I can no longer categorise Google as impartial

For a while I’ve been noticing a distinct lack of very high profile sceptic blogs appearing in Google News feeds and some quite ridiculously low rating warmist blogs appearing as “news”. We all know that there have been isolated instances of bias, but now this effect is so great that I cannot ignore it.
Therefore I cannot continue categorising Google as being impartial on uClimate.com as their searches are now clearly and unequivocally biased toward “warmist”.
Note: This makes the decline in the number of warmist news stories on google all the more spectacular! Because they are declining relative to sceptic ones despite the policy of bias by Google.


Addendum

Just realised that if Google are so biased that I must classify them as “alarmists”, it would be unethical to use them as a search engine or to carry their ads – which involves a lot of work for me and probably a loss of the small bit of money I get in from ads.
However initial searching suggests the following:

  • As a toolbar: Yahoo search
  • As a home page: http://www.webcrawler.com/
  • For ads Bing ads

I’m not very happy to have to be using Micro$oft, because it gained much of its wealth from useless software which it forced on consumers at great expense by creating a monopoly.
However, whereas Micro$oft were profiteers, Google are both profiteering AND trying to force a political agenda which has removed some types of websites almost completely from its searches. So it is de facto one of the biggest threats to free speech & liberty.

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Just as Earthquakes are inevitable so is Greece's exit from the Euro

Even before the Euro started I knew it was going to fall apart and if anything I’ve been more surprised how long it has lasted rather than that Greek is set to leave.
Because any engineer knows the simple principle: “if it doesn’t bend it will break”.
That is why any large structure is built with movement joints. Without the movement joints, stresses build up and eventually some part not designed to move will crack potentially leading to catastrophic failure. So, e.g. a house built on variable foundation materials will tend to find that one part of the house sinks relative to another. That movement might be less than a millimeter, but by the time that movement translates to the top of the house, it can become quite a substantial crack.
And the only other viable alternative to movement joints is either to have the foundation so strong that the structure cannot move (which is usually impossible or impossibly expensive on large structures) … or to actively jack up that part of the structure which is sinking – such as they are doing at massive expense to the ground under the leaning tower of Pisa.
All large structures have these kinds of stresses. If you look down at the road as you cross a bridge you will see a section of metal with two interlocking sets of Combs. These allow thermal expansion – but also differential movement of the earth either side.
Some Economic Maths Continue reading

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What happened to the alarmists?

I am sadly disappointed by the alarmists. I was led to believe we would have weeks of laughing at crazy videos, demos and generally idiocy from the alarmist camp, but just two days after the encyclical the news is dead with nothing more than a few stragglers and a couple of ridiculous rather than amusing stories.

This has been one of the shortest duration peaks I’ve seen for any news story on global warming.

I am now seriously wondering weather the “run up” to the Dead Parrot talks this December will turn out to be more of a “run down”.

 Come on alarmists – you’re getting shed loads of public funds – what on earth are you doing with it except paying expensive marketing consultants to sit around on their fat arses?

Indeed, there’s so little news, I am starting to wonder whether it is possible that this is intentional. Have the alarmists got some idiotic academic (Lewandowsky springs to mind) producing “research” that suggests that if they keep quiet and don’t tell anyone about global warming, then that’s the way to revive the dead parrot and make the world population born again global warmists?

Indeed, it does seem that every time there is a high profile media campaign like this encyclical, that rather than increasing support, the result is that even more sceptics appear! So, there is a kind of perverse logic that says that keeping quiet about global warming will cause everyone to believe!

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What are these medical symptoms?

I’m starting to think there’s something wrong with me, because for the last few days I’ve started hearing someone singing and humming in the room when I’m the only person in it. Also, I seem to have changed my appearance with strange lines emanating from the corners of my mouth and heading up to indentations on my cheeks.
When I realised it was me making this horrible noises, I had a look on line to see what was wrong with me and found that I cannot match it to any known medical condition.
Also, despite being reported as the coldest June in 40 years – I keep looking outside and seeing how wonderful everything looks. Last night the moon was just spectacular seating in amongst the clouds. I thought it was a painting it was so beautiful.

Help!


PS. These symptoms first appeared after the announcement to end wind subsidies.

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The Dead Parrot talks (Paris) – Milliband to seek a role in this comedy


According to the Times, after recently departed UK Labour leader Ed Miliband managed to thwart all the opinion polls and grasp election defeat for Labour, he plans to help global warming the same way:

“Ed Miliband intends to take on a significant role in the forthcoming global climate change debate. In the first indication of what life will be like for the former Labour leader, a spokesman for Mr Miliband confirmed that he is turning his attention to November’s climate change talks in Paris.”

And for those in the US – Millband is part of the “borrow today – let our kids pay it back” Labour party that almost led to the UK going bankrupt – and undoubtedly would be leading us to bankruptcy if he had been Prime Minister now.

But what a twit!

In one simple act, he has ensured that not one single Tory or Republican will want to support the Dead Parrot talks.
Article behind paywall:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4475331.ece


For those who do not know, the “Dead Parrot Sketch” is a very famous sketch by Monty Python in which a customer comes in to complain about a parrot they bought from a pet shop owner. The customer complains that the parrot is dead, the pet shop owner refuses to admit the parrot is dead, despite the parrot being nailed to the perch.

