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Watts Up With That?
Type of siteblog
Created by Anthony Watts
URLhttp://wattsupwiththat.com

Watts Up With That (WUWT for short) is a blog set up in 2006 by former broadcast weather presenter Anthony Watts that gives "Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news". The blog was reported by the Sunday 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. Matt Ridley, writing in The Spectator, described WUWT thus: "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".


Involvement in "Climategate" controversy

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Further information: Climatic Research Unit documents

In an interview with the Financial Times, Watts claimed that his blog became "busier than ever" and that 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 after the controversial e-mails which were allegedly hacked from The University of East Anglia were posted on it in late 2009. In 2010 The Guardian reported that WUWT was one of only three sources "sent links to the cache of CRU leaked material, via anonymous servers, on the same day, Tuesday 17 November".

In the Daily Telegraph James Delingpole wrote that the name for the controversy was first coined by "Bulldust" the commenter wrote "Hmmm how long before this is dubbed ClimateGate?"

Analysis of temperature records

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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". In the same book, Booker claimed that WUWT played a major role in disproving an announcement by James E. Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in 2008 that October 2008 had been the "warmest October ever recorded".

One of the articles posted on WUWT 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".

Criticism

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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".

The The Guardian describes WUWT as somewhere between genuine climate science sceptics and out-and-out denial: in between are the likes of Anthony Watts who risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary .

References

  1. Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins' blogosphere
  2. "Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs".
  3. "The 2008 Weblog Awards Winners".
  4. "Will the Real Science Please Stand Up? -- Global Warming Denier Site Set to be Crowned the "Best Science Blog"".
  5. "The global warming guerrillas".
  6. "E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue".
  7. Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
  8. "Climategate: how the 'greatest scientific scandal of our generation' got its name".
  9. Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526. page 198
  10. Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526. page 253
  11. "Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data".
  12. "UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings".
  13. "Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?".

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