorly sited many of them are, the site has metamorphosed from a gathering place for lonely nutters to a three-million-hits-per-month online newspaper on climate full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5749853/part_3/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml | title=The global warming guerrillas}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/world-wide-web-of-doubt/story-e6frgd0x-1225829874281 | title=World wide web of doubt}}</ref> | ] has said that WUWT is one of his daily reads{{verification failed|that is not in the reference - note where the quotation marks start - we cannot determine if its the writer or Ridley who reads it daily}} and noted "Dedicated at first to getting people to photograph weather stations to discover how poorly sited many of them are, the site has metamorphosed from a gathering place for lonely nutters to a three-million-hits-per-month online newspaper on climate full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5749853/part_3/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml | title=The global warming guerrillas}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/world-wide-web-of-doubt/story-e6frgd0x-1225829874281 | title=World wide web of doubt}}</ref> | ||
| ], in the 2009 book '']'', describes one of WUWT's functions as "systematically checking the reliability of the 1,221 weather stations recording surface temperatures across the US".<ref>{{cite book|author=Booker, Christopher|title=The Real Global Warming Disaster |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd|year=2009|isbn=1441110526}} page 198</ref> | ], in the 2009 book '']'', describes one of WUWT's functions as "systematically checking the reliability of the 1,221 weather stations recording surface temperatures across the US".<ref>{{cite book|author=Booker, Christopher|title=The Real Global Warming Disaster |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd|year=2009|isbn=1441110526}} page 198</ref> | ||
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| Type of site | blog |
|---|---|
| Created by | Anthony Watts |
| URL | http://wattsupwiththat.com |
Watts Up With That (WUWT for short) is a blog set up in 2006 by former broadcast weather presenter Anthony Watts that is best known for presenting information, data, and reports from the point of view of climate change skepticism. The blog was reported by The Times in 2010 as receiving "more than two million readers each month". In 2010, The Times online blog named WUWT one of the top 30 science blogs, and in 2008 it won best science blog on Weblog Awards.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Watts claimed that his blog was "busier than ever" after the controversial e-mails which were allegedly hacked from The University of East Anglia were posted on it in late 2009. Traffic to the site tripled after the incident, and the number of hits on the site since the blog’s launch recently topped 37 million.
The site also receives guest posts from Dr. Roy Spencer, Dr. David W. Schnare, and Dr Jerome Ravetz.
One of the articles posted on the site about how local weather stations were affected by their surroundings led to an article in The Telegraph with the headline "UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings".{failed verification}}
In The Globe And Mail Jeet Heer wrote of WUWT and the blog Climate Audit (which takes a similarly circumspect view on the subject of man made global warming): "The sites' rising popularity, and the growing influence they appear to wield in shaping public debate, is deeply worrying to the scientific community".
According to Leo Hickman of The Guardian newspaper, Judith Curry has referred to Watts as a "climate auditor". She also claimed that "the largest public audience is wattsupwiththat.com, led by weatherman Anthony Watts, with over 2 million unique visitors each month".
Matt Ridley has said that WUWT is one of his daily reads and noted "Dedicated at first to getting people to photograph weather stations to discover how poorly sited many of them are, the site has metamorphosed from a gathering place for lonely nutters to a three-million-hits-per-month online newspaper on climate full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians".
Christopher Booker, in the 2009 book The Real Global Warming Disaster, describes one of WUWT's functions as "systematically checking the reliability of the 1,221 weather stations recording surface temperatures across the US".
References
- Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins' blogosphere
- "Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs".
- "The 2008 Weblog Awards Winners".
- "It's busier than ever, says leading blogger sceptic".
- "Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data".
- "UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings".
- "Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?".
- "Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate".
- "Opinion: Can scientists rebuild the public trust in climate science?".
- "The global warming guerrillas".
- "World wide web of doubt".
- Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526. page 198