Note: title suffix – “autosuggest still blocked” has been removed, see update2 at bottom of story.
We’ve had the term “global warming” in the lexicon since well before the Internet became a household tool, certainly well before Google itself.
So it is with amazement that I report the rise of a new term, “Climategate” in just a little over 1 week in the Google search engine.
Here’s our old friend “global warming”:
And here is the new term that is spreading like lightning, “climategate”:
global warming – 10,100,000
climategate – 10,400,000
Note that these are web searches, not news searches, but Google suggests a few news stories first. These two searches were conducted about 1 minute apart.
Individual results and search permutations may vary, but it sure seems like “climategate” has grown virally in since the story on the CRU files broke on November 19th.
Here are some other interesting tidbits about “climategate”.
Google seems to be blocking their search box suggestions from using the word, reports on WUWT and my own observation two days ago indicate it was once there. I used by upper right Google Search Box in IE8 to find out.
For example “global war….” has lots of suggestions:
And so does “climate”:
I find it interesting that climate depot and climate audit are suggested ahead of climate progress.
But even when you spell out almost the enirety of “climategate” Google doesn’t seem to think it’s worth suggesting to you:
With “climategate” now as big as, likely even bigger than “global warming” on the web, Google might want to rethink this.
UPDATE: From comments I see that “Bing”, the new search engine from Microsoft, has no such problems, and in fact puts “climategate” right at the top after only 3 letters “c l i”:
I thought the Langjokull Glacier in Iceland was a nice touch. Bing apparently rotates backgrounds, so who knows what you’ll see.
UPDATE2: About 3 hours after this story was first posted, it appears that Google has added the word “climategate” to autosuggest.
Yesterday, I quoted the wiki page about Censorship by Google which mentioned the censorship of “climategate.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
Then I said we should start a betting pool to see how long this information is allowed to stay on that page, and I bet it would be removed within 12 hours.
Well, now it is GONE.
Wikipedia has CENSORED the info about Google CENSORING climategate.
Not a big surprise.
One other thing … after waffling back and forth, Google is once again CENSORING the word “climategate” from its autocomplete suggestion list.
This is a good one.
I’m a librarian with access to newspaper databases. I only found this one single article in all the newspapers in my huge database. But it is a Newswire release. And look at the courageous author.
***”Polar Bear is Out of the Bag’ on Global Warming with Hacked Emails From Climatologists Says Matt Harrison of the Prometheus Institute” by
******Anonymous. *****PR Newswire. New York: Nov 30, 2009.
Abstract (Summary)
(Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, from email October 2009) “There’s plenty more but the point is that we’re about to turn our nation’s economy and world’s economy upside down based upon faulty and questionable science with the cap-and-trade bill now before Congress and measures to be debated in Copenhagen next week,” says Harrison.
Full Text (388 words)
Copyright PR Newswire Association LLC Nov 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Someone hacked into the climate research unit at East Anglia University in England and divulged emails between scientists about their doubts about climate change. “They ‘let the polar bear out of the bag’ on their questionable tactics used in gathering and analyzing the data,” says Matt Harrison, author of The American Evolution and founder of the Prometheus Institute a public policy think tank. http://www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org
“While the global warming science was already cloaked in uncertainty, the current controversy only further undermines the authority of the scientific ‘consensus’ that dominates the debate. While that hacking and distribution worldwide is illegal, this information is out there now being discussed and cannot be ignored,” adds Harrison.
Here’s a sample:
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (Phillip Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia in Norwich, from email November 1999)
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” (Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, from email October 2009)
“There’s plenty more but the point is that we’re about to turn our nation’s economy and world’s economy upside down based upon faulty and questionable science with the cap-and-trade bill now before Congress and measures to be debated in Copenhagen next week,” says Harrison. “Furthermore, the bill is a foreboding thousand-page monster and is inscrutably complex. It calls for government to determine the total cost of pollution annually, spread that cost evenly amongst all business and industry in the form of credits or allowances, and those who pollute more will buy (trade) credits from firms that pollute less and don’t need their full allowance.”
Harrison contends that the bill not only fails to solve climate change, but “it’s a thinly-disguised tax on young Americans who’ll spend the rest their lives struggling under oppressive taxes thrust upon them by unscrupulously opportunistic scientists and their unthinking supporters.
“Yes, ‘the polar bear is out of the bag’ on global warming and Americans need to stop this bill from endangering the world’s greatest economy.”
SOURCE Matt Harrison
Credit: Matt Harrison
Also found a good audio file that ABC !!!!! (in Australia) is running today.
ABC National Radio Counterpoint
Climate science: The leaked emails – 30 November 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2009/2757619.htm
The auto suggest feature still doesn’t work on the google.co.uk site. But then why would we in the UK be concerned with pesky scandals ?
Bizarrely, when I type my own name, Ralph Tittley, the auto suggest kicks in when I get to the ‘i’ – I only merit 170,000 possible pages, ‘climategate’ has over 12.2 million.
Go figure.
Results 1 – 10 of about 107,000,000 for climategate. (0.06 seconds)
107,000,000
#1 WHEN I LAST CHECKED WAS
“FOLLOW THE MONEY”
The author concludes with, “This is not the sound of settled science, but of a cracking empirical foundation. And however many billion-dollar edifices may be built on it, sooner or later it is bound to crumble.”
I don’t know where Carlo is getting his #’s. My search gave Results 1 – 10 of about 12,500,000 for climategate. (0.25 seconds)
Also, “climategate” is once again among the selections. Go figure.
Google Climate-Gate, it surpasses Climate Change.
Rajan (18:24:25) :
Wow, it’s double!
