Google Senior Advisor Cancels Copenhagen Lecture
Guess whose biography lists him as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc.? If you guessed Al Gore, then you win the prize! This makes some interesting things fall into place, doesn’t it?
At Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts has a post on Google and ClimateGate in which he brings up that interesting fact about Al Gore. Watts notes:
It seems he has done some “advising” of Google’s search quality in the past. Here’s a story from the New Yorker via Newsbusters about that very subject. There is some history there that has some bearing on the current situation.
In the case of “Climategate”, Mr. Gore’s ability to continue his current speaking engagements might be hampered. Thus, there could well be a motive for him doing some “advising” in this case. A phone call might be all it took.
Word from some others doing investigations say Google senior staff has told them the removal of “Climategate” from the autosuggest in web searches is algorithm based.
But the Google trends data suggest otherwise, particularly since it was restored and operating in Googles autosuggest feature back on November 28th, as documented here on WUWT.
Now it is gone again. Did the removal of “climategate” from the autosuggest feature make recent Google Trends data lower that the peak on November 29th? Only time will tell us.
In other news, Al Gore has cancelled his lecture at Copenhagen for which more than 3000 Danes had paid just over $1200 each for a ticket.
Oh, and Michael Mann has thrown Phil Jones under the ClimateGate icemeltberg.
What else is going to happen before Obama travels over there? Will this be his best Baghdad Bob moment yet?
Watts Up With That? has so many stories on the continuing AGW meltdown, Watts has added a Climategate tab at the top of his blog. I thought that was an excellent idea and I’ve added a ClimateGate tag here rather than continue to list prior posts. Previous posts can be found under ClimateGate and Climate Politics (which can cover other issues).
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H/T: Watts Up With That?
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Al a noshow? Hmm guess he figured he would have to answer questions he was not qualified to answer vis a vis the Climategate fiasco. Like say — “Ok Al, what did you know and when did you know it?”
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My guess is that this fraud has made hundreds of millions off the global warming scam.
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bc3b- I will have to hunt down the story but it was reported a month or so ago that ag was on track to become the world’s first global warming billionaire, in the immediate future.
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Found it
Interesting part of the article that ties nicely with INC’s story:
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They’re sticking with the “Swiftboating” theme over at Kos.
As in, “The wingnut swiftboating of climate change researchers continues”.
As we all know, this is a perfectly valid use of the term swiftboating, as it has always been used. From Kerry to Sotomayor.
Swiftboating (n,v): The accurate reporting of a liberal’s own words.
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JM –
I don’t doubt it. George Soros is positioned to make billions off global warming. So is GE.
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OT. Looks like the GOP has stepped their foot into it. CO tea party making an issue of it. link.
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Looks like the Secret Service has taken responsibility for allowing the gatecrashers into the WH — per C-Span video.
Seems fishy to me. I won’t be surprised if the investigation finds out that the crashers showed up and the Secret Service called into the WH and got permission.
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Tony, I think they’re the fall guy.
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(5) aureliusx,
Let me correct your definition
Swiftboating (n,v): The accurate reporting of a liberal’s own words OR ACTIONS.
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JM, I guess the gig is up for Al Gore. His attorneys probably told him he had to cancel and wait for this cold wind to stop. I guess he can quit now and blame his past “errors” on Mann, Jones, et al., for manipulating the data.
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The committee is on C-Span rebroadcast. Peter King just let it be known that the “Social Secretary” who is responsible to make sure people who are supposed to gain entrance do gain entrance and those who aren’t supposed to gain entrance don’t gain entrance wasn’t present at this particular event and informed the Service she would not be there.
There is no possible way the Service could have a list that is up to date and correct at an exact moment in time. That’s why the Social Secretary is there.
Of course, Obama is afraid to have the Secretary to testify.
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Why is the Secret Service taking the hit on crashergate? Does Obama have the power to order them to fall on their sword for Desiree.
I thought they protected the President and the 1st wookie, not the 1st wookie’s handmaiden.
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Meanwhile, the healthcare screwing of the American people marches on.
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Does Charles Johnson write algorithms for Google?
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An Obama voter.
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Candidate for communications director.
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lol.
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A good one from the canine corp.
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Al Gore is finally feeling some anthropogenic heat….. 😉
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Gore is why we have global warming, all that gas in one place, it’s like having two suns.
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Gore bailing? Haha what a wimp, guess they wouldn’t let him control the security and mic’s there. Has to be quite telling even for members of his flock.
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BTW INC thanks for posts the daily rap up of all these, so much going on it’s easy to miss some of this stuff.
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BTW I said something the other day about not thinking the 1980 move related data dump was intentional… After reading some more on the topic I have to wonder if in fact that’s when the data was lost, and not sometime after using that move as a convenient and somewhat believable excuse. Has anyone else come forward from the 80’s move to validate move\loss explanation besides Jones?
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KH, you’re welcome for the posts. It’s like keeping up with a fire hose of information though! Even Anthony Watts is having trouble staying on top of things!
Some posts of interest
In that post he links to one on Google-gate
I’ll work on putting some of the Google-gate info in an update to the post.
(I’ve changed my mind–I’m going to do a separate post).
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As far as the data goes, you may be interested in this post at WUWT?
Climategate: The Smoking Code by Robert Greiner crossposted from his blog. All the bold is his emphasis.
He then goes through the code–this isn’t an area I can comment on as I don’t have the training, but you can wade through his analysis. Here’s part of his summary: