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?
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”.
spell check you missed the “A” in there. ;>)
The trick is to be smarter than your phone. 😉
As William F. Buckley said, “I’d rather be gored by a boar than bored by a Gore”….
Seems there be only 1 lorne 50 and 2 Jeff s on this boggle. ;>)
It is simply a God complex. There are many who think they can speak reality into existence. GK
Alan Robertson says:
October 26, 2013 at 10:25 am
I should have explained. I was referring to the increasing share of hydrogen in the hydrocarbons upon which humans rely, ie from wood to coal to oil to gas.
What an expensive, purposely deceptive Joke he has capitalized on for his own financial reward. He doesn’t see jail time because i’m not aware of anyone who has ever pulled off a scam against the world, of this size, ever before.
Don’t much care if he inflated the numbers. I don’t think people will pay any more attention to this press release than they did his gore-a-thon. He’s the Paris Hilton of climate change, and it pays off monetarily for him. That’s the whole point of the press release- to make sure the donations from the faithful keep rolling in. All that he has to do is stroke those egos and the hearts of people who really think that CAGW is a global catastrophe, and his jet setting, look at me I’m Jesus life continues without a hitch.
They are, after all, Clinate Champions.
Grant says:
October 26, 2013 at 11:57 am
Yes Yes just buy your own carbon credits from yourself for your house’s and privet jet all good in GORE WORLD . ;>)
sorry private
not privet damm
Gore has a messianic replacement, he is just unaware that he has almost been replaced. He hasn’t been sent the memo.
His replacement is . . . Dana.
Which is the ultimate insult to Gore. He has been replaced by a Cookbot.
John
Another Convenient Lie by big Al.
So, you lose out on the Presidency because your voters can’t figure out how to punch a ballot.
Then, those who are a bit more informed stop listening to you.
Maybe democracy does work !!
Notice the shift in terminology. “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. Now CO2 to just “Carbon”. Even Mann used it in his recent twit. Is this the next “bait and switch”?
People noticed the globe wasn’t warming like they said it would. Switch to demonizing normal weather changes.
CO2 rising didn’t do what they said it would. Switch to just Carbon.
They’ve got to control something to justify preventing something.
To paraphrase the old “Dragnet” TV show:
“The story we’ve just told you is spew.
The names are changing to exploit the innocent.”
Nether the BBC or Guardian even mentioned it on what was a slow news day so even in friendly areas it passed by without notice.
“Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
“Well, don’t let him out!”
I wanted so badly to watch the Gore-a-Thon but priorities you know…
that sock drawer needed sorting.
Anthony, I think you made a typo. You wrote Al’s CRP…..I think it should be Al’s CRaP…
‘Even Mann used it in his recent twit.’
Gunga Din, there’s nothing recent about mann’s twit-ness.
Al Gore blame PM Tony Abbott for the Sydney bush fires what a load of bull dust, the greenies are the blame because they stopped burning and the fuel load is at danger levels.http://www.news.com.au/national/al-gore-enters-nsw-bushfire-climate-debate-criticises-pm-tony-abbott/story-fncynjr2-1226745826229
If Gore doesn’t present reality when talking about climate change, why would he stop there?
“It seems that Gore isn’t getting traction anymore, he’s getting the cold shoulder from news media and engaged viewers.”
Save our lickspittle climate crazy ABC, that is. If you have the stomach for it, watch the chiselling asp perform on the video of our 7.30 Report, especially his resort to the infantile tobacco-cancer crock.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-23/al-gore-weighs-into-debate-over-bushfire-climate-change/5041776
Tim Blair has his measure at
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/oil_and_smoke/
“It seems that Gore isn’t getting traction anymore, he’s getting the cold shoulder from news media and engaged viewers.”
And yet he is still raking in a fortune !!
Tim Blair unloads.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/oil_and_smoke/
and
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/al_gore_is_not_a_carp/
The Gore/Bore effect, is that the same as an inverse Streisand?