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
Algore’s actual words/ditty colorfully ‘done up’ in a mild ‘rap format’ by our poster Elmer:
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Dr. Curry posted this on Climate Etc.
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“Nature News Blog has a post on comments from invited experts on the Gore-a-thon (including moi)”
http://bit.ly/qDHZvA
“Von Storch has some interesting comments”
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Al Gore In His Own Junk Science, and Racist Words!!!
http://www.ustream.tv/climaterealityproject/videos
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16887087
SAY NO TO JUNK SCIENCE
SAY NO TO GLOBAL WARMING HOAX
I say we need a real, truly robust science of climate, one that includes factors from astronomy, geology, jet streams, gulf streams, precipitation, vulcanism, etc. etc., before we can possibly know if human activity even has a chance of impacting vast natural processes. Nothing on the horizon, certainly nothing at Algore’s fun and games. 🙁
I just received this email. LOL – It should be pointed out – I never even went to their web page presentation.
Dear Kim [ redacted ],
You made yesterday a success.
In the months that went into planning 24 Hours of Reality, I saw firsthand the passion and energy of our Climate Presenters, staff and partners around the globe who are calling attention to the climate crisis and working to solve it.
Yesterday, I was honored to see your passion and your energy. I can’t thank you enough for making 24 Hours of Reality a global success.
By the time our chairman, former Vice President Al Gore finished his presentation, the 24 hour long event had 8.6 million views.
I am incredibly proud that so many people around the world participated, but it’s also important to remember the individual actions it represents. There are countless stories of impressive grassroots mobilization. A company in Tel Aviv hosted a watch party at their headquarters. A group of graduate students in Athens, Georgia rented out a popular local movie theater. People across the world joined hands to say: Climate change is real, it’s happening now and the time to act is now.
But this is just the beginning. There are important actions you can take today:
Request a presentation. There are more than 3,000 trained Climate Presenters around the globe. Organize an event and invite a Presenter to come to your community.
Go local: Team up with our partners around the world and help solve the climate crisis. Visit our website to find a partner organization near you.
Moving Planet: On September 24, hit the streets with 350.org for a global day of action. Find an activity near you.
Check our comprehensive video library to watch highlights from 24 Hours of Reality.
It is up to you to continue to stand up for reality and share the truth about the climate crisis. We will succeed because we must. Thank you,
Maggie L. Fox
President and CEO
The Climate Reality Project”
WUWT? I never gave them my email, even
This ustream stats page shows only 484,371 unique views of the Climate Reality Project videos.
http://www.ustream.tv/user/climatereality/info-stats
I believe prior to the 24 hour show, this stat was at ~ 24,000, based on views of other prior videos.
So the video provider is showing only 460k unique viewers, and 500k total views.
This is a huge discrepancy with the claimed 8M, or even “Millions” as stated on the current website.
funnybusiness says:
September 16, 2011 at 1:12 pm
This ustream stats page shows only 484,371 unique views of the Climate Reality Project videos.
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I attended the 2pm PT session and the last session on the 16th and was gobstruck at how low the number of views were. At 3pm PT the site stated just less than 7M views, by the end at 5pm PT it was about 8.6M views. I found it very curious that 1.6M views occurred in the last 2 hours.
Anthony later reported the Ustream numbers which conflict with views reported on the Climate Reality Project page but alluded to the idea that the Climate Reality Project page was actually reporting views of Ustream as well as hits on Twitter and probably Facebook which are second hand information.
The part I find to be telling, 484,371 unique views related to 532,843 total views of the Ustream sessions. This means only 484,371 people actually took the time to view a session and, of the group that did, only 48,472 bothered to view more than once. Subtract the 24k hits before the webcast started and we’ve got a program that turned the entire audience Off.
Its a stretch of the imagination to believe the 484,371 keep the session rolling for 24 hours.
24 hours of Climate Reality with Al Gore was DOA.
Maybe this is worth revisiting? Ustream says a view is “Unique Viewers refers to the actual number of viewers you had from unique locations. Total Viewers refers to the total number of views your stream received. For example, if a viewer started watching your stream, left, and came back ten times it would count as one unique view but ten total views.”
http://helpcenter.ustream.tv/category/tags/viewing-rates
http://www.ustream.tv/user/climatereality
This shows that they had just one ’24 hour show’ on for that full period.
And they claim “MILLIONS WATCHED”
http://climaterealityproject.org/
‘Watched’ surely doesn’t include facebook and twitter – and in fact there’s no way to get page views from those services in any case.
So I certainly think there’s no obvious explanation for the ustream stats vs. what is claimed – am I missing something?
May our deepest thanks reach the champion of all sceptics, the only one who made possible to convince the whole world of the impossibility of global warming/climate change: Professor Albert Gore, self proclaimed inventor of the internet and nobel laureate. May he rest in the peace of oblivion, with all his loving comrades, and species in danger of total disappearence, his most dear polar bears and liberal companions.