I predicted this in the essay Oh yeah, I forgot. This is on.
Yesterday I got this fantabulous self congratulatory email from Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project:
Note the link to the recording in green at the bottom. That is something Charles the Moderator pointed out to me a couple of days ago, right after his live broadcast ended. I’ve been watching it since. Unfortunately for Gore, a giant chasm has opened between his claims and reality.
Gore, like last year, claimed really impressive numbers. Last year, we pointed out on WUWT that Gore’s number were likely inflated with bots:
…independent analysis of the data suggests that some electronic virtual viewers were involved, concluding from a mathematical analysis of the numbers that “At least 85% of total views were bots cycling every 10 seconds.”.
We’ve no reason to suspect any different this year, especially when his star is fading on the Internet and in the news. Here is how Gore is trending on Google related to his keywords:
Source, Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Climate%20reality%20project%2C%20Al%20Gore%2C%20Climate%20Change%2C%20Cost%20of%20Carbon%2C%20Global%20Warming&cmpt=q
It seems he didn’t even make a blip in news stories interest. Maybe he should try twerking onstage:
Maybe, just maybe, we’ll see Gore try to get an endorsement for his cause out of Miley. Can’t wait.
For the real viewers of Al’s CRP, it seems that many views were transient, i.e. people just getting a quick look, but not bothering to stick around to take in the whole show, or even a portion of it. It seemed then, that many of the “views” were simple people engaging in “short attention span theater”.
This year seems no different. Compare the huge number of views and impressions Gore claims for his 2013 Carbonhatingpalooza with the number of views he’s getting on YouTube for his Climate Reality Project recordings. Here are the numbers from his “Climate Reality” channel on YouTube:
Ouch. The New Nostradamus of the North also notices the numbers.
His headliner video, “The Cost of Carbon” compares favorably to the number of views (6773)I got for my talk on climate in July, posted on August 15th, and I don’t have his million$ to promote it, just word of mouth: (click for the video)
It seems that Gore isn’t getting traction anymore, he’s getting the cold shoulder from news media and engaged viewers.
Maybe it’s a case of the Gore effect?
If it was a typo keep it. A pun intended, keep it. Your honest opinion, keep it.
You wrote: It seemed then, that many of the “views” were simple people engaging in “short attention span theater”.
Yes, I would agree. Those folks are pretty simple with short attention spans.
I’m wondering if there was ANY reality presented in his “project”. But you can bet a lot of “carbon” was spewed from the power plants running all those servers.
Poor Al, can’t even lie well any more.
Putting the “B” in buffoonery.
Please please do not encourage Al Gore to twerk on stage. Even the imagining of that is a malicious assault on your readers.
I noticed that the comments that were cycling through were generic repeats, different users saying the exact same thing over and over. You couldn’t scroll down and look because every time a new comment was added it knocked you back to the top. So I just watched. Yeah, there were occasionally some unique looking comments, but easily half (and more) were total repeats. Streams of different users making the exact same comment. That’s disingenuous, tricksey and just flat out dishonest. But I expect nothing else from Al Gore.
Al who?
I tried watching (less than 2 minutes,) but some African droning on about giving them (him) money was too much for even my simple- minded short attention span.
“Maybe he [Al Gore] should try twerking onstage”
Made me shiver with revulsion.
Al Gore is thoroughly corrupt in even the smallest things. I encourage those who still give All Gore a voice to keep at it- take all the rope you need.
I’d always wondered what happened to Comical Ali since the fall of Saddam. Looks like he may be writing press releases for Climate Reality now!
Bob Tisdale says:
October 26, 2013 at 9:31 am
“Maybe he [Al Gore] should try twerking onstage”
Made me shiver with revulsion.
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Now, that’s something I’d have paid NOT to see. Glad my attention span was too short remember that it was on.
