Google and the religion of 'climate change'

 Joe Cunningham:

Over the weekend, we learned that Google will ban any and all “climate deniers” from advertising on Google’s Advertising platform – the largest such platform on the Internet. True to form, media coverage appears to be largely in lockstep with Google and is wrote it less as a major tech story and more as a press release.

From the Associated Press:

Google is cracking down on digital ads promoting false climate change claims or being used to make money from such content, hoping to limit revenue for climate change deniers and stop the spread of misinformation on its platforms.

The very fundamentals of science are based on challenging assertions. Climate change proponents, including reporters and even entire journalism outlets, treat it as a religion with all the fanaticism of an Inquisition. There is no challenging climate change, despite how often its predictions are proven wrong.

The supposed “gold standard” of journalism is just blindly following the religion of climate change and accepting Google’s move as a good thing, as the language in the lede implies. It lends credibility to this authoritarian move where there shouldn’t be any.

But there is a reason that Google is deciding to go after it right now, and it has very little to do with climate science at all.

Google is under a lot of scrutiny right now in the tech world. While companies like Apple are doing what they can to further and further protect private information, Google is making it easier than ever for its customers – advertisers – to get the information they need on you, the product they provide those customers.

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Google knows Democrats are in power, and Democrats would love to see people they disagree with on the climate issue silenced. They also know that even if the government changes hands and is led by Republicans, there are enough progressive bureaucrats in all the regulating agencies that they have allies who won’t be as quick to go after them as, say, Facebook.

Speaking of, they are also banking on Congress and its ongoing fascination with trying to regulate Facebook that they can keep a low profile on all this privacy stuff and not have to worry about a Congressional investigation.

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The climate has been changing since at least the time of Noah and probably before that if geologists are to be believed.  During the time of Joseph, there were times of great crops followed by famine.  It is an example of how the climate changes from time to time having nothing to do with the use of fossil fuels.  What Google is also ignoring is the serial failure of projected climate change by proponents of the theory.  The poles are still ice-free and New York and Miami are still not underwater.