Google accused of airbrushing carbon emissions in flight search results

Cleaner flights? Google accused of “airbrushing” emissions in flight search results

The tech giant dropped non-CO2 impacts from its carbon flight calculator

Google accused of greenwashing carbon emissions in flight search results

Tweak to search engine effectively halves the environmental impact stated for each trip.

Google accused of ‘airbrushing’ parts of your flight's climate impact

Aviation accounts for 3.5 per cent of human-caused global warming. Campaigners worry the non-CO2 impacts are now being ignored.

Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner

Last month the tech giant shifted its algorithm to exclude a crucial component of the overall greenhouse gas impact of air travel.

Google flight emission changes: Search engine “airbrushes” out emissions from flying

Google has changed the way it measures its emissions

Google accused of airbrushing carbon emissions in flight search results

Tweak to search engine effectively halves the environmental impact stated for each tripGoogle has been accused of airbrushing aviation emissions, after the company changed its flight search engine to halve the CO2 emissions attributed to any given trip.The change, first noted by the BBC, affects a feature on Google Flights that shows the estimated carbon emissions of each route. The company flags routes with higher or lower than typical emission…