December 10, 2014 marked the 10-year anniversary of one of our favorite websites: RealClimate.org. Back in 2004, the people behind RealClimate saw, with an impressive degree of insight, that the future of communications was online. They decided to create a website where real climate scientists could blog about the climate. They have a post up with some thoughts about the anniversary and another post featuring their impressive numbers, like their 19 million unique page visits.
RealClimate quickly proved its worth by producing hard science explainers that have cleared up misinformation from deniers and clarified the science for reporters and other scientists on countless occasions. In the years since its creation, it has grown in prominence and respect; noted climate scientists frequently write guest posts (there have been over 100 so far), and newspapers regularly mention the site (LexisNexis puts the total number of mentions to date at 225). RealClimate has also become a great tool for furthering interdisciplinary learning by helping the various climate sub-specialties learn about other related fields.
We at the Climate Denier Roundup like to think of those at RealClimate as our big siblings: they're the smart adults who do a lot of hard, technical work to provide the wonky science and deep-dives that help everyone to wade through denier misinformation. Thanks to their efforts, we're left free to provide the commentary that they're much too respectable to publish!
All that said, we hope that in another ten years RealClimate is still around to teach the public about climate science--without having to spend so much time on the psuedoscience of climate denial, of course.
So happy 10th Birthday RealClimate, and here's to 10 more good years!
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