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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I remain among those bemused by the entire notion of Twitter.
Cheers to all of you about to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Here is my Tweet:
John
Even though I don’t Twit, today reminded me to give #ClimateThanks for the Georgia Power crews who restored power to my neighborhood after high winds caused some tree limbs to impact power lines and blow the cut-out. Climate is much better with electricity than without.
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Brian H,
Flu is what happens to bodies weakened by frequently stumbling and falling in icy river water flowing at ~ 10 mph; constantly drenched and exposed to brisk mountain winds while wading in pursuit of the wild trout! Chest high waders fill up.
But I love it.
: )
John
Our tweets are disappearing from #ClimateThanks faster than the turkeys from Walmart right now. I don’t know twitter that well. Are “they” deleting or blocking or both?
I’ve done three tweets-all deleted within minutes…just like their recent YT video when they just closed down all comments and deleted those already posted.
I think they leave the WUWT tweets because they know they’ll be called on it.
I fear that le Winston has it all screwed up. His gang of cagw warriors are fighting AGAINST prosperity, by causing unnecessary increases in the cost of electricity. And food…burning corn-derived alcohol as a payoff to big agribusiness.
Sisi
anadrome: Isis = “patroness of nature and magic” – wikipedia
Fitting.
I see several here in this thread who say they don’t use twitter. That is fine, but twitter is a wonderful resource and a lot of fun. Each tweet must be no more than 140 characters which keeps the tweets short and to the point hopefully. As the man once said, “brevity is the soul of wit”.
You also get to select who you will “follow” and you see only tweets by those people and anyone they “re-tweet” in your time-line. I think you would profit from taking a look at twitter.
Several important skeptical voices are on twitter and well worth following. (plus we radical libertarians can be a hoot to boot!)
– Mark
Ah to be young and stupid again, with the true belief that what I was told was the absolute truth.
Today it’s “climate change”, when I was a kid it was Apartheid and the Cold War, before that it was Vietnam, etc.
I wonder if the young will ever actually be on the correct side? I mean, to this day the anti-Vietnam people are convinced THEY stopped the war and brought peace.
@John West says:
I want people to think.
for themselves.
I’m not a Twit either, but let me express thanks here to Anthony for creating “…the world’s most viewed climate website” and a forum for rational discussion of the topic.
Several non-continentals claim not to understand Thanksgiving but just consider it a harvest festival and because the timing of harvests varies from place to place so does the time of getting together and sharing. Locally it is a time for many to help restock the food banks. If you think harvest has been over for many weeks, think again. Some grapes are still to be harvested and a day without wine is like a day without sunshine.
As to the purpose of this post: I give thanks to both those with a sense of humor and to those without. Both make me laugh.
Tweets may not be being deleted, instead a tweet with a URL may not be indexed and therefore it won’t show in any public search. This is likely to occur if it’s a new account or has few followers.
Just tweet without any URLs or links.
Here’s what doesn’t make sense to me: a hard-core alarmist (read: devout practitioner in the church of the Left) isn’t going to be serving anything remotely traditional on Thanksgiving. Pies? Please. All those animal fats and refined sugars? Maybe if they filled it with quinoa and flax seed… and it was a hemp crust. As long as you suffer while eating, then it’s allowed.
In fact, all I ever hear from these neckbeards is how racist/insensitive/inaccurate/ ecologically-unfriendly the day is. Are they trying to appeal the few more-normal folk they’ve ensnared and are doing their darndest to indoctrinate?
Pretty sneaky, sisi!
John, mountain whitefish is just about the best eatin there is. It is easily filleted due to the large bones, and the tough large-scale skin is more easily removed than that of rainbow trout. The flesh is sweeter than trout and stays together better when grilling. Some people mistake it for a sucker fish. It does not have a sucker mouth for bottom feeding and does not eat that way. The whitefish is an ancient trout with a smaller head and mouth but larger body and eats crawdads, worms, whatever a rainbow trout eats. The have a harder mouth so if you catch one you probably will have to set the hook if they haven’t swallowed it. I’ve caught the same fish 4 or 5 times until I decide to set the hook and keep the fish. The Nez Pierce are said to have preferred Wallowa Valley whitefish over trout, using trout as a fertilizer for corn crops. I’ve heard it smokes up really nice but I can’t keep it in the freezer long enough to smoke it.
Brian, I used to be a research audiologist in the Portland VA Medical Center. I learned to cuss like a sailor. When I moved on I had to clean up my language big time! If forced to think, I could come up with quite a few cuss words.
Ms. Pamela Grey,
I admire your spirit. I grew up in Salem, or as I call it, ‘So-Lame’. I got the heck out when I hit 18 and headed for Spokane. The whole Portland/Eugene vibe is too much for me. Heck, I’m only 30 and it was driving me crazy in my teens! You, however, are living proof that true Oregonians still exist. I tip my hat to you.
Apologies for the misspelling, Ms. GrAy. 🙂
aaronshem @aaronshem 6h
@BjornLomborg Thanks for all you do to promote development and making our society more adaptable. #ClimateThanks
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@nshaviv Thanks for keeping a cool head. #ClimateThanks
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@mattwridley My thanks for showing how our climate has improved thanks to warming and CO2. #ClimateThanks
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@michellemalkin http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/27/a-call-to-action-give-climatethanks/#more-98223 … I give my thanks to @mattwridley for showing how ghg and warming improve our climate. #ClimateThanks
Scute says:
November 27, 2013 at 4:05 pm
I’ve done three tweets-all deleted within minutes…just like their recent YT video when they just closed down all comments and deleted those already posted.
I think they leave the WUWT tweets because they know they’ll be called on it.
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Yeah, mine too. WUWT reposted one of mine with improvements and it is still there. I’m thankful for WUWT’s clout.
“As long as you suffer while eating, then it’s allowed.” HGW (5:42pm today).
LOL. You are so right. Another way they become holy (besides driving a Holy Car, etc…): eating vile food. Penance……. or something.
I’m happy that no virgins have been harmed in this latest attempt to appease the weather gods. #ClimateThanks for that.
@Andrew Winston
‘to all those fighting for EVERYONE’S prosperity,’
How does impoverishing those with wealth lead to EVERYONE’S prosperity?
Hey, Pamela Gray,
Happy Thanksgiving to you, a wonder of good sense, equability, wit, and intelligence (at least you had a hit!). Hope the academic year is going well.
Re: “Twitterpated”
To refresh your memory (been awhile, hm? heh — I remember as a kid I just HATED that scene; all those animals acting just, oh, grrrrr, just so, stupid! (I’ll bet all those climastrologists as little kids LOVED that kind of stuff) — and the scene at the end of Disney’s “The Jungle Book” — despicable)
Take care,
Janice
Richard Windsor is on twitter!
Richard Windsor @SpaceWeather101 38m
#ClimateThanks EU Parliament for recognizing fuels made from crops such as corn and rapeseed are harming both environment and food supplies