Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Google is hosting a three day climate summit packed with A-list activists arriving by mega yacht and private jet.
A-listers flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change
By Emily Smith and Ebony Bowden
July 30, 2019The world’s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process.
The billionaire creators of Google have invited a who’s who of A-list names— including former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry — to the Sicilian seaside for a mega-party they’ve dubbed Google Camp.
The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change — though it’s unknown how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on.
“Everything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year,” a source told The Post.
Their three-day summer camp will cost the tech giant some $20 million, sources said.
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Read more: https://pagesix.com/2019/07/30/a-listers-flock-to-google-summit-in-private-jets-mega-yachts-to-talk-climate-change/
I’d love to be a witness to what happens at that climate “conference”. But I somehow doubt the topic of conversation will be their personal carbon footprints, unless they decide to start comparing the size of their private jets.
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I’ll start taking AGW seriously when these people do. Until then…
But John they would tell you, if you had been invited, that their ends justify their means.
The motto of this years conference is: “Fossil Fuel for Me but Not for Thee”
Fossil fuel and wealth.
If we all commit to keeping our carbon footprints at or below that of Al Gore everything will turn out fine — take the pledge!
Years ago, I pledged to maintain a carbon footprint below the mean between Al Gore and Leo Di Caprio. It turns out that this pledge has been remarkably easy to keep.
I think there should be a new SI unit for CO2-e emissions called the Gore, based on uncle Al’s average yearly output. Needless to say, this unit will be way too large for common folk, so the miliGore will be the standard unit for us lil folk.
NanoGore or FemtoGore would be closer to reality.
Yes, but they’ll plant TREES.
I mean pay someone to plant trees.
I mean, buy green credits.
I mean, SAY they will buy green credits.
Only their accountants (and bankers in the Caymans) knows, actually.
The important thing is they SAY they do these things. That should be enough for the Great Unwashed (and Uninvited), right?
Yup. In reality, this is just part of the Progressive War on the Middle Class, which can’t afford to virtue signal at this level and maintain any standard of living at the same time.
No you mean we will pay for them to say they are offsetting as all the offsets are tax deductible from what I have been told.
Indeed, I missed that step (but I had to stop listing their hypocritical grifting somewhere, or we’d be here all day….)
Even then I will not. I will take it seriously when the climate model predictions made on fossil fuel use as a driver of change are accurate to within 5% for both extent and timing as they have to be for commercial grade engineering applications.
Obviously they are so full of their own ‘A list’ importance to see what everyone else can see; they are virtue signalling about climate change from the driving seat of a Hummer, whilst wearing no clothes.
It’s disappointing to see how political bias has enabled otherwise smart people at Google to be so thoroughly fooled by the climate science deception perpetuated by the IPCC in its pursuit of the policy goals of the UNFCCC which are openly hostile to the economic system that enabled a company like Google to exist in the first place.
One word: ANTITRUST
Google must have a “carbon footprint” larger than most nation states.
Obummer rendered the Paris accord meaningless by allowing China to sign up to do exactly what they want, while everyone else is supposed to choke on their own hand.
What a team.
lol – I don’t think they really care about what could allow a new Google to emerge. They have forever money at the top and they all have bunkers for when the shit goes down. They want to deindustrialize the west at all costs. It does not matter what the side effects are.
Other social media platforms were before Facebook, and unless FB does a Ma Bell sweetheart deal with the government regulators to encyst themselves as the monopoly supplier, they will end up like AOL.
I don’t believe these people are wise enough to comprehend the real consequences of their delusions.
But where does Google money come from? I do not pay Google directly every time I use an internet search. So does it come from: – advertising? So where does advertising money come from? Surely from companies who have products that they want us to buy? And where does the money to buy the products come from? Surely from a population in a prosperous economy with significant disposable income.
So what do Google want ? They align themselves with those who wish to deindustrialise the developed world and eliminate a relatively prosperous middle class in pursuit of a climate change ideology which has no credibility given that China , India, Indonesia , etc continue to develop as they are doing so at present.
Have Google thought this through adequately , or indeed at all?
It is interesting how they make their money.
They first convinced us that the google searches were unbiased and then later started to add ads with pay for by ….
Controlling the search results is power which they sell.
Their power also comes from the info that can be found by analyzing your searches and activity which they then sell for targeted specialized ads which are distributed using their browser and searches and their maps.
Google also has the browser, email, and cloud services which are commercially supportive.
The monarchy in Britain and the “upper” classes never liked industrialisation because the people who became rich were common tradesmen and not the nobility and “upper” classes.