Results 1 – 10 of about 26,400,000 for climate-gate. (0.24 seconds)
Also, “climategate” is now being auto-suggested, as is “climate depot,” which yields
Results 1 – 10 of about 5,520,000 for climate depot. (0.19 seconds)
Thanks, Rajan
Google as a search engine, in my opinion, has been sub-par. About two weeks ago I stumbled upon what I believe is the best search engine since the Internet met Google: http://duckduckgo.com
Sure, at first you’ll notice the oddly unique and kind of goofy name. But I’ve been using it all week and from day one the first page results have been pretty darn accurate for what I’m searching for. You’ll see. 🙂
i wonder if they can bring charges against AL GORE for theft wire fruad or anything else
I told google that I was using Bing now because ClimateGate was not in their auto suggestions but was in Bings for just “cli”. But now Bing has removed ClimateGate from their auto suggestions. I guess I’m going to Yahoo.
I can confirm that Bing is now censoring “climategate” from their autocomplete suggestion list.
I guess this should not be a big surprise – Microsoft is part of the Establishment that has invested untold billions in the AGW scam. And it has always been a bit behind the curve on things relating to the internet. So I guess they were just asleep at the wheel when the scandal broke. Now they are inline with Google and Al Gore and the MSM.
I guess since “climategate” is all the buzz we can stop worrying about “going green”.
There are now 132,000,000 hits for “Climategate” on google
Results 1 – 10 of about 132,000,000 for CLIMATEGATE. (0.36 seconds)
As of 12/2, “climategate” appears to be autosuggest blocked at both bing and google.
Just searched “bing” as shown above and you don’t get “climategate” at all in the suggested search…
Who changed that I wonder…….
Dec. 2, 2009
lol Al Gore on the board of google and now climategate shows up on none of the autocompletes there is a massive cover up here.
I just tried it now on Google (I’m in Toronto, Canada) and for “climategate” it insisted, right to the end, that I really wanted “climate guatemala” or “climate guatemala city.” Splitting the words in two (“climate gate”) it tried palming off “climate gatlinburg tn” or — and this is priceless — “climate gates.”
Google is very inconsistent. This morning they allowed “climate gate scandal” to appear in the autocomplete list on their home page. Now it is gone. But they now allow climategate to appear in the list on their news page. The odd thing is that Bing is following exactly the same policy. They censor climategate from the list on their homepage, but allow it on their news page.
This is an obvious attempt by our Big Green Brother to suppress the free flow of information. I have a page discussing this:
http://biblewheel.com/politics/climategate/Censorship_by_Google.asp
Climategate is a news story not a website. Search on Google news for climategate and it still is at the top of the autosuggest list. Debunkers hear this. Pollution is bad, OK. I don’t agree with the carbon tax but a few questionable emails does not mean there is no trouble in River City. We all still need to unhook from the sources of pollution. Don’t be smug, be smart.
Al Cidmore (14:42:27)
Thanks for the clarification, Al. I didn’t know that Google separated things like that. I guess “Climate Gates” is a website, since it’s one of the suggestions Google gives when typing “climate gate.” Admittedly, I can’t find a website by that name, however I would never question your information since you’re obviously right and can prove it by saying that you’re obviously right.
Going by your reasoning, let’s see what other “web sites” we can find.
Apparently “frankel d. us surgeon general forced to resign” is also a website, since that’s the first suggestion when you type “fr.” Likewise, “tiger woods fart” is also a website, since that’s one of the suggestions which appear when you type “tig.”
On the other hand, when I typed “climateg” a moment ago, Google suggested “climategate” (finally) — so perhaps it’s now become a website as well as a news story.
Given the quality of your information on the workings of Google, I’d be interested to know if you happen to run a website on Global Warming. Or perhaps I can find it in Google by typing “ninc”?
ABSOLUTE UNDENIABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF:
http://i48.tinypic.com/2qjhms6.jpg
MORE PROOF (needs proof reading):
ABSOLUTE PROOF. These are posts I put on another website
[below is regarding an article discussing the lack of “climategate”
and “climate gate” in auto suggest despite the fact that both terms
were searched for more than “climate change” in the past week]
29 11 2009
Joe (04:03:54) : Your comment is awaiting moderation
After I type in all of these letters: “CLIMATE GATE” it suggests
“climate gates” something different.
when i type “climateg” all the way to “climategate” IT SUGGESTS
NOTHING!
29 11 2009
Joe (04:08:20) : Your comment is awaiting moderation
BTW the results on google for “climategate” have GONE DOWN to
6,690,000. IT USED TO GIVE >12,000,000.
When a story breaks the reuslts normally INCREASE for at least hte
first month. But in under a weak the numbers have decreased by over
half.
I wish them edia covered things. It disgusts me.
29 11 2009
Joe (04:11:53) : Your comment is awaiting moderation
OMG “climate gate” (two words) gives even less.
RUNDOWN:
“climategate” and “climate gate” both gave over 12 million results at
first.
NOW:
“climategate” : 6,690,000
“climate gate”: 6,180,000
TO SHOW THAT THIS IS ABSURD AND DIRECT CENSORSHIP
“climate wall” yields: 32,600,000 !!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT WHAT??? Google you bastards.
29 11 2009
Joe (04:14:36) : Your comment is awaiting moderation
Also more proof of tampering “climate gate” is yielding less than
“cliamtegate”. climate gate should always yield more as it SHOULD
result in all sites with the word “climategate” (thaks to google’s
algorithm) BUT also any websites taht have the words “climate” and
“gate” in them.
THIS IS DISGUSTING
Reply: I got about 80 million for just “wall” and about 23 million for just “gate” so that might have something to do with it. ~ ctm