Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
The recent political shenanigan revelations of the Twitter social networking system exposed by the Musk purchase show government efforts to manipulate and control information so only their viewpoints and positions are presented and supported while contrarian views are concealed, rejected, or disposed of as flawed and irrelevant. One can only wonder how extensive this government manipulation has spread in the social networking information sites.
Some examples are provided below of recent significant climate science data outcomes that do not support climate alarmist claims of a “climate emergency” and how these scientific data outcomes have been delt with in the information web world.
The year 2022 North Atlantic Hurricane season has concluded with NOAA’s “climate model“ predictions provided in their May and August forecasts of an “above normal” season proven to be flawed and failed as noted in the WUWT article below.
A Google search for information sources addressing the year 2022 North Atlantic hurricane season shows the following:
NOAAs failed “70% confidence” claim (shown below) for its year 2022 model projections is completely ignored in the Google search heading options with the most prominent search heading being “Damaging 2022 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close”. Google appears to avoid alerting anyone to a search option result that did not support the “climate emergency” hype or the fact that NOAA “model” forecasts even in August 2022 (halfway into the season) still could not get it right.
Nor were there any search options offered to the data provided by Colorado State University’s extensive tropical storm records, data and analysis shown below indication that the 2022 North Atlantic Hurricane season had a total energy ACE level that was more than 22% below the average for such seasons as measured for the 30 year period of 1991 to 2020.
The global average temperature anomaly data is now available for the year the 2022 average temperature anomaly that shows a continuing declining trend for the period 2015 to 2022. Provided below is a Google search for information regarding this continuing global average temperature anomaly declining trend outcome.
There is no information provided in the Google search options that addresses the significant outcome of a declining global average temperature anomaly trend during the last 8 years of the “climate emergency” as shown below from NOAA’s global temperature anomaly data website that indicates a negative -1.05 degrees C per century declining global temperature anomaly trend between 2015 to 2022.
Once again Google search options seem to make sure that information about a negative global average temperature anomaly 8-year trend during the “climate emergency” is somehow not addressed.
The year 2022 U.S. tornado season is now complete with below average numbers of tornadoes occurring. Provide below is a Google search for information about year 2022 tornado outcomes.
The most complete information regarding U.S. yearly tornado outcomes is available directly from NOAA’s tornado website as shown below which shows data covering the last 18 years (inclusive of 2005 through 2022) that clearly indicates tornado numbers are not climbing during this period of “climate emergency” with the outlier highest 2 years occurring 12 to 15 years ago.
For some reason this most comprehensive and complete data website regarding the 2022 tornado season is not included in Googles most prominent search options.
How strange.
Given what has come out about Twitter, and the FBI, DHS, etc making “suggestions” to the platform, just how much “guidance” is Google/Alphabet taking from various Feds?
It just could be that they are based in Northern California, and hire leftist True Believers who do so spontaneously, but outsourced censorship is still censorship.
As a peculiarity, the late nutritionist Ancel Keys is whitewashed on Google compared to DuckDuckGo. It was difficult to find anything about his suppressing his own study that did not fit his pet model that fat caused heart disease.
The answer to the headline question is “Yes, of course they do. So far as I can see Google is a corrupt censoring organisation which is a total stranger to fairness.”
Sue me if you like – I trust the Scottish Courts to arrive at the truth.
Google billionaires plan to make more billions courtesy of you. Manipulating search engine results is just a small part of this plan.
Control the information people have available to make an informed decision, you control the people’s opinions.
How does Google profit? Ask the CEOs.
(Maybe it’s all for “The Cause” as long as they can keep their limos?)
A question.
Does Google own eBay?
Unlike the Twitter files, I suspect the Google results are mostly just an indirect result of their algorithms rather than intentional human censorship.
Remember Google rank ordering is essentially a popularity contest. Most viewed is highest ranked. So less popular stuff (like climate skepticism) is going to be ranked lower. And ‘obscure’ stuff (like actual NOAA tornadoes history) may not get ranked at all because very few go there to look it up themselves.
It is the same reason that MSM articles about new climate papers are often ranked higher than the papers themselves. The MSM deliberately provides clickbait headlines about them; science papers usually don’t. Google ranks based essentially on clicks.
I find that carefully formulating Google search queries works around this ‘defect’ most of the time. Not all the time.
“Do Google Search Options Conceal Climate Data that is Contrary to Government Alarmists Propaganda?”
Yes.
Sorry, but I can’t resist showing Brits’ relative priorities for Google Search in 2022:
Use Duck Duck Go.
Search on: “year 2022 us north atlantic hurricane results”
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=year+2022+us+north+atlantic+hurricane+season+results&atb=v339-1&ia=web
The first three hits are NOAA websites that don’t say much, but the fourth is:
https://www.cnsnews.com › blog › craig-bannister › final-2022-hurricane-season-results-disappoint-no
While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) held firm to its prediction of an above-normal hurricane season – despite zero hurricanes at the halfway mark – the 2022 season proved to be nothing out of the ordinary.
Hurricane season, which runs from June through November annually, turned out to be pretty average this year, NOAA’s end-of-season report reveals.
There were just two “major” hurricanes (categories 3-5), below the annual average of three and less than NOAA’s prediction that there would be 3-6. The eight total hurricanes (categories 1-5) this year falls dead-center in NOAA’s forecasted range. And, the total count of named storms (which had hurricane-potential) barely hit the lowest number in NOAA’s forecasted range:
“How strange”
Actually, not so strange……..
