Watts Up With That
Type of siteCreated byWebsiterank27,425 (on 2015-09-05)LaunchedNovember 17, 2006Watts Up With That? (or WUWT) is a promoting that was created by in 2006.The blog predominantly discusses climate issues with a focus on, generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the. Contributors include and as guest authors. In November 2009, the blog was one of the first websites to publish emails and documents from the, and a driving force behind its coverage.In the early months of 2010, it was reported the site might be 'the most read climate blog in the world,' and in 2013 referred to it as the leading climate change denial blog.
Notes: Watts Up With That? (or WUWT) is a blog promoting climate change denial that was created by Anthony Watts in 2006. The blog predominantly discusses.
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Contents.ContentWatts Up With That features material disputing the scientific consensus on climate change, including claims the human role in is insignificant and is not a driving force of warming. It hosts several contributors, such as and, in addition to Watts. It is among the most prominent blogs, and is described by climatologist as the most popular, having surpassed. Writer Curtis Brainard has written that 'scientists have repeatedly criticized Watts for misleading readers on subjects such as the reliability of the U.S.
Surface temperature record.' Temperature recordsIn 2007 WUWT readers alerted to a discrepancy in temperature records published by the (GISS) based on data from United States Historical Climate Network. In August 2007, McIntyre notified GISS about the problematic numbers, which GISS acknowledged and promptly corrected. The change did not affect global temperature trends, but did have the marginal effect of changing the hottest year on record for the to 1934, rather than 1998 as had previously been shown.
In a formal acknowledgement, GISS stated that the minor data processing error had only affected the years after 2000, and noted that the contiguous United States represents only 1.6% of the Earth's surface. The result was a statistical tie between the years 1934, 1998 and 2005 as the warmest years to date for these U.S. States, with 1934 warmest by only around 0.01 °C which was well within the margin of uncertainty. Involvement in the Climatic Research Unit email controversy. See also:In 2009, Watts Up With That was involved in popularizing the, wherein emails of several climatologists were published by a. The story was initially broken on WUWT and two other blogs when the hacker posted a link to a Russian server containing emails and documents from the of the, and subsequently reproduced on the WUWT blog.
Because of WUWT's high traffic count, this was the catalyst which broke the story to the media. The term 'Climategate' was originally coined by a commenter in a post on WUWT.Watts argued that the emails showed the scientists were manipulating data, and while a series of independent investigations cleared the scientists of any wrongdoing, public accusations resulting from the event continued for years. The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of remained unchanged throughout the investigations, however, the reports may have decreased public confidence in climate scientists and the, and conclusively altered the that year.In a 2010 interview with the, Watts said that his blog had become 'busier than ever' after the incident and that traffic to the site had tripled. ReceptionAccording to statistical analysis, What's Up With That? Is ranked No. 14,882 in the U.S.
40,090 world-wide. It is reported to receive between half a million and 2 million visits per month between 2010 and 2014. It was described by climatologist in as 'the leading blog,' having surpassed in popularity.Watts's blog has been criticized for inaccuracy. The Guardian columnist described WUWT as 'highly partisan and untrustworthy'., at The Guardian's Environment Blog, also criticized Watts's blog, stating that Watts 'risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary.'
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Between 2008 and 2013, WUWT asked its readers to vote in several internet voting-based awards, and it won 'best science blog' and 'best blog' from and the conservative. In 2013, wrote in The Guardian Environment Blog that 13 of the 17 blogs nominated for the Science or Technology category for the Bloggies 'were either run by climate sceptics, or popular with climate sceptics'. The Bloggies founder acknowledged in 2013 that bloggers had influenced voting. He said 'Unfortunately, I have no good solution for it, since they follow proper voting procedures and legitimate science blogs don't want to make an effort to compete.' He discontinued the science category in 2014. WUWT did not win 'Best Topical Weblog of the Year' 2014 as Watts claimed, but did enter the Hall of Fame that year. ^, p. 172: 'At the other end of the spectrum are influential sites for 'climate skeptics', such as Watts Up With That?, a blog run by meteorologist Anthony Watts, whom scientists have repeatedly criticized for misleading readers on subjects such as the reliability of the U.S.
Surface temperature record.' . ^ John Grant (2011). Prometheus Books.
Retrieved 26 May 2015. The blog Watts Up With That? Is a notorious hotbed of irrational AGW denialism. the massively trafficked denialist site Watts Up With That. Watts is best known for his very heavily trafficked blog Watts Up With That?, began in 2006, which provides not just a megaphone for himself but a rallying ground for other AGW deniers. ^ Mann, Michael (1 October 2013). Columbia University Press.