I wonder…
How many of those 21K tweets were negative or how many negative tweets were “Scrubbed”
If the page automatically refreshed every 30 or 60 seconds and then recounts the visitor numbers
…(minute 1 = 30 current visitors, Minute 2 = 29 current visitors (but 59 total) Minute 3 = 35 visitors
…(but 94 total) Minute 4 = 6 current visitors (but 100 total) even though they could be 6 of
…the original 30 visitors or no more than 35 actual visitors.
As for the Twitter/Facebook impressions, the majority of accounts will automatically retweet things to their “Friends” accounts. 10 tweets to the right 10 people would spread like a virus
Gore twerking?, you bruised my minds eye, my imagination may be concussed.
Anthony, you do yourself a disservice by comparing his 30 second video trailer with your hour long in depth talk. It’s dead easy to get 7299 (when I checked) viewers on his video, especially when it plays when you visit his youtube page. Yours requires viewers to find it and watch it, so to get 6773 for yours is a good work, very good work.
24 Hours of Reality:Asia 245 views
24 Hours of Reality:Europe 61 views
YouTube viewers prefer a very attractive Asian woman to Al Gore by 4 to 1. I’m shocked and surprised.
Mr. Gore’s problem in losing popularity is that the untruths he tells are just not big enough. He should take some lessons from James Hansen, or, at least some advice from the man. For instance, if Gore said, “According to consensus of climate scientists, due to climate change, the world’s oceans are going to boil away by 2038 and it will be the end of mankind!” Now THAT would get great media attention, and people would start believing again, and would pay attention to him.
Hello Everyone, this is the wrong place for the following but just had to pass it on. As you know my knowledge is pretty limited but like to throw a few thinks out there that takes my fancy.
I had a brief exchange with WOTTSUPWITHTHAT to get a feel for the site. so i started with the effect of co2 (1000ppm increase) in greenhouses and those without. I questioned very politely the replies from WOWT, as they admitted they do not know why the greenhouses with and without show the the same temps as there are too many variables, i pointed out that there were even more in an open atmosphere.
My politeness was finally rewarded with this reply,
“I have quite an open policy with respect to comments. However, I’m not interested in an exchange with someone who appears to completely deny the greenhouse effect”
I actually never even denied it, I just asked questions.
things not thinks!!
Before the event, if I were to have predicted the number of Gore watchers, that prediction would have been… umm, say, 666.
How on Earth does ~32,000 views* get to become 20,000,000.
625 times the real figure – Even by climate alarmism standards, that’s a pretty serious exaggeration.
* Assumed average of 112 viewers at any one time (the average of the 6 examples shown) with a viewing time of 5 minutes over a 24 hour period.
‘Maybe it’s a case of the Bore effect?’
I was going to try and make a comment on the line above that I copied from the post, but every time I’ve tried to to copy it the spell check on my smart phone keeps changing the ‘G’ in front of ‘ore’ to a B. So I guess I can’t comment
Prince Albert was all over Yahoo Finance this week, touting his thesis that the days of carbon-based energy are over, nor it appears does Fat Albert like hydrogen any better.
Not related, but- solar wind has been averaging amazingly low for a long time now, during the ‘zenith” of Cycle 24. I am starting to really think that earth is likely going into an ice age. Large or small, don’t know.
So, the AGW people are simply whistling past the graveyard at this point, don’t they know that their world is collapsing?
F. Ross says:
October 26, 2013 at 10:00 am
Before the event, if I were to have predicted the number of Gore watchers, that prediction would have been… umm, say, 666.
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Yes, and in Australia, by the same logic there would be 999 [the Number of the Antipodean Beast].
Adding the two numbers – 996 + 666 = 1665. Don’t you love numerology – that’s the year, the very year, of the Great Plague of London [the fire was the next year].
And, do you know, I missed the Gore-a-thon completely.
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milodonharlani says:
October 26, 2013 at 10:16 am
Prince Albert was all over Yahoo Finance this week, touting his thesis that the days of carbon-based energy are over, nor it appears does Fat Albert like hydrogen any better.
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Hydrogen isn’t really a fuel, per se. Energy must be expended to convert water into Hydrogen to be used as fuel, with attendant efficiency losses. Therefore, Hydrogen is more of a battery.