Best Science Blog

2 Nov 2009

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Posted by Kevin Aylward on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 2:09 PM

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The Mouse Trap
http://the-mouse-trap.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheMouseTrap

My blog focusing on Psychology and Neuroscience.

sandygautam17
Author Profile Page sandygautam17 | November 4, 2009 4:08 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

I would like to nomimate Our World 2.0 - http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/

Brendan Barrett
Brendan Barrett | November 4, 2009 8:03 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 2

NAACAL is a well-designed and interesting science blog -

http://naacal.blogspot.com/

Minnesotastan
Author Profile Page Minnesotastan | November 4, 2009 8:09 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 4

I would like to nominate www.littlegreenfootballs.com for best science. Charles, a jazz musician has an amazing understanding of AGW, and evolution. This guy should get a Nobel. After all, If Obama ca get the peaceprize, Chuck deseres the science blog award.

JeremyR
JeremyR | November 5, 2009 12:38 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 8

My nomination goes to NAACAL, a very interesting science blog.

http://naacal.blogspot.com

MartinK
MartinK | November 5, 2009 5:40 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 5

Nerdabout--science, art, tech and many nerdy things between

http://blogs.discovery.com/nerdabout_new_york/

nerdabout
Author Profile Page nerdabout | November 6, 2009 9:06 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 22

Best Science Blog

Watts Up With That?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Evan Jones
Evan Jones | November 6, 2009 2:43 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 74

Watts Up With That
http://wattsupwiththat.com

This blog concentrates on sceptical articles re climate change. Despite this narrow focus, it continues to be the most honest and best science blog by a large margin.

Alan from Australia
Alan from Australia | November 6, 2009 2:57 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 79

I'd like to nominate Watts Up With That?
as the best science blog.
http://wattsupwiththat.com

pirita
pirita | November 6, 2009 3:00 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 75

Steve McIntyre aka Percy Verance
ofClimate Audit

http://www.climateaudit.org

f1yingwellie
f1yingwellie | November 6, 2009 3:06 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 66

I nominate Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit

http://www.climateaudit.org/

This informative, interesting and often humourous site has done more than any other to cut through the BS 'science' of Man Made Global Warming.

Ralph Tittley
Ralph Tittley | November 6, 2009 3:21 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 63

An informative and important website

http://www.climateaudit.org/

marchesa-rosa
marchesa-rosa | November 6, 2009 3:23 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 56

WattsUpWithThat... Great Science blog that shows the real science behind climate without the political schemes.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/feed/

Scott Oxner
Scott Oxner | November 6, 2009 3:26 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 66

I'd like to nominate Climate Audit for it's scientific approach to examining the science, or lack of it, behind the claims of AGW.

http://www.climateaudit.org/

Tim Bromige
Author Profile Page Tim Bromige | November 6, 2009 3:42 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 128

I nominate Climate Depot. World class. Enough said.

Steve
Steve | November 6, 2009 4:21 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 27

Ever on the learning curve

Steve
Steve | November 6, 2009 4:22 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 13

http://www.climateaudit.org

This guy's already changed history. 100 years from now, history books may call Steve McIntyre the guy who saved science. He's taken us all to school.

Mike
Author Profile Page Mike | November 6, 2009 4:41 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 66

Watts Up with That, of course.

http://wattsupwiththat.com

Greetings from Portugal!

Jorge Pereira
Jorge Pereira | November 6, 2009 5:24 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 43

For groundbreaking work this year on science that should have been done properly 10 years ago.

http://www.climateaudit.org/

http://www.climateaudit.org/?feed=rss2

Digi
Digi | November 6, 2009 5:47 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 46

Jeff Id's Blog
The Air Vent
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/

I especially enjoy his "Global warming most extreme predictions of 2009 – Contest" section. There are some great posts there.

IdahoWayne
IdahoWayne | November 6, 2009 5:50 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 38

Climate audit

http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.climateaudit.org%2F


Steve McIntyre’s blog consistently provides a deep unbiased examination of the issues associated with climate change.

William
William | November 6, 2009 6:03 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 33

www.scienceblogs.com/pharyngula

www.realclimate.org


Jesse
Jesse | November 6, 2009 6:05 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 58

Climate Audit

http://www.climateaudit.org/

That a blogger could show the deep flaws is "climate science", without the extensive funding of government, shows what the internet is all about.

I suspect history will show that McIntyre will be one of the few that will save us from a potential new dark age of climate hysteria and insanity.

Will
Will | November 6, 2009 6:08 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 40

If you are going to open science blogs to anti-science blogs, you might as well go all the way:

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

fred
fred | November 6, 2009 6:35 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 103

This blog puts the "review" back into peer review.

Climate Audit
http://www.climateaudit.org/
http://www.climateaudit.org/?feed=rss2

Max
Max | November 6, 2009 6:36 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 45

Climate Audit
www.climateaudit.org

Rafe
Rafe | November 6, 2009 6:40 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 40

Climate Audit

http://www.climateaudit.org/

http://www.climateaudit.org/?feed=rss2

If you want real climate science from someone who is personally doing breakthrough work, this is the place. If you want climate science explained, go to Watts Up With That. They are both great. I don't know who I'll vote for in the end.

T.A.
T.A. | November 6, 2009 6:57 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 40

RC is a political blog - this is science we're talking about.

Francois GM
Francois GM | November 6, 2009 9:35 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

Brain Stimulant
http://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrainStimulant

Blog focusing on new neurotechnology methods of brain stimulation, neuroscience, brain emulation, altering consciousness and miscellaneous futurism.