Pp. 27, 72, 222. Since then, a number of other amateur climate change denial bloggers have arrived on the scene. Most prominent among them is Anthony Watts, a meteorologist.and founder of the site 'Watts Up with That?'
Which has overtaken climate audit as the leading climate change denial blog. ^ (August 2012). The Monthly: 22–29. More importantly, it was becoming clear that the most effective denialist media weapon was not the newspapers or television but the internet.
A number of influential websites, like Watts Up With That?, Climate Skeptic and Climate Depot, were established. ^ Dunlap, Riley E.; McCright, Aaron M. 'Organised Climate Change Denial'. In Dryzek, John S.; Norgaard, Richard B.; Schlosberg, David (eds.).
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Oxford University Press. In recent years these conservative media outlets have been supplemented (and to some degree supplanted) by the conservative blogosphere, and numerous blogs now constitute a vital element of the denial machine.the most popular North American blogs are run by a retired TV meteorologist (wattsupwiththat.com).Having this powerful, pervasive, and multifaceted media apparatus at its service provides the denial machine with a highly effective means of spreading its message.
^ Farmer, G. Thomas; Cook, John (2013). Springer Science & Business Media. One of the highest trafficked climate blogs is wattsupwiththat.com, a website that publishes climate misinformation on a daily basis. See:. ^.
12 November 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2015. ^ (2010). The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming.
Guardian Books. P. 165., p. 171: 'Despite the well-known facts under discussion, the original graph, based on a single outdated study published in 1991, continues to reappear again and again in climate skeptical media, trying to prove that the sun, not anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is causing global warming. The original curve appears, for example, on Anthony Watts' climate skeptical blog 'Watts Up With That?' In an article posted in 2011.' . ^, p. 302: 'Watts is best known for his very heavily trafficked blog Watts Up With That?, began in 2006, which provides not just a megaphone for himself but a rallying ground for other AGW deniers, notably Christopher Monckton. The blog played an important role in the Climategate fiasco, through its dissemination of the hacked CRU emails.'
., p. 462: 'One of the highest trafficked climate blogs is wattsupwiththat.com, a website that publishes climate misinformation on a daily basis.' .: 'More importantly, it was becoming clear that the most effective denialist media weapon was not the newspapers or television but the internet. A number of influential websites, like Watts Up With That?, Climate Skeptic and Climate Depot, were established.'
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Most prominent among them is Anthony Watts, a meteorologist.and founder of the site 'Watts Up with That?' Which has overtaken climate audit as the leading climate change denial blog.' .
Christopher Booker (16 December 2009). Pp. 198–199. Gramling, Carolyn (August 16, 2007). Retrieved 10 September 2010.
Retrieved 15 September 2010. ^, p. 172: 'In 2009, an unknown party acquired a large cache of private emails between climate scientists.and published them online.
Cherry-picking quotes in order to make the scientists appear as though they were discussing data manipulation, bloggers such as Watts whipped up a pseudo-scandal that reverberated for years despite the fact that a series of nine investigations in the U.S. Cleared the scientists of any wrongdoing., ', 9 February 2010. November 29, 2009.
The person who really coined it was a commenter called 'Bulldust' on the Watts Up With That site. David Norton (2010). Two days passed before links to the stolen data were suddenly posted to two other conservative blogs: The Air Vent and Watts Up With That. Within hours of the breaking news, commenters on Watts Up With That coined the phrase “climategate” and even began to call for its strategic deployment as a framing device. Soon thereafter, a prominent conservative blogger in the United Kingdom ran a headline referring to the incident as “climategate,” and Twitter users began to follow suit. The eight major investigations covered by secondary sources include: (UK); (UK); (UK); and (US); (US); (US); (US). Biello, David (2010).
Scientific American. 302 (2): 16. In fact, nothing in the stolen material undermines the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that humans are to blame. Lubchenco, Jane (2 December 2009) House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (House Select Committee). House Hearing, 111 Congress.
Government Printing Office. '.the e-mails really do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus and the independent scientific analyses of thousands of scientists around the world that tell us that the Earth is warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities.' As quoted in the report published by., pp. 154–156: 'Climategate fundamentally damaged confidence in the IPCC climate reports and decisively changed the conditions for the Copenhagen negotiations.Climategate and the failure of Copenhagen coincided with a widespread decline in public acceptance that global warming was happening, was caused by humans, and was a serious threat.Climategate can also explain the erosion of public trust in scientists as sources of information on global warming after 2010.'