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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Based on this revelation, may I submit a new entrant to the Lexicon Shift Alert post of August 15, wherein we were asked to choose/predict the next name after “global warming”:
Climate Slutism.
I’m sure the Googles of the world will deman a retraction, but it’s an apt description.
I use Ixquick.com. They keep no data on your IP or other information past your search time. Guaranteed to be a private search. They are just as fast as the other search engines.
Paul767 says: August 17, 2013 at 7:11 am “I use Ixquick.com. They keep no data on your IP or other information past your search time. Guaranteed to be a private search. ”
Trust and verify. How have you verified your privacy? Believe nothing that one reads or hears without verifying it oneself unless it fits ones preexisting worldview.
The video gets many things right and many things wrong. All it takes is a couple of wrongs for the propagandists to attack and the video loses all credibility. Nice try but a failure none the less.
How about a follow up on what exactly is right and what is wrong? Anyone?
From Doug Huffman on August 17, 2013 at 7:31 am:
I found a 2010 review of Ixquick:
http://www.geek.com/news/ixquick-offer-anonymous-web-browsing-with-new-startpage-proxy-1072971/
You can use either ixquick.com or startpage.com. The difference is Startpage says it’s “enhanced by Google”. Both are encrypted sites. Since money needs to be made somewhere, assume they do log which sites are clicked on.
The 2010 article mentions browsers with privacy functions. Current ones like Firefox have full-blown “pr0n mode”, stores nothing, help keeps you anonymous. The benefit of those search sites is they provide a proxy connection. The encryption and having the proxy load sites before you get them slows things down.
But these days if you’re that worried about privacy, might as well just run the Tor onion router and don’t worry about it.
So search in “pr0n mode” with Tor, and you don’t need Ixquick or Startpage.
@Konrad “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.”
I have done searches for articles posted on WUWT that had over 100 posts however Google’s top returns were from a global warming advocacy website trying to distort those articles with less than 5 posts. Google appears to be manipulating the flow of information! Will Bingit be any better? Perhaps a boycott of Google?
In the end, Google’s political agenda will be their own doom.
Wow. On dial-up, Ixquick search for “cheryl burke topless” took 1 minute 20 seconds, which includes all the idling time “connecting to” the site.
Google, using normal connection, 11 seconds (rounded up).
Using Iceweasel 23.0 (Firefox) “Private Browsing” window, which forces an encrypted connection with Google, 15 seconds.
“Ixquick” sure ain’t quick.
Mike Rossander says:
August 17, 2013 at 12:28 am
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Regarding email privacy: I have always worked on the assumption that email is as secure and private as writing on the back of a postcard. (Remember them from the good old days?) Anyone in the chain of delivery could read your postcard and exactly the same holds true for email. If you don’t want others to read your email during transmission or storage, use encryption – that will at least slow them down. It is also why nothing I consider critical or private goes to the public cloud storage.
Jeff Ulrich says: August 17, 2013 at 7:49 am “How about a follow up on what exactly is right and what is wrong? Anyone?”
Not I. See the Narrative Fallacy in perhaps Popper or Taleb. It is the Witch Doctor’s tool requiring suspension of disbelief/skepticism. IOW, a picture is worth a thousand words, video runs faster than 16 picture-frames per second, so a nonsense video is 16K ‘words’ of nonsense per second.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
August 17, 2013 at 8:23 am
Who or what is a Cheryl Brooke, and is the top condition of said cheryl burke more valuable topless or topmore? (Is this anythong like Atlanta’s recent lowest high ever temperature record yesterday?)
What is the annual rate of change of cheryl brooke’s state of being top less (or more), and what is the peer-reviewed standard deviation of cheryl brooke’s lesser top?
Pamela Gray says:
August 17, 2013 at 6:55 am
Businesses follow first principles of making money…………………………………….
I believe that analysis is quite true. Sen. Inhofe luncheon….. etc.
