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
Anthony–can you tell us what the Blog Stat count was at when this Gore-a-thon began vs the 88,557,199 tally now? The difference would indicate how many stopped by to get a clearer perspective of Clmate Reality.
paulhan says:
September 15, 2011 at 6:10 pm
We should actually consider Gore himself as our new mascot–he’s driven more people toward the climate realist position than just about anybody I know. For that, he should forever be enshrined–Just not certain what a proper name might be (“manbearpig” is way too presumptous).
The fun isn’t over yet, fellas. The Moving Planet project is just 9 days away so you can make fun of more of your favorites then too.
http://www.moving-planet.org/
Wow, what a chronicle! Fantastic job Anthony, Josh and mods!
I wonder who had more traffic: The Gore-a-thon or WUWT’s coverage of the Gore-a-thon?
BTW, anybody feel “revealed”?
This excretory function was a Bore-athon indeed, but a purposeful, willful one in all its asininity. As Samuel Johnson said, “Such stupidity, Sir, is not in nature.”
well the reality in australia is we’re getting capntax no matter which party is in power. here’s the Opposition on ABC last nite:
15 Sept: ABC Lateline: Turnbull on media, tax and Kevin Rudd
TONY JONES: OK. I mean, you’ve already committed yourself once to a BIPARTISAN plan for a CPRS and you argue it has a lot in common with the Government’s plan …
MALCOLM TURNBULL: I don’t argue it; it obviously does. I mean, I’m not going to – if someone asks me a question, I’m not – look, I’m not – I’ve been through the pain barrier, Tony. I don’t – I’m not going to stand up there and give slippery, disingenuous answers.
If somebody asks me a question, straight question and says, “Does this scheme have lot in common with Rudd’s CPRS and the ETS that John Howard was proposing to introduce?” The truthful answer is yes. They’ve all got a lot in common. They’ve all got differences and some of those differences are more significant than others, but, you know, ultimately at the core there is a ****cap-and-trade scheme and there’s a commonality.
They’ve been DESIGNED BY THE SAME PEOPLE. The same team that worked for us worked for Rudd and have worked for Gillard, so – but that’s beside the point. I’m not going to sit here and mislead you and try to suggest that there’s some – you know, it’s a completely different creature.
Yes, it’s got a lot of differences and, you know, we could talk about them for hours. But, fundamentally, they’re very similar….
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3318972.htm
the anti carbon tax movement in australia has been misdirected in a sense, which is a pity.
yes!!! take the poster bear for the sceptics – the team lost it on their own back rank to a pawn, so you can claim it!!!
make the polar bear the sceptical mascot, yes!!!
leave the awg poodle for them – they’ll be lonely.
rank to a pawn, so you can claim it!!!
make the polar bear the sceptical mascot, yes!!!
leave the awg poodle for them – they’ll be lonely.
How’s this for moral relativism?;
The worm has turned Mr. Gore. Even the progressives in my town don’t believe you any more. Unless you can deliver Gay Marriage to them you’re finished here in the SF Bay Area. Good Night.
No claims by Al of the North Polar Ice cap gone by 2013? Anyone?
Al Gore is currently claiming 8.6 million ‘views’ – whatever that is – I reckon that includes a hell of a lot of scripts and web crawlers..
Anyway check out this http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17294584#utm_campaign=synclickback&source=http://climaterealityproject.org/video/hour-24-new-york/?template=basic&medium=17294584
Notice the view count – 1,707 Live Views – also look at the panel on the RHS and do some mental maths – you have 9 hours totally say 3000 views to be generous.
I make that a whooping 8000 views TOPS for the 24 hours from the archive.
Then if one looks at http://www.ustream.tv/user/climatereality/info-stats
we have 484,371 unique views – so I make a grand total of 492,371 unique views of the videos, assuming no double counting going on.
Al where is the other 8.1 Million ‘views’ ???
Loved Josh’s cartoons! Farewell Theo!
Thankfully my only knowledge of the Gore-a-thon was through WUWT, reality is still intact!
Nice to see that while it was on though, the Gore effect saved the Arctic ice extent…
Theo the WUWT Wonder Bear
Stunning work Anthony and Josh! Now go to bed for a little while!
As touched upon before, an excellent refutation of CAGW contained within this series of posts. There’s so much more within WUWT that goes beyond that though – not just a refutation of the tenets of Al’s Sermons, but details of the basis for a TRUE understanding of what drives our climates. Don’t ever expect that from those who obsess over plant food.
otter17 says:
September 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm
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.
You obviously have no idea what a Conservative is.
Anthony
You really deserve the Golden Order of the Cactus Coated Enema Bag for enduring the unimaginably excruciating on behalf of us all. The ultimate example of taking one for the team. Get some rest you deserve that also, and thanks for illuminating so clearly once again the very fundamental difference between the protagonists in this climate drama.
Josh
Many thanks to you as well for your very creative and humorous work. Hang on to that Theo, I suspect we could have witnessed the birth pangs of the next Opus or Hobbes today.
They should have called in Jerry Lewis – he’s looking for work. What an epic fail that was. I wonder what it impact was on the global power grid.
Yeah, verily, upon September 15, 2011 at 5:23 pm otter17 saith:
Or some (Hyper Partisan) Right Wing Christian Nut Job like Pol Pot?
Looking forward to Josh’s graphic novel: The Adventures of Theo.
Hint, hint…
I second Dave Wendt’s comments–Anthony, you and Josh were outstanding. I’m betting Al Gore is not sleeping well tonight from an expose`of this magnitude.
Thank you to everyone who has commented on this 24 hour blog, I have nothing further to add except to say I’m so pleased to know I am not the only person that thinks the way I do.
Anthony and Josh’s “Gore-a-Thon” was a newsworthy response to an international event.
But it appears that Google has completely filtered out any relationship between Gore’s CRP and WUWT in toto from Google News.
Google, are you censoring the news?
Willis page is gone missing. Or I have a really strange problem. Any clues?