Google: Good at Internet, Bad at Elementary Logic

Despite having launched a renewable energy program years back but then pulling the plug on it after realizing (a) large scale renewable energy is not economically viable today and (b) we would get more return on our investment making fossil fuel generation cleaner than by pouring untold billions in developing small scale renewable energy, Google still likes to speak out on climate change from time to time.

In a recent interview, Chairman Eric Schmidt said public policy should be based on facts, and "the facts of climate change are not in question any more."

What kind of facts are we talking about?

In the same article announcing Google's exit from the renewable energy program back in 2011, the Google authors pointed to one 2008 paper by James Hansen that "showed the true gravity of the situation."

In that paper, the scientist's "climate models showed that exceeding 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere would likely have catastrophic effects." Today, we've blown past that limit to 400 ppm, so obviously (Google's logic goes) the scientist was correct.

Let that sink in for a minute ...

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