In large part, the culture of being anti-“new money”-industrialists was what led academia to be against industry and then against its proxy “CO2”.
The irony is that they look down on Google as much as they look down on industry – but Google are too stupid to see it yet.
“Google are too stupid to see it yet.”
Curious why you use a plural for a singular. Google is an entity, shouldn’t it be “Google is”? Maybe it’s a difference between American English and British English?
I think it is Brit usage to refer to corporations with a plural, but I’m not a Brit.
Google is, googlers are …
Why do you think they’re fooled? In the modern world, you should never attribute to stupidity what can adequately be explained by malice.
They don’t believe this claptrap. They know it’s just a weapon they can use to bring about their globalist utopia where they’re all in charge of everything.
Mark, that is a reasonable point to make, it does beg the question, what don’t they already control, that they feel they would like to?
It is about power and control. They fear revolution by the masses. A revolt of the “have nots” over the “Haves.”
Their plan is to get the majority to voluntarily agree at the ballot box to converted this Representative Republic into some version of Huxley’s Brave New World. A planned controlled population, controlled by the elites of course. This climate hoax is just one strategy of many.
Success is dependent upon the brainwashing of the masses beginning with control of the primary means of communication, Media at all levels, getting education at all levels controlled by the government and directed at the federal level. Federalizing the Student loan business (Barack’s Baby) in order to get more people into college for advanced brainwashing.
So now we have a media and educational industrial complex Follow Federal funds to understand the totality of their strategies. We know that it is a lot easier to dupe someone who has been dumbed down and brainwashed for 17 years yet thinks they are smart because they hold a useless degree in a social science with no where to work but for the Government. So government expands to meet the supply and the next thing you know you have politicians falling all over themselves to be the first “Progressive” to forgive all student loan debt.
I could write a dissertation Rod but just understand that they fear the poor rising up against them and they are anxious to mitigate that fear. Their Globalist Utopia is about the Wealthy controlling the population by first transferring middle class disposable income to the poor to satiate the more problematic until they have everybody dependent on them. In the end they control the resources including population growth.
If they could just bomb those problematic Red States they could complete their Vision within a generation.
Thanks Bill for a well considered answer. Having read some of the background activities of the Frankfurt School I have to say, the fixation with Marx by the anti capitalists i.e. anti energy consumers, explains some of the brainless activities now happening around the world.
Oh, & don’t forget responsible for absolutely nothing, rather like the EU Distopia Superstate!
I know that they are fooled because I spent years on the inside. They try not to be evil and they’re not trying to de-industrialize the world, but far left politics that wraps evil intentions with false benevolence gets in the way. The problem is that rational discourse related to politically divisive issues, like climate science, is lacking internally. The reasons are that most of Google’s engineering and corporate operations are in places where far left politics is the norm and many of their employees are right out of elite universities where they’ve been indoctrinated to far left ideologies.
Blind conformance to any political ideology can make even the smartest people look really dumb, especially since those on the left more readily accept the opinions of others they perceive as being smart about what they don’t know themselves. Projectionism like this is an intellectual shortcoming far more common among those on the left than it is among those on the right and the current state of political discourse demonstrates this effect with unwavering certainty.
Thank’s, best explanation so far : Malice ; one could add to malice greed.
Yes greed and malice!
Oh no. The elites regard depriving oneself to fight climate change the same way the ancient Romans regarded chastity, a virtue admired in others.
They are the chosen ones, after all, and the peons can deprive themselves due to the higher prices for energy “to save the planet”. They are the chosen ones, remember.
Have they invited Just-incompetent Trudeau. He could tell them where to buy the “paper like drink box bottle water sort of thing” that he uses in his fight against plastic straws.
And how about Al Bore? Why isn’t his name on the (A-)list??
A good time was had by all.
They’ve mistaken their virtue signal for their left turn signal.
What a bunch of pompous scum bags.
They will be be discussing and reflecting on how popular and important they all are, and how they need to exploit their popularity and social importance in proselytizing the gospel of global warming. They will share about the great burden each of them carries from being born beautiful, talented, or supremely devious which has led to enormous wealth and public admiration. Surely, since the public buys their music, movies, and tech components … the public will “buy” their insistence that a one-world centralized government is the only way to save the planet. That everyone MUST OBEY … it is an existential and moral imperative!!
… and please pass the Vegan bbq ribs
Do as I say, not as I do.
DAISNAID!
