UPDATE: Hockey stick achieved, see below.
Guess what? WUWT readers make up the majority of viewers of this farce video. Mostly curiosity I suppose. Watch the video, then see the numbers below.
Yesterday, Tom Nelson asked this question, and it got me to digging.
It’s now been two weeks: Does anybody know what happened to Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” campaign?
Looking for an innovative way to dispel myths and spread science about climate change, Gore, Fox and their colleagues at The Climate Reality Project turned to agency Arnold Worldwide. Pete Favat, Arnold Worldwide’s chief creative officer, had attracted Gore’s attention because of his cause-related work for the Truth Campaign, the hugely successful national anti-tobacco program.
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The product, “Reality Drop,” relies on sophisticated algorithms to highlight “hot” climate change stories and provide simple rebuttals to the most common climate change myths.
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Users win points for sharing facts and eventually climb up the ranks of the game and earn Foursquare-like badges such as “Carbon Crusher,” “Shining Beacon,” and “Order of the Green Circle.”
Initial information on the game will be officially unveiled on November 14th during “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report,” a 24-hour event broadcast live on the Internet, culminating in a presentation by Gore on November 15th at 7 p.m. EST.
Without any advertising budget, Reality Drop will rely strictly on word-of-mouth to gain traction and influence the climate change discussion. “Success will be measured by the amount of people who are posting and the number of people involved,” says Favat. “People inherently want to be on the right side here.”
Reality Drop (RealityDrop) on Twitter
[Seven total tweets, none since Nov. 15]
Here’s the Twitter page, captured on 11/30/2012, showing all 7 Tweets
Now here comes the fun part, the “stats” section of the Vimeo video page for the propaganda movie at the top shows this:
Wow, 155 views in a week, and trending down, down, down. Some might call that interest “cooling”. When you click on the “Top URL embeds” (highlighted in yellow) you get this fun table showing that WUWT is the main external contributor to views of Al Gore’s ‘Reality Drop’ video. Heh.
What is really interesting is the comparison to the top “loads” leader, which has only 6 views compared to WUWT’s 999. More people from WUWT viewed Al’s video than anywhere else in the world. That’s gotta sting.
So what should we do to help Al get more views?
Well obviously WUWT’ers need to help. Simply click on the video “play” button above, and we’ll give him a hockey stick graph for views. If you have a website/Twitter feed/Facebook page, direct people here and ask them to help. To register a view from WUWT, you simply need to play the video above in the open WUWT browser window. It’s just that easy to give Al a hockey stick of traffic from those he seeks to destroy. I’ll post an update when the success is robust, er, graphically clear.
In the meantime, you might want to take this survey Al has prepared to help gauge the success of his video. I’m sure he’d love to hear your opinion!
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UPDATE: We’ve presented a hockeystick, and WUWT is well in the lead. Thanks everybody!
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Thanks Anthony for the friday night fun.Al’s going to go apeshit when he see’s my answers to his survey, all clean and proper mind you.thanks again
Video watched, survey completed. I doubt my comments will see the light of day – not rude of course but hopefully scathing.
Your sense of fun, Anthony, cheers me up no end.
Watched the video here and took the survey there. That really made my day!
liz671 says:
November 30, 2012 at 11:08 am
One thing that we can be happy about. The fine efforts of Anthony Watts, Andrew Montford, Steve McIntyre and the rest are important, but all we really have to do is wait the alarmists out….
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I am afraid it is not that easy. The reason for the BIG CAGW LIE is to come up with a way to give the United Nations the RIGHT to directly tax the citizens of the world. The second reason is to provide a crisis that can not be handled on the national level. To provide “legitimacy” for a global government.
“Global governance requires localising global issues”
From Carroll Quigley to the UN Millennium Summit
The fact that the director-general of the World Trade Organization is talking about implementing a system of global government similar to the EU openly and is targeting national sovereignty, scares the heck out of me.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on 12 October 201: I see this as the contemporary form of multilateralism with notions of sovereignty being challenged by realities of interdependence.
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now go and do a whois on the other domain names in the top ten and find out how many , apart form google.com , are projects run by : Pete Favat, Arnold Worldwide’s chief creative officer.
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I’m training my new puppy to do his reality drops in the back yard at the moment
Am I the only one who feels that listening to someone speak at the same Time As the WORDS come UP on The SCREEN is like being spoken to by someone who simultaneously jabs his finger in my chest?
Now that it has settled in a bit….WHAT UNGODLY CRAP!
In place of the video I have:
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
Maybe it doesn’t like dial-up, or the extra WUWT traffic is really straining their server.
