Google accused of airbrushing carbon emissions in flight search results | Google

Google 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 emissions, and also reports the total CO₂ emitted per passenger on any given journey.

But in July this year, Google pushed through a change…