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Hi Steve,
I don’t want to tell you how to run your blog but …
1. The posts on newspaper clippings from the past are not very popular it seems from replies
2. Sarcastic posts on the present where you go 180 degrees out of phase to prove a point will only keep peoples interest for so long before it loses the wow factor.
Although I disagree with your Arctic/Antarctic posts in general you can’t argue with your presentation and trawling of the data, I think more of that is needed. It’s far better in this case than WUWT does for instance. More of that please. Same goes for other posts not my forte
Surely you can do the same for other areas apart from the polar regions whether it be climate in general or political stuff? Surely sometimes less is more and you will get more people coming here?
How about a post on the Antarctic for instance, that was well below the average up to now but seems to be getting once more into it’s swing on extent.
Andy
This is the #10 blog on wordpress (out of 400,000) and probably the #2 most popular science blog on the Internet after WUWT
Probably true Steve, but I for one agree with Andy…But I do come back for more every day! 🙂
stevengoddard says:
July 26, 2011 at 4:05 pm
This is the #10 blog on wordpress (out of 400,000) and probably the #2 most popular science blog on the Internet after WUWT
If you do a “continue reading…..” on your posts who knows, you might move to #1 over WUWT.
Andy
Although the newspaper clippings do not generate many replies, this does not mean they are not interesting, just that there is not much to comment about.
Far too many people these days believe the propaganda put out that our weather is becoming more extreme. Anything that reminds us that the same sort of things happened in the past is important.
I have gone back 40 yrs to 1971 to put together a list of extreme weather events ( almost finished) which clearly shows this year is nothing out of the ordinary. I hope Steve publishes it.
Paul I’d really be interested in seeing that, too!!!
Andy, I think you’re misinterpreting what you’re seeing in historic postings with news-clippings and the like. No, there aren’t many replies, but then if they were, they’d all be redundant.
The message is, the climate isn’t getting worse and it’s not “weirding” any more than it ever has. There’s only so many ways to say, “I thought they said this was unprecedented!” It isn’t unprecedented and Steve proves it.
Steve is providing a massive resource and proof directly falsifying such wild claims as “unprecedented” for just about any weather event known to man. In fact, in discussions with alarmists, Steve has provided a game changer. I find it somewhat laborious to go find such proof of past events, especially in a near real time discussion. Now, if some pinhead babbles about how the earth’s climate is getting worse or weirding or some other such nonsense, the first thing I do is to send them to Dr. Maue, then show them the tornado trend. And then, of course, to some of the various clippings offered if the concern isn’t about tornadoes or hurricanes. Such as heat waves, fires, floods…. etc. And then the conversation is over!!
It is the ‘coup de grâce’ of the weirding argument. 🙂 No, it isn’t comprehensive, but it is very telling, especially considering there hasn’t been any serious undertaking to prove these events are happening more frequently.
Why is that, I’m wondering? It isn’t like there isn’t any data.
For #1, often nothing need be said. The point has been made.
I appreciate being exposed to the historical reports as they make the point better than
almost anything, so keep them coming. Also the posting of them and creation of the page archiving these newsy gems from the past is an important resource being built before your eyes before anyone thought of deleting it.
I think that the other types of posts foster a community atmosphere, and enhance
reader retention . If I had something to say about events in Norway, a space for that is provided so that I don’t have to go looking for some other outlet and get bogged down
arguing with truthers or something. ( gives me a headache)
These posts are important. They may not generate a lot of comments cause they would probably all be the same. Steve has the data on how many views these types of pages get. I think a repository broke out by year and type of event; drought, flood, heat, cold, tornado, etc. would be very valuable. People will find them and start to understand that they are being played when it is pushed that whatever is currently happening is somehow “unprecedented”.
Diverse, political, outrageous, funny, factual, keeps on sticking it to the AGW imbeciles – and keeps you on your toes – what’s not to like?
Remarkable how Hansen is able to be accurate to 1 C a million years ago. Maybe has has a secret time machine.
I think that the historical news clippings of “extreme” weather are an important service to the public even if the popularity of a given post is less than that of a current event, for example, because it’s demonstrates that the warmist (namely Algore) meme of increased “extreme” weather and “global weirding” is absolutely false.
I enjoy the old clippings. The Times has a strip each day on past weather and the author of this has written a couple of books on past weather extremes. You might want to take a look at ‘Weathereye’
I have been sharing the historic reports with friends and family who find them fascinating, and appreciate the perspective they lend. There are few endeavors more worthy than studying our past.
It is a Consensus that the news clippings are an important part of this site and the sceptics / deniers are probably funded by competing web sites. Maybe we can get this into its own chapter of the IPCC as they are big on consensus!
I enjoy the read and agree that many times comments are not required.
It has even been Peer Reviewed by web visiting experts! 8) We could coin the term Webologists!