Another Internet campaign that could go horribly wrong…
Tom Nelson advises me that the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications decided to prod readers into giving “Climate Thanks” this Thanksgiving on Twitter. A silly idea for sure, but certainly better than advocating eating “tofurkey” to lessen climate change. I’m sure WUWT readers have lots to be thankful for about our current climate and the people who fight the good fight against climate numptys like the Sks Kidz.
Here’s your chance to give climate thanks, though maybe not in the way intended. Read on.
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From the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications:
Giving Climate Thanks, a thousand strong and still growing
This Thanksgiving, we’re giving #ClimateThanks. With friends and colleagues across the climate community, we are taking a moment to tweet or post who or what we are thankful for in the fight for a safe climate. Please Tweet #ClimateThanks and help us raise awareness about the amazing things people are doing and build a stronger sense of solidarity among the far-flung climate community.
More than 1,000 people and organizations have lent their voices to the #ClimateThanks chorus so far, reaching millions. As the pies bake and families start to gather, we encourage you to join in.
To participate, simply go to Twitter and post your #ClimateThanks messages (remember the # – you can also use this on Facebook). The more the better! If you’re thanking an organization or a person with a social media presence, let them know about your gratitude by including their twitter handle (@ipcc_ch, for example). If you’d like to highlight an example of their great work, include a shortened url to their website, recent article etc.
– See more at: http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/giving-climate-thanks/#sthash.6VYMgpxB.dpuf
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For those not familiar with Twitter, the way this works is that any tweet with the hashtag #ClimateThanks will become part of that stream, which can be viewed here.
Yesterday, I put the concept to the test on my Twitter feed:
MegaThanks to "FOIA" for publishing the Climategate e-mails! #ClimateThanks See http://t.co/Lj7YRVBS1w
— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) November 26, 2013
I also have plans to give #ClimateThanks to Steve McIntyre, Michael Mann, electricity, agricultural production and a whole list of other climate related people and things I’m thankful for in today’s climate. You can too. Use your imagination #norules. But be civil, humor and irony works best.
I’m sure WUWT can help in this effort. If you don’t have a Twitter account, get one here.
If you already have a Twitter account, follow this link to post a Tweet with the #ClimateThanks hashtag already inserted.
And when you do Tweet your #ClimateThanks, then be sure to follow WUWT on Twitter. If you don’t have any ideas, there’s no rules against retweeting some gems Tweeted by others.
I’ll retweet some of the most creative ones. You can copy your tweet into comments below to draw attention here as well to give others ideas.
Thanks and happy Tweeting!
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UPDATE: Well, THAT didn’t take long….just 5 minutes.
#climatethanks to all those fighting for EVERYONE'S prosperity, even for those who invade lists like this with hateful, denial rhetoric.
— (((Andrew Winston))) (@AndrewWinston) November 27, 2013
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“we are taking a moment to tweet or post who or what we are thankful for in the fight for a safe climate.” — Mouthpiece
Are they serving everything raw and at room temperature? Otherwise it’s as meaningful as an adultering preacher that pounds the pulpit about infidelity.
Done 😉
Right after I give thanks for Obama and suggest to my family members that they enroll in “Obamacare”.
Mark
Climate community?
If this isn’t the genesis for a series of related ‘climate community’ cartoons by Josh, I don’t know what is.
tonyb
I just learned what a widget was and still don’t get what a tweet is or its purpose. My previous experience tells me that a tweet is a noise a bird makes. I have neither a facebook or a tweet account.
So let me just “tweet” this: Hashtag. I am thankful for the extreme blizzard in 1878 over the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon that prevented my great-grandfather from continuing his route into the Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail. He decided to stay in Wallowa County and homestead there. It is the home of my river, The Wallowa. Best fast-stream unregulated trout river there is. Unhashtag.
I’d like to give them thanks but I can buy a much better turkey at the grocery store. Heck, I can get a much better turkey at Obamacare. Or, if I really wanted a plump, fattened up turkey I could get Al Gore. Or, I could go to the EPA for truckloads of turkeys. The UN could supply me with trainloads, maybe even supertankers full of turkeys.
