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?
richardscourtney says:
October 27, 2013 at 11:58 am
Now, is there any truth in the assertions of Mr Gore?
Or is Mr Gore promoting falsehoods?
If he is promoting falsehoods then is he a liar or does he see ‘Marilyn’ when everybody else sees ‘Albert’?
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That’s funny and many suspect that you pegged that lisping *$%#@ur momisugly%&@ur momisugly.
As to whether he knowingly promotes falsehoods- my take’s that he is a liar of the worst sort.
richardscourtney said @ur momisugly October 27, 2013 at 11:58 am
I’m more inclined to the view that Mr Gore is a bullshitter, rather than a liar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Alan Robertson and The Pompous Git:
Thankyou for your assessments of Mr Gore’s veracity in your posts at October 27, 2013 at 12:31 pm and October 27, 2013 at 12:37 pm, respectively.
Obviously, your being Americans and his having been an American Vice President, you are much better able to make such an assessment than I can.
However, I respectfully point out that your assessments are not mutually exclusive, and from this side of the pond it seems to me that you are both right.
Richard
richardscourtney says:
October 27, 2013 at 12:55 pm
The Pompous Git is Tasmanian, with an interesting Web site of his own.
@KNR –
It doesn’t seem to have surfaced on total-leftist, total-climate-alarmist Yahoo News either – instead they ran something by the Motley Fool saying don’t listen to Bloody Mess telling you not to buy energy stocks.
As I’ve previously posted, it appears possible that Bloody Mess is jawboning to drive energy stock prices down so that he can make money on short sales. There are enough people around who are dense enough to fall for this, and it would conform to the moral standards of a hypocrite with one of the world’s largest personal carbon footprints criticizing John Q. Public for driving an SUV.
milodonharlani:
Thankyou for your correction of me in your post at October 27, 2013 at 12:57 pm.
I remember that now, and I should not have forgotten it because on another thread he told me where he lives and that he has some circumstances which inhibit him traveling for example to visit the UK which is the place of his birth.
Clearly, my faulty memory has caused me to insult The Pompous Git. This was not intentional, I have no excuse, and I abjectly apologise.
Richard
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The Pompous Git,
Thanks for engaging.
My original question remains without response. “What premise allows that paradoxical claim?” How does the claimant establish it own truth value of the claim? => It cannot do so by its own claim. It is absurd.
Now as to your redirection from my original question, you ask me what is truth in a fundamental sense? Answer: It is what reality in a fundamental sense confirms.
Of course that answer requires a metaphysics, a treatment of what reality is. Shall we go there? That is where absurd claims about humanity’s incapacity to know truth are derived.
John
richardscourtney says:
October 27, 2013 at 1:08 pm
I hope TPG doesn’t consider being thought American an insult or unforgivable slight. I knew a Tasmanian woman at Oxford who didn’t consider herself Australian.
milodonharlani:
re your post addressed to me at October 27, 2013 at 1:13 pm.
NO! The insult – for which I apologised – was failing to remember the personal information which TPG had provided to me. I stated that information so my meaning was clear.
Richard
John Whitman said @ur momisugly October 27, 2013 at 1:11 pm
The OED defines reality as: “that which underlies and is the truth of appearances or phenomena.” Oh dear, we seem to be deep into the “mindfield” that Alan Robertson so jocularly referred to earlier. I’m afraid I have been unable (so far) to separate reality from my perceptions.
We can, of course discuss metaphysics if you wish; it’s a subject that fascinates me immensely. At this very moment, I can happily report not being in pain. In several hours time, I will be able to report that my arthritis is causing me pain since I am about to spend some time gardening. Yet you will not experience my pain; it is entirely a matter of my perceptions. Does this mean that my pain is not real since it cannot be confirmed?
My best friend in school was later the head of the Victorian Skeptics and now refuses to communicate with me because I do not believe that there is a singular objective reality, just our individual perceptions of such. A murky area for discussion and without the principle of charity, much room for bitterness.
milodonharlani says:
October 27, 2013 at 12:57 pm
richardscourtney says:
October 27, 2013 at 12:55 pm
The Pompous Git is Tasmanian, with an interesting Web site of his own.
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Aye, a devil, that one. 🙂
@ur momisugly Richard and milodonharlani
I’m not in the least insulted! On any ground whatsoever. I knew a woman who was a university lecturer who claimed she was “working class” because she worked for a living. Now I was born working class in Nuneaton, Warwickshire (in the heart of the Black Country). I found the lecturer’s remark at the very least condescending and perilously close to insulting.
Richard, you will have to try very much harder should you ever wish to insult me 🙂
And now I must away to the garden for it has rained, and rained, and blown several mighty gales before raining again for several weeks on end.
Alan Robertson said @ur momisugly October 27, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Though mercifully free of the dreaded facial tumour. Nevertheless, ugly enough for all that 🙂
For a man who invented the internet, you would think he’d know that all online activity leaves an electronic paper trail. I guess he can’t fake the result of something that is out of his hands.
DDP says:
October 27, 2013 at 3:08 pm
For a man who invented the internet, you would think he’d know that all online activity leaves an electronic paper trail. I guess he can’t fake the result of something that is out of his hands.
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I once heard Lesley Stahl (an American TV- news talking head) praising All Gore for his brilliance in financial matters, as he had by thenhaving made over $100 million,by “putting his money where his mouth is” (per Lesley) regarding carbon trading schemes, etc.
I would have liked to have asked her if she also thought Bernie Madoff was brilliant.
Direct Instapundit plug:
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/178209/
“AL GORE strikes out again. / But if Al Gore strikes out, and no one is watching, does it make a difference?”
Al Gore is a dedicated climate change campaigner. He often likens sceptics to tobacco lobbyists, while he took tobacco money while his sister was dying in hospital from lung cancer. Of course his family never became rich off Occidental Petroleum which enabled them not to become rich from oil. Of course he never sold his Current TV to Qatar oil funded Al Jazeera. Of course he has not dis-invested from ‘green’ investments because he does not believe in C02 CAGW. Al Gore is not worried about climate change but about his legacy after the ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and about making lots of money, ONE BILLION or there abouts, based on scaring people.
We must act now!!! Not me thanks. It’s a con job, A Convenient Fraud.
Is AlGore still trying to get BJ’s from 60 year old masseuses??
I did not know the numbers were that high…but then again Lady Gaga has high numbers as well.
Al has and always will be, full of CRaP.