Camp Google has one ulterior purpose in the minds of Sergey Brin and Larry Page…
Prevent a possible US government’s anti-trust breakup of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) by currying influence within Democratic and Liberal circles.
Left and right nuts, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump both attack Google as being too big, too much influence. Brin and Page both know that if they’ve got Obama and a host of “A-list” Leftists in their corner, nothing will happen in DC, London, or Brussels.
Climate change has nothing to do with climate… once again… it’s just a vehicle for Billionaire’s to exert influence, gain power, and get richer.
Three words: Section Two-Thirty
A very interesting take on the event.
Personally, I never thought of the Obamas as A-Listers, and as far as I could see, the Beautiful People never considered those two to be “One Of Us” either. So how does Obama get the invite?
All of a sudden, your take on things starts to make sense. Curious.
One word: Influence. BHO commands a tremendous amount of voter capital for any candidae or issue needing support from the Democrat’s base – moderates, liberals, progressives, blacks, the Hollywood elitists. The billioniare-Left knows it. So they want to cultivate it.
Just last week, Project Veritas exposed a senior Google executive in a video sting of her admitting what the upper echelons of Google’s executives have been told to say:
PV got Google’s VP of Responsible Innovation Jenn Gennai on video with her saying the following:
“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again.”
“We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?”
Gennai is the head of “Responsible Innovation” for Google, and works on artificial intelligence (A.I.) projects. In the video, Gennai says “break[ing] up Google” would be a bad thing for political reasons:
“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”
https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/07/11/project-veritas-re-uploads-google-expose-taken-down-by-youtube-ahead-of-white-house-social-media-summit/
This is the subtle message from Brin and Page that will be brought home at Camp Google to these A-Lister attendees.
– Message #1: we’re fully on-board with the Left’s agenda, including the Climate Scam.
– Message #2: we’re willing to throw quite a bit of money at you guys for this.
– Message #3: A smaller set of companies, separately, couldn’t do the coordinated, deep money, and AI search engine skews like Google can for promoting your agenda.
– Message #4: Don’t let Pocahontas or Trump break us up.
Brin is closer to Russia than Hillary the Crook.
When they broke up Bell’s near monopoly was the result good or bad for the consumer?
Of course it was good for the consumer, it set off competition and a freer-market. (There was still regulation).
But that’s not the point.
From Brin and Page’s perspective, Alphabet is their baby and they don’t want anyone taking that away from them, forcing them to break-up and sell Alphabet into pieces and parts.
So $20million to schmooze politically connected Liberals is just small change as part of an insurance policy premium — a cost of doing business from their perspective. That amount money from Alphabet as part of their corporate promotion budget is like 20 bucks to me and you.
Do as i say, not as I do. Phonies and hypocrites
To be cynical, Microsoft was apolitical in the mid-1990’s, until it was hit with an antitrust suit by the Clinton administration. After that incident, Bill Gates suddenly grew a social conscience.
The U.S. government’s interest in Microsoft began in 1992 with an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission over whether Microsoft was abusing its monopoly on the PC operating system market. That was under the George H W Bush administration.
The point is valid no matter which party started the investigation. Gates had no politicians who owed him a favor.
I’d bet a carbon-credit that 97% of the yacht owners also flew on a jet to the ‘event’.
Didn’t you know? It’s all the rage among the wealthy Socialist Elites!
From the article: “Leonardo DiCaprio (NASA/Goddard)”
I thought that was funny that the credit went to NASA/Goddard for a picture of Leonardo. He’s in the NASA photo archive, is he?
And then they spent $20 million on this three-day event! I would love to see an itemized list of those expences.
I wonder if they invited Greta? I seem to have misplaced my invitation.
If only Google had some collaborative video conferencing software that they could use.
It’s interesting to note the relative financial might of “Big Oil” compared to “Big Tech.” As of today, the market cap for the following companies is:
Shell Oil: $252.9 B USD
Exxon Mobil: $314.62 B USD
Chevron: $123.11 B USD
Conoco Phillips: $59.08 B USD
Occidental: $51.36 B USD
Total Big Oil: $801.07 B USD
Google: $843.71 B USD
Apple: $965.37 B USD (down from over $1 trillion)
Microsoft: $1,041,51 B USD
Each of three Big Tech companies is worth more than all of the major US oil companies combined. Yet without the products the oil companies provide, the Big Tech companies would cease to exist – as would the rest of the US economy, and the value of all of the money possessed by the wealthy. The rich warmmongers may have a lot of money to throw around now, but if they get their way, they have a very, very long way to fall – and they will fall first.