And, guess what, I’m not going to give them thanks this thanksgiving either. I might thank them for an apology though, but I don’t think that’ll be forthcoming.
To everybody else on this site; to Mr. Anthony Watts; to Mr. Willis Eschenbach; to all the collaborators; the moderators; and to all the posters – Thank you very much, and…
Happy Thanksgiving
Andrew Winston;
#climatethanks to all those fighting for EVERYONE’S prosperity
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Yes Winston. you’ve nailed it. The climate community is fighting for everyone’s prosperity. Prosperity has to be protected you know. So all of us should give you our prosperity so you can put it somewhere for safe keeping. Like your bank account.
Just a big thanks to the ocean for not rising at Kiribati
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/interactive-sea-level-time-series-wizard?dlon=-157.483333&dlat=1.983333&map=v&fit=n&smooth=n&days=0
“This Thanksgiving, we’re giving #ClimateThanks.”
That dolt is simply breathtakingly amazing.He should thank himself for the moment the oceans began to recede and the planet began to heal.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on the other side of the Atlantic!
Is there nothing that the warmists won’t turn to propaganda?
I am thankful for all of the CO2 in the air which helped to have record harvests this year. It almost seems as if God intended that we burn fossil fuels to raise the CO2 levels to feed more people than ever before.
I’m thankful for unproven climate models and wild speculation without which we wouldn’t have anthropogenic global warming. #ClimateThanks
Religious folks normally give thanks to their favorite deity on Thanksgiving. No reason why those who worship the Clientology religion should be any different.
Pamela Gray: “My previous experience tells me that a tweet is a noise a bird makes. ”
Indeed. The tweet is the birdsong of the Great Twit. A yellow bellied bird common throughout Europe.
Pamela Gray says:
” Best fast-stream unregulated trout river there is.”
What do you mean by “unregulated”?
I give #ClimateThanks for living in a warm period; the Little Ice Age froze the Pilgrim’s cranberries!
I don’t twitter but would someone please tweet this for me.
REPLY: Done. – Anthony
This also gives an insight into the ‘minds’ of these people? They actually seriously believe they are saving us, the planet and the climate with their actions, political machinations, fuel oppressive policies and pseudo/wrong ‘science’? Simply dillusionary, egomanical individuals…..
Sad, very, very sad!
Still not really sure what this thanksgiving thing is all about – but Happy for our American cousins all the same!
Werner Brozek says:
November 27, 2013 at 9:55 am
I am thankful for all of the CO2 in the air which helped to have record harvests this year. It almost seems as if God intended that we burn fossil fuels to raise the CO2 levels to feed more people than ever before.
Ditto!
#ClimateThanks to @TonyAbbottMHR for steering Australia away from the cliff.
tonyb says:
November 27, 2013 at 9:39 am
Climate community?
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My thought exactly – “Climate Community”??? What the heck are these people smoking (perhaps they all have relatives in Colorado – heh)??? It’s laughably (and childishly) inane.
“#climatethanks to all those fighting for EVERYONE’S prosperity…”
Ehhhh – what??? What did he do to increase anyone’s prosperity? [sigh]
Well, happy and joyful Thanksgiving to all, even the insane, delusional people in the “climate community”…
Here’s one (but I don’t tweet):
#ClimateThanks to WUWT, for helping to disseminate the actual facts and science about climate, and unmasking the charlatans and rent-seekers.
With not being American I don’t celebrate thanks giving. But I will give thanks nonetheless:
#climatethanks to all you radical Eco nut jobs who are tirelessly working around the clock to strip us of our freedoms and damaging the planet for future generations with your ‘cure worse than the disease’ policies and your bank accounts brimming with taxpayers money. I am also giving thanks for the hours of entertainment you give back to the rational people left in the world. Thank you for ALWAYS leading by example and showing us the light and driving us away from our evil, fossil fuelled orgies, that we call day to day living.
But above all happy thanksgiving to all our American Cousins. Have a brilliant time and crank up that fire 😀
They are hoist by their own petard on this one.
#climatethanks to the oil sands workers in Alberta for cleaning up the world’s largest natural oil spill.
So, anyone not think Climate Alarmism is some form of dodgy, happy clappy cult?