Thanks to everyone who participated. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming. But, you can still review all the great cartoons from Josh.
I’m happy to tell you that all of the Gore-a-thon posts and cartoons are now available in the Climate Fail Files page here. Enjoy! They are also available via the category selector for “Gore-a-thon” on the right sidebar
My sincere thanks to Josh. His efforts have given WUWT the best traffic day since Climategate.
I welcome your impressions of the event in comments.
I’ve had enough Gore for 24 hours, I’m going to take a breather. Be sure to see Willis’ most recent post for some interesting findings.
-Anthony
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I’ve been too busy the last 24 to pay as much attention as I’d like, but I’ll catch up in the car on the way down to Simi Valley tomorrow!
I convinced that if all the presenters built roller coasters instead of global warming presentations to scare the crap out of people, they’d get more return and new customers. Think of them as Climate Carnies.
The whole thing felt cultist. They didn’t really present much science. Mostly “open-mindedness” and feelings.
Many thanks. Josh.
Why is Al Gore “Denying” the “Reality” of a Lord Christopher Monckton debate?
Gore doesn’t deserves all this attention.
The upside – a great summary of the Sceptical position in 24 posts.
Can we get a book?
I salute anyone who managed to watch for the whole 24 hours.
True bravery indeed.
Absolutely Gore-geous! Al’s pecuniary and involuted policies laid bear before the world. You did great work in humourising this Gore-a-thon. Thanks.
What if Al Gore paired up with a Republican/conservative, like Jon Huntsman? Or maybe John McCain, if he still supports something similar to the Climate Stewardship Act.
I could only stand to watch a few minutes of Gore’s stuff, BUT Josh’s drawings were great!
Thanks for the WUWT coverage, the funny posts and most of all Josh’s cartoons (though I was secretly hoping Theo might bite Al before the end or indeed in his end).
All I can say about CRP is if that is how they intend to convince the World on AGW – they got nuttin’
I watched a few segments, for short stints at least. I saw a lot of claims about all of the extreme weather in the past year being due to climate change, these were repeated over and over. At least two presenters gave the same presentation of “Somewhere out there is a world where all sorts of bad stuff isn’t happening, but not here”. Then there was a video from Bill Nye Climate Guy (formerly known as The Science Guy) Guy) in one of the last hours where he just plain, summarized all of the extremist claims. This can be seen in Hour 23, 6:30 minutes in in this link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17293770
Many thanks to both Anthony and Josh for their humorous and informative effort.
One big difference I see between the “skeptics” and the AGW supporters is what has been shown here – the skeptical position just wants to get it right wherever that may lead. Is the temperature warming or cooling? The Ice melting somewhere or becoming more extensive and thicker? Oceans rising or falling? Oceans getting warmer or cooler? Atmospheric CO2 levels rising or falling? Anthropogenic CO2 emissions making a difference to the levels in the atmosphere?
Whatever. Let the truth and the data and the facts take us where they will.
On the other hand, the AGW supporters only want what they say is happening – anthropogenic CO2 emissions are causing warming which will cause catastrophic events – to be what is believed, regardless of what the truth and the data and the facts may show.
While WUWT shines, Al Gore’s “CRP” remains dull.
Congratulatons Anthony! The Gore-a-thon was a tremendous success. This is a classic!
An earlier comment about a book. That should seriously be a consideration. Anthony has presented a lot of interesting information in the 24 hous of gore.
A quick look at the graph (viewer ratings) in the previous post may suggest that a number of skeptical viewers were absent from WUWT while watching gore’s show. Now that the show is over I project that the ratings on WUWT will spike while gore’s site plummets as the real discussions begin here. You’re not supposed to talk during the show, don’t ya know.
And we all need to remember that Gore made it all possible.
AlexS says:
September 15, 2011 at 5:10 pm
> Gore doesn’t deserves all this attention.
He didn’t get it here. Instead, we have 24 posts that make a great introduction to many facets of our climate.
Many thanks! I’ll hit the jar in the next day or so.
About the Gore-a-thon — Worse than we thought!
A real gem is when Miss Rhode Island turns to Higgins and says that he’s the scientist … after he’d been floundering for an answer … and was still expecting an answer. A real bimbo to himbo moment.
Anthony and Josh, you deserve a huge round of applause. This effort must be some sort of blog-making history. When you think of the “machine” that went into organising the Borathon, and yet it still couldn’t get up to WUWT traffic figures, you should be justifiably proud of yourselves. If the 105 days of viewing figures are right, it would infer that at any given time only 105 were watching. That’s not much considering that probably half of those were skeptics. How about adopting Theo as the WUWT mascot?
I’m the only
CAGW CACCCACD skeptic I know in real life… and I think I’m the only one who even heard anything about the Goreathon.I wonder what happened to revealing all the “deniers”? Did I miss something?
Great job Josh and Anthony!
Perhaps they should have called it the
Climate
Reality
Awareness
Project
It would have provided a more appropriate acronym
This 24 hour flu is over. Thank Gawwwwdddd!!!!
Looking at the acronym for the Climate Reality Project I can’t help feeling it would be better named the Climate Reality Action Project. I wonder if Algore considered this option? It sounds great!
Many many thanks to you all for great summary of the situation. As Graeme says above, it would work up into a very good book..Josh is very talented.