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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David, well done. You may be interested in my “Open Letter To Google” on the same subject, published back in 2011. If you don’t mind, I’ll put a link to it as “For Further Reading” at the end of your post.
All the best,
w.
This is not something to be celebrated or welcomed.
It is offensive.
It is self-defeating.
It is not worth the electrons… we have proper arguments that don’t insult 50% of the world’s population.
Frankly, it sounds like a false flag operation.
As Shakespeare said, this is much doo-doo about nothing.
Pamela Gray says:
August 17, 2013 at 6:55 am
“Businesses follow first principles of making money. If they don’t they soon become non-businesses. They jump like frogs from one lily pad to the next to sweep up the first fruits of a hot topic. When the fruit begins to turn or the next lily has better fruit, they hop to that lily pad. Google laid a bet on global warming business that hasn’t panned out. They will of their own accord hop to another lily pad with or without our congrats.”
The first principle of a global company is to support the globalist agenda. A multinational corporation can profit from undermining national souvereignty and will therefore support the CFR and its creation, the UN. Even Rupert Murdoch is a member of the CFR.
Michael Palmer says:
August 17, 2013 at 5:32 am
“Alberta Slim says:
The heads of Google, Microsoft, and Apple are, supposed to be brilliant when it comes to logic. So why do the believe in CAGW? It seems unlikely to be ignorance, so it must be dishonesty. IMO.
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Nope. They simply have no training, and maybe no real interest in physical sciences either. ”
They know full well that the “environmental crisis” whether it’s called Global Warming, Ozone Hole, PCB’s whatever, is ALWAYS, since 1971 (Earth summit, Maurice Strong, invention of the NGO’s as the “below” part in the “pressure from above, pressure from below” dialectic), a political vehicle only, intended only to grant the UN more control over all nations (and via the International Criminal Court over all citizens Nuremberg-style).
Do you think Eric Schmidt is stupid????
there dozens of places smudged out by google on google earth.
maybe now that the surface station project is more or less finished , Anthony could get everyone to take photos of these places.
I found one of the sandwich islands in between the bottom tip of south america and the west antarctic peninsula was smudged out while the neighbouring islands were in fine detail. Probably a naval guard base for that ocean way bottleneck.
Not enough here for me to start using Google. I will probably never use it again. Still in the same trashcan as Wikipedia.
A few years ago my senator informed me of a bill (or amendment to bill) that Senator Inhofe was proposing dealing with global warming. I miscopied one word in the URL and got the 404 page. So I typed in the exact title into Google and did a search. No luck – thousands of pages but I could not find the bill. Put the title into Bing – it was the second document. Tried Yahoo, it was the second and third document. The document may have been somewhere in the thousands of pages – but I was not going to look for it in all of that mess – and they know that.
Sean says:
August 17, 2013 at 1:13 pm
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.
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Microsoft is also treasonous, even if free of the odium of Prince Albert. So what do you recommend a consumer do who wants a smartphone?
Who cares about Area 51; the most important question is: does Google Earth show the entrance to the Caves of Caerbannog?
I’m mildly surprised that Disney hasn’t yet made a feature-length cartoon on the subject. I’m still looking forward to ignoring it, though.
Willis Eschenbach says:
August 17, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Willis, please do, with thanks.
RockyRoad says:
August 17, 2013 at 6:59 am
writes “… choose/predict the next name after “global warming”: Climate Slutism.”
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I googled “Climate Slutism”
It linked this post, as the second hit. If I actually used the quotes, it was the only hit. It found this posyt 0.25 seconds. That’s pretty amazing
Is this the same Google thats being chased for Corporation Tax.
Now it knows how the rest of us feel about being chased for Carbon Tax
Ditto. I avoid Google for the most part; use Yahoo for commercial email (subscriptions, etc.), and Bing or Duck-Duck-Go for searches.
But as for Apple, I’ve been a Mac user since 1988. The Mac OS and Apple products have always been a head above the competition (IMO), and so (with Rush Limbaugh, also a longtime Apple fan) I try to ignore the Goracle’s presence on their board. Putting Lisa Jackson on is certainly egregious enough to give me pause, though.
/Mr Lynn
M Courtney says:
August 17, 2013 at 2:15 pm
The male cartoon figure calls the female one an “ignorant slut”
It is not worth the electrons… we have proper arguments that don’t insult 50% of the world’s population.
You are dramatizing the effect of this expression. You can’t deny that ignorant women exist, and yes, that some of them may also be sluts, however, most women won’t feel called upon this derogation and consequently won’t feel insulted.
To answer the title of this post; No.
Google’s ‘don’t be evil’ is like telling a drug cartel not to sell cocaine. Words, not substance.
1. Privacy of emails – ‘not a reasonable expectation’.
2. Taxation payment – ‘not a reasonable expectation’.
3. Climate change – ‘not a reasonable expectation to look at the science properly’.
Google have burst their credibility. Their management will have made enough and couldn’t care if the brand dies. It will die in the next 10 years, but they will be rich enough not to care.
The new reality is growing an image, then betraying the image whilst you make money, then moving on to start anew.
Hmmh… the USA Dictator overturns a court judgement against Apple and one of his closest cronies gets appointed to the board, mucho quid pro quo.
Google and their 31 captive scientists haven’t a glimmer that we might be cooling. Gentlemen, search your engines.
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The “no reasonable expectation of privacy” mantra is a legalistic attempt to deny the obvious, and it was also abused by Oracle over a decade ago, and by the government in cases going back decades.
They agree with CEI that they should get more cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled foreign labor with flexible ethics. These firms especially want those flexible ethics.
For searches, I usually use ixquick… and remember to clear out your history, book-marks/favorites, and cookies frequently.
Google is certainly putting their money on no significant warming or consequent sea-level rise. They’re building a new campus right on the edge of SF Bay that’ll be very damp if AlGore’s predictions are anywhere near true:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23606775/google-building-first-campus-from-ground-up
“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.”
Sonofabitch Archibald. That the level now?
REPLY: The phrase is from an old Saturday Night Live TV skit parodying , something as a humorless warmist troll not from the USA you’d be unfamiliar with. It’s classic high camp. -Anthony
Google and the CAGW propagandists have the very same goal which has nothing to do with man effecting the climate.
[snip – chemtrails aren’t discussed here, plus it is waaaaaaaaayyyyyy off topic – Anthony]
David, the “Global Warming Hoax Explained for Dummies” video is not from Youtube, it is from a Youtube user named Alan Lamont, who uses the Youtube handle “MrJacktemplar.”
I liked that line at the end, “It took the Plitdown Man hoax 40 years before the public and scientsts figured out that it was based on the jawbone of an orangutan. I hope it does not take 40 years to find out that the global warming hoax was based on the jawbones of a bunch of asses.” However, the video also contains errors, and Mr. Lamont is a “slayer” who posts a lot of über-nutty conspiracy theory videos, including goofy topics which “aren’t discussed here.”