And Chip said; Ray Kurzweil is dismissive….etc.
Now if Apple would boot Lisa ans Al of the board it would be nice.
[“and Al off” ? Mod]
Google appears to be doing what many businesses do in all mixed economies (i.e. in government intervention based ones). It is taking advantage of sucking up ideologically with the governmental interventionists for a profit.
As skeptics continue to peel back and publicly expose the pseudo-science layers the CAGW supported by the IPCC, then businesses like Google of course will drift away and then pick a new government interventionist group to suck up to for profit.
I think we need to unmix our economies; undo the governmental interventions.
John
Google built a data center, a server farm of unprecedented proportion, on a 30‑acre campus in The Dalles, OR to take advantage of cheap hydropower from the 1.8 gigawatt The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River. Maybe Google’s appetite for electricity has helped wise them up.
Calling a female character an ‘ignorant slut’ isn’t the way to make a point.
Here another example of the power of Google. Have a look at the Alexa data for WUWT compared to skeptical science here:
source:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com#trafficstats
Google rates sites nowadays with “panda”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
“Good” google panda sites are higher ranked in the search engine than “bad” sites. Notice that WUWT gets a lot more traffic than skeptical science but very few hits from a search enige compared to skeptical science. This difference in visitors is obviously a direct benchmark of how google panda rates both sites. Obviously Panda penalizes global warming sceptism.
But even more interesting it gets, when we look at the bounce rate:
from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_rate
“As a rule of thumb, a 50 percent bounce rate is average. If you surpass 60 percent, you should be concerned. If you’re in excess of 80 percent, you’ve got a major problem”.
To paraphrase Pooh, I thought already that one of us had a problem with the bounce rate, and I knew it wasn’t me.
Just Google “Fracking” and see what is returned. There is an awful lot of anti-fracking propaganda in the first 10 pages. The kids at Google, like Hollywood and the Rock universe, have been inveigled into using their brand to advance an agenda and that agenda is basically anti-human.
Surely being a leftist liberal isn’t the price you have to pay for creativity. Where are the new Clint Eastwoods? Anyway, they are being irresponsible and someone needs to tell them to stop.
I have I Google set up to show me anything related to global warming. Most days there are about 3000 articles that believe in global warming and 7 that don’t, but some days are not good for the alarmists and then there are a few hundred that dispute global warming and handful that support it. I set this up years ago and have not seen a change in the relative numbers, but it does seem that the total number of articles is dropping a bit.
I doubt that Google’s recommendations for Utube videos means anything more that when Amazon recommends a book based on a similar book I have bought. All the global warming books I buy are sceptical and Amazon recommends other sceptical books, I don’t think these recommendations mean Amazon agrees with the books.
Before Google hired it’s team of “experts” the skeptical articles always came up first in the search results and the propaganda was on page 2 or 3, now that’s reversed.
“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”
Yep, I remember that. They made it very difficult to get to the real story unless you already knew it and knew what phrases to quote. Im not bothered when they choose what goes on top, thats business, but the obvious intentional suppression of information was bothersome.
Too bad bing is such a sad effort. Id like to boycott, but google is still indespensible.
Google earth seems to show a lot more clear-cutting of the forest in British Columbia than what i see when flying over. Any pilots out there able to confirm or refute this?
@Rob Roy –
Yahoo also is constantly pushing alarmist slop – some of it really far out.
We need a big internet company that can push the skeptic side as much as these mollusks do the alarmist side.
Please cite some logic when making a statement like this.
#1. Millions of PCs will continue to function JUST FINE past the MS Xp support cut-off date!
#2. If you just have to have a supported OS – INSTALL WIN 7!
My Dell OptiPlex 755 took to Win 7 64-bit JUST FINE …
Google, Apple, are treasonous companies with Al Gore on their boards and have nefarious “progressive” social engineering goals. They can not be trusted and should not be supported.
I decline to patronize both of these companies with my business and I encourage all to follow suit.