John Cook's brilliance in Bristol and the sound of silence at WUWT

I see that John Cook's talk was very well received in Bristol. By all accounts he gave his usual brilliant presentation.

#johncook explaining #globalwarming @BristolUni @cabotinstitute talk this evening. Interesting stuff! pic.twitter.com/feMNT05MKl
— Anne-Marié (@ElapidxTamer) September 19, 2014

This is the sort of #science I like! #johncook @cabotinstitute #globalwarming #climatechange @skepticscience pic.twitter.com/L2zsy7P6rU
— Anne-Marié (@ElapidxTamer) September 19, 2014

#johncook great comparison I think! #globalwarming @BristolUni @cabotinstitute @UoBris_WUN @skepticscience pic.twitter.com/WJh6ongNjP
— Anne-Marié (@ElapidxTamer) September 19, 2014

I'll write more when I can. As you can guess, the topic of communicating science is of great interest to me, as a blogger who tries to demolish disinformation. I learn a lot from John Cook.

One thing that's interesting is that a prominent global warming "skeptic" blogger was in attendance (see bottom RHS of top photo above). He was followed out of the lecture by a strange crocodile entourage of 13 blokes, I've been told :)

Deniers stunned into silence

Anthony had his trip paid for by his readers, but so far not a peep from him.  Not a tweet, no WUWT article at the time of writing this article - some hours after the end of the lecture. I hear he didn't even put up his hand to ask a question. And not for want of prompting from his fans.

Below is a record of Anthony's tweeting frenzy while at the Bristol talk. A big fat zero!. (Click to enlarge.)

After the lecture, Anthony Watts and his mates went off to drown their sorrows at a local pub. I don't know if his backers will be disappointed or if they had no expectations.  I didn't see any complaints about his similar failure to deliver when they paid him to go to #AGU13, so they are probably not very discerning about where they spend their hard earned dollars - as long as it's not to help mitigate global warming.