UPDATE: Hockey stick achieved, see below.
Guess what? WUWT readers make up the majority of viewers of this farce video. Mostly curiosity I suppose. Watch the video, then see the numbers below.
Yesterday, Tom Nelson asked this question, and it got me to digging.
It’s now been two weeks: Does anybody know what happened to Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” campaign?
Looking for an innovative way to dispel myths and spread science about climate change, Gore, Fox and their colleagues at The Climate Reality Project turned to agency Arnold Worldwide. Pete Favat, Arnold Worldwide’s chief creative officer, had attracted Gore’s attention because of his cause-related work for the Truth Campaign, the hugely successful national anti-tobacco program.
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The product, “Reality Drop,” relies on sophisticated algorithms to highlight “hot” climate change stories and provide simple rebuttals to the most common climate change myths.
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Users win points for sharing facts and eventually climb up the ranks of the game and earn Foursquare-like badges such as “Carbon Crusher,” “Shining Beacon,” and “Order of the Green Circle.”
Initial information on the game will be officially unveiled on November 14th during “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report,” a 24-hour event broadcast live on the Internet, culminating in a presentation by Gore on November 15th at 7 p.m. EST.
Without any advertising budget, Reality Drop will rely strictly on word-of-mouth to gain traction and influence the climate change discussion. “Success will be measured by the amount of people who are posting and the number of people involved,” says Favat. “People inherently want to be on the right side here.”
Reality Drop (RealityDrop) on Twitter
[Seven total tweets, none since Nov. 15]
Here’s the Twitter page, captured on 11/30/2012, showing all 7 Tweets
Now here comes the fun part, the “stats” section of the Vimeo video page for the propaganda movie at the top shows this:
Wow, 155 views in a week, and trending down, down, down. Some might call that interest “cooling”. When you click on the “Top URL embeds” (highlighted in yellow) you get this fun table showing that WUWT is the main external contributor to views of Al Gore’s ‘Reality Drop’ video. Heh.
What is really interesting is the comparison to the top “loads” leader, which has only 6 views compared to WUWT’s 999. More people from WUWT viewed Al’s video than anywhere else in the world. That’s gotta sting.
So what should we do to help Al get more views?
Well obviously WUWT’ers need to help. Simply click on the video “play” button above, and we’ll give him a hockey stick graph for views. If you have a website/Twitter feed/Facebook page, direct people here and ask them to help. To register a view from WUWT, you simply need to play the video above in the open WUWT browser window. It’s just that easy to give Al a hockey stick of traffic from those he seeks to destroy. I’ll post an update when the success is robust, er, graphically clear.
In the meantime, you might want to take this survey Al has prepared to help gauge the success of his video. I’m sure he’d love to hear your opinion!
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UPDATE: We’ve presented a hockeystick, and WUWT is well in the lead. Thanks everybody!
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LOL
Reality Drop? By all means we need to drop reality in favor of myth and magical thinking. It’s so much more fun and self-congratulating. /sarc
Well that brightened my day! Thanks Anthony.
What fun. The survey shows where all the idiotic “Climate Activism” drivel comes from.
I would be nice to see what the survey results are before they adjust the results.
If they want to use that water analogy, I raise with…
But we’re in a CO2 drought.
DaveE.
I come from Minnesota. The way I’d give Al the Hockey Stick would lead to a “time out” and a “penalty” for HIGH STICKING… (better than LOW sticking…)
Max
That video is Propaganda extreme !!!
Good one, I get the word out on FB. Ha Ha, Hockey stick Al.
Anthony:
As you suggested, I started to watch the video. However, I was so offended at its blatant falsehoods that I stopped watching after some seconds, and I don’t know if this will prevent a record of my starting the video.
I completed the survey but I don’t think they will like my answers.
Richard
Speaking of reality — more revisionist behavior from Hansen (on his own work):
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/fourteen_is_the_new_fifteen.html
Reality Drop Out
Stonyground says:
I see the big oil and big coal lie is being trotted out again.
One thing that we can be happy about. The fine efforts of Anthony Watts, Andrew Montford, Steve McIntyre and the rest are important, but all we really have to do is wait the alarmists out. The longer their predictions fail to come true, the less credibility they will have. Their shift from soaring temperatures and rapidly rising sea levels to extreme weather events is highly significant. How stupid do you look when you try to claim that when you were predicting droughts you really meant floods?
“…the COLLECTIVE win is the main objective..” Not about science but agenda desperation to win through demonizing. Intersting how the WUWT crowd is carrying the day!
“Sophisticated Al Gore Rhythms”….Gawd, did he invent THOSE too?
Where’s my check [cheque]?
I am not a scientist,
I’m a politico.
Gore has won the battle of ideas for us.
All we need to do is to silence the loudest voice.
The CO2 levels may be up, but not as much as the irony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_day = 14 deg F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere = 15 deg F
Wikipedia can’t seem to figure out what a standard day temp is. Interesting, the US and ICAO Standard is what is used to calculate atmosphere dependent activities, e.g. aviation.
Pssl – Standard day ambient pressure at sea level, 2116.22 lb/ft 2
Tssl – Standard day temperature at sea level, 288.15 °K (15 °C), 518.67 °R (59 °F)
rssl – Standard day density at sea level, 0.023769 slugs/ft3
Looks like wikipedia is showing a 1 deg F cooling since the 1950’s, that way anything warmer is CAGW???
Q: How would you describe this site to someone who has never heard of it?
A: a nest of anti-human climate alarmists, with a defiant socialist overtones seeking to stifle legitimate scientific debate through social manipulation via astroturffing and shilling internet blog sites.
This is actually a good idea, all people would have to do is download a list if their preferred talking-point answers, compile a list of refuting answers , we could then just do a Google search of their shill answers already sorted by the Google ranking algorithms, no pun intended, and post where the refutations will do the most good.
Holy crap, that video is childish. I feel a bit sorry for them, and their mantra messaging.
How much did taxpayers pay for _this_ fiasco…:-(
Bwahahahahahaahahah!
I had fun with the survey. 🙂
They need oil funded think tanks to confuse them? I think they are doing just fine on their own. These zealots have been confused from day one. Can’t wait for the day they wake up to what fools they are and immediately blame their leaders for their own gullibility.
That part of our nature is predictable as dawn.
I wondered if WUWT was most of AL Bores traffic, I clicked over a few times from WUWT TV but left quickly each time. The projection of their neuroses, by these clown is appalling, help may be impossible.
Good idea! Let’s start with Gore’s blockbuster – ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
If Gore believes so much in man-made global warming then why is his investment outfit getting out of green investments?
“relies on sophisticated algorithms to”
When someone describes themselves or their work to others as sophisticated, it conveys the opposite message. The people who’ve most impressed me in life have usually described themselves humbly.