Comments on: National Post’s Lawrence Solomon claims Google censors search results

By: National Post’s Lawrence Solomon touts global cooling, part 1: Hiding the decline in Arctic sea ice « Deep Climate

Wed, 05 May 2010 20:31:08 +0000

[...] lobby group Energy Probe, has received less of my attention (although his weirdly paranoid “analysis” of Google’s censorship of “climategate” was certainly a cla…). That’s an oversight that I intend to rectify, starting with a dissection of Solomon’s [...]

By: Lars

Lars — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:54:58 +0000

RockyMtn, what was it that you wrote that set him off like this? It would be interesting to know what would justify being rude and hostile on his site. As opposed to being, say, venal and insinuating.

By: RockyMtn

RockyMtn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:23:36 +0000

A warning to everyone. This is what happens when one asks blunt and awkward questions as CA:

“Jean S: I’ve checked your math skills, and they don’t impress me much. After checking your IP, I think you have no business of being rude and hostile on this site. Your comments are OT, and from now on I will simply delete all of your comments unless they are strictly on the topic. You’ve been warned.”

By: MapleLeaf

MapleLeaf — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:24:54 +0000

Solomon has been at it again this past weekend in the National Post. This for his diatribe:

“So why would no student in the room — either out of youthful brashness or defiance of authority or conviction based on knowledge — utter a peep? If any of them had done their homework on this issue, they would have found that the Arctic ice is expanding, not shrinking; that the Antarctic, too, is gaining ice, not melting; that polar bear populations are not in decline, that global temperatures have been dropping over the last decade, not warming as the computer models had predicted; and that, in any event, none of the computer models on which claims of climate change rest — not one — has been made to work.”

OMG, lie after lie.

By: Pilot

Pilot — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:57:03 +0000

There is an arcade game in which cute little furry groundhogs pop up from little burrows and the player has a rubber hammer with which he tries to hit the litle hogs and win a prize. This is how the climategate game is now played. DC ( and JR ) are running around the web with their little rubber hammers trying to knock down pesky little deniers who just keep popping up. They are even doing it in the MSM now. You're going to need bigger hammers soon. Its a good game but who is going to win the prize? [DC: It's true that the falsehoods of the "pesky deniers" have long had a welcome home in mainstream media such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and the National Post. Unfortunately, even at more eithical outlets such as the Globe and Mail, dissemination of falsehoods about climate science is on the rise.]

By: Lamont

Lamont — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:07 +0000

It kind of looks to me like someone created the “islam is” issue by gaming the google trends for the “christianity is” but not “islam is”:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22christianity+is+not+a+religion%22%2C+%22christianity+is+bullshit%22%2C+%22christianity+is+a+lie%22%2C+%22christianity+is+false%22%2C+%22christianity+is+a+cult%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

and scaled to “clip art” you can’t even see those terms:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22clip+art%22%2C+%22christianity+is+not+a+religion%22%2C+%22christianity+is+bullshit%22%2C+%22christianity+is+a+lie%22%2C+%22christianity+is+false%22%2C+%22christianity+is+a+cult%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

By: Deep Climate

Deep Climate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:46:35 +0000

Yes, that meme has been around long enough to generate its own Google suggestions. Try entering “climategate google” to see those.

By: ligne

ligne — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:54:19 +0000

interesting: i ran into just this topic completely by accident yesterday, on the XKCD forums (first time i’ve been there, i swear!). so it’s not a new meme (the post dates from last December). though it would be naive to expect such concentrated levels of stupidity to have a short half-life.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=50208&start=80#p1939607

idiocy soon pointed out:
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=50208&start=80#p1940618

By: John Haythorn

John Haythorn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:46:54 +0000

Ah yes, from the same publication that published a story claiming the Iranian gov’t was about to pass a bill forcing all Jews to wear Stars of David . . .

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:38:51 +0000

Although I think Solomon is looney, I tried typing 'googlegate' into bing and I did get 73.5 million results. Advanced 'exact phrase' search yielded 8600. Just how did you get 421? [DC: I went to the end of the result set by changing the start parameter in the URL. If you start at say 990, Bing will go to the very last page, as shown above, where you can clearly see the actual number of hits returned.]