Via Axios: Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information about climate change and clean energy.
McCarthy: “The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation.”
McCarthy said the problem of disinformation has shifted from disputing the reality of climate change to inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels.
McCarthy on how the definition of alleged climate “misinformation” has shifted to climate skeptics challenging whether climate “solutions” actually impact the climate. They are now “seeding, basically, doubt about the costs associated with that and whether they work or not.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot June 10, 2022 8:18 AM
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/climate-gina-mccarthy-misinformation
By Ben Geman,
Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information about climate change and clean energy.
Driving the news: “The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation,” she told Axios’ Alexi McCammond at a virtual event that aired Thursday.
- “We need the tech companies to really jump in,” McCarthy said.
The big picture: McCarthy said that overall, the problem of disinformation has shifted from disputing the reality of climate change to inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels.
- “Now it has moved from denial, but the dark money is still there. The fossil fuel companies are still basically trying their best to make sure that people don’t understand the challenge of climate,” she said.
- “Now, the challenge really is, how do we accelerate the solutions we have available to us, the technology improvements that we’ve seen that are most cost-effective, in fact cost-competitive with fossil fuels.”
- “And what the industry is now doing is seeding, basically, doubt about the costs associated with that and whether they work or not.”
Catch up fast: Major platforms including Facebook, Google and YouTube have unveiled new efforts in recent years to attempt to deter circulation and steer users to accurate information.
Twitter said in April that it’s toughening efforts to prevent “misleading advertisements” that “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change.”
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Biden aide Climate czar Gina McCarthy prods tech companies to censor / deplatform opposition to her climate policy.
New definition of climate disinformation:
“inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels”https://t.co/umn1Ql61OU
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) June 9, 2022
A set of quotes from a group of people who had the following entry in their dictionaries
and decided to make “these United States” a republic (“for as long as you can keep it” …) instead.
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed in the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty.” — Patrick Henry
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The Slashdot website has a “Thought for the day” quote (or quip) at the bottom of each webpage it serves up.
A couple of recent examples …
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From a recent article on the Reason website titled “You’re Wrong About Disinformation” :
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Zero Hedge’s “Tyler Durden” tends to go a bit far at times, but the following recent extract seems perfectly reasonable to me …
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To close, here are a few more quotes about “tolerance” and “human nature” …
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.” — Voltaire
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“My freedom doesn’t end where your fear begins.” — Candace Owens
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” — Booker T. Washington
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.” — Frank Herbert
“Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.” — Bertrand Russell
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime you are being ruled by criminals.” — Source unknown
“different brands of tires have different rates of particle pollution, and because we can’t just tell people to stop using their personal vehicles, the next best step would be to ban the worst-offending tire brands.”- Nick Molden, the CEO and founder of Emissions Analytics
Think Car Exhaust Is Bad? Wait ‘Til You Hear About Tire Pollution (gizmodo.com.au)
and the next best step after that would be….?
TyreSafe explains what is different about tyres for EVs
““All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.” — Frank Herbert”
I like that one best.
42X42^42, Mark. All of those quotes (and more) should be chiseled on the walls of every public building and mandated for instruction at every level of education.
And if they do what she says then they now become Federal Agents, and subject to the First Amendment? It could yet become a big mistake on her part.
It’s 1984 all over again.
Yes, we are seeing the early stages of “1984” being implemented in the United States.
This is truly third-world government behavior worthy of any tin-pot dictatorial thug you can imagine. Thug governments tend to not understand engineering and physics, and suppress those who do understand the complexities.
I wonder if here in the USA we’ll have our own “Great Leap Forward”, where people will be asked to make solar panels in their back yards using sand from the kid’s sandbox and a blowtorch.
“This is truly third-world government behavior worthy of any tin-pot dictatorial thug you can imagine.”
That sounds like Joe Biden to me.
Clamping down on free speech and the truth. Disgraceful.
Wait a minute! I thought it was John Kerry that was, and currently still is, Biden’s official Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (reserving the title of “climate czar”). AFAIK, he has not (yet) been replaced in this position.
Now I find the term “climate czar” is being bestowed on Gina McCarthy as well, who has the official title of White House National Climate Advisor (the first to hold this position that was created by the President Biden, taking office on January 20, 2021).
Lurch is not going to be happy about this.
Will the real climate czar please stand up?
Let’s not miss her sleight of hand here, either from too many years with her head in the nether places or because it is the new script/talking points from her handlers.
There has been NO shift in criticism. From the beginning and up to the present, critics have challenged BOTH the “climate crisis” narrative AND the “renewable energy ‘solution.’”
