I’m not sure whether to laugh or not, but is this just one more reason to use Bing as a search engine without a climate agenda? Maybe we should make it the official search engine of climate skeptics worldwide?
Full story here
Details on the Google Science Communication Fellows program here
The big bucks backed effort rather reminds me of this “B” scifi movie:
What next? Will we get the finger?
Just in case you don’t know where the scene is from, it is the 1978 remake of “Inavsion of the Body Snatchers”
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I have been a Bing user for some time now…. Haven’t used Google is over a year.
I wonder when the establishment will understand it’s the message that’s the problem, not the style of communication?
Just read that article, and I must say that, given that site, the comments were surprisingly hostile. As I noted there, Bing is starting to look better all the time and Bill Gates is too smart to swallow the AGW line and has devoted his philanthropy to real issues.
I wonder who controls Google.
/facetious
Lots of reasons to not use Google. This is just another. Count me in the Bing category too.
Just wait until the become a victim of their own research, realize the issue is far from cut and dry. Can’t wait for that moment of realization!
Their motto: Don’t Be Evil
Being stupid is perfectly acceptable.
Connecting the Dots Between Gore, Google and MoveOn
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9Txj1fS23yUJ:www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301276,00.html+gore+google&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
Google has started investing in green energy. This is why.
http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/03/17/google-invests-in-coolplanetbiofuels/
I’m deleting google, I don’t use Facebook (Obama financer) or twitter. I don’t need them, I don’t believe they are secure enough for my liking.
Bing will do for the moment.
Remember, a smuck named Gore is on the Board of Directors of Google, on Apple’s also
According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore ; Al Gore “is a senior advisor to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm’s climate change solutions group.”
I note also that http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html ; John Doerr (a director of Google) is also a mover and shaker at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Here’s what Doerr thinks about Carbon Trading http://www.western-field.com/nws/news-prev1.php (the account has since been suspended) found here also http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286407955141345.html
Here’s what he had to say ……
“Putting a price on carbon is the most important thing we can do,” Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr told reporters after the meeting of the president’s advisory board. Mr. Doerr, a partner at, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, is one of a number of tech figures who have invested some of the wealth they earned during the Internet boom in clean-energy ventures that could get a boost from the Waxman-Markey proposal.
So it would seem that there are conflicts of interest at Google at the highest levels. Putting propaganda, censorship and profits ahead of democracy?
Just changed my homepage – no longer google
[Reply: WUWT is an excellent home page! ~dbs, mod.]
“Al Gored says:
March 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm
“…… and Bill Gates is too smart to swallow the AGW line ….”
Sorry to say that Bill Gates HAS swallowed the AGW line ….. see link
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010976.html
I don’t think we can use Bing either ……
Thanks for the heads up – From this moment on I’ve just become a Bing user….
Ok switched to Bing. Will drop Gmail but I have an Android phone synced to the laptop for contacts , phone numbers using the google system, what alternatives do I have?
”The company has come up with an innovative solution to one of the world’s biggest problems,” (Google)
Let me guess… Global warming?
I would use Bing, except its Microsoft. The only company I distrust more than Google is Microsoft. I won’t use Bing.
That said, I’m truly laughing at Google on this one. This is the first true mistake I’ve seen out of that company. I’m thinking this is proof that the Dilbert principle is finally working it’s magic on that company, and the upper ranks of Google finally have some non-critical thinkers.
Hmm…
“…We’re kicking off this effort by naming 21 Google Science Communication Fellows. These fellows were elected from a pool of applicants of early to mid-career Ph.D. scientists nominated by leaders in climate change research and science-based institutions across the U.S. It was hard to choose just 21 fellows from such an impressive pool of scientists; ultimately, we chose scientists who had the strongest potential to become excellent communicators. That meant previous training in science communication; research in topics related to understanding or managing climate change; and experience experimenting with innovative approaches or technology tools for science communication. This year’s fellows are an impressive bunch …”
GBees says:
March 18, 2011 at 2:47 pm
I stand corrected, and disappointed! From that link you posted:
“Then he said something he’s never said before: that is it because he’s committed to improving life for the world’s vulnerable people that he now believes that climate change is the most important challenge on the planet.
Even more importantly, he acknowledged the only sensible goal, when it comes to climate emissions, is to eliminate them: we should be aiming for a civilization that produces no net emissions, and we should be aiming to live in that civilization here in the developed world by 2050.”
Aaargh! Hadn’t heard that one, and haven’t heard anything more like that.
Maybe someone at that meeting slipped some LSD in his mineral water and then forced him to watch the Copenhagen shock film a few times before speaking? Or maybe he has a wife problem like Arnold?
I’m torn by this. I would like to boycott all google products, but OTOH there’s nothing cheaper, accessible and more comprehensive than YouTube to relieve one’s ‘tension’. What’s a man to do?
This is been know for some time william conolley has moved to google after he was fired from wikipedia LOL
Gogle should realize that they may well lose 50% clients because 50% don’t believe in it anymore. I now use yahoo.
http://startpage.com/
is even more secure.
How many on these people are more activist than scientist?
How many have known associations with environmental groups and organisations?
You see that is the problem with such teams they all come with an agenda, they all come with baggage – none of them approach such matters with an open mind.