This blog has been live for four days, and is averaging over 2,500 page views per day. That works out to nearly a million page views per year. Yet we are only averaging 40 comments per day. i.e only one comment per 60 page views. I want to hear your opinion on football, politics, science, the weather, whatever! It doesn’t matter what side of the fence you are on, have at it.
We are all here to learn from each other. Albert Einstein said :
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
and
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
Hey Steve,
I somehow managed to find my way here from Anthony’s site. Looks good! I like the collection of posts so far, in that you weave other stories into the general thread of the climate ones. Go ahead and put some computer-geek stuff in too. Works for me!
Working other stories in is pretty normal for the AGW side. Let me try one:
Some dood killed an alligator here in Michigan in the past couple O days. (linkk: http://www.freep.com/article/20100903/NEWS06/100903023/Michigan-man-finds-alligator-in-cornfield)
Proof of global warming.
*Tell him what he wins, Johnny!*
Most of the climate change sites I follow rarely get many comments. But they will come in due time if you tug the AGW believer’s ears enough…
Hi, would you mind changing blog’s layout selecting a broader one? The interesting posts seem to be “squeezed” too much – they can’t “breathe”.
Regards
Sorry Steve, I’m more of a listener than a commenter. I try to absorb what I can and share among my friends and family, trying to persuade those that think otherwise (or not at all :D) I’ll comment when I can and feel that I have something important to say. Keep it up and you will get a loud audience.
Steve, I do hope that the readers and those who write back allow those of us who are non scientists to post- and NOT make snide comments! It may be hard to imagine, but many of us have been trained in Grad school how to read critically and (perhaps) to think logically. I am a trained Historian. Even if I cannot follow the Math specifically, I can and do follow scientific studies. (Remember graduate reading? First and last Para of the chapters.)
I have already made one comment – re: Mr. Lee.
I prefer to be known as Thorncraft.
Robert – Thorncraft
Thanks. 😉
BTW. Your posts are excellent pieces of “snippet journalism” but the caveat is you leave readers no field for discussion or comments.
More comment prone topics would create more replies. For example, why Mr Joe Bastardi (http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp)
sees dropping global temperature in the near future? More cross-section posts would invoke for follow up, or comments, or even further questions too.
I have seen fast temperature decrease in North Asia or Siberia in the last few days. For the first time this year I have seen blue (minus temperatures in C degrees) on North America map. Are the two events common? What makes the cold air masses to flow down to lower latitudes now? How the events are related to sea ice extent. Etc…
I allow myself to suggest you a seven weekly topics for every day of week. They would help you stand out from similar “real climate/science” aka “sceptic” blogs:
Sea Ice Weekly Report
La Nina Weekly Report
Cooling Coming Weekly Report
Name the other four for yourself. Of course, you will have to make permanent pages for the reports, as well. With all the real-time data/illustrations you have used for the reports, just as Mr Watts did (but not finished). Having the graphical base the reports would present mostly textual analyses – your own or gathered from climate centers (with hyperlinks to sources).
My best wishes and sincere regards.
WUWT is at 52 Mviews and some 475 Kcomments (including spam). The comment rate isn’t a good metric. Very complete posts tend to get few comments, posts on well-read blogs and smaller may get the same number of comments making some point, and sometimes a comment thread goes on and on.
Complimentary posts and posts that further a discussion are a much better metric.
My opinion.
You should always be careful when extrapolating a trend.