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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You just can’t make this stuff up…
Mr Watts(& co.), Hilarious!! Did you see the crap on ABC news last night about 2012 being a “record hurricane year”? I turned it off.
A few posts talk of pity for Al and the Warmistas because they look silly here. Never pity a dangerous enemy. Never. Understand his motives and intentions. I’m 52 YO. This is the biggest socialist push in the West that I have ever seen. Diligence, not pity.
I feel a bit sorry for Al, somehow the realitydrop[dot]org video hasn’t caught on. All that clean green climate ca$h for 3 likes and 0 comments.
It could be a naming problem, here are some unregistered alternatives:
– truthdrop[dot]org
– factsdrop[dot]org
– actualitydrop[dot]org
– consensusdrop[dot]org
– manbearpigdrop[dot]org
– dirtyweatherdrop[dot]org
– crazedsexpoodledrop[dot]org
😉
Alexa rating for realitydrop.org
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/realitydrop.org#
” There are 3,705,045 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Realitydrop.org.
Alexa Traffic Rank
Global 3,705,046 “
RobRoy says:
December 1, 2012 at 6:23 am
“Mr Watts(& co.), Hilarious!! Did you see the crap on ABC news last night about 2012 being a “record hurricane year”? I turned it off.”
Interestingly, no autumn storms in Germany. Unusual.
Pete of Perth says:
December 1, 2012 at 12:58
…10. When you used the site, what were the biggest barriers between you and a painless user experience?
No beer
You Aussies are great. I love you guys.
RobRoy says:
December 1, 2012 at 6:32 am
A few posts talk of pity for Al and the Warmistas because they look silly here. Never pity a dangerous enemy. Never. Understand his motives and intentions. I’m 52 YO. This is the biggest socialist push in the West that I have ever seen. Diligence, not pity.
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You are correct.
Given how the regulating class (They are not ‘socialist’ that is just a convient mask) has come out of the closet about what there long term goals are, I am afraid that a world government is pretty much a done deal. With luck the Chinese and Russians are going to kill it but I doubt it. Australia and the EU have already fallen and the USA is on the cliffs edge. The EU BTW is the template for what they are planning.
This is well worth reading and should be widely distributed.
A masterpiece in manipulation, and shame on the politicians who swallowed it.
Philip Peake says:
November 30, 2012 at 10:57 am
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/fourteen_is_the_new_fifteen.html
Now this was fun. I hadn’t this fun since the green sin week
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/24/green-sin-week-your-personal-guide-to-penace/
when the site’s top ten was almost all made of sarcastic “confessions” by skeptics.
Thank you, thank you.
Hahahahahahaha. Main users come from WUWT!
I’ve just had a look at the “Reality Drop” website’s “Climate Myths” section, and my jaw is hanging open from the sheer idiocy of much of the text describing each alleged myth. Surely there should be a complimentary site that mirrors each of the claims but with REAL science instead of the claptrap I’m reading there now?
I’m just throwing the idea out there for what it’s worth. If there are any net-savvy users out there that are thinking of doing this, I would gladly help…
Anthony, Watched the video (it was somewhat painful) and left a comment which thay probably won’t keep posted for long. It’s amazing what some folks believe as fact.
Thanks, this is the first time I’ve been able to mess with a Nobel Peace Prize winner
You realise the sites not live yet? I suspect the reason WUWT accounts for most the traffic is that most other people wouldn’t be directing there members to an in production web site that doesn’t even yet allow you to login.
RobRoy says:
December 1, 2012 at 6:32 am
“A few posts talk of pity for Al and the Warmistas because they look silly here. Never pity a dangerous enemy. Never. Understand his motives and intentions. I’m 52 YO. This is the biggest socialist push in the West that I have ever seen. Diligence, not pity.”
Soap box on:
Amen. the AGW scam is just one front by which they (general term to describe the greedy control mongers, alias: psychopathic narcissist) forge on. Apathy is on the side of the advancement of misinformation along with a total and intentional brainwashing from the mainstream media, K-12 and higher ed. Hang onto to the freedom within the internet, as we see in Syria, and San Fransisco, when it is of their (as in “they”) choosing, bye bye electronic communication.
My guess is a taxation on email and internet sights and other “fairness” schemes” that will turn the internet into a rich mans sport, forcing the poor to only the over the airways media, which is also being used to suppress the sheeple. Example is the cost of “energy will necessarily have to increase” to the point that the average wage earner has to way out the expense of traveling to the work place. Maslow’s theory will drive the increasing dependency on big brother.
The video posted here is another example of what seems laughable, but in truth is dangerous to those who buy into the underlying purpose.
Soap box off.
Thank WUWT site for being upstanding in the search for truth and civil discussion in many fronts of science.
jaypan says:
December 1, 2012 at 7:29 am
“This is well worth reading and should be widely distributed.
A masterpiece in manipulation, and shame on the politicians who swallowed it.”
Philip Peake says:
November 30, 2012 at 10:57 am
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/fourteen_is_the_new_fifteen.html
No kidding! Above I posted the ICAO Standard. Any so called “climate expert” who wittingly or otherwise uses another figure as a base for comparison should be called out.
Maybe in regard to “Standard Atmosphere” the atmosphere reference page could post. As pointed out, wikipedia has already bastardized the figure.
Actually, wikipedia does have Standard Atmosphere temp correct. Ooops on the one page I missed read (I have been told by my flight surgeon I now need glasses, everything is auto, auto take off, auto pilot, auto land… who needs glasses? Just kidding). But for the sake of gate keeping such insidious behavior from Hansen et al should be exposed.
Always treat as suspect anyone presuming the monopoly on ‘truth’ or ‘reality’
It sounds like training for mobilising the trolls in a mass disinformation onslaught, that has flopped.
I dropped some reality and filled out the survey. It will get deleted.
davidmhoffer says:
November 30, 2012 at 2:40 pm
“Really Arnold Worldwide, you’ve got some high profile customers like Volvo and Progressive.”
.Right on….and Progressive is a big donor to Obama…and how about Progressive selling the numb brain sheeple those little tracking devices to plug into the auto computer to track driving…and …just use your imagination. 🙂 Today’s kids have a no idea what is about to strike, and won’t recognize it as it really is (little gestapo brats?)
This is great. Now whenever I press on the toilet handle to dispose of a “reality drop” I can think of Al Gore…..
oblongau says:
November 30, 2012 at 6:46 pm
J. Philip Peterson says:
November 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm
I think J.Phillip misunderstood. Carrying some baggage, perhaps?