Start date: 10 December 2004
Number of posts: 914
Number of comments: ~172,000
Number of comments with inline responses: 14,277
Minimum number of total unique page visits, and unique views, respectively: 19 Million, 35 Million
Number of guest posts: 100+
Number of mentions in newspaper sources indexed by LexisNexis: 225
Minimum number of contributors and guest authors: 105
Minimum number of times RealClimate was hacked: 2
Busiest month: December 2009
Busiest day of the week: Monday
Number of times the IPCC and the NIPCC are mentioned, respectively: 357, 5
Minimum number of Science papers arising from a blog post here: 1
Minimum number of RealClimate mentions in Web Of Science references: 14
Minimum number of RealClimate mentions in theses indexed by ProQuest: 33
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This blog has been an excellent science resource that I hope continues another ten years. Ten years! That’s like seventy in blog years. Well, happy birthday and many happy returns.
A decade may seem a lot , but it’s time to re up– the Climate Wars put the 100 Years War to shame !
Happy birthday!
Congratulations!
I can’t believe it’s ten years.
Congratulations and heartfelt thanks to everyone at realclimate.org. The world is a much, much better place because of you.
Wow for 914 post, i guess i skipped some.
Also worth recalling today:
* Nature’s long good-luck editorial “Welcome climate bloggers” endorsing RealClimate in December 2004. The thumbnail summary said: “A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.” http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7020/full/432933a.html
* The RC post “The False Objectivity of ‘Balance'” in 2005. Excerpt: “While giving equal coverage to two opposing sides may seem appropriate in political discourse, it is manifestly inappropriate in discussions of science, where objective truths exist.” https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/the-false-objectivity-of-balance/
“Minimum number of times RealClimate was hacked: 2”
The very first server i stood up on open internet was hacked within two weeks. In 1994.
So a couple over a decade, not so bad. And you guys recovered very smoothly too.
sidd
Congrats and Happy Birthday! And thanks for providing so much information over the years.