Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/04/2009 5:08:47 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Al Gore has had to cancel a Copenhagen speaking event at which he had hoped to charge starry-eyed believers in his ManBearPig religion $1200 a piece for the privilege of shaking his hand, breathing in his CO2 and having his latest book inflicted on them.
Could those unforeseen circumstances have anything to do with Climategate?
I think so. Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitting it is – as Richard North demonstrates in this fascinating analysis. Using what he calls a Tiger Woods Index (TWI), he compares the amount of interest being shown by internet users (as shown by the number of general web pages on Google) and compares it with the number of news reports recorded. The ratio indicates what people are really interested in, as opposed to what the MSM thinks they ought to be interested in.
North explains:
Tiger Woods delivered 22,500,000 web and 46,025 news pages, giving ratio of 489. That is the “Tiger Woods Index” (TWI) against which I chose to measure a raft of other issues.
Here are the rankings:
1. Climategate: 28,400,000 – 2,930 = 9693 2. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 – 154,145 = 928 3. Obama: 202,000,000 – 252,583 = 800 4. Tiger Woods: 22,500,000 – 46,025 = 489 5. Gordon Brown: 12,300,000 – 37,021 = 332 6. Climate change: 22,200,000 – 68,419 = 324 7. Sally Bercow: 25,000 – 86 = 290 8. David Cameron: 545,000 – 4837 = 113 9. Meredith Kercher: 261,000 – 3,471 = 75 10. Chilcot Inquiry: 125,000 – 4,350 = 29
And lest anyone doubt how big this story is, now Sarah Palin has weighed in. On her Facebook page she urges President Obama to boycott Copenhagen. She totally gets it:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
The ratio indicates what people are really interested in, as opposed to what the MSM thinks they ought to be interested in.
North explains:
Tiger Woods delivered 22,500,000 web and 46,025 news pages, giving ratio of 489. That is the “Tiger Woods Index” (TWI) against which I chose to measure a raft of other issues.
Here are the rankings:
1. Climategate: 28,400,000 – 2,930 = 9693 2. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 – 154,145 = 928 3. Obama: 202,000,000 – 252,583 = 800 4. Tiger Woods: 22,500,000 – 46,025 = 489 5. Gordon Brown: 12,300,000 – 37,021 = 332 6. Climate change: 22,200,000 – 68,419 = 324 7. Sally Bercow: 25,000 – 86 = 290 8. David Cameron: 545,000 – 4837 = 113 9. Meredith Kercher: 261,000 – 3,471 = 75 10. Chilcot Inquiry: 125,000 – 4,350 = 29
Unforeseen.... LOL.
Last nigh while channel surfing I stopped on CBC to see wgat our Canadian neighbors were saying about climategate. They were hammering climategate and the global warming alarmists hard.
Sounds like Al Gore is going to become the next Richard Kimble (The Fugitive) and have to be on the run.
ping
Gotta love that lede
He’ll go down in history, along with many recent political figures, as an ass, a bore, a leftist and a money-grubbing crook.
It makes me wonder is anyone is really playing a straight game (other than Sarah Palin who I think is gold).
I don’t know where this Delingpole came from but the more I hear the more I like him.
I’ve got no use for the Tiger Woods tabloid news frenzy. We have far more important issues in this country that should be getting the attention.
er, how come palin isn’t on the google ranking
Actually Climategate has dominated Rush Limbaugh’s show.I think he only got into the Tiger Woods nonsense for a short time.Jim Quinn of ‘Quinn and Rose’ has also hit it long and hard. I haven’t listened to other talkers.
Thank you. I'd begun to feel like the Lone Ranger out here in Cyberspace...
Climategate = birthers
At least that is what they are attempting to do with the media stranglehold.
MSNBC: Earth could plunge into sudden ice age Experts: ‘Big Freeze’ about 12,800 years ago happened within months
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again — and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.
We're in a cooling off cycle, so now we're going to have to go back to fighting off the Communist/Socialist/Marxist politicians and the NEW coming ice age - again!
When I do grocery shopping tomorrow, I'll have to check out the supermarket rags -- maybe they're covering ClimateGate! ;-)
You're understating!
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