Michael
Author Profile Page Michael | November 6, 2009 7:44 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

I nominate Will Baird's "The Dragons Tales"

http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/

An eclectic mix of space science, paleontology, and paleoclimate science

Phil Wilson
Phil Wilson | November 6, 2009 8:39 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 5

Watt's Up With That

www.wattsupwiththat.com

Mark Walker
Mark Walker | November 6, 2009 9:02 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 32

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

This blog concentrates on sceptical articles re climate change. Despite this narrow focus, it continues to be the most honest and best science blog by a large margin.

Neven
Neven | November 7, 2009 2:36 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 97

The Reference Frame
http://motls.blogspot.com/

If you want to follow what's going on in high energy physics The Reference Frame is the blog to read, no question.

rafa
rafa | November 7, 2009 3:00 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

I nominate realclimate (no just kidding)
I nominate the Lubos' reference frame
http://motls.blogspot.com/

john ritson
Author Profile Page john ritson | November 7, 2009 6:38 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 13

For his sterling work deconstructing GISTemp I nominate EM Smith's Musings:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/feed/

Peter Dunford
Peter Dunford | November 7, 2009 7:55 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

I'd like to nominate Open Mind.

http://tamino.wordpress.com/

Alan J
Alan J | November 7, 2009 9:37 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 42

What is it with these ironically titled blogs? Tamino's Open Mind. Real Climate. Both American blogs I note. And did I hear it said that Americans don't get irony?.

mondo
mondo | November 10, 2009 12:27 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 3

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

James
Author Profile Page James | November 13, 2009 4:23 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 0

I have removed a majority of comments discussing the merits of various blogs because we're not having a debate in the comment section, but taking nominations. Debates can happen elsewhere.

You can use the discussion forum to debate the merit of "anti-science" blogs...

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?v=app_2373072738&id=185779101778#/topic.php?uid=185779101778&topic=11095

These are open nominations, we don't dictate who can nominate what, nor will we "unnominate" anyone.

Out of the hundreds of nominations there will only be 10 finalists. We will review every nominated site to try to find ten finalists that make for a well rounded panel.

Also I've taken to deleting new nominations for sites already nominated several times. Really, we've got enough nominations for several of the sites...

Kevin Aylward
Author Profile Page Kevin Aylward | November 14, 2009 12:05 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 0

Thanks for the link, Kevin!

James
Author Profile Page James | November 14, 2009 10:14 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 0

I nominate the Lubos' reference frame
http://motls.blogspot.com/

Tobias
Tobias | November 7, 2009 1:11 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 9

I nominate theoildrum.com as the best science blog. It is about energy and our future, an issue of great importance today.

Gail Tverberg
Gail Tverberg | November 7, 2009 1:19 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 40

Uncommon Descent; a refreshingly cool-headed and informative blog on the evolution/ID debate

http://www.uncommondescent.com

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/uncommondescent/JCWn

Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris | November 7, 2009 3:47 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 6

Steve McIntyre deserves any accolades that come his way.

http://www.climateaudit.org/

http://www.climateaudit.org/?feed=rss2

David Bonson
David Bonson | November 7, 2009 7:18 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 17

Christians and Climate: The Evangelical Climate Initiative

http://christiansandclimate.org/

James
Author Profile Page James | November 9, 2009 3:54 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 7

I'd like to nominate my blog http://opinion-nation.blogspot.com/ -- although it covers non-science topics, I do my best when addressing climate science to be factual, and advance the debate.

Philip Machanick
Philip Machanick | November 9, 2009 5:09 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 8

Energy from Thorium
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/
http://thoriumenergy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Thorium is an abundant nuclear fuel and is best used in the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). It's nuclear waste decays very rapidly and would be no one's 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice for making weapons. The reactor itself is super-safe, has high thermal efficiency, operates at atmospheric pressure and makes enough fuel from thorium as it operates so that very little extra need be added each year. Why haven't you heard of this reactor? It was developed in the 1960's and wouldn't produce plutonium, wouldn't produce profits for the fuel assembly manufacturers (its fuel is liquid) and didn't have the head start of benefiting from the R&D done for submarine reactors (it is very different from current commercial reactors).

Mark Thomson
Mark Thomson | November 9, 2009 9:26 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 2

GreenPolicyProf
http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress

George Hoberg - Seeking Insight into Governance for Sustainability. Blogging on climate, energy, and forest policy.

George Hoberg
George Hoberg | November 9, 2009 9:45 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 3

Denialdepot is the most logical and enlightening skeptical climate science blog on the internet.

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Josie
Author Profile Page Josie | November 10, 2009 4:59 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 64

A different science, untainted by Climate Change politics:

Language Log
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?feed=rss2


So many duplications for certain sites! It almost invites qquestions about how scientific the readership of those sites can be if they can't comprehend the simple nomination guidelines.

fred
fred | November 11, 2009 3:53 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 12

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com

It's tough, but fair.

Only criticism; they should insist scienceblogs take them up, since there's an irrational prejudice against blogger/blogspot.

Marion Delgado
Marion Delgado | November 13, 2009 10:58 PM View Profile | Vote up Score: 32

Denialdepot - taking a stand against so-called facts.

http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/

Antimatter Gaz
Antimatter Gaz | November 19, 2009 6:49 AM View Profile | Vote up Score: 10


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