The indefatigable James Delingpole, drawing on a lengthy and thoroughly documented blog post by Kenneth Richard, writing at No Tricks Zone, has a great little article exposing the intentional bias not only of Wikipedia but also of Google and other search engines when it comes to anthropogenic climate change.
The gist: Wikipedia sends the global cooling scare of the 1960s and 1970s, which was a dominant scientific position, down the Orwellian memory hole in an attempt to prevent its use as an example of failed scientific consensus on climate change—which could motivate some people not to bow in abject obeisance before the (false) claims of overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change today. And Google and the other search engines intentionally bury links to articles that would expose the reality of the cooling scare or undermine the current warming scare.
The dishonesty of the whole thing is breathtaking. Definitely worth reading both Delingpole’s and Richard’s articles.
J4Zonian says
Wow! I’ve known for quite a while that the alliance was one of the most radically insane anti-science, anti-reality fossil fuel funded climate-denying delayalist organizations, but it’s quite different to see you actually at work. I won’t even begin to debunk all the false statements in that short post. (by my count, 10 in 5 sentences, but it is a somewhat subjective judgement one way or the other. For example, the only things Delingpole’s posts are worthy of is ignoring or deleting, being based on coal sludge disinterpretations and outright lies, all for the purpose of preventing action needed to avoid ecological catastrophe.)
https://www.desmogblog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation
You did say one true thing: “The dishonesty of the whole thing is breathtaking.” Well, sort of true. For people on the anti-reality side of the debate like you, dishonesty like this is just another day at the office.