A private jet go go where you will.
Stay free at a very exclusive and expensive resort, just because.
Rub elbows with the rich, famous and powerful.
I could get used to that.
No thank you. I can’t stomach what I’d have to do nor who I’d have to do it with.
Aren’t there are some critical thinkers at Google who question their cozy relationship with China, the worlds #1 CO2 emitter?
Follow the money. These are the people hell bent on controlling the rest of us.
The nuevo- ecorich.
I expect someone will claim this has all been financed by the dark forces of the fossil fuel industry.
I take it this is the issue that they’re going to use to interfere in the election next year. Hello DOJ.
Remember, it’s not their CO2 emissions that is the problem. It’s the emissions from the rest of us.
It’s their personal co2 emissions that’s the problem.
Greta will be arriving by sail boat, I’m guessing?
But a very high grade one that cost so much and does so few passenger miles the carbon footprint is around a hundred or more times that of a commercial flight. It would be really worrying if climate science claims that the change is man made were not utter cr@p.
How are these A-List people going to fly into Chile this fall, when Greta has sworn off flying as bad for the planet and she herself is taking a racing sail boat to get there. Why doesn’t one of these privileged rich people just offer Greta a ride in their private jet…the plane is going anyway.
They are not that stupid. They want to have fun but no lectures.
This week i had a Skype meeting with one person sitting 50 km from me and the other 500 km.
Surely GOOGLE(!) could organize a high definition 3D video conference that works?
That would be real news for saving the earth..
Last year, I participated in a technical handover meeting via Skype between Sydney, Australia and Mumbai, India. That’s over 10,000kms.
114 private jets according to Jo Nova:
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/114-private-jets-flying-into-google-global-summer-camp-party-thing/
It all sounds quite Elysium doesnt it?
I wonder if they are really so unaware of their hypocrisy or they just dont care? probably a mix, answers are rarely black and white as we would like. I guess some would say their emissions are just the cost of setting the course that will save the sheeple minions from themselves. I wonder if Greta will get a gig or is she more entertainment for the masses?
Does anyone have a 10 meter diameter meteor I can borrow?
More to the point, where can one get a Tomahawk equipped sub.? Asking for a friend…
Who cares how much CO2 they are using. That is not the problem, it’s what they say and do at these conferences….
Wasn’t it Google engineers who found that there was no path to solve climate change using renewables?
They won’t be invited to this shindig.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
Yes, but the problem is they’re still deluded enough to believe that there is still a climate “problem” that requires a “solution.” And they uncritically accept the preaching of Hansen, whose climate doom “predictions” have been WRONG 100% of the time. They also accept nonsense like the “century long” residence time of atmospheric CO2, which is a joke (NOT that it is an “issue” anyway).
Yup.
It is really quite strange.
This is a better quote, same subject.
The google engineers discovered that electricity will become horrifyingly expense when storage is required and that there is almost no savings in CO2 emissions at that point to use green energy.
Making energy horrifyingly expensive will have bad consequences such as politicians losing elections, in addition to economic collapse and riots in the streets.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/
In reality, well before any such stage was reached, energy would become horrifyingly expensive – which means that everything would become horrifyingly expensive … ….everyone would become miserably poor and economic growth …
Even if one were to electrify all of transport, industry, heating and so on, so much renewable generation and balancing/storage equipment would be needed to power it that astronomical new requirements for steel, concrete, copper, glass, carbon fibre, neodymium, shipping and haulage etc etc would appear. All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms – and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them and so on. The scale of the building would be like nothing ever attempted by the human race.
This is a better quote, same subject.
The google engineers discovered ‘green’ schemes will make electricity horrifyingly expense at the point where storage is required and that there is almost no savings in CO2 emissions at the load point where storage is required to use green energy.
Making energy horrifyingly expensive will have bad consequences such as politicians losing elections, in addition to economic collapse and riots in the streets.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/
In reality, well before any such stage was reached, energy would become horrifyingly expensive – which means that everything would become horrifyingly expensive … ….everyone would become miserably poor and economic growth …
Even if one were to electrify all of transport, industry, heating and so on, so much renewable generation and balancing/storage equipment would be needed to power it that astronomical new requirements for steel, concrete, copper, glass, carbon fibre, neodymium, shipping and haulage etc etc would appear. All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms – and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them and so on. The scale of the building would be like nothing ever attempted by the human race.
Let#s hope Etna decides that will be a good time to show what real power looks like . If it’s hot air they are concerned about they may just be choosing the right place at the right time.
Upping the “ante”?