Just How Big Is Climategate? The Tiger Woods Index Measures Media Incompetence
Two weeks and counting, and the fringe media continues to ignore the biggest story of year, if not the decade.
Since media coverage no longer gives any indication whatsoever of the impact of or interest in a story, Richard North has devised what he calls the Tiger Woods Index (TWI), which measures actual interest in a story as compared to media coverage. (Via James Delingpole’s hilarious article in the Telegraph today. Definitely read the whole thing.)
He explains the formula thusly:
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 results:
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
Climategate has received less coverage in the fringe media than Meredith Kercher or the Chilcot Inquiry, of whom/which I’ve never even heard, but I’m sure they’re just fascinating. More surprisingly, Climategate is a bigger story from a consumer standpoint – 20 times over – than Tiger Woods.
One would think that the Politico would have gotten the message, or at least checked Memeorandum at some point, but no. They didn’t ask Al Gore one single question about Climategate in their interview with him today, despite calls for him to rescind his Oscar over his ManBearPig fraud and his decision to cancel a speaking engagement in Copenhagen at which he had planned to charge attendees $1200 to shake his hand.
One could not even calculate a Tiger Woods Index for television coverage, since the networks have yet to even broach the subject two weeks after it broke, which, as the Media Research center states, is a scandal in and of itself.
Sen. Inhofe says that Obama is dishonest in going to Copenhagen and claiming that he will cap emissions, which I find pretty darn encouraging.
Sarah Palin says that Obama shouldn’t go to Copenhagen at all:
The president’s decision to attend the international climate conference in Copenhagen needs to be reconsidered in light of the unfolding Climategate scandal. The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to block information requests, manipulated data to “hide the decline†in global temperatures, and conspired to silence the critics of man-made global warming. I support Senator James Inhofe’s call for a full investigation into this scandal. Because it involves many of the same personalities and entities behind the Copenhagen conference, Climategate calls into question many of the proposals being pushed there, including anything that would lead to a cap and tax plan.
In fact, doing so is downright hypocritical and irresponsible, according to Palin.
Policy decisions require real science and real solutions, not junk science and doomsday scare tactics pushed by an environmental priesthood that capitalizes on the public’s worry and makes them feel that owning an SUV is a “sin†against the planet. In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to “restore science to its rightful place.†Boycotting Copenhagen while this scandal is thoroughly investigated would send a strong message that the United States government will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices. Saying no to Copenhagen and cap and tax are first steps in “restoring science to its rightful place.â€
The UN seems to concur, at least insomuch as they are willing to investigate Climategate, however genuine their claims may or may not be. CRU director Phil Jones has agreed to sit out until the investigation is completed.
Even the Saudis have realized that global warming is a fairy tale, and they believe in jinns, for crying out loud.
You would think the media would have gotten the memo by now. Don’t they have weather desks? It’s snowing in Houston, where not only does it almost never snow, but it has never snowed this early in the season.
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Update: Newsbusters issued a correction to their post about Al Gore and the Politico, to which I linked above. The interview apparently took place before the Climategate scandal broke. Still, I have to wonder whether John Harris or Mike Allen tried to follow up with him, or why they sat on the interview for two weeks before running it.
Update II: New Orleans is also seeing its earliest snowfall and Michigan is experiencing record snowfall. (Hat tip: Reliapundit.)
I laughed out loud!!
Thank you.
Hi,
thanks for those comments. Check out these pages from “down under”…
A very interesting homepage from Australia, I stumbled over these days:
http://www.climatesceptics.com.au/
* Dedicated to expose the fallacy of Anthropogenic or man-made Global Warming (AGW)
* Committed to oppose all forms of a Carbon Tax including all Carbon Trading Schemes
* Pledged to resist all climate-related Government policies that are not based on independent and
verifiable science
(Lots of serious information! Check out!)
Is Albert Gore, junior afraid to go to Copenhagen, so he might not get this punishmend
“In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the subject of a crowd’s anger would be stripped to the waist. Hot tar was either poured or painted onto the person while he or she was immobilized. Then the victim either had feathers thrown on him or her or was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the tar. Often the victim was then paraded around town on a cart or a rail. The aim was to hurt and humiliate a person enough to leave town and not cause any more mischief.
The practice was never an official punishment in the United States, but rather a form of vigilante justice. It was eventually abandoned as society moved away from public, corporal punishment and toward capital punishment and rehabilitation of criminals.”
Come on Albert Gore, junior – give as your billions and we will fight Global Warming so much that you never will come up again with this nonsense
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In the meantime, I could imagine that some 200 – 300 million more people go each evening to bed with an empty stomac…. All the same Al Gore, jun., Barack Hussein Obama, Charles – Prince of Wales, David de Rothschild are making hughe money from this crazyness: CO2 > Global Warming.
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Get their bank accounts and send it overseas so the poor Africans, Indians and South East Asians and whoever it might be, can get the necessary cash to start a proper business — hopefully producing a lot of CO2 which helps green plants to grow better
I suppose we strip the Nobel Peace Prize from Al Gore and from the IPCC and give it to Ing. Helmut Bachmann. http://www.klima-ueberraschung.de for his courage to speak out what he knows from the very beginning – even before the IPCC was founded!!!
martin – switzerland
FOX……The ONLY TRUE media outlet ….. IS covering this story…. Im embarresed to think what MORONS watch anything else but FOX…. That is unless you want to continue to be ignorant about whats going on…
what can one say. when fraud is standard operating procedure for all levels of government and the people are too stupid to do anything about it you get what is now occuring world wide. the stupid and evil outnumber the wise by about 100 to 1.
Now I’m waiting for MSMediagate ! Would like to see the e-mails what the criteria is for news. Personally, when I see and MSM article or item — I run the other way; thats my news-worthy rating system in action
I came to this website hoping to get some good information regarding what climategate is … and to see if Mr. Gore has made a statement regarding him canceling. What I found was mostly your opinion and links that are all the same as other dead end blogs. You spent most of this blog concerned about what Palin thinks. And I have no clue why? It is her crazy statements that holds interest to viewers. She was an interesting vp choice to watch and listen to…but nobody would actually vote her in to office. She is facinating to the public…but a majority do not actually hold much stock in what she says.
basically the only interesting part of this blog …is the headline. Dont tell me you are going to be one of Palins fans that actually think she has a shot at President. I hope you are. Because in the end…. this kind of backing… only leads to continued liberial power.
Who in their right mind thinks the MSM would report on a scandal that stands to hurt the personal coffers of leftists if exposed to the light?
AMEN! you are right! I liked the quote from Australia site Martin gave….
“Skepticism is the highest of duties, and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.â€
So wrote Thomas Huxley, one of the great minds of the scientific age.
I can only hope you are as old as I am and can remember the time when lunacy was a joke.
We know that the stupid and evil outnumber us……but the “wise” haven’t spoken out enough in the past.