UAH Earth System Science Center records are deemed unreliable and harmful by Google – Are you enjoying that?

From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Weather Blog

Roy Spencer

DrRoySpencer.com has been de-monetized by Google for “unreliable and harmful claims”. This means that I cannot generate revenue to support the site using the Google Adsense program.

From a monetary point of view, it’s not a big deal because what I earn from Google ads is within my family’s monthly budget. It hardly earns me more than I pay for hosting and a comment spam filter (which is increasingly expensive).

I’ve been getting warnings from Google for a few months now about “policy violations”, but nowhere does it list which pages have violated and what those violations are. There are Adsense rules about where to place ads on the page (e.g. dropdowns cannot overlay ads), so I assumed it was something like that, but I don’t know where to start. Top where to search with hundreds of sites to sift through. . It was not until ads were monetized that Google provided links to the pages in question and what was the reason.

Of course, I should have figured it out had something to do with Google’s new policy on misleading content; A few months ago, Google announced that they would cancel monetization of climate skeptic websites. I hope my content is mainstream enough to avoid getting banned because:

1. I believe the climate system has warmed
2. I believe much of this warming is probably due to greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels

Many of you know that I defend much of mainstream climate science, including climate modeling, as a business. Where I come from “mainstream” is how much warming has occurred, how much future warming can be predicted and what should be done about it from an energy policy perspective.

From the information provided by Google about my violations, to the number of ads served, by far the most visited sites at drroyspencer.com with “unreliable and harmful claims” is our (UAH) Monthly global temperature update page. This is apparently due to a number of activists working for Google (who may not have been born when John Christy and I received both NASA and American Meteorological Association awards for our work) didn’t like the answer our 43-year-long satellite dataset gave. Never mind that our dataset remains one of the central datasets on global temperatures used in their work by mainstream climate researchers.

For now, I do not intend to appeal this decision, as it is not worth the aggravation. If you are considered a “climate skeptic” (whatever that means), Google has said that you are targeted for termination from their Adsense program. I cannot expect their liberal arts-educated “fact-checkers” to understand the nuances of the global warming debate.