On neither subject has so-called “big oil” or the “fossil fuel industry” played a big role in countering the power grab by green, sewer-dwelling power mongers. In fact, most energy companies have paid lip service or even succumbed to lunatic fringe ideologues.
“There has been NO shift in criticism. From the beginning and up to the present, critics have challenged BOTH the “climate crisis” narrative AND the “renewable energy ‘solution”
True. She wants people to believe the lie that “the science is settled” and even skeptics accept that lie.
The debate (that never happened) is over.
Now it’s only money-grubbing company CEO’s like those at Solyndra … er … Big Oil that want to cash in on the “solutions” to a nonexistent problem.
(But she’s a politician. Besides money, what do some politicians crave?)
“On neither subject has so-called “big oil” or the “fossil fuel industry” played a big role in countering the power grab by green, sewer-dwelling power mongers. In fact, most energy companies have paid lip service or even succumbed to lunatic fringe ideologues.”
That’s the truth of the matter. McCarthy blaming oil companies is like Biden blaming Putin for the crashing U.S. economy. Both claims are ridiculous falsehoods meant to distract people from reality.
Is it inaccurate or disinformation to state that it is humanly impossible to engineer the ideal climate for each of the 30 climate and sub climate zones?
If they cannot both qualify (quantify) the ideal climate of a single zone and show it possible to engineer this, why would I have any confidence in their deluded and misguided attempts to do this in all 30?
I guess Westinghouse is spreading disinformation as well when their website on Small-Modular-Reactors (https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/small-modular-reactor) states that in order to provide 225 MWe their design with require approximately 15 acres of land where the average solar installation would require 2400 acres and the average wind power installation would require 60,000 acres. Written another way, that’s
Boris Johnson is seemingly keen to deflect attention from his economic and party policies with a part-reversion to Imperial, so I guess he’ll appreciate them.
For others, I offer an entirely off the cuff [no envelope was harmed in this calculation] equivalent:
SMR – about 6 hectares.
Solar – very roughly 960 hectares
Eolian – 24,000 hectares ISH.
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Highlights the madness a bit, no?
Gina McCarthy would have you believe that the Medieval Inquisition (mid-1200’s to mid-1500’s) should have called for “stopping individuals” that “over and over again” were spreading “misinformation” that the Earth was round when everybody could plainly see that it was flat.
She obviously thinks that our current information state on climate change™ is perfect and complete, and thus should never be challenged by what she defines, in her infinite wisdom (hah!), to be as “misinformation”.
And President-“follow the science!”-Biden selects such a person as an advisor?
Good grief!
In Gina’s defense, I’d have to say that she might be more qualified to speak regarding CliSciFi than whoever he’s listening to regarding the science of biology.
(But that’s not saying much.)
In Resident Biden’s defence, I am unsure if he selected his advisors –
or if his puppet-masters [a gender neutral term, naturally] selected him as their puppet.
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Gina gets things completely backwards, so I’ve fixed it for her: Overall, the problem of disinformation has shifted from claiming the reality of “climate change” to inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of so-called “renewable energy”.
Big tech needs to ban McCarthy from posting anything until she learns the truth about climate change.
What was the old saying about first up against the wall after the revolution?
That’s one of the side deals with big tech when attacking them in anti-trust investigations.
If green energy is cost-effective it will succeed in the marketplace without government subsidies. Opinions expressed on social media will not impede a cost-effective energy product.
Say, where can I get some of that “dark money” McCarthy spoke about?
How dare anyone have a differing opinion, it is anathema to truth, their truth!
Is that a Government official trying to get people censored?
Shouldn’t she be accused of spreading disinformation about disinformation? “the technology improvements that we’ve seen that are most cost-effective, in fact cost-competitive with fossil fuels.” Surely if that were true then the switch to “renewables” would not need to be mandated?
“Shouldn’t she be accused of spreading disinformation about disinformation?”
She should.
Juvenal: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Or better: “Who the hell will bring these lying Leftists bastards to justice?”
Repeal section 230. Allow participating companies to fail.
Another deluded EXXON knew junkie.
who is allowed to question then?
Only those having no questions.
McCarthy: “The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation.”
This is advocating “textbook fascism”
She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Anthropology. She later attended Tufts University, where she received a Master of Science combining Environmental Health Engineering with Planning and Policy in 1981.
Shutting up those that are questioning your narrative doesn’t make what you are saying true.
It doesn’t change facts and data it doesn’t change physics, chemistry or biology despite their best efforts they know that they are loosing that is why they want and need censorship of any and all information. If they knew history they would know how well that worked for the Soviet Union.
But still they are loosing and boy does that piss them off.
James Bull