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], writing in his '']'' blog, said that the name "Climategate" was coined by a WUWT commenter called "Bulldust".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018246/climategate-how-the-greatest-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation-got-its-name/ | title=Climategate: how the 'greatest scientific scandal of our generation' got its name}}"The person who really coined it was a commenter called “Bulldust” on the Watts Up With That site." </ref>


==Criticism== ==Criticism==

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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 group blog set up in November, 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, environmental writer George Monbiot described WUWT as being "highly partisan and untrustworthy" in his blog at The Guardian.

The tagline of the blog is "News and commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news".

Contributors

  • Basil Copeland
  • Steve Goddard
  • John Goetz
  • Indur Goklany
  • Jeff Id
  • Bill Illis
  • Evan Jones
  • Frank Lansner
  • Denise Norris
  • Bob Tisdale
  • Anthony Watts

Linked Projects

Anthony Watts uses the blog to discuss and promote other work, most significantly his analysis of terrestrial US weather stations, sometimes referred to by its domain, surfacestations.org. Occasional mentions are made of his Urban heat island transect project which is dedicated to measuring the actual urban heat island effect in major cities as well as his Stevenson screen paint experiment which is testing whether a little noted changeover from whitewash to latex paints could have caused a heretofore unrecognized warming bias during the 20th century as whitewashed screens were replaced with latex painted ones.

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 leaked 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.

Criticism

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In The Globe And Mail Jeet Heer wrote of WUWT and the blog Climate Audit (which takes a similar 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

  1. Amy Turner (February 28, 2010). "Richard Dawkins' pro-am clash in the boffins' blogosphere". The Times. Retrieved Sunday, Apr 04 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. Micheal Moran (02/03/2010). "Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs". The Times. Retrieved Sunday, Apr 04 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  3. Kevin Aylward (January 15, 2009). "The 2008 Weblog Awards Winners". weblogawards. Retrieved Sunday, Apr 04 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. Kevin Grandia (January 13, 2009). "Will the Real Science Please Stand Up? -- Global Warming Denier Site Set to be Crowned the "Best Science Blog"". Retrieved Sunday, Apr 04 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. "The global warming guerrillas".
  6. How to disprove Christopher Booker in 26 seconds, George Monbiot's blog, 15 May 2009.
  7. Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
  8. "E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue".
  9. "Politicising and scare tactics cloud the issue".
  10. 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
  11. Academic attempts to take the hot air out of climate science debate, Leo Hickman, The Guardian Environment Blog, 24 February 2010. In the passage quoted, Hickman hyperlinks Watts to the WUWT blog.

External links

  • surfacestations.org, an online database of photographs and evaluations of weather stations, founded in 2007 by Anthony Watts.
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