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| In an interview with the '']'', Watts claimed that his blog had become "busier than ever" after the incident and that traffic to the site had tripled. According to the same article, the total number of hits on the site since its launch had topped 37 million.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6c0411c-2adf-11df-886b-00144feabdc0.html |title=E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=94838 | title=Politicising and scare tactics cloud the issue}}</ref> | In an interview with the '']'', Watts claimed that his blog had become "busier than ever" after the incident and that traffic to the site had tripled. According to the same article, the total number of hits on the site since its launch had topped 37 million.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a6c0411c-2adf-11df-886b-00144feabdc0.html |title=E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=94838 | title=Politicising and scare tactics cloud the issue}}</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 which according to the banner on the blog it is known for "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". Leo Hickman, blogging for The Guardian, was less complimentary, describing Watt's approach as risking "polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary".
Involvement in "Climategate" controversy
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In late 2009, an archive containing emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia was released, allegedly illegally, to the public. The Guardian reported that WUWT was one of three blogs "sent links to the cache of CRU leaked material, via anonymous servers, on the same day, Tuesday 17 November".
In an interview with the Financial Times, Watts claimed that his blog had become "busier than ever" after the incident and that traffic to the site had tripled. According to the same article, the total number of hits on the site since its launch had topped 37 million.
Conservative commentator James Delingpole, blogging for the Daily Telegraph, claimed that the name "Climategate" was first coined by the WUWT contributor "Bulldust".
Analysis of temperature records
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Journalist 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".
Booker also claimed that WUWT played a major role in discovering a data entry error by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies which made it appear that October 2008 had been the warmest October on record. Climatologist Gavin Schmidt described the error as follows: "there was a glitch in the surface temperature record reporting for October. For many Russian stations (and some others), September temperatures were apparently copied over into October, giving an erroneous positive anomaly". Schmidt added that the error was rectified within 24 hours.
Criticism
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In The Globe And Mail Jeet Heer wrote of WUWT and the blog Climate Audit (which takes a similarly sceptical 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 decision to nominate WUWT as best science blog was seriously criticised by Kevin Grandia in The Huffington Post in 2009.
References
- Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins' blogosphere
- "Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs".
- "The 2008 Weblog Awards Winners".
- "Will the Real Science Please Stand Up? -- Global Warming Denier Site Set to be Crowned the "Best Science Blog"".
- "The global warming guerrillas".
- Hickman, Leo (24 February 2010). "Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate". Environment Blog. guardian.co.uk.
- Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
- "E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue".
- "Politicising and scare tactics cloud the issue".
- James Delingpole
- "Climategate: how the 'greatest scientific scandal of our generation' got its name".
- Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526. page 198
- Booker, Christopher (2009). The Real Global Warming Disaster. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 1441110526. page 253
- The world has never seen such freezing heat
- Gavin Schmidt (11 November 2008). "Mountains and molehills". RealClimate. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- Jeet Heer (19 February 2010). "Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?". The Globe and Mail.
- Will the Real Science Please Stand Up? -- Global Warming Denier Site Set to be Crowned the "Best Science Blog"