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It’s a landmark moment here at the Talkshop. After a quiet start 33 months ago, we have reached a million page views. The blog has had its ups and downs, May 2010 saw only 714 visits all month, at the moment we average at least twice that per day. In all the excitement around the raid on tallbloke towers last December, we had our busiest day; 22,525visits, and our busiest month; 124,271 visits. Inevitably things quietened down a bit as we got back out of the drama and into the business of appraising science, and climate related politics, but a few standout items this year have helped maintain the interest and we have seen a high quality of input from article writers and commenters. Here’s raising the horn of plenty to you all!
January saw the long, detailed and often heated discussions around the work of Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller.
February brought new papers from Hans Jelbring and Doug Proctor, and the most commented thread ever from N&Z. Also in February the Talkshop was voted Best European Blog 2012 at the Bloggies – a great birthday present. :)
March was invigorated by Papers from Nicola Scafetta and Ian Wilson on the solar planetary theory.
After an eight week summer sabbatical lull for me, and some solid posts from Tim, who now has a new UK Surface Stations Project on the go, we are barreling forwards towards a busy Autumn season. I’m preparing for the Royal Society meeting in October while Tim concentrates on data gathering for his project. Developments around the solar-planetary theory are bubbling in the background and we hope to report exciting new results by the end of the year.
I’d like to offer my personal thanks especially to Tim C for the support and effort he puts into the site, and all the other authors, contributors, commenters and readers who keep the talkshop bubbling with their interest in the science we care about.
Well done!
Thanks Roger A.
We need some medieval music to go with the medieval beer and warmth. I took this one at a sunny Cropredy Convention last month.
Let there be dancin’!
[glances in and smiles, keeps out of the way]
Come on Tim, fill your glass.
Right, Free Raid on Tallbloke Towers mug to the first person who guesses what this is:
World record coconut?
Close, but no gorilla
Indoor bobsled run for when there ain’t no more snow?
Designed to resist ice rather than accrete it.
More seriously, laying up glassfibre. Replica viking ship?
Getting warmer.
Congratulations all round!
Dunno what that semi-coconut-cum-viking ship is meant to be – some sort of aircraft wing, seeing that it’s ‘resisting ice’?
http://www.crazyengineers.com/siemens-b75-wind-turbine-blade-is-worlds-largest-matches-wing-span-of-a380-2511
Easy, do a google image search
Viv, good try, but no.
AJB, well done, you cheat. No mug for you. I’ll think of a suitable cheaters prize. A miniature hockey stick maybe
Indeed, it is the biggest bird slicer in the world. Installed capacity 6MW. That means it’ll output ~1MW averaged over a year.
I wonder how much these are going to cost us…
Well done and be aware that your good work is much appreciated by many.
Cheers SC.
OK, another picture puzzle. NO GOOGLING you rascals.
What’s this?
Congrats, and hydraulic turbine assemblies for ocean current power generation units (in that order)?
Best regards, Ray.
Thanks Ray, and yes, it’s the Strangford Lough Turbine assembly.
Your turn.
That’s a lot of page views… congratulations.
Well done. One million is a big number. 1,000,000 visits in such a short time.
And I would like to second your praise of Tim, even though I’m just a new reader.
Like a lot of people I first heard of your site when the police raided you. It must have been an awful experience for you and your family but maybe in the end it has worked out for the better. Even so it was very rough justice indeed.
Roger,
Congratulation!
About my model forecast, the last update is at the bottom of my web-site. Since last year, its performance looks quite good.
Congrats, Roger.
Non Illegitimi carborundum!
I see Dr S.
With horns. (:
Thanks Tim and tallbloke!
Well done, Rog. Both Tim and yourself deserve it. Thanks both for all the hard work.
Congrats, Your Tallness, on reaching that milestone.
CONGRATS !!!
So you are friends with ‘the old goat’ after all.
Thanks everyone!
Nicola: I’ll feature that in a new article on the solar-planetary theory soon.
Zeke and Vuk: Any resemblance to anyone anywhere on Josh’s cartoon is Josh’s responsibility.
Good work, Rog.
Your site gives the brains quite a workout whilst keeping aggro to a minimum.
Hopefully that will be a popular combination for a long time to come.
Celebrating Greenland’s Medieval beermaking together. That is Josh’s best, what a total riot (:
Well done, Rog, keep up the great work. And yes, it Is supposed to be you in the cartoon
Hi Josh, and thanks. The burning question is:
Who is beardy?
PS, thanks for the nose job.
TB it looks like the Viking marauder
http://solarimg.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dr-S-269×300.png
Josh tells me via email that it’s not Svalgaard. Keep guessing.
Clue: Which other climateers am I on record as having sat drinking with?
By the way, I got congrats from Willis via email, so hatchets are buried as glasses are raised. He sends Tim C congrats for the UK stations work too.
Congratulations indeed on passing the 1 Megaview mark. It must be kind of humbling to think how many people will call by and form dubious opinions about you based on no more than what you think about one topic – fortunately my own experience (MANY more views than comments!) suggests that Tallbloke’s Talkshop is a pretty civilised place, as well as a darned interesting one. Here’s to the next million.
Re. the photo ‘competition’ above … and there was I thinking *both* of them were shots of a new Bulls##t removal system being installed behind the Palace of Westminster. (Slaps own wrist for being so cynical.) (But only very gently.)
heh, thanks Steve, and good creative thinking on the photo captions. Spike Milligan once pubished a book called ‘Transports of Delight’ which had me in stitches. One photo was of a half track Rolls Royce:
“Owned by the director of Bertorelli’s for driving over ice cream” the caption informed us.
@Tallbloke: Congratulations! and surprised by that “Airbus slicer”it shows how silly we men can be.
I think that your stations´s survey series could be better placed in a single post.
adolfo, the survey was discussed and we decided to try and do it as you see, various reasons.
We do not want to upset regulars but some degree of patience is needed. The survey is limited and then it will fall quieter, although some busy activity will appear first. I can only keep this up for a short while, is exhausting and pushing me toward burnout.
Adolfo says: “and surprised by that “Airbus slicer”it shows how silly we men can be.”
Well when you put it that way, I suppose these wind turbines with 75 meter blades do have some merit! Monuments to academic, political, and scientific silliness cannot be large enough. Sculpture is such a beautiful medium. For a subject of such mythical proportions, you could never expect a mere painting or film or musical score to do the job.
A million?….. Blimey. Well done! And I also have a copy of ‘Transports of delight’….But I didn’t realise it was going to become Britain’s energy policy……It’s just a pantomime isn’t it?
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/all-a-din/
Fen, thanks. I think you need a copy of ‘The Goon Show Scripts’ in order to divine the full content of the party manifesto.
Moriarty: “Here, have a gorilla”
Ned Seagoon: “No, have one of my monkey’s, they’re milder”
Col Bloodnok: “Put that damn light out! Don’t you know there’s a war on?!”
WHOOOOOSH —- BOOOOOM
Six months later, 10th March 2013, crosses 1,500,000
I spotted that too. Well done everyone. Keep calm and carry on.