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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.
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Hmm, a lot of hate towards Al Gore, but it seems from what I saw of the Climate Reality presentations Al seemed quite charitable towards deniers. He makes the case that National Academies of Science from around the world support the premise that human CO2 emissions are causing the Earth to warm. It sounds like he doesn’t see deniers as enemies, just as future partners to help solve a problem.
I never followed politics all that well when I was younger, so I just don’t get where the Al Gore hating is coming from here.
Anthony, your link to Willis’s most recent post doesn’t work (it gets an unwanted prefix).
The really important questions are “Why did Gore do this?”, “Who paid for it?”, “Why the Big Media re-attack now?” “Why now?” “Why the non-science, touchy-feely emotion based arguments?” “What’s going on behind the scenes to make all this happen?” This is not just Gore. and….”What’s next?” This is clearly some sort of campaign. “What’s the objective of this new AGW campaign?
He should have waited till November 6, 2011, and saved us all an hour.
@otter17: you must not be paying attention. It’s not that anyone “hates” Al Gore. The problem is, he lacks intellectual honesty AND has entered realms of science he knows nothing about. Worse, Al Gore has refused to debate AGW skeptics, so it’s irrelevant to say that he’s being “charitable” toward them. The Royal Society in London, the world’s oldest scientific society , has a Latin motto that translates to “No one gets the last word”. Al Gore thinks HE is the last word. Science doesn’t work that way. Pointing to the National Academy of Sciences for making his case is nothing more than the logical fallacy called “appeal to authority”. Go google “Ivar Giaever” to see why the claim of scientific consensus is a steaming load. Wise up.
Just want to jump in a try to correct an error without having to go to court about it.
I do not hate Al Gore. Never have, never will.
But I do strongly dislike (“hate” if you must) every thing he has doe from expropriating the work we did to create the Internet to causing me a lot of money with this “global warming” nonsense.
If I was going to hate somebody, it would be the people that have profited from all of his nonsense.
Ivar Giaever, while being an accomplished scientist, is not a climate expert and his reasons for quitting the APS seem almost petulant, given that he didn’t give any real rebuttal of AGW except that it was his opinion that the global temperature is stable.
He failed to point out, or may be unaware that three-quarters of the increase he noted has happened in the last 50 years and that the increase in that time period is quite significant on a global scale.
That WWF 9/11 ad is disgusting. Who are these people?
D Marshall says
” Ivar Giaever, while being an accomplished scientist, is not a climate expert and his reasons for quitting the APS seem almost petulant, given that he didn’t give any real rebuttal of AGW except that it was his opinion that the global temperature is stable.
He failed to point out, or may be unaware that three-quarters of the increase he noted has happened in the last 50 years and that the increase in that time period is quite significant on a global scale.”
* * *
Ivar Giaver is an a physicist. That means they have first hand knowledge of how the physical world really works. That’s a pretty big qualification, I must say. In fact, James Hansen, the father of AGW, himself is a physicist, and not a climatologist. That apparently doesn’t discredit him from running the NASA GISS unit.
As for your second comment, please explain how the roughly 0.8 degrees the temperature is generally believed to have risen in the past century is ” significant on a global scale.”
Otter 17 said
” Hmm, a lot of hate towards Al Gore, but it seems from what I saw of the Climate Reality presentations Al seemed quite charitable towards deniers. He makes the case that National Academies of Science from around the world support the premise that human CO2 emissions are causing the Earth to warm. It sounds like he doesn’t see deniers as enemies, just as future partners to help solve a problem.”
* * *
Yeah, apart from comparing sceptics to racists, tobacco companies, and let’s not forget this little ditty,
Yeah, he definitley sees sceptics as ” future partners”.
As long as we buy him another mansion, anyway.
Anthony and Josh a very big thank you and well done. I have nearly managed to read the flood of informative information presented here in the usual excellent fashion.
When you have one man wagging his finger at you, telling you your a bad human being.
And one places there arm around your shoulders and helps you understand.
I know which one I would listen to.
I wonder if RC or SS will rebuttal your 24 posts? and with facts or emotions?
I dropped a few brass razoos into Josh’s tip jar yesterday.
Trust that others did likewise.
And sorry don’ like to dictate (Al?) but whack an open thread up and take the weekend off not a single fan of your blog would be-grudge you after the 24 hours you just endured.