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A sudden realisation – I wouldn't want to be a climate academic now.

I was just reading the climate depot article “Aussies get traction on the issue of ‘temperature data homogenization’ and thinking that yes, there is growing coverage of data tampering in the media and it is almost becoming widely accepted that the “academics” have been tampering the temperature record, when I suddenly realised I had the answer to the question in my last article:
“What happens to the pope [when real world data proves him wrong]”, because they can’t sack a pope.
And the answer is simple: the catholic church as one body will unite and turn against those who caused him & the whole catholic church to be misled. The pope will not be to blame but those academics advising him. And I doubt they will distinguish between the honest and the deceptive, between those who have set high standards and those with no standards.

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Encyclical: the embarrassing politics of the utopian vision.

The”news” rush from the pope’s encyclical is now well and truly over as today I see the coverage is now of sceptics pushing back. But whilst we climate sceptics might focus on the science, the climate doesn’t actually appear to have been the purpose of this document.
Instead, reading between the lines,  climate seems to have been just a useful hook on which to hitch a lot of political ideas which the climate allows to dress up as “concern for nature”. So basically, not only is “science” being abused, but also environmentalism is being used as a political tool to push a political agenda. And to do that, the catholic teachings have to be turned into pagan environmentalism, so also the catholic church itself is being abused.
And just to explain that “one world government”. To be honest, I’ve heard some sceptics talking about “one world socialist government”. I  thought they were reading far too much into what was happening. What’s more I focussed on the science because the science clearly supports us sceptics – and I thought this “one world government” was just an obsession by those on the political wing of scepticism. But now that I see what is in the Pope’s encyclical it is clear to me they were right, and so apologies for doubting you.
I couldn’t see the harm of more decisions at a world level – co-operation at a global level is a good thing. However it’s clear that those pushing the political vision in this encyclical don’t have cooperation in mind. Instead their vision will enforce a very extreme “left” utopian idea on that world government, not in the sense of helping the poor, but in the sense of behaving like extreme left regimes tend to behave (to the detriment of the poor). So we will have something very much like Stalin in Russia, with grand utopian “5-year plans” forcing everyone to comply with some utopian anti-science vision. And because those endorsing such utopian views are always totally economically & scientifically incompetent their plans “to help the poor” will instead kill millions if not billions.

It’s the politics of the utopian vision and its inherent rejection of pragmatism. Continue reading

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Russian official questions U.S. moon landing

Well the Pope’s encyclical has come and gone and frankly it’s not made a bit of difference – except they’ll be quite a few furious republicans and other world leaders resolved to ensure this debacle never happens again – so I expect fireworks in the near future – not necessarily all going upward in celebration but many aimed squarely at certain doors.
So I thought it was time for something more light hearted:

Russian official questions U.S. moon landing

Russian Investigative Commission spokesperson Vladimir Markin demands to know where those moon rocks went.

 

MOSCOW, June 18 (UPI) — For most conspiracy theorists, questioning the moon landing is rather passe. They’ve moved on to Benghazi, global warming and GMOs.

But one official in Russia didn’t get the memo. Russian Investigative Commission spokesperson Vladimir Markin wants an international investigation into the Apollo moon missions.
Specifically, Markin wants to know what happened to the film footage of the landings. He’s also curious about where those moon rocks ended up.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/06/18/Russian-official-questions-US-moon-landing/5401434634287/
My take
After the way NASA fabricated global temperature data by knowingly employing a self-enriching environmental activist to do that job … it wouldn’t surprise me if NASA did fake the moon landings, but I’ve yet to see any evidence suggesting it.
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BBC News at ten does not lead on Pope's encyclical – Scottish sceptic very confused.

Just watched the headlines on BBC news at ten after pope’s encyclical. Not mentioned at all in headlines.
What’s happened to the BBC?

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We live in luxury that even kings a few centuries ago could only dream of.

As a result of the industrial revolution – to which I’m proud to say a lot of Scots contributed. The world is now living in luxury, we are healthier, better educated and safer than at any time in history. Our rivers and clean, the clean air acts have cleaned up the air. You only have to look at the filth and squalor in which previous generations lived to know that most people in the past would have given anything to be born now.
OK, there’s still a lot of people living in squalor, but there’s been a noticeable improvement so that whereas the images of the “third world” used to be filled with people without clothes or any other modern convenience, now they all seem to carry mobile phones.
Only in a sick delusional mind, could anyone describe the present time as a “pile of filth” – but that is what the headlines are now reporting the Pope as saying. That flies in the face of history, reason and more or less redefines the best of all possible times as some stinking hell-hole.
And that is the fundamental tactic of the eco-fascist. To take something good like the essential plant food CO2 without which there would be no life on earth and try to make people believe it is poison. To take a world of abundant clean healthy food produced by fossil fuel powered farm equipment, fossil fuel derived fertilisers, sent around the world in fossil fuel powered transport and then to make people believe that fossil fuel – the one thing that created the fantastic modern world we live in – is some how evil.
That is the tactics of ISIS. To make people believe that the best of times, is the worst of times, to make people hate the society, technology and culture that has given us so much much good, and make people want the utter filth depravity and backwardness of those like ISIS.
In short we should all be proud of the modern world and thank our forefathers (and mothers) for giving us this fantastic world that does give most of us our daily bread.

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