Tom Nelson pointed out something quite interesting on Friday August 7th. He wrote on Twitter:
I thought to myself, “how could this be?”. Gore spent millions on a professional set, hired a leggy spokesmodel to emcee, spent huge amounts of money on web advertising, and claimed he had millions of views during the event.
And yet, only 166 views of his flagship YouTube interview?
Well, it’s up to 179 as of this writing, so I guess that’s something. I figure skeptic Tom Nelson’s tweet helped a bit.
You can watch Gore’s video here. I’m sure he’ll appreciate some views from Climate Skeptics.
Note some of the other viewcounts I highlighted at right in yellow from the 24 hours of climate reality. They have similarly dismal numbers.
Now, look at the bottom two I highlighted. One is from my friend John Coleman titled: “How the Global Warming Scare Began” All John had was one TV station in San Diego and a mention on WUWT. He’s got 294,263 views. Physicist and climate skeptic Freeman Dyson has 14,357 views and the video is handheld VHS quality!
Heck, even my debunking of the outright lie presented as science by Al Gore and Bill Nye has more views than Gore’s climate reality, and I had just a few hundred dollars in that budget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9u7p2dO6cU
Tragically, Gore still has that video of Nye with the outright lie up on his website. Apparently, truth in science doesn’t matter to either Gore or Nye.
And that may be why Al’s global reach is slipping, in fact, it may have slipped away altogether.
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I’ll pass on viewing his video. Thanks anyway!
Me too. I prefer family-friendly videos. This one has too much Gore.
Who is Al Gore?
Al E. Gore is this old dude who wrote about some cave and shadows and stuff. It was, like, some kinda reality show or something.
Al has a video ??
Pardon me for sticking this up top here, but it’s about Al’s disappearing Arctic sea ice (area) which, if Cryosphere Today’s rate of loss over the last few days continues, will be zero by next month – 1,554 Million sq. Km below the mean (1979 – 2008), whereas DMI has sea ice extent almost touching the mean (1979 – 2000).
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/icecover_current_new.png
Anyone know what’s going on ? Can there be such a huge difference between area and extent, and where did JAXA go ?
Exactly. I was wondering that myself. Best I can say is the Europeans can count better than the Americans.
Looking at the temps above 80N also shows a slightly below average so far this summer. And throw in the ice still covering the Hudson Bay.
Another perspective: http://web.nersc.no/WebData/arctic-roos.org/observation/ssmi_ice_ext.png
Phil, here are some charts that I did up through yesterday as a single pdf file. The links are on the charts. The buttons only work when running the *.xls file under Excel.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/731rupcowd15xy8/Arctic_Sea_Ice.pdf
Bruce Richardson
richardson@swbell.net
I recall NSCID having some notice, about a week or two, about problematic data. This was just after the line had been approaching the average line, so I guess like the last time the current line approached the average line, it was time to change methodology again.
Did Al invite all the climate refugees (I believe he forecast) to stay at his mansions and beach property? I haven’t heard of them on the news being anywhere else yet so he must have been incredibly generous with his invitations.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
“Can there be such a huge difference between area and extent?”
IIRC, extent requires a patch to be 15% covered to be counted, and area requires 30%.
Who is the guy with the suit and tie?
One of the founders of The Weather Channel before it became The Storm Channel.
He knows his stuff.
Storm Channel? Don’t you mean the Propectors unReality show channel? They don’t seem to do weather there anymore. At least not on Pacific Time after folks out here wake up…
I believe the “suit and tie” guy, the one that is not Al Gore and is not Freeman Dyson, is John Coleman looking as dapper as ever.
Al made enough money to burn off of caGW.
Maybe he figures if he burns enough of it things will actually heat up?
Does he still pay $1,000s a month in electricity bills at his oceanfront home?
Not quite an oceanfront home yet, dfbaskwill.
Although, with the drought in California it may become “desert view” fairly soon.
/grin
Al must be paying MUCH MORE than $ 1k/mo. … at the RATE INCREASES all us Californian’s are paying for our “clean”, “green”, “renewable” power. CA Ratepayers are getting fleeced … and sadly it is dramatically diminishing our buying power … unlike limousine liberal Al who can afford unlimited rate increases
If he switches over to all LED light bulbs; it will only cost him a hundred a month for electricity.
Are we talking about Al Gore’s Climate Reality Annual Production, abbreviated “C.R.A.P.”?
If so, perhaps those 179 views are immediate family and co-workers of his organization?
I would prefer to view cat videos on FB than watch Al Gore and his propaganda. One makes me laugh and one makes me cry – guess which is which.
I know which shows more real intelligence, and which evil scheme for world domination is successful.
The cats, definately the cats.
I’m waiting for the 34 second video of Rowdy Rhonda Rousey punching out the Brazillian bulldog’s lights, to come on the T&V for free.
I might look at Al’s opuss after that.
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Sadly the reality is that the money he spent on this is small change to St Gore , so it is no real loss to him.
His ego on the other hand is another question , like most of the prophets of ‘the cause’ he has a planet sized ego that needs constant feeding and the way people have turned away from him is going to hurt .
If Al Gore is a narcissist, he won’t be hurting one little bit.
Simple, ingenious and an inconvenient truth for Supergore.
I viewed just enough of the video to see the leggy spokesmodel. 😉
You can always just turn off safe search and do a Bing search for “Leggy Spokesmodels”.
Then click the image and video tabs one by one…the results may surprise and, um…titillate.
I noticed that may of the leggy spokesmodels tended to be busty spokesmodels, too. As for the safe search…you can find more titillating fare with very little imagination.
At a 166 views, I would have thought El Grande would have gotten tired of watching his own video after a few dozen times. I guess not.
Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
+167
Joel wins the thread! :0D
It is interesting that not speaks of temperatures in Australia.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/
Isnt the cold and snow in Australia caused by global warming that melted Arctic ice an caused a wavy jet stream?? 😉
Yes.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-234.17,-30.91,291
Was just noting on the Rotten Tomatoes website that the Oreskes film, Merchants of Doubt, had a total box office gross of barely $0.2 million. I did not know that it was possible to have so few people watch a movie.
If anyone is in any doubt how many people are buying the CAGW drivel, then this article and MoD numbers may give some perspective.
I did not know that it was possible to have so few people watch a movie.’
Hmm, well there’s also the Fantastic Four … 🙂
I have a feeling that as poorly as the Fantastic 4 is rated, it is still doing better than Gore’s show.
Well you just haven’t read my playlist.
I’m sure I’ve watched as few movies as anyone on the planet.
I’m waiting till they are all digital, so they don’t need any actors or actresses.
I believe rotten tomato futures are headed for a big rise. Apparently they have surpassed edible ripe tomato prices.
The global warming mania, like eugenics mania that preceded it, was all about the obsessions and fanaticism of the elites who have bought into it. Very few people actually believe the Gore view and most people seem to see through the self serving hype he so profitably pushes.
Why would you think eugenics and CAGW are unrelated? Haven’t you heard about how overpopulated the earth is?
In about 5 minutes I gave an abbreviated summary of real science versus climate science to a liberal nephew of mine. His comment at the end? “Well, I never really did believe all the hype that Gore said about global warming.” So you see, Gore is his own worst enemy. The more he promotes – the more he demotes – even among liberals.
Hope blooms eternal.
And hype springs eternal.
Right Hunter. Eugenics and global warming seem to have the same set of beliefs. Never lead by example, never admit you are wrong, deny everything, and counteract with a blizzard of false accusations.
Well, I went to the video to up the count simply because it will be hilarious for him to receive more than double the views from denier “sympathy” than he originally received from his “loyal followers”, (all ~10 of them…).
Probably most of the views were from skeptics, just to see if he was telling new lies or just rehashing the old ones.
And David Appell. Do not forget David, He has to learn his science.
YouTube says it has more than one billion users, so can we say that Al Gore’s viewers make up only 179 parts per billion of all YouTube viewers? That’s even smaller than the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere.
That 179ppm would mean death for most life on Earth if it were CO2 !!
Even worse, it is 179 ppb, not 179 ppm.
Al Gore’s followers are apparently the methane of the social atmosphere. Every now and then one pops up unexpectedly. Sometimes it is a repeat.
Just for comparison, there is a video of a guy sitting in a hotel room in Poughkeepsie, picking his toes. It has several thousand views.
Yes, but all of the views were from Gene Hackman.
Sometimes I think of Al Gore in the same frame of mind that I have for the “Generalissmo” in the original “In Laws” movie in the scene where he is showing off the proposed flag for his country and plotting to bring down the International Monetary System.
The original “In Laws” is still one of the best ever !!
“Serpentine,serpentine!!!”
you remember the flag then of painted velour with the innocent peasant girl and the generalissimo and his indignation that “they” wouldn’t let him make that the flag of the country? I don’t no why Hollywood insists on remaking great flicks when they already had one that hit it out of the park.
How do “elites” stay there if they’re so gullible? That’s what I want to know.
Like a mob of sheep in the wild… a few “less well adapted” get picked off the side but the rest survive.
I’d like to get at the real metrics of this, my guess is that over half the views are by folks that have a climate denial score above 4.5, (it’s on a scale of 1 to 7), just to see what kinds of B.S. the ole GoreMeister is spewing these days. Personally, I watched for the leggy spokesmodel, and just patched in a voice track of Marie Osmond for Weight Watchers during the parts where Gore was speaking.
Few selected quotes from the transcript needed to be exposed to ridicule.
I must say that, whilst obviously deserved, I do wonder at these abysmal view counts. Perhaps someone with more nous than old Al has hacked it in some way?
The CO2-obsessed will just add the video to the existing enormous heap of
shit“evidence” and “literature” that they claim justifies all the alarmism, hysteria and spending of hundreds of billions of your dollars.No Ian it is folk like YOU with all this free PR from the most viewed climate blog on the Internet- stop it now, you will go blind!
But … Didn’t he invent the internet? He is far too clever to allow himself to be hacked … surely?
Several problems with experiment on 2 glass jars:
.1. glass is not transparent to infrared. It lets in visible light and blocks infrared like co2. This effect would overrule CO2 effect.
2.the fever thermometers used are designed to lock the reading. there is a tight spot in the capillary that is designed to break the mercury and lock the high reading .Both being shaken down to the same reading means nothing. They only indicate an accurate reading If they read above the temperature they were shaken down to. the temperature could be anything below 96 degrees and the reading would be 96.
In summary WRONG EQUIPMENT
*sigh* This was a replication of a supposed experiment conducted by Gore/Nye. @ur momisugly#$%&@ur momisugly kids not paying attention AGAIN.
It just goes to show you: Massive amounts of money from eco-activists thrown at politicians is the only thing keeping this pathetic charade from unraveling. Anybody with common sense yawned and switched the channel long ago.
The Costco-like buying of the politicos by the eco-crowd makes Trump’s brags on buying politicians look like the rantings of a penniless homeless man.
Al Gore is just experiencing a temporary viewer ‘hiatus’. I’m 95% confident that when his viewers return from hiding in the deep oceans, the views for his video will suddenly skyrocket. /sarc
Yeah! Just wait until the “views” data are adjusted by the warmist scientists. It’ll have more views than Gone With The Wind and the graph will look like a hockey stick.
Comments are disabled too….A mistake I guess…
He will chalk up a fair few more hits now you, Anthony, have given him more advertising!
really?.. do you think many here would bother?