by David Archibald
Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil”. Well, a couple of years ago Google had sided with the forces of darkness in the global warming battle – a position that when their lives are weighed in the balance would earn them a place in the deepest circle of Hell. Reuters reported in March 2011 that Google had “brought together a team of 21 climate researchers to improve the way the science of global warming is communicated by new media.” The foot soldiers in this propaganda effort, called Science Communication Fellows, are listed here. That is a list of 21 souls doing their best to sell their fellow Americans into the slavery and servitude of a carbon tax. If some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley couldn’t see through the used car salesman’s pitch that is the global warming scare, that is bad enough in itself. But then they compounded the error by funding the scaremongering with their considerable resources.
A couple of years have passed since then and Google seems to have shed its self-delusion about global warming. On 11th July, Google hosted a fund-raising lunch for the noble Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Google’s science fellows noticed this and became upset, writing a letter of moaning to the Google management. The letter serves one useful purpose in that it tells us that Apple has hired Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA. The EPA is continuing the damage to the US economy through the war on coal that Ms Jackson started. So we have one further fact to consider in the choice between Apple and Samsung, beyond the fact that Al Gore has made $30 million-odd sitting on Apple’s board for the last 10 years.
The Inhofe lunch may have been just as Google justified it – they have a data center in Oklahoma that is powered by wind turbines. Google was also the largest donor to the Competitive Enterprise Institute annual dinner in June with a donation of $50,000. But the most telling thing about Google’s change of heart is perhaps what its Youtube subsidiary is doing.
Global warming wisdom from the mouths of cartoon figures
Being ever helpful, Youtube sends me suggestions of videos that it thinks I might like to watch. Recently Youtube sent me a link to this video: The Global Warming Hoax Explained for Dummies. Importantly, that video treats the warmers with derision. The male cartoon figure calls the female one an “ignorant slut” for believing in global warming amidst a good explanation of the physics involved in the greenhouse effect. At the end he notes that it took 40 years for the Piltdown Hoax to be shown to be based on the jaw of an orangutan and he hopes that it doesn’t take 40 years for the global warming hoax to be shown to be based on the jawbones of asses.
$50,000 is less than pin money for Google but YouTube videos are the zeitgeist and far, far more important. Derision is the final stage in the abandonment of an idea. Thus YouTube’s promotion of that video is perhaps a sign of the end of the global warming scare.
Avert your eyes. Google has obscured image of Scarborough Reef with fake cloud.
Google has a bit further to go though if it doesn’t want to be consigned to one of the circles of Hell. Google Earth is still blocking the image of Scarborough Reef, 300 km west of Manila Bay and occupied by Chinese military forces. It is also blocking the images of all the other reefs that the PLA have built bases on. Of course the betrayal of its core principle is the price it is paying so that it can make money in the Middle Kingdom. Google will find though that what it traded its soul for will become as dust.
[UPDATE] For further reading, folks might enjoy my 2011 post on this subject, entitled “An Open Letter To Google“. – willis]
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Google may have stepped back from the brink on their warming stance but I was always willing give them the benefit of doubt that their position was based on ignorance of the data. I cannot forgive their step toward true evil a few days ago when their lawyers said in a court filing that Gmail users (and all the people who send mail to those accounts) have no legitimate right to an expectation of privacy over the contents of those messages.
MapQuest shows islands, but anything on them has been scrubbed – a lot like they did with Area51 (Groom Lake).
For reference, “Jane, you ignorant slut” is a famous SNL skit line.
Google found this on IMDb, thus it is presumed to be a legal version:
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi119734297/
Saturday Night Live Clip (Point Counterpoint: Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola)
I just went back to see what Area 51 looks like now. They show a lot more detail than they did a few years ago.
This article is largely interesting reading, but I suspect youtube’s recommendations are based on an automated system. If you don’t clear cookies often, if you have looked at many videos with the words X and Y in the title, you are more likely to be sent others with such. For example, if someone looks at many videos of cats, they get more suggested. If they look at many videos of shark fishing, they may get linked to more shark fishing videos. Etc.
The coding required for the preceding would be relatively simple and cheap, compared to making judgments on which videos are suitable to recommend by other than simple metrics like total view count, keyword match frequency, and so on.
I once looked at a number of videos on one topic I don’t normally browse, came back to youtube.com without clearing cookies, and more videos on that subject were highlighted. Like amazon.com or ebay.com (IIRC), a common advertising technique is such automated matching.
Changes in Google’s stance on global warming could have happened for all I know; just more than the youtube anecdote would be needed to conclude so, if so.
Third time is the charm…. Google is showing details of Area 51, and MapQuest has it very blurred.
Nah. Google does not have any real reason not to go with the flow.
Hoser said on August 17, 2013 at 12:39 am:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-now-admits-theres-area-51/68389/
Hey, how much longer until civilians start flying those tiny helicopter drones over Groom Lake, too small and slow for radar to notice, and taking their own pictures? Especially the Chinese government civilians surveying what they’ll get in the WH-approved 2023 Land-Debt Swap. I like how they’re transmitting the pics home with a plain satellite phone, instant and can’t be jammed. Now that’s innovation!
