Watts Up with That?
( WUWT abbreviated ) Watts Up With That is a blog that was started in November 2006 by former TV weatherman Anthony Watts commentator and deals from a skeptical climate heading out with the controversy surrounding global warming.
Reception
The blog had counted in 2010 according to The Sunday Times more than 2 million readers per month and in 2010 from Eureka Wisschenschaftsblog the daily newspaper The Times as one of the more entertaining skeptical climate blogs on their top 30 science blogs. WUWT received via Internet voting audience determined prices, the 2011 Bloggies for Best Science Blog and several times as Best Science Blog in the Weblog Awards.
Matt Ridley expressed in the Spectator his appreciation for WUWT out and said that the blog had " a gathering place for lone spinner in a 3 -million page hits - per - month online climate magazine full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians changed. "
2009, the blog one of the first websites that emails and documents was given to the hacker incident on climate research center of the University of East Anglia and discussed. The blog played a significant role in the emerging scandal.
Critics such as John Cook Fault in contradictory statements about the causes of climate change.
A 2013 published study deals with conspiracy theoretical ideas climate- skeptic blogs. She found, among other things at WUWT conspiracy theoretical thinking and broader contradictions to scientific knowledge, as in HIV and AIDS, smoking and cancer, as well as the human impact on climate change.
The climatologist Judith Curry refers also published in 2010 in a WUWT essay under the title recovering trust for the important role of blogs in the climate debate and the demand for more transparency and open discussion and exposure of collected data.
George Monbiot, environmental activist and columnist for the Guardian newspaper, described in 2009 WUWT as "highly biased and untrustworthy. David Suzuki recommends instead the website Skeptical Science for scientific contributions to climate change. " There are many credible sources of information, but blog sites such as that of weatherman Anthony Watts are not among them. "
Project on the U.S. weather stations
A project initiated in 2007 the blog is Surfacestations.org. Volunteers photograph U.S. weather stations, photos and data for the stations are collected in an online database and assessed with regard to the choice of location. Watts holds the choice of location is important because many stations by urbanization and housing development in the area may show distorted values . An analysis of these data in 2009 by Menne et al. showed that temperature trends assessed as "good" stations in the project good agreement with the previously present U.S. temperature trends.
A study from 2010, was involved in the Watts himself, investigated the influence of the choice of location for the weighted in Surfacestation.org U.S. stations using five site classes. She found an increasing with unfavorable siting underestimation of the maximum and minimum daily temperatures overestimation of. The deviations above and below stood out in average temperatures but to a large extent. Accordingly, the siting on the trends in average temperatures has no significant influence. For one of the five classes, namely, the incorrectly positioned (6.2% of the stations ), there was a statistically significant difference in the trend of the daily temperature variation, even after homogenisation.
Authors
- Basil Copeland
- Steve Goddard
- Indur Goklany
- Jeff Id
- Bill Illis
- Evan Jones
- Frank Lansner
- Denise Norris
- Bob Tisdale
- Anthony Watts