Saturday, July 22, 2017

Climate idiocy with regard to Google

The idiots over at Watt's Up With That have published an article that might as well be titled "Google Suppresses Climate Idiots".

I'm going to try and cover everything in list form, numbered for reference, as I read the article and come to them.


  1. "Consensus is a decision-making method used outside of science."
    1. No, not really. Part of science is disproving ideas as false, and thus consensus arises.
  2. Every single time they use the term "climate realism" or "climate realists" to mean "we're idiots that don't understand climate at all".
  3. "Classification of news as Your Money or Your Life Pages[...] is obviously intended to suppress political information that differs from the opinions of the leftstream media and Wikipedia, which Google considers the guardians of truth."
    1. Wikipedia has been proven to be accurate moreso than traditional encyclopedias, and since a bias toward facts correlates with a bias toward leftward political beliefs, yes, it's Google wanting truth.
  4. "I anticipate some readers will defend this behavior as an exercise of freedom of speech."
    1. Free speech or not, facts are facts, opinions are opinions.
  5. "But this is a clear case of fraud (or worse), not speech."
    1. No. It has nothing to do with free speech, everything do with facts and truth. Google wouldn't be what it is if it spewed misinformation; it would be the Trump clownhouse.
  6. "It is time for state attorneys to investigate Google. It also seems that every Google user in the U.S. is entitled to sue for damages caused by this fraud."
    1. Wait wait wait, I thought conservatives were all about limited government and letting private-sector corporations have their way?
  7. "Google’s actions have likely violated many other laws."
    1. First of all, you haven't actually claimed they're breaking any laws. Please, list at least one law you think Google is breaking. So far all I see is strawman fallacy. Letting an algorithm do its job isn't breaking a law. That's like saying automakers are frauds because they use machines instead of humans.
  8. Every time they use the word "leftist" or "left" to indicate "factual" or "people that believe in facts"
  9. "Given Google’s opinion in the climate debate, most pages on this website have no content at all."
    1. Not at all true. Google recommended this article to me in it's "Now" feed. Apparently they wanted to infuriate me at other's idiocy. There's plenty of main content, but it is, in fact, very low quality main content, as it's quite false in many areas. (And the areas it's factual in, are irrelevant - like saying Google doesn't provide the same results as specialty falsity-finding search engines.)
  10. Every time they use "climate alarmism" or "climate alarmist" to mean "people with brains that realize we might not be able to inhabit the planet before too long, if we keep treating it this way"
Facts are facts, falsehoods are falsehoods, and opinions are opinions. Just because you don't believe something, doesn't make it false. Just because you do believe something, doesn't make it true. Google doesn't have a problem with listing websites well that spout off opinions or facts, just those that perpetuate falsehoods - like global warming denial websites. Hence, Google ought to be ashamed of recommending that article to me.