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?
I like the side by side photos! 🙂
Chris D.
Boy did I have a brain f@rt on that one, still, not particularly impressive as far a multi-million dollar campaigns go. (I missed the “Attending”)
Roger on Smoking Mountain. Cold tar is also used against ring worm for dogs and cats, it isn’t
Recommended to use all the time though. It is anti bacterial. But the Aborigines also used
tea trees where the leaves fell into ponds, they’d bathe and help heal wounds and burns.
But while completing my Diploma in organic agriculture (sustainable farming methodology) fumic
and humic acid fertilizers use the water from washing coal it’s very good for adding carbon into the soil to aid the growth of plants and also more importantly microbiology that help the plants absorb minerals and nutrients. We also used a tar not sure of the name to paint on horses
hooves against bacterial infections. Can’t remember its name though been years since I owned
a horse. Was it Stockholm tar? Memory a bit jaded nowadays.
Huh? … Al Gore launched something? … hmmm … sorry, totally missed it … guess I’ll have to catch the next one.
Experts in “body language” (or gestures you do unconsciously while speaking), say that when someone raises his finger as Al Gordo and Camping are doing in the pictures, the audience or people talking with them immediately stop believing what’s beig said. It is the subconscious use of a gun to threaten people.
Dont’ tell them or Gordo will stop doing it and people might start believeing him!!
And Camping is far more educated than Al Gore, as Camping has an engineering degree.
bushbunny says: (July 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm) “Was it Stockholm tar? Memory a bit jaded nowadays.”
I’d say yes, bushbunny. Very familiar name from my boyhood in the bush.
“Tar” derived from coal and “tar” from pines does need to be differentiated. Al Gore is selling coal as, effectively, a poison. The myriad derivatives of coal which have positive effects (even beyond power supply) on the well-being of humanity are worth setting out from time to time to break the spell of evil some would attribute to it; and to the many who do not think beyond CO2 and catastrophe.
A little more knowledge is a beneficial thing.
Coal tar is a brown or black liquid of high viscosity, which smells of naphthalene and aromatic hydrocarbons. Coal tar is among the by-products when coal is carbonized to make coke or gasified to make coal gas. Coal tars are complex and variable mixtures of phenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and heterocyclic compounds, about 200 substances in all.
“24 Hours of Reality will focus the world’s attention on the full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis. To remove the doubt. Reveal the deniers. And catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us.”
AL GORE
CHAIRMAN OF THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT
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“Reveal the deniers.”
Those three words reveal this project as a political incitement to oppression.
It’s no wonder that Al Gore and Harold Camping, doomsday soothsayers both, look alike and have similar body language and hand gestures. Al Gore attended a “divinity school” to be a Baptist Minister.
“Gore enrolled in the Divinity School. “Did you want to be a minister?” the interviewer asks. “I was open to the call,” he replies. Gore admitted that he was searching for the meaning of life. “What duty do we owe to our Creator?” he had asked himself at the time.”
So it seems that both Harold and Al are on a mission from their invisible friend. It would explain Al’s irrational ignore reality zeal.
“Although his parents wanted him to go to law school, Gore first attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1971 to 1972 on Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for people planning secular careers. He later said he went there in order to explore “spiritual issues”,[2] and that “he had hoped to make sense of the social injustices that seemed to challenge his religious beliefs.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Vanderbilt_and_journalism
Congratulations, Anthony! I hadn’t even heard of Al’s effort before it floated on WUWT.
I’ll caution everyone that the Arctic sea ice extent is heading downward, so if we surpass the record minimum extent of 2007, we’ll hear lots more blather about drowning polar bears, death spirals etc. by September 2011. I think the CAGW crowd are counting on this.
Al Gore is so pastey white, looks like he does not know the sun even shines down on U.s..
He needs to get out more, might even help him better undestand heat transfer via the sun.
Is the Gulf Stream slowing? Polar bears won’t worry they will migrate for food and lodging. I’m off to Prof Bob Carters public forum in Tamworth NSW tomorrow, and hope it doesn’t snow on the Moonbi ranges as my friends might be stuck in Tamworth at night when the road closes to traffic up to and on the Northern Tablelands.
Never a truer word said. When you look at Gores lifestyle, private jet flights and 2 large houses (1 near the ocean with SIX fireplaces and numerous fountains) you have to wonder whether Gore is trying to fool all of the people all of the time. Gore has the co2 footprint of Godzilla.
Jimbo;
Another contrast: apparently De-Camping has an engineering degree. He and AlGorical should swap places.
Bumping to update on the Climate Reality event in case anyone is interested (Jeez?)
Previously –
6,368 attending
1,333 maybe attending
37,995 awaiting reply
2,663 not attending
Nine or so days later, as of this morning:
17,095 attending
2,985 maybe attending
76,096 awaiting reply
5,259 not attending
Looks like a focus on continued outreach with the big bump in invitations. Perhaps I should have made a wager with Jeez.
Correction: The above update is 12 days after Jeez’s screen cap.
After another 12 days, as of today:
22,199 attending
4,660 maybe attending
83,739 awaiting reply
6,696 not attending
12 more days:
38,407 attending
8,647 maybe attending
138,436 awaiting reply
16,841 not attending