Ask Biden. He has paid the news services (all of them) millions of American dollars to control what they print and say – he wants to be America’s next Quadaffi – what he says is all you need to know and you MUST do what he says – sounds like a good deal to me – don’t need to strain your repective brains “thinking” – Biden has done that for all of you – his little toy robots.
Google has not been a reliable search engine for many years, probably going on a decade now.
There are others that may be more reliable, DuckDuckGo was good for a while, but has discredited itself by choosing to censor search results (relating to COVID) that don’t conform to “The Science”. Others search engines may or may not give you results that are more to your liking: Bing, Brave, Yandex, Qwant, etc. Though, the dark arts of internet search algorithms, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) used by various web sites to get their pages ranked higher than others can mean that the most difficult issue is formulating the question you ask in a way to get the desired results. Too general, and you will be flooded with SEO answers, too specific and you might not get many results at all. Having said that, the issue of search engines putting a finger on the scale for some topics is very real. Using a variety of search engines can help in trying to keep out of information silos, designed to point you in the direction of a conclusion desired by someone else.
The COVID era has seen these issues increase by many orders of magnitude, now with government funded Behavioral Insight Teams (otherwise known as Nudge Units) effectively conducting a military grade psychological warfare operation on their own citizens, the populous is bifurcating into two groups. Those who are taken in by the psychological operations, and those who see the psychological operations occurring and are not taken in (once you see the man behind the curtain, the illusion is broken).
I guess the most important thing to remember when searching for information online is to always remain skeptical. Always ask yourself, is this information biased, is there some particular angle being presented. To do this without becoming paranoid can be a challenge, especially if the subject you are looking at is one that is actually being manipulated to mold public opinion.
Another, possibly more disturbing thing is when information just disappears, sometimes from all search engines. Perhaps it has been taken down from the sources? There really isn’t any way to tell.
As an anecdote… try finding a brief clip from the movie 12 Monkeys, in which Bruce Willis’ character James Cole says: “So now it’s not about the virus at all. It’s about following orders, doing what you’re told.”
Prior to COVID (and for some time after it’s emergence), this clip could be easily found with various versions on YouTube and other video sharing platforms. Now, it is very hard to find a copy of it. I know the line is in the movie, I’ve watched it. But it is being scrubbed from the internet. Something that some people think is not possible. While it may not be possible to entirely scrub something from the internet, it can be sufficiently cleaned and subsequent copies excluded from search engine results to make it effectively invisible. The Ministry of Truth is hard at work, working day and night, sleeping in between the cubicles, in a mad rush to ensure that those who have been “unpersonned” are scrubbed from history. “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
Years ago, I gave up on google providing balanced (non-biased) search results on global warming or any related topic when I saw the results of their automatic weekly updates on climate change in my email box. All the articles in that update were on one extreme side of the spectrum. I leave it up to your imagination which side of the spectrum that is.
I live in a county that recently had 2…no, 3 tornadoes.People are actually sent out in the field to inspect….obviously they do not want to miss one….a picture of one showed some limbs scattered about and a few boards….obviously, all tornadoes are not the same…..and what if one does not touch down……..does that make it an inferior tornado?
“net zero”
I can’t think of anyone I know that would search for “net zero”.
I can’t imagine most of the people I know even being familiar with this.
Try the following instead:
why are my heating bills so high ; or some version of this.
To be clear: Many people do think Earth is warming, or climate is changing.
For most, believing this is about as far as they go. One might take the percentage of EVs sold as an indication of concern. This seems to be under 6% in the USA.
However, buyers also think an EV is going to save them fuel cost.
Paul Homewood has a good post:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/back-to-the-horse-cart/
Searc… Steering engines.
Does the Pope crap in the woods?
Why should climate data be handled differently than COVID data or vaccine data?
Google is a company that monopolizes advertising and information along with Microsoft and the social tech giants. They provide what they are paid to provide. Their algorithms are set up to return the results their revenue stream wants. In prior years the PC magazines always rated Microsoft products the highest because they were the largest advertisers. In today’s world government and corporate giants allow anyone to stay in business so when money talks everything else walks.
Haven’t used Goober in years–vote with your feet.
Do Google Search Options Conceal Climate Data that is Contrary to Government Alarmists Propaganda?
Do bears poop in the woods?
Why would climate be different than every other subject that is censored by Google? If you use Google, at least skip the first page of results and start with page two.
This is just an example of the Golden Rule – he who has the gold, sets the rules.
The whole article could be summed up in one word “yes”
Is it deliberate?
I’m not so sure. As Rudd states, Google results are a popularity contest designed to make Google richer
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Thankfully there are options outside of Google. There is no doubt that there is a social/political bias throughout most of the tech world. It’s not a hidden bias. It is quite evident in their various blogs. Rush used to talk about it all the time and cite examples.
But unlike Twitter, there is no direct evidence that Google search priorities have been directly influenced by the government or any of its agencies.
That being said, based on the evidence coming out about government influence on Twitter content and shadow banning, and out right banning of posters due to their views on a range of subjects that were counter to the government line, where there is smoke, there is a very good chance one will find fire. And so I would not be surprised at all to see such direct evidence of collusion with the government agencies by Google come to light.