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| {{Expand section|examples and additional citations|date=March 2010}} In '']'' ] wrote of WUWT and the blog ] (which takes a similarly sceptical 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 news | 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? |author=Jeet Heer |date=19 February 2010 |publisher=The Globe and Mail}} Behind paywall as of 3/21/10, part available at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5205 </ref> | {{Expand section|examples and additional citations|date=March 2010}} In '']'' ] wrote of WUWT and the blog ] (which takes a similarly sceptical 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 news | 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? |author=Jeet Heer |date=19 February 2010 |publisher=The Globe and Mail}} Behind paywall as of 3/21/10, part available at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5205 </ref> | ||
| ], at ]'s Environment blog, wrote that Watts "risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary."<ref>, Leo Hickman, The Guardian Environment Blog, 24 February 2010 </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 group blog set up in 2006 by former broadcast weather presenter Anthony Watts which concentrates on the global warming controversy from a skeptical perspective. 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 in The Weblog Awards (Bloggies). Matt Ridley, writing in The Spectator, said of WUWT that is 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". In contrast, George Monbiot described WUWT as being "highly partisan and untrustworthy" in his blog at The Guardian.
Although the tagline of the blog is "News and commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news", most of the content is about the global warming controversy from the point of view of climate change skepticism.
Site History
The site which began as a Wordpress blog had on average 3000 visitors a month. But after the Drudge Report featured a scoop by the Pittsburgh Tribune the site went to 20`000 hits overnight. He had to close the Wordpress blog and moved the site to his own Domain. The story which lead to this was when Watts posted "January 2008 was the planet's second-coldest January in 15 years"
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 were Illegally released 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 reported 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.
James Delingpole, writing in the Daily Telegraph blog, claimed that the name "Climategate" was first coined by the WUWT contributor "Bulldust".
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".
Leo Hickman, at The Guardian's Environment blog, wrote that Watts "risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary."
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".
- How to disprove Christopher Booker in 26 seconds, George Monbiot's blog, 15 May 2009.
- "Anthony Watts Interview".
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- Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
- "E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue".
- "Politicising and scare tactics cloud the issue".
- "Climategate: how the 'greatest scientific scandal of our generation' got its name".
- Jeet Heer (19 February 2010). "Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs?". The Globe and Mail. Behind paywall as of 3/21/10, part available at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5205
- Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate, Leo Hickman, The Guardian Environment Blog, 24 February 2010