Plus throwing a pig skin round the back garden might be a good break from the flicker-flicker monitor.
Thanks Anthony & Josh for this excellent work. I’m just awakening now, but have checked the Portuguese newspapers. Not a single reference!
I bet Theo will have a brilliant future…
Ecotretas
I really would have preferred it if you had just ignored this load of rubbish. Even the BBC don’t appear to have mentioned it at all, I think the largest publicity has come from WUWT. Gore and his zombies talking rubbish for 24 hours is not even funny, it’s just pathetic and doesn’t deserve comment.
“My sincere thanks to Josh. His efforts have given WUWT the best traffic day since Climategate.”
Well, I think sincere thanks are due to you as well, Anthony – for providing this ‘venue’.
I hope you’re going to take the whole weekend off after this mammoth session, as well as Josh, who needs to recuperate as well.
I’m not surprised that this ….-a-thon has resulted in such fabulous traffic since ClimateGate.
The combination of laughter and learning is simply irresistible. So thank you to all the commenters here who provided such great additional information – and thank you to all you mods, keeping these 24 hours-a-thon on track.
I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, but I’m not going to thank that manbearpig, even though without his ‘idea’ this would not have happened.
Bye-bye, Theo – enjoy the red herrings. Must have been really hard to spend 24 hours in the company of you-know-whom.
I’ve just been through all of the MSM papers here in the UK and the only reference to Gore’s efforts is this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/sep/15/al-gore-climate-change-reality
This article questions Gore’s suitability as the self-appointed “Messiah” of CAGW. The comments from readers are a real hoot, too!
Strangely “The Goreacle” website now clains that …….. “By the time our chairman, former Vice President Al Gore finished his presentation, the 24 hour long event had 8.6 million views.” Yet the Ustream Counter now seems to have been “updated” and showing …..
Stats
Total views (all shows): 532,843
Total viewer hours (all shows): 16165 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes
Total unique views: 484,371
( http://www.ustream.tv/user/climatereality/info-stats )
Seems like all these extra folks were “driven” there by
links from blogs like this one & Climate Depot & etc.
A strange anomaly though is seen at Alexa stats,
where a single query is responsible for much of these visitors.
Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 we 25.75%
2 the climate reality project 20.79%
3 reality 11.26%
4 climate reality project 4.92%
5 alliance for climate protection 3.67%
6 climate reality projec 3.65%
7 the climate project 1.65%
( http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/climaterealityproject.org )
Who is “we” ? Who searches for “we” anyway ?
When I searched with Google, Bing, Yahoo, and indeed
*ANY* other search engine for “we”, there is NO mention
of AL Gore or his climate reality project, even on page 5
of the results. What is the explanation for this ?
Shomthing Shtinks Here ???
We should be told !!!
Looks like it was a bigtime floparoonie according to the amount of UK news coverage. Bar a plug last night on the World Service, a splendidly vituperative piece by James Delingpole in the Telegraph and even a not quite sure about it bit in the Grauniad it made no impact at all. Zip, zilch, nada. l’AlGore zero points.
I guess he’ll just fly home in his private jet to his huge beachside property and wonder why the public are so fickle as to ignore the Great Director and Prophet. Poor Al.
Yawn…did I miss it?
Correct link to Willis’s post is
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/15/cloud-radiation-forcing-in-the-tao-dataset/
RockyRoad says:
September 15, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Daily data is on my Guide to WUWT, give it another day or so to settle.
Sep 15 (Gee, I forget what time!) 88,591,039 cumulative views, 190K incremental
Sep 14: 88,407,218, 120K
Sep 13: 88,284,344, 90K
Sep 12: 88,191,969
Typically there’s some 80-100 kiloviews per day.
BTW, it’s a good idea to periodically check the top and right side navigation bars. How many people know there’s a glossary off the “Resources” pulldown?
There was a light frost seen by me on my way to a goose hunt yesterday morning in northern Illinois. That’s one of the earliest that I remember. Al Gore is sucking up all the hot air.
WUWT & Josh,
Thanks for giving the coverage of the 24hrs.
But it was like watching submarine races. : )
John
I hadn’t realised before that Homer Simpson’s voice and vocal mannerisms were based on Al Gore.