Heh, gaze upon the face that launched a thousand quips.
I figured though, that I owed Dellers a linky for the big LOL I got this morning as I read that CTM gets press in the UK Telegraph for his recent WUWT article.
The figures refer to the number of “views” for Gore’s special “24 Hours Of ManBearPig” which this column helped celebrate the other day. Gore claims that as many as 8.6 million flocked to his thrilling festival of climate fear; but a nasty cruel man called Charles the Moderator at Watts Up With That? has “done the math” and reckons the figure is probably more like 17,000. And that, he believes, is a generous estimate.
Read the whole hilarious piece by James Delingpole here:
Al Gore’s five loaves and two fishes
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Strangely enough, there must be a completely different “charles the moderator” who shows up at Climate Audit and posts and moderates there, since so far neither the article nor the comments here have mentioned the WUWT version as doing anything like that at CA, nor thanked this one for doing such at CA either.
😉
Reply: I occasionally comment at CA and at Climate Etc. using the screen name charles the moderator, but I do not have any moderation privileges at either of those two sites. ~ ctm
“I didn’t go through 8 years of Evil Moderator school to be called nasty and cruel, thank you very much.” – CTM, Evil Moderator
Charles, my dear chap; what’s the point of being an Evil Moderator if you can’t be nasty and cruel now and again? Perchance even a trifle sadistic when occasion demands. Isn’t being nasty and cruel half the fun?
Obviously Charles needs a new nickname. Something like the Moderinator.
Al Gore is correct with the 8 million number, in the same sense as he was right about the temperature at the earth’s core, millions of degrees. What’s a factor of 1000 when you are saving the planet?
Read the whole hilarious piece by James Delingpole here:
Al Gore’s five loaves and two fishes
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I just checked in on the frenzy in the comments on ‘Al Gore’s five loaves and two fishes’ @ur momisugly Delingpoles site and there’s 732 comments now.
Did the evil Charles the Moderator stir a hornet’s nest? LOL
I was one of those who stayed for over 5 minutes.
A video they had justified the case for global warming by re-doing the CO2 in a jar experiment – very nicely as well. Only they did not say what the concentrations were compared to the atmosphere (probably >1000 times the 0.04% at the moment).
Then in the space of a sentence mentioned feedbacks amplifying the effect.
So of the predicted warming up to 6 degrees centigrade this century predicted by the most extreme alarmists, Al Gore’s little video had a flawed experiment to justify the insignificant first 20%, and a “trust the computer models” for the alarming bit.
Don’t take my word for it – I am just a (slightly) manic beancounter. Check out for yourself at http://climaterealityproject.org/video/climate-101/
By the way – don’t worry about the stats – Alexa currently ranks this site at 16,989 and Climate Reality at 64,734.
REPLY: I have a post coming up on this video, which is online here also, without the need to visit Gore’s site:
-Anthony
In response to the post “Varco says: September 21, 2011 at 9:19 am”
First time visitor, here.
That was the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks. You win, Varco. Brilliantly put.
I definitely need to swing by WUWT again in the future. Fantastic.
He didn’t just invent the internet, he also invented a new way to measure TV ratings. Same process except, if the show is his, multiply numbers by 500.
who can boast this?
years ago, when mr. Gore started his campaign with some movie or something, I never gave him any attention at all, and until today never saw any of his videos or whatever, simply because I didn’t trust the guy from my guts. So it is a big joy and relieve that besides proper science there’s also still common sense and good intuition to go by – you don’t need to study the figures to realize the scam – but still sad to see so many people and organizations being impressed by a publicity stuntman – so I wonder where is the real culprit, is it mr. AG(W) or is it “mass hysteria”?
Charles,
There are a lot of sites picking up pieces from your article and running James Delingpole’s piece but they’ve dropped “dedicated” viewers from 17,000.
DID AL GORE REALLY GET 8.6 MILLION VIEWS ON HIS 24-HOUR GLOBAL WARMING SPECIAL?
source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-al-gore-really-get-8-6-million-views-on-his-24-hour-global-warming-special/
“Gore’s site claimed the Sept. 15 marathon live-stream received 8.6 million views. That number, Climate Reality Project President Maggie Fox said, is the number of clicks the show had received by the time the event wrapped up — not people tuning in to re-watch clips after it was over.”
MailOnline
A very inconvenient truth: Al Gore claims 8.6m viewed climate change festival (though the real figure was 17,000)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040671/Al-Gore-claims-8-6m-viewed-24-Hours-Reality-real-figure-17-000.html#ixzz1YiVKzSU5
Treehugger
http://topics.treehugger.com/article/0cs18SdatJaIb?q=%22carbon+footprint%22
mrctv.org
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/inhofe-al-gore-irrelevant
I think I know where the number really comes from. It’s from the tracking id in their spam bot, so what it likely represents is the number of times an announcement appeared in the Facebook news feeds and was ignored for the spam that it was.
Have you ever seen Charles the Nasty on stage with Dick Chaney?
Coincidence?
I DON’T think so!
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
intrepid_wanders says:
September 21, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Thank you for that link – I had wondered what it was supposed to be for. 🙂
Soooooooo…”economic stimulus” funds was used to fund Mr Mann’s research and not economic stimulus?
Belated thanks, Charles. I’ve been working full out the past few days, but find this delight, and your earlier deconstruction of Gore’s viewing figures on my return to WUWT. Nice work, O Evil One!