Comments on: Ooh! Real blog wars

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:34:34 +0000

Richard – a clarification:

My monthly rankings are going strong and usually posted on the first of the month. You are referring to the automatic 7 day average spreadsheet which doesn’t currently operate because of changes made by statcounter. There is a note to that effect on the spreadsheet which you really should have mentioned.

However, I notice that you now have installed statcounter but unfortunately not enabled public access.

Pity – as that would enable some reliable comparison of statistics and I would love to
Include your blog in my monthly ranking. This compares monthly visits which are far more objective than the Alexa ranking. It also includes the other two blogs you appear to wish to rank yourself against.

As has been explained to you at such a low level of visits your blog could not produce a reliable Alexa ranking. Another factor is that it doesnt even list on Alexa.

Let me know if you make your statcounter accessible and I will put you on the database. You know how to contact me.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:55:03 +0000

I see that Bryan Walker is weeping about shale gas now,.
Can someone tell him that this is a low(er) carbon technology that could be used to transition away from coal?

Also, the move “Gasland” contained many factual errors that Irish film maker Phelim McAleer has exposed – covered in Delingpole’s latest post here:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100094147/frogs-scorpions-greens-lies/

If they keep banging on about windfarms, show them this gem from the Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-2008055/Energy-giants-want-billions-windfarms.html

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:40:57 +0000

That’s not so bad, then. Good to know, thanks.

By: R2D2

R2D2 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:34:13 +0000

Correction: turns out my comment was caught in a spam filter.

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:39:39 +0000

It’s much worse than quoting unreliable web traffic stats.

By: R2D2

R2D2 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:22:25 +0000

Now Gareth has resorted to blocking posts. Pretty rich to reply to my critical post with hypocritical crap and then block my reply.

I am trying to post the following:

“So you incorrectly quote an article yet point this out as nitpicking. I wonder if that would be acceptable if I was doing it? Or Richard Treadgold?

You reply to me with a quote that points out that the climate was unusual. As I note in the footnote to my post, I am not saying the climate wasn’t unusual, it was.

However the most revealing thing from your post is that you don’t deny you misquoted and embellished with the 1816 figure instead of just stating, “Whether it’s 1816 or not doesn’t matter”!

So why title an article “Catch a fire (worst year since 1816)” if it isn’t true and doesn’t in fact matter? That you have such a liberal approach to scientific method (ie establishing fact) and misquoting another story is very revealing. To point this out to your readers is not nitpicking.”

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:44:08 +0000

So I’m extra glad we caught your eye here! Perhaps Kiwi Thinker might earn the occasional glance, too.

By: Alexander K

Alexander K — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:34:53 +0000

Richard, the Kiwi voices on internationally-recognised blogs such as WUWT, Bishop Hill and Ms Curry’s Climate Etc can be heard quite regularly. I, for one, don’t get too involved in much homegrown stuff as I tend to be more of a lurker on Kiwi sites than poster as many of them, such as Hot Thingummy are not worth arguing on.

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:57:08 +0000

Thanks, Mike!

You, grumpy? The thought never entered me head!

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:25:27 +0000

That’s right, I’d forgotten about the registration thing that happened over there.
No need for it here so far, thank God.

It’s a surprise to me to learn that you have a low IQ!