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From Laurie Bowen on November 30, 2012 at 11:41 am:
then I saw . . Hurricane Sandy tests solar, wind. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2012/1119/Are-renewables-stormproof-Hurricane-Sandy-tests-solar-wind.
I clicked your link, got page not found error.
From another source I got a working link, and I see what the problem is, and it’s idiotic. The CS Monitor link ends with a period, which WordPress ignored when it auto-generated its link at your comment.
Here’s the embedded version:
Link.
I was wondering how the windmills fared, the media has been strangely silent. I know the rotors can be locked during high winds, the blades turned for minimal profile. On the large very expensive models, not so much on the backyard versions. But since Sandy wasn’t a hurricane when it made landfall, it really wasn’t much of a test.
Oh well, guess it’s a good thing that during a high wind event like Sandy, no one needed electricity from the windmills while gathering supplies and hunkering down or evacuating, especially from the backyard ones after the power lines were downed, nor has any electricity from those been needed in the weeks of waiting for the utilities to get their electricity hooked up again. Nothing but bright rainbows and rose-scented unicorn farts for that entire swath of the country, everyone is doing fine.
Vimeo: “Sorry, comments have been disabled by the owner of this video.”
Surprise, surprise.
Paul Jackson says:
November 30, 2012 at 11:31 am
Q: How would you describe this site to someone who has never heard of it?
A: a nest of anti-human climate alarmists, with a defiant socialist overtones seeking to stifle legitimate scientific debate through social manipulation via astroturffing and shilling internet blog sites.
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You were a lot kinder than I was.
Wait a second – they’re going to post an aggregator that shows us every single climate story they’re trying to comment bomb, with pre-written comments to spam?
Isn’t that giving us rational lukewarmists and skeptical freethinkers a target rich environment for refuting their specious arguments? Heck, I signed up for realitydrop.org, and can’t wait for the warmists to guide me to exactly where they’re posting bull pucky 🙂
Please sir, What’s an Al Gore Rhythm? Is it something that gives you the Blues?
Also, can someone please explain the difference between question 3 and question 4? When I filled in the survey they looked exactly the same but maybe I was missing something. Maybe my rhythms weren’t sufficiently allegorical.
davidmhoffer says:
November 30, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Me too. I suspect you’re right.
Of course they now do have my IP and it’s static.
DaveE.
Done. Thank you Anthony for the opportunity. Next I think I’ll work on a song called “Drop kick old Al Gore through the goal posts of life”!
Questions 3 and 4 are identical, so I answered Yes to 3 and No to 4. Great quality control – not.
algorithm = Al Gore Rhythm = throbbing migraine 🙂
The reality drop idea of leaving your brain at the door and copy and pasting ‘approved’ comments in and of itself is very telling. We get enough of that already without a web-site like this to create more drones.
I did my bit two weeks ago by sending out a Tweet about it: https://twitter.com/questionAGW/status/269628443866583041 None of the AGW’ers read my stuff, though, and I might have offended one or two with the words “art of mind-numbed robot #climate change activism”.
I can be their 56th follower if that helps….
The most fun from Reality-Drop-Out was giving Big Al a serve on his Survey!
Just got my Christmas bonus from “Big Oil and Big Coal”. I’m really going to enjoy it. Hope everyone here enjoys theirs as much.
R R R I I I I I I G H T
An honest question: Does anyone know of any funding from “Big Oil and Big Coal” going to skeptics? I know of considerable amounts going to renewables, and AGW projects, but none the other way.
While it is odrous comparisoning to the sprangflowers of his burstday which was a viridable goddinpotty for the reinworms and the charlattinas and all branches of climatitis, it has been such a wanderful noyth untirely, with many regards to Maha’s pranjapansies.
I did the survey, I said I only dropped in to see how WUWT is keeping it alive.
From David Chapman on November 30, 2012 at 11:44 am:
I am 80 and my dearest wish is to live long enough…
Ah-ha! So you’re one of those hogging more than their fair share of the average male life expectancy! Why are you trying to kill me off early?
…to see the AGW hypophysis (if the idea can be dignified by that term) shown to be the rubbish it is.
Already done here on WUWT and elsewhere. Belief is bottoming out, those who accept it have been largely deafened by the relentless CAGW drumbeating and don’t care about being proactive, they’ll just wait and see what it costs if it should ever be an issue.
The crumbling foundation has been practically washed away by the flood of truth, ordinary people are too indifferent to support rebuilding it. All we’re doing now is waiting for the final collapse of The House of Gore. Bring a chair and some beer, we’re having a cookout.
Users win points for sharing facts and eventually climb up the ranks of the game and earn Foursquare-like badges such as “Carbon Crusher,” “Shining Beacon,” and “Order of the Green Circle.”
I see, like becoming a member of Scientology.