Blimey, I hope noone tells Lisa Jackon about my Climategate iPhone app… 🙂
That ‘tube toon is a year old — I don’t know how on earth you envision its existence translating into Google seeing the light about anything.
Google can scrub like lady Macbeth. They can even use the scotchbrite. But the filthy stain of global warming advocacy wilt not out.
Googlegate cannot be erased. Google sought to suppress search returns that linked to the real emails in the days following following Climategate. Google chose instead to promote links to Soros funded sites to snow storm the issue. Google, despite their vast reach and anti-democratic intentions do not control the internet. Googlegate is a matter of permanent record. Their climate shame will burn on the Internet forever.
Do no evil? Pigs ass!! Google acted like scum. That is a fact. That fact can never be erased.
Google, you defended the global warming hoax. You are scum. You will never be forgiven. Not now, not ever.
Video fun, but devalued by the way Steve McIntyre becomes Professor Stefan McGinty. Partly due to computerised text reading, I presume. Michael Mann becomes Mitchel Mann.
“…. the global warming hoax to be shown to be based on the jawbones of asses.”
There’s not much in this mess that makes me smile, but that did.
Off topic, Anthony I watched the interview that Marc Marano did lately he looks very thin is he ill or just looking after himself , we can not afford to lose a fighter like Marc now that the end is in sight.
REPLY: Marc went on an exercise and weight loss program. He’s in better health than he was for years. – Anthony
That video is not made by Google. It is stored on youtube just like many other skeptical videos. And it is not any particularly good, too. And the user who posted it does not look affilated with Google in any way.
And I don’t see any “fake cloud” over Scarborough reef. Yes, the image does not provide any details but that holds true for many other islands and reefs in that or other areas. Go e.g. to area called Spratly islands and you’ll see a lot of white blobs in the map view with just a few of them being documented in detail on photo layer. I kinda don’t believe all of them are intentionally obscured by Google to hide Chinese army. They are just not interesting enough.
Re: Area 51 on Google Earth. Use the wayback button to check out how things have changed there as well. Extended runways, different parking patterns, buildings, etc. In one of the shots you can clearly see the Janet planes on the tarmac.
Area 51 is clearly very active but they do a great job of knowing when satellites are overhead and everything goes indoors. Lots of hangars.
Area 51 is paid for by American taxpayers, right? If yes, then ordinary folk own Area 51, they can throw a party there and no one could really stop them, not if there were enough party goers. Folk on Facebook and Twitter are always having their house parties crashed by folk they don’t know, so why doesn’t someone, via Twitter or Facebook, organise a party at Area 51, if organised properly I’m sure millions of people would turn up, and surely the U.S. military/security forces couldn’t arrest or shoot everyone. Could they?
I suspect those little Grey fellas that also work there, you know those dudes from Zeta Reticuli V would love a party, I bet they’re sick of all that serious secrecy nonsense, if the party is a success, those little Grey fellas would probably end up on a reality TV show within weeks, I’d be intrigued if they could impress Simon Cowell with their alien vocals.
David, after over a year, that video shows 41K views. I “guarantee” it is not being promoted by Google, but was a natural consequence of your browsing history being used to recommend content in which you would be interested.
Your leap of a conclusion, based on little more than wishful thinking, is representative of your other leaps in your numerological posts and that doozy of post about Pho and Cancer.
There’s no real difference between these companies – Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung – they just want your money. They differ in how they present themselves to you: Apple is the most honest, asking for large amounts of money in exchange for their beautiful devices. Samsung tries to do likewise, but can price their products lower (particularly by making them of plastic). Google offers many services for free and pretends to occupy the moral high ground, in exchange for selling you ads and selling your information to others. Microsoft is positioning itself as a more moral version of Google (http://www.scroogled.com/email/) but is struggling to adjust to the new mobile internet. They’ll all say the right things to different people, but they’re just trying to make a living, more or less honestly.
The Church of England may also be getting a dose of reality from it’s new archbishop.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10247524/Church-of-England-fracking-opponents-are-ignoring-the-poor.html
“they have a data center in Oklahoma that is powered by wind turbines.”
Really? And when the wind doesn’t blow the data center doesn’t work?
when pigs fly Smithers.
google is and will remain on the side of evil. don’t be an ignorante they are in obamas circle of hell. THAT is the centre one.
Exactly.
Great post and fantastic video.
I never [knew] that the fragrant Gore worked for Apple and the question is if I knew would I now be holding this I phone?
Judge not what people say but what they do Microsoft have a policy statement on Global Warming. The usual goodie goodie crap. Next year they end support for Windows XP and Office 2003 which means that millions of older computers will have to be replaced,not only is this a cost to business’s and private individuals it means that machines which could continue to function for routine business applications will need to be trashed.
Which of course is very very good for the environment?
Google bosses will never dump the liberal agenda. If and only if the Democrats drop AGW and it’s various morphs, Google will go along. But they will keep everything at hand when the Democrats revive it (they alway revive things that worked for them).