Al Gore’s “Climate Reality Project” was launched on July 12th with great media fanfare, lots of interviews, and press all over the planet. It is heralded by some of the faithful as Gore 2.0, the second coming.
Only one teensy little problem…on the week I cut back on blogging to work on my business, WUWT still beat Al in global daily reach on the day of the launch, and his trend has been downhill ever since.
It looks like Al is throwing a big expensive party, but nobody is staying beyond the first hour when the Hors d’oeuvre’s run out. Here’s another graph showing daily traffic rank.
Alexa doesn’t plot values below 100,000.
Reality bites manbearpig. My little blog with no big bucks funding from big green and a band of volunteers gets more traffic on the day of the great announcement from Al. Believe me, I was surprised as you are.
Yeah I know, defenders will chatter on about how Alexa is unreliable, blah, blah, but given the blip of press coverage we’ve seen and little follow on afterwards, the numbers do reflect what we see in practice.
Plot the data yourself here:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/climaterealityproject.org+wattsupwiththat.com
Maybe people are just tired of countdowns to doomsdays that don’t seem to happen.
I’m sure Al got no help from the May 21st end of the world countdown stupidity that never materialized while the world at large uttered a collective “told ya so!”.
There were hundreds of doomsday countdowns all over the web for that. Al has one too:
Al’s countdown message and track record isn’t that different from Harold Camping’s.
In fact, they don’t look that different while delivering their message in these two photos:
With Camping’s failure, rather than admit he’s just whacked and nobody but the gullible believed him, the date is pushed into the future. Al has the same problem, skepticism is on the rise, book sales are down, bookings for $175,000 a pop lectures are drying up, the Chicago Climate Exchange is dead, and Kyoto is effectively dead. Time for Gore 2.0.
But, nobody seems to be buying it now except the faithful. Will anyone actually care on September 14th?
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I’m not sure the comparison is fair. I’m pretty sure that Camping actually believed his doomsday message.
Every time I think of Al Gore, standing proud and tall in front of a huge crowd of people, all rapt with attention at what Al has to say, and what follows is a horrifying tale of weather run amok, Tornados by the hundreds. Torrential rain storms and consecutive years of record snow pack in the Rockies and flooding and Global Warming. And carpetbagging by the army corps of engineers and the NWO along the Missouri, I think of the angels, and the harps they don’t play. And I think of that poor queen of England and the bills she will never be able to pay. And I think of the wounded soldier, returning from a war he was lied into joining, wanting to get right with God and his fellow humanity, and find peace. Then I think of Al again. You better shut up ASAP, Al. We’re on to you.
> Yeah I know, defenders will chatter on about how Alexa is unreliable, blah, blah,
Either that or they’ll say this is proof that WUWT is funded by Big Evil. Umm, you are going to be distributing that to you loyal guest posters, right? Oh – I already got my share? Maybe Big Al needs a guest poster. Didn’t someone tell me to follow the money?
It doesn’t matter how often they say it or the way that they say it or the manner in which it is said, nobody’s buying it.
Let someone else choose your pony next time, Al.
It is too hot in the midwest to click on alGore. Actually I knew he rolled out some big deal but didn’t know what it was.
Like Joe romm says, it is a “messaging’ problem.
I’m sure we will shortly hear that the normal summer heat wave across the country is ‘man made’, no doubt from Al Gore and the rickety gates faithful. I’m truly tickled to see WUWT is trouncing algore on daily hits!
Q: Anthony – Where is your ‘tip jar’? I spotted a link that says “Donations accepted: fling funds
to help keep the http://www.surfacestations.org project going. ” Is that your general ‘support fund’ (?) or is it specifically dedicated to the surfacestations.org project?
REPLY: You found it, covers both. – Anthony
Well, that’s unfair. Al baby must fight against the “best science blog”.
And as we know, science is not one of his strengths.
Congratulations, Anthony & team.
Will anyone actually care on September 14th?
Of course I care. I’m looking forward to building a snowman with my family that day.
I only heard about it here. So I can’t see that there was any great media fanfare.
May be they are not staying around for the party cause the company sucks and the food taste like……I’ll let you finsih it.
Most of those in power are decidedly unpopular
Look at the Australian greens on Alexa – either they they’re followers don’t visit their website or else they don’t really have many followers;
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fgreens.org.au#
Unfortunately, mentioning his pasty little site is probably gonna add a nice spike to his Alexa numbers.
Yet another hockey stick. Way to go, Al.
Anthony congratulations. To humble the Great Goracle upon his chosen ground is indeed a feat worthy of celebration. It is also the measure of how far the blogosphere has succeeded in driving these self serving spinmeisters into the oblivion they so richly deserve. A good augury for the future. So once again congratulations.
Kindest Regards
What goes up has to come down. Before any mini ice age or ‘God forbid’ full glacial period
temps world wide went up in comparison to a glacial period. We are still in a glacial period but
known as an interglacial. Now do you think with all this AGW nonsense we can stop another mini or full glacial period arriving. No we can’t that big ball in the sky has gone to sleep for now and the orbit of course causes seasonal weather. But those who will experience a cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere better get used to it. We are probably heading back to a colder season, I believe the Gulf Stream is slowing although some say that is because of the oil spill? Or others suggesting putting huge fans deep sea to keep pushing the gulf stream around the Atlantic.
Who are these people? They are protecting their funding that supports carbon taxing because of AGW or saving faces after they have been paid millions to produce elastic computer model?
Al Gore is the biggest crank out. And supports clean energy and I believe has invested heavily
in carbon trading etc. With the World Bank saying carbon trading is failing and we should all invest or the world temps will go up 3 – 4C seems to suggests, money including Al’s is being lost.
I’m not surprised the site is not getting any big traffic, actually it surprises me how much traffic it is getting – there’s nothing there but the counter and a bit of static info so you visit it once you know it all. Comparing it to WUWT where you can get complex information and see news every day is unfair.
Al Gore? Who dat?
Too bad there isn’t a way to see how many of the hits on Al’s blog actually come from your blog.
He needs to reach out to the Harry Potter demographic, like Chu did:
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/171775-chu-finds-way-to-connect-harry-potter-to-energy-policy
i wish that Alexa would list actual hits per day or week etc for a site because all i can ever find there is % or the relative rankings…
Compared to the money dropped on Al Gore’s previous attempts to mold opinion, this is a squeak not a roar.
Think of 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17168544/ns/us_news-environment/t/gore-plans-rock-against-warming/
Hmmm,
http://climaterealityproject.org/blog/
Three posts in five days. They hide the date of the posts to look more timely, but the date stamp shows up in comments.
Total comments in five days 55, about the same as a couple of hours here or on Climate etc.
I would suggest going over and VERY politely give some opposing points of view. I do mean POLITELY. Argue the facts not the man, not the politics.
I wouldn’t expect much to make it past moderation, but it will be such a morale boosting “thrill” for the authors and moderators.
and let’s not forget the nationwide ad campaign (at least tens of millions, if not the full 300 million claimed) a couple years back for http://wecansolveit.org, which quickly fizzled to nada, zilch as far as traffic is concerned and now, unsuprisingly, redirects to……
wait for it………………
…………………….
http://climaterealityproject.org
Slow down on the count down for Al:
Maybe he is concentrating on Chicago Climate Exchange Mk2:
Hey, don’t forget that this guy invented the internet. I’m sure he’s got some trick up his sleeve.