UPDATE: All of the Gore-a-thon posts and cartoons are now available in the Climate Fail Files page here
If you noticed a change in the header, this is why.
Our rebuttal of Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality aka the Gore-a-thon is On-The-Air. Josh is leading the charge chortles. We’ll have a new Josh cartoon, along with commentary, graphs and links every hour starting at 5PM PST to match the starting time of the CRP. They appear below this post.
You can watch the live video presentation here, I urge everyone to do so (because after hour 4 it is starting to look like a massive dud, Al needs the help) and to make notes about it during the appropriate hour. Alternate video link here at Ustream.
Here’s the trailer advertising it:
If you run a blog, we hope you’ll participate and use the content. If you don’t have a blog, get one for free here and join in the fun using the free content we’ll provide.
All good clean fun of course. While we have some great ideas for the program, WUWT readers often come up with some great ones too. Luboš Motl has some fun ideas already.
Ideas and discussion welcome below.
UPDATE: The Climate Reality project has released two videos hyping the event. It appears they’ll be smearing some of what is in the videos.
Of course, they are asking for money, a minimum of $10 after viewing them. They write with the mass email:
While some folks have told us these aren’t exactly family fare, we think they make a point that’s long overdue. And you can help make sure that everyone who you think can handle them, sees them.
We are planning an online ad buy — but we need your help to reach as many people as possible. Will you donate $10 to get this message out?
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/ad-donate
Your donation will help us spread the Climate Reality message in a unique and effective way. Tell the world: The climate crisis is not a debate. It’s reality. And the time to take action is not the future — it’s right now. The fat lady has sung.
Watch the videos and make a donation today. Anything you give makes a difference:
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/ad-donate
The time to act is now. The denial has hit the fan.
Thanks,
Alex Bogusky
Chief Marketing Officer
The Climate Reality Project.
WUWT readers may recall that Mr Bogusky is the “interviewer” for Al Gore’s recent racist slur against climate skeptics.
Here’s another bit of news that Algore might find discouraging, although he has always been amazingly resilient in resistant to any discouragement that might be suggested by his record of resounding failure
http://caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html
This site which monitors the energy industry in California reports that while today’s electrical demand hovers around 36000 MW, wind and solar have combined for between 300 and <600 MW of that demand. While admittedly this is probably well below average, it does reinforce the intermittentcy that has always been the all to obvious flaw in the delusional dreams of "Green Energy"
John Whitman says:
September 13, 2011 at 2:25 pm
“If skeptics were Ogres then Anthony would be Shrek. AG would be Rumplestilkin (spelling?)”
Rumpelstilzchen in German. I once read Rumplestiltskin in English; but that’s a bit like saying “Daxion” when you mean a Dachshund or Dackel.
If todays posts / comments are reflective of a pre-game show for Gore, the real game is going to be A HOOT! I will be taking the day off! It should be better than the Superbowl.
I sorta hope (in a sadistic sort of way) that Gore only gets toyed with and then smashed in a sudden death finally. That will not happen. He is too stupid to play with!
Would you “care2 make a difference”
the global warming cause! 376,905 people care about Global Warming!
“New Ads Kick Off 24 Hours Of Climate Change Action”
“These ads don’t waste time with sad music, and images of polar bears and melting icebergs. Instead, they call each viewer out on our daily contribution to the climate crisis and the denial that has prevented us from taking action.”
“The 24 Hours Of Reality event is the first step in a larger, multi-faceted campaign to tell the truth about the climate crisis and reject the misinformation we hear every day.”
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/new-ads-set-the-state-for-climate-reality-event.html#ixzz1XsMzhk6B
“and reject the misinformation we hear every day” Absolutely brilliant!
I suppose the aim of this is to win hearts and minds? Why do they not understand that all it can possibly do is further harden the resolve of anybody that has taken time out to actually do their own research in to “the greatest ever threat to mankind”??
care2? No thanks, too busy looking after the future wellbeing of my fellow man.
I think the Climate Reality Project is going to be a flop. The blog certainly has been. There have only been 470 comments in total on 55 posts. There would have been 471 but it seems that my very polite comment pointing out that statements made about the water situation in Canberra, a city both I and one of the 24 Presenters live bore no semblance to reality has so far failed to pass the censor.
Anthony, can you give us a few tidbits for the pre-game show?
It’s already tomorrow somewhere in the Atlantic. I can’t seem to wait any longer. Come on, give us something!
Please! Pretty Please! With sugar on top! With sugar on top, CO2 in the middle, and lots of fudge on the bottom! Please, with all the other stuff and a fresh picked cherry to boot! Please, with everything else and a white wash of whipped cream! Maybe with everything else and all tossed on top of fruitcakes! Pretty Please!
OK Anthony, thats it!
I have a number of representitives of BEER at my place and they are freezing their cans off! We will now begin the party without you! I hope that a friendly interaction with them will warm them up and will hopefully induce a few chuckles of our own!
In 2007 Crispin,Porter and Bogusky produced an ad campaign for Burger King, ‘Whopper Freakout’. This resulted in a 4% sales increase which won CPB the Grand Effie, the top award for marketing effectiveness.
http://adage.com/article/news/whopper-freakout-wins-grand-effie-burger-king-crispin/137066/
Now what might the carbon footprint of a burger be? Apparently it’s about 4.6 Kg of CO2 and Methane (do I hear ‘b******t’).
http://www.carbonmanagers.com/blog/file/newsletter-articles/the-carbon-footprint.aspx
What have Burger King got to say about global warming? ‘Baloney’ according to its sign.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2009/05/27/burger-king-calls-global-warming-baloney
Mr Bogusky wants you to send $10 so he can buy online ads. However, when Bogusky left the advertisng industry in 2010 he said in an interview with the New York Times:
“I don’t think I’ll do much advertising”… “Social media is a fun place and an amazing tool that’s making it more possible” to reach consumers “without the budgets” because “you don’t need the money now”… “a fair amount of what I will do will not be for profit.”
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/bogusky-creative-ad-star-is-leaving-advertising/?ref=media
This is an alternative reality.
Any funzie wagers on the ratio of Gor-a-Thon to CRP visitors?
I say GAT by a ratio of 57 to 1.
An Al Gore marathon.
Reminds me of a night watching infomercials on late night tv.
Devices that do the most miraculous things, stories full of unbelievable promise, all for just a few bucks.
Didn’t buy any of that crap, either…
Apachewhoknows thinks Al should take up snow boarding.
May be he should be a snow board.
Man that size could plow some curves.
I just gave to Anthony’s tip jar. Perhaps we should have a WUWTathon for the time the Gore-a-thon is on!
REPLY: Thank you, but Josh really is more deserving. I managed to talk him into putting up a tip jar for the first time, which will be on the 24 posts…he’s making quite an effort – Anthony
For those who think Al is like a 70 televangelist, I remind them that Al Gore is a divinity school drop out. It shows.
MikeH says:
September 7, 2011 at 9:51 am
Every time Al Goracle has an event, there seems to be an extreme cold weather associated with his location. Since this is a ‘world wide’ event, should I expect a global cold snap?”
Our wx forecast is for the first freeze of the season tomorrow night…and the crops are not ready for that yet.
I’m very reluctant to give Vice President Gore, famed Nobel prize and Oscar winner, any reason to drop out of the global climate abuse business because he has been the skeptic’s best friend at the same time he’s sucked all the oxygen out of the warmist camp. We need a guy like that on our side, so go easy on the little poodle. He’s got to be lonely now that his own family has kicked him to the curb. No sense piling on, eh watt?
Run, Al, Run!
The Manbearpig and his brigade of free loaders…….. What are they up to this time? Anything different….. hmmm, nope. Same ol’ same ol’….. Exaggerations, misrepresentations, lies, pseudoscience and activism all enthusiastically presented by naive young Democrat Uniclones without a clue…… yawn.
Josh kicked it off.
The Gore-a-thon party has officially begun!
It’s gonna be a lot of fun.
Sorry, one more thing. Acknowledgments.
Thanks Anthony for having us all here for the party. But special thanks to Gore for making it all possible!
Is this for real? The guy’s name is Bogus-ky?
Good onya Elmer. Minnesotans for Global Warming rock!
Over here in Oz, it’s the Orange breasted parrot that has a fatal attraction with wind turbines…. The Greenies refuse to accept it….. Their mahogany sugar glider can stop dams and factories from being built….. Be we are not allowed to point out that Wind turbines dong parrots on the head….. Hypocrites.
So… Your Eagle and Hawk, their Mahogany sugar glider…. and I’ll raise yurs all four parrots…;-)
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/al-gore-24-hours-of-consenseless-nonscience/
When you think about it, there is actually no point using Science to debate with Al Gore…… He doesn’t understand the concept.
I created a blog and “borrowed” WUWT’s banner for the day(s).
You do realise that the only publicity Al Gore is getting is coming from his opponents? This site must have provided as many referrals as anyone. He is not visible on Yahoo, BBC online, Daily mail online etc. He should be eternally grateful to the sceptical community for the publicity.
P.S. Can I have my big oil cheque now?
Who ate all the pies?
Al Gorger famous for telling porkers announced today that 24 hours of reality was cancelled and instead he would now organise a 24 hour Pieathon. To make people aware of the role pies have in global warming Mr Gorger would attempt to eat as many pies as possible in the allotted 24 hrs.
On completion of the Pieathon Mr Gorger would attempt to break his world record of the 2002 Lieathon where he successfully told more lies in 24 hours than all other contestants. Outstripping such luminaries as The Fiddlesticks Team, Charles Windsor Team, University of Every Ambiguity Team and of course not forgetting The CAGW Not Just Yet Team.