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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awwwww. Janice, too cute! I had forgotten the term they used but remember the foot thumping.
@Sisi says: I want people to think for themselves. For heaven’s sake–he asked them to join in the fun, Anthony didn’t tell anyone WHAT to tweet–just asked them to be creative–I think that is “thinking for themselves.” By your measure everyone should stumble on information–not subscribe to blogs that will keep them informed?
If ever you needed evidence of the proposition that the climate ideology is basically a replacement for religion and makes the point that human kind have need of something greater than themselves to understand their place in the universe …. this is it ….. don’t give thanks to god …. give thanks to the climate ….. ffs.
I give #ClimateThanks to the IPCC / EPA / Al Gore crowd for their ██████████████ tactic, the gift that keeps on giving.
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#ClimateThanks to big oil for giving us enough leisure time to protest…. big oil.
@Imran Can — Amen! #(:))
@Russell Cook — Great one-liner, lol.
@Brendan — Indeed, the irony. Go, Big O’ !
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#ClimateThanks if it wasn’t for you legions of fraudsters would be denied the opportunity to suck on spurious grant money
Great that global warming stopped 17 years ago. CO2 is beneficial and trivial compared to natural cyclical climate changes. #ClimateThanks
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#ClimateThanks if it wasn’t for you I would never have discovered the truth
http://goo.gl/RZYeH7
#ClimateThanks for showing the increasing confidence the IPCC has in its climate models which have no relationship whatsoever with reality.
There are plenty of hilarious tweets, keep ’em going! LOL.
#climatethanks for the coal trains exporting clean energy
#climatethanks that CO2 is plant food.
You couldn’t make it up, but someone did.
Hahaha and thanks a million. That cheered me up no end. The first time I regret no being on twitter.
#climatethanks that the arctic ice is still there, isn’t it supposed to be gone ?
#climatethanks that the science is “settled”, wait … why do new discoveries keep popping up ?
#climatethanks that ‘tipping points’ can be continuously revised !
#climatethanks CET shows that temperatures may at last be returning to ‘no trend’ since 1772. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/
@Sisi
Try following your own advice. I bet you can’t.
#ClimateThanks
#ClimateThanks for the use of wind turbines to reduce all those pesky bird numbers from interrupting aircraft flying time
I think I heard a whisper-in-the-wind today of Mother Gaia thanking people for rescuing the earth from near CO2-starvation that has occurred over the last million yrs.
As Bob hope would have sang: thanks for the memories,
Of mike manns hockey stick, of graghs not worth a lick. Of big
al’s gore, there’s ice no more, cause co’s such a vice. the ippc is such a con, it just goes on and on now it’s time for lunch..We thank anthony so much. Happy
Thanksgiving to all. (Except you Al)
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HGW xx/7 says:
November 27, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Pretty sneaky, sisi!
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Hilarious, but I doubt she gets it. Prb’ly doesn’t even know what a battleship is.
#ClimateThanks #ComeEnjoy #TheWarmth #OfNorthernCanada
Don’t fly or drive to see family, don’t roast a turkey or bake a pie, wouldn’t want to add co2 to my freezing climate, all you climate-warmists please please please come visit the Alberta energy (or to you tar) sands NOW! Ride your bike up here. Don’t bring boots, don’t bring a coat, don’t bring mitts, don’t bring a hat. Don’t worry remember its warming up here.
OR next year head off to Churchill Manitoba to see those poor polar bears that no longer have ice to s̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ survive on. But don’t bring anything warm with you, in fact bring shorts. Happy Thanks Giving, enjoy your raw food.
#ClimateThanks for
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” and sisters. WS
for all of you I will give thanks today.
#ClimateThanks for interglacials like the holocene that we’re still in, and warm periods within it like the current MWP, which may be ending soon, contrary